Kathleen in VA
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I own this flat-bottomed mixing bowl:
http://www.ablekitchen.com/supplies/MB-702618/Mixing-Bowl-7-Flat-Bottom-Stainless-Steel.html
Would this work?
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It is like a fruitcake. I used a regular metal mixing bowl and covered it well in tinfoil, then secured it with twine. You MUST make hardsauce for it, unless you have religious issues with alcohol. Oh, and drizzle some brandy on it and set it aflame when you serve it.
Ok, maybe we'll try it with a metal mixing bowl and foil - that certainly helps the budget. We already bought the brandy to set it aflame, but I'm not sure I have the nerve to follow through on that.
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One of our molds is like this one.
ETA: Dh's grandmother always serves leftover christmas pudding sliced and fried in butter for breakfast the next day. That is really yummy!
That mold looks interesting -dd was thinking it had to be a ceramic bowl, but maybe we'll go for the mold instead. Fried pudding - hmmm - we'll have to try that if we have any leftovers.
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So it is probably a dense cake but without the gummy candied fruits.
Thanks for the ideas for bowls. I'll check into those.
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Dd19 wants to try a recipe she got from a friend in New Zealand for traditional Christmas pudding. There seems to be somewhat of a language barrier and we are having a hard time figuring out what kind of texture/consistency to expect. The pictures we have seen online lead us to believe the pudding will resemble fruitcake in taste and texture, but her friend (who is just an internet friend whom she does not know very well) said that it tastes nothing like fruitcake and is definitely not a cake but a pudding. But here in the USA pudding is a formless jiggly kind of thing - not something you bake in a ceramic bowl and plop onto a serving plate.
Can anyone who knows what a traditional Christmas pudding (think of the pudding in A Christmas Carol) looks/tastes like give me an idea of what this thing is supposed to end up like and also what kind of bowl we should use to steam it in?
Thanks for any and all advice, tips, etc.!
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Since at least two people on this forum have been open about having multiple personalities, I think this could be a very upsetting topic for them to see debated.
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After reading some replies, I've reconsidered my first statement. I think it is helpful to know some basic background, espeically if the book is from a different time period. It was helpful for me to know that Dickens, for example, lived a life very much like David Copperfield and that his writing reflected his own personal experience of having a father in debtor's prison. While watching Bleak House (no, I've not read it) I looked it up on Wikipedia and found it fascinating that Dickens had also experienced a long protracted legal fight and that he was making a statement that, among other things, the legal system in England was in much need of reform. Knowing that added so much more to the story for me. I feel the same way about Lucy Maud Montgomery's personal life being reflected in Anne of Green Gables and the list goes on and on. Having the knowledge before I read adds much depth and understanding, imo.
But I would not be interested in reading about other's personal takes or any controversial debates about a book before reading it. Third party stuff would be irrelevant to me.
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I appreciate the responses. In this case, I am pretty sure my requests were gentle and kind. Even though someone is coming, we had the cleaning finished last night. There was no hurry up and clean this morning. Although I have btdt in the past.:tongue_smilie:
In my opinion, only the last request was made in a firm voice. Not cranky, just more firm than the other two.
I agree somewhat about her choice of how she wears her hair. On the other hand it was her response to my request that is what I am concerned about. The responses being not fixing the hair the first two times and the disrespectfulness the third time. Two things are not allowed in our home. One is lying, the other is defiance. I saw this as defiance. Would you agree?
Well, you were there and if you saw it as defiance then it probably was - especially if you were otherwise in a calm mood, having done the clean-up the night before. If I'm edgy then I'm more likely to jump to false conclusions about my children's behavior and not give them the benefit of the doubt, but it doesn't sound like you felt particularly harried at the time. In that case, you probably evaluated it correctly.
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Non-fiction - absolutely need to know.
Fiction - sometimes. If it's just for fun reading, no. If it's a classic, I really like knowing anything and everything I can because I feel like I may miss something important as I'm reading if I start reading it cold and I'm not likely to go back and reread it. I feel extremely accomplished if I get through a book once.:D
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I think what's missing here is the tone of voice both of you used in this conversation. If you had said your part sweetly - kind of like, "Hon, would you please go fix your hair? Remember _________ is coming over in just a few minutes. It would make me feel better if you were a little neater in your appearance," then I would consider her response rude. I would not consider you just asking her a few times to go fix her hair as provocation for anything.
Otoh, if you had seemed annoyed and irritated from the start as if she should have known better to come to breakfast like that in the first place, then I might consider your tone to have been somewhat of a provocation. She may not have remembered first thing upon rising that visitors were coming.
I know when folks are coming to visit at my house I go into a "let's get things done and fast!" kind of mode. I have been known to bark out orders with little consideration for feelings because I'm just trying to finish up the last touches on something (like straightening a mess or getting myself dressed and ready, etc.) and can sound short and insensitive. Perhaps first thing in the morning your dd just wasn't prepared to meet with that kind of tone and expectation. She may be the type that needs to ease into her day (I usually am) and again, she may have felt provoked.
That's not to say she's allowed to be rude, but I would certainly take my tone and demeanor into consideration before I brought down the hammer. This time I might pull her aside later and say, "I'm sorry if I sounded demanding this morning - I was a bit stressed knowing __________ was about to arrive. In the future, though, if I ask you to do something would you please just trust that I have your best interests at heart and do it right away?" I would also instruct her, as Bethany proposed, on how it is not her responsibility to tell me what to do, but it is mine to tell her. Comes with the territory of being her parent.
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I'm not the most socially adept person, but I say it's perfectly reasonable to register. I'd probably want to bring a gift if a friend of mine were getting married - even for the second or third time - and I would sure like to know what would be appreciated instead of showing up with a white elephant. I'm of the mindset that I only have so much money (we really are on a very limited budget) and I would much rather give something that the recipient would enjoy and use than to guess and bring something that would get stuffed in a closet or regifted. I really don't have a problem with people making their needs and wishes known - it makes me feel better about how I'm spending my money and it gives me joy knowing I've given something that will truly get used and appreciated.
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I read this article in my alumni magazine and thought some here might find it useful for piquing an interest for their child in chemistry. I thought it was fascinating.
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Sounds like Luray, Virginia or Winchester, Va - remote but close to everything. Near the Shenanadoah River and near the mountains.
Or maybe Charlottesville, Va area - this is where Annie Dillard was when she wrote Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
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Welcome to the Hive!
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I don't know if they were really out or not. But we have a huge problem with meth in this area, he didn't look like the typical customer for this store, he didn't have a local driver's license ( I heard his conversation with the clerk), and I can see why they didn't sell him any.
I don't think it is hypocritical at all. I don't have issues with cracking down on illegal drug trade. I do have issues with ranting about physicians giving out any pain medication prescriptions. That was what the doctor on the news channel was doing. He seemed to think that the way Russia does it which is totally forbid pain medication is fine except that cancer patients suffer. I say that a lot more than cancer patients must suffer since on pain rating scales, there are a number of conditions, including RA and nerve pain syndromes that are considered more painful than cancer.
Oh, I see - a little more to the story. That makes more sense.
I hear you about pain meds not being just for those with cancer. I haven't had a narcotic prescription filled for about 3 years, but with my back issues it is nice to know that if I really needed more relief than I'm getting from ibuprofen I could ask my doctor and she would write me an Rx. There have been two or three times in those three years that I've thought how wonderful it would be to have the bigger guns - those times when I waaaaay overdid it and paid for it big time. Thankfully, bedrest put me back to "normal" and I endured it, but if it had been there I would have been thankful as well.:) I can't imagine living with extreme chronic pain not relieved by bedrest and not being able to take anything stronger than Tylenol - that would be a nightmare.
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I don't think you did anything racist since that was the easiest way to describe who he was as compared to the other people in the shop.
On a different tangent, we watch a number of Japanese movies from Netflix. Sometimes there is some characteristic we could say to distinguish the characters like someone might have wavy hair. But usually there are a number of characters with dark, straight hair, and about half wear glasses. I am wondering how Japanese distinguish between people in their own country.
I think it is pretty common for people of one race to think that of other races. They probably wonder how we can distinguish between all the white skinned, brown haired people here, lol. I think it is because when you aren't surrounded by people of another race on a regular basis they do all seem to look alike - and you don't really need to differentiate between them.
When I lived in Hawaii I found it difficult at first to see the differences between the Asian races there, but after a few months or a year I could definitely distinguish between Filipino, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and local Hawaiian people. I think it comes with being closely acquainted with them that allows you to see obvious differences that at first seemed blurred.
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I have no problems in punishing doctors who prescribe totally unreasonable amounts to people with no physical ailments. I understand that there are unscrupulous doctors who prescribe to anyone willing to pay. I am totally against drug addicts getting drugs but I also know that methampthamines are much more dangerous for the public as well as the users than narcotics.
I did see a pharmacy doing the right thing last week. They said they were out of stock of Sudafed or other generics last week when a scruffy looking suspicious character came in. (I was there waiting for my antibiotic at that time).
Here in Virginia you are only allowed so many sudafed/generic sudafeds per month anyway. That scruffy person would have to show his driver's license to prove he hadn't exceeded his limit so I'm not sure they were judging his character by his looks - it wouldn't have been necessary.
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Thanks, everyone. I really appreciate your input.:)
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I was in a thrift/antique store a while ago and got to chatting with one of the sales clerks who was also a reupholsterer while a friend purchased a loveseat and made arrangements to pick it up. I was with ds15, dd12 and dd19 at the time.
The clerk, who happened to be a black man, and I hit it off as small talk goes. We got to laughing and kidding about how something on a nearby shelf (can't remember what it was now) was once owned by George Washington and then we got to talking about Mt. Vernon. It was just one of those delightful encounters you sometimes have with perfect strangers when you have to stand around and wait with nothing better to do.:)
Later that day as we continued driving around (we were going to a bunch of yard sales) I said something to Ds15 about the conversation I had had with the clerk and ds couldn't remember who I was talking about. At first, I wanted to just say, "You know, the black man," since he was the only black man in the entire store, but for some reason I felt I should make an effort to describe him without referring to his skin color. I talked about the joking and the fact that he mentioned he was a reupholsterer and that he was standing behind the counter while we waited for our friend to complete her transaction, but ds just couldn't remember, so I ended up saying what first occurred to me to say.
I've been wondering ever since if it is considered racist to describe someone in terms of their skin color - especially since it would have the easier thing to do and settled the matter quickly. Or am I just going over the top about trying not to offend people? Of course, I couldn't have offended the man in question - he wasn't there. But I was trying to subtly teach my son that describing people in other ways is preferable to resorting to their skin color first thing. I'm not sure why I felt that was something worth doing either. It just felt wrong to bring it up first without trying to describe him in other ways first.
Ok, be gentle - I'm really trying to do the right thing here. But I've wondered about this for quite a long time and have finally worked up the nerve to ask.
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I have several study Bibles - MacArthur, the Open Bible (NAS) , the Rainbow Bible, ESV, and my dh has the Thompson Chain Reference.
There are notes at the beginning of each book that explain the historical setting of the book, give information about the author, mention any disputes about authorship (usually drawing a conclusion as to which one is more plausible), an outline of the book and its general gist and perhaps any special noteworthy items.
My Open Bible has a "Cyclopedic Index" at the beginning which I find helpful. It is kind of like a concordance only instead of actual words found in the text, it lists topics followed by verses where those topics are discussed in scripture. It also has a basic Bible doctrine study throughout which is, of course, bent toward a specific point of view - I haven't gone through it myself so don't know what viewpoint it is from.
My MacArthur Study Bible and the ESV Study Bible both have comments at the bottom and are both "reformed" in their pov. The MacArthur Bible comes from a Baptistic pov, though, and the ESV comes from a more Presbyterian pov.
The ESV has lots of maps and charts right in the text - not just at the back - which I find helpful when I'm trying to picture where the events are taking place.
They both have many more features but thought I'd point out the doctrinal difference.
I also have an Amplified Bible which can be helpful. It is just the scripture, but expanded right within the text, to clarify. It is a translation, but it includes the many different ways a word could be translated - not comprehensively - but enough that the meaning is more clear, at least to me it is. Here is an example of the Amplified compared to the KJV:
I Cor 13:4-7 - KJV
[4] Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
I Cor 13:4-7 - Amplified
4Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.
5It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].
6It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail.
7Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].
I believe the KJV to be the most reliable translation and would hold any other translation up to it as a standard - but I do find the extra notes and expansion in these other resources to be helpful from time to time - especially where our language has altered the meaning of words or where the historical, cultural or religious context is vital to understanding.
HTH
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What ELSE did he buy at Tiffany & Co.? :D
'Tis the season, you know......
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Ha! Good question! But, no, they are not engaged - yet....
But he did discuss her coming here sometime soon to meet us while they were skyping last night.:)
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Oh.my.word. Kathleen, be very proud of your boy. He sounds JUST like how I want my boys to be when they are that age. :)
God has been very gracious to me, Bethany. I grew up in a non-Christian home and was abused in more ways than one (I'll just leave it at that.) I spent my teen/young adult years very hurt and very confused. For reasons only God knows, he plucked me out of the "fire" and set me down with a wonderful dh and a wonderful church family.
Sometimes I take that for granted, but the older I get, the more I hear folks telling me how very unusual it is for someone to live in the same house, go to the same church, have the same pastor, and have a loving intact family for over 25 years. My pastor is very wise and kind and is a tender shepherd of his sheep. He has taught us straight from the Bible all these years and my children have never known anything else. They are very, very blessed as am I. I know that to whom much is given, much will be required - I'm very cognizant of that - and I think my children (my four older children are saved) understand that as well.
I'm kind of like you, Bethany. I'm expecting that after all these years of rich blessings, my faith will be tested somehow or another. But I trust God to always do the right thing - even if I can't understand, I can trust that He is always good and always just, so I try not to think too much about what might happen in the future. My ultimate future is secure because Jesus took my place on the cross, not because of anything I've done or will do, and that's all that really matters.
I will be praying for you and your family.
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OIC--I thought he flew to NYC to see the friend, then flew to San Antonio, to see the girlfriend. I thought Tiffany's was only in NYC. There is one in San Antonio, but it's so iconically NYC, I thought that's where he bought it.
He flew to NYC to see gf's foreign exchange student "sister" who was heading back to Paris for the holidays. She had a 7-hour layover at JFK. Ds and fes got to know each other a little bit when gf and ds were skyping - she would join in their conversations. At first I didn't know what was going, but if you knew ds you'd get it - he went to witness to her because she is not a Christian.:) He explained it all last night. He's the type to talk about his faith very freely to everyone he meets - not in a ram in down their throats kind of way, but out of genuine concern for their eternal condition.
Then he flew to San Antonio (straight from NYC) to meet gf's parents for the first time and see gf whom he hadn't seen face-to-face for years. They have been maintaining a Civil Air Patrol friendship since he met her at Maxwell AFB for Cadet Officer School a long time ago and only recently have they started thinking of themselves as anything more.
Anyway, he bought the bracelet at Tiffany's in San Antonio. He's young, single, has a decent job and thinks he's rich - he's not - but he'll figure that out soon enough. I'm glad he thought he was rich when he was at Tiffany's.:D
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Ah! sounds like she would be a great Daughter-in-law.
Yes, it looks like things are heading that way and that would be fine by me.:)
that is so sweet.He has his moments.:D
Can I hire him to tutor my husband in The Art of Apology? :D:lol::lol:
Christmas Pudding - need advice from experts
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I wonder if fire by Christmas pudding is covered in my homeowner's insurance policy.:D