RE: Re: To vaccinate or not to vaccinate

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That's true.. you dont' need two or three of everything if you wash as you go..... On baking days I have a routine so that the mixer gets used to start the bread, that has to rest a bit before I knead it so I clean up the mixer bowl to let the dough go through the first two proofs in it... it's the biggest bowl we have and I like to do BIG batches of bread and freeze it too.... so when the bread gets shaped for the final rise the bowl gets washed and the other stuff gets mixed and put in pans and the baking begins... when the bread is ready to bake that gets slipped into the oven too... that's usually the last thing to bake and the other stuff is already knocked out of it's pans, or muffin tins or whatever I was baking and that is laying out to cool and all it's bakeware is washed... so the kitchen is pretty close to all done by the time the bread comes out of the oven... I wash the pans for that... and then stuff gets laid out on the big sheets in the freezer to freeze, next morning it's all bagged up.... done.

My general time table is to start as soon as the house empties in the morning, 6:30 with my breakfast and then get started with the kitchen stuff and whatever laundry or house work I have to do.... and have everything done and in the freezer or set up for the next few days mini meals by noon.... then I'm done with all that stuff for the day.... I do cooking/baking on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays when folks are home... and when they are on vacation I do it as the whim strikes....

Today I'm cleaning my office... with the summer heat I've just done gutted this room good to clean it.. so that is my project for today.... I'm getting everything sorted and properly put away and then getting out the polish to polish the wood and get all the electronics all dusted and polished and all shiny and clean..... I must be in just the right humor for it cuz, so far, it's been fun to do....

.... lets see how I feel when I start sorting all my program CDs! hehehehehe

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On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:11:20 +0100 "Dianne Lam" writes:

washing by hand, everything is washed up right away and put away right away, ready to use when you have the ambition to cook or bake...

YES & YES !!!! My DH and I get up from the table and do it together in moments, and we wash up the pans etc as we go along with the cooking.. this way, no waste of resources and none of that salt being poured into the drains and needing to be extracted by the water company…

I think they are so horrible, you need to leave stuff drying in there until you have enough to run it.. YUK..

(you can also get by with less crockery & cutlery too.. J )

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Re: Re: To vaccinate or not to vaccinate

That's true.. you dont' need two or three of everything if you wash as you go..... On baking days I have a routine so that the mixer gets used to start the bread, that has to rest a bit before I knead it so I clean up the mixer bowl to let the dough go through the first two proofs in it... it's the biggest bowl we have and I like to do BIG batches of bread and freeze it too.... so when the bread gets shaped for the final rise the bowl gets washed and the other stuff gets mixed and put in pans and the baking begins... when the bread is ready to bake that gets slipped into the oven too... that's usually the last thing to bake and the other stuff is already knocked out of it's pans, or muffin tins or whatever I was baking and that is laying out to cool and all it's bakeware is washed... so the kitchen is pretty close to all done by the time the bread comes out of the oven... I wash the pans for that... and then stuff gets laid out on the big sheets in the freezer to freeze, next morning it's all bagged up.... done.

My general time table is to start as soon as the house empties in the morning, 6:30 with my breakfast and then get started with the kitchen stuff and whatever laundry or house work I have to do.... and have everything done and in the freezer or set up for the next few days mini meals by noon.... then I'm done with all that stuff for the day.... I do cooking/baking on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays when folks are home... and when they are on vacation I do it as the whim strikes....

Today I'm cleaning my office... with the summer heat I've just done gutted this room good to clean it.. so that is my project for today.... I'm getting everything sorted and properly put away and then getting out the polish to polish the wood and get all the electronics all dusted and polished and all shiny and clean..... I must be in just the right humor for it cuz, so far, it's been fun to do....

.... lets see how I feel when I start sorting all my program CDs! hehehehehe

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On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:11:20 +0100 "Dianne Lam" writes:

washing by hand, everything is washed up right away and put away right away, ready to use when you have the ambition to cook or bake...

YES & YES !!!! My DH and I get up from the table and do it together in moments, and we wash up the pans etc as we go along with the cooking.. this way, no waste of resources and none of that salt being poured into the drains and needing to be extracted by the water company…

I think they are so horrible, you need to leave stuff drying in there until you have enough to run it.. YUK..

(you can also get by with less crockery & cutlery too.. J )

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I use bleach every day to do the cat's litter trays, but I can't think of a solution to that one...... (but I don't eat or drink out of the trays!!!!) - I am aware of the fumes though. Love Chris

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Ooooh - so there's bleach in dishwasher powder?????? Not thought about that! Love Chris

That brings up an interesting thought.... I used to use bleach a lot for cleaning.... When it got poison ivy the first time I practically bathed in it and it got me through the infection.... in later years I started not liking the smell much... now... I can smell the chlorine when the dishwasher is running... on the other side of the house!!!

We have a private well, for water, so our water has no chlorine of fluorine in it.. so it's the chemical in the dishwasher gel stuff.... No wonder that stuff kills septic systems.... Pet peeve of mine... I'll shut up now....

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I use bleach every day to do the cat's litter trays, but I can't think of a solution to that one...... (but I don't eat or drink out of the trays!!!!) - I am aware of the fumes though. Love Chris

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Ooooh - so there's bleach in dishwasher powder?????? Not thought about that! Love Chris

That brings up an interesting thought.... I used to use bleach a lot for cleaning.... When it got poison ivy the first time I practically bathed in it and it got me through the infection.... in later years I started not liking the smell much... now... I can smell the chlorine when the dishwasher is running... on the other side of the house!!!

We have a private well, for water, so our water has no chlorine of fluorine in it.. so it's the chemical in the dishwasher gel stuff.... No wonder that stuff kills septic systems.... Pet peeve of mine... I'll shut up now....

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*laugh*

I'm loving this. I might just have to bake some bread soon! I think I will probably have your reaction (at least that's my theory and I hope it works for me) about if I have it more often it's less of a treat, therefore, I eat less of it. I do love the minimeal idea of getting to eat again in two hours, too. I will save this email, and whenever I muster up the energy to do it, I'll use my foodsaver and go for it.

Oh...and I spoke too soon about not requiring naps. I took my usual 1pm-3pm 2 hour nap today. Grr! Drives me nuts to have to do that! Any idea how to make my body stop needing that nap? I never could sleep during the day, and even today, we were out and about, so it's not like I'm habit forming or anything, it's no matter where I am, and my body sais SLEEP! NOW! And I can't not sleep.

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I've conquered the bread thing... I do mini meal sized buns!!

I make the dough in the batch size I need to fill the half sheet pans that I have with mini buns.. they are about 2/3 of a cup size. In my case 72 of them fit on a sheet.... I bake up the whole batch and then pull the buns apart and separate them. I let them sit upside down for a couple of hours.... then right side up for another hour or so, this forms a crust on the buns and gets rid of the surface moisture.. then you can move them to the freezer, still spread out on the cookie sheets and freeze them.. then bulk bag them... then when you want some of your good bread with a meal you can grab just one bun, for the mini meal...

I have frozen bread dough successfully. You let it go through the first two proofs and then shape it.. then immediately freeze it... when you want to bake it you have to grease the outside... pretty much follow the same routine as the frozen loaves that you buy at the store. It works... but I ended up with the whole loaf thing... at a period during which I ate the whole loaf... I did the mini buns until I got the bread gorging under control and could stop at the proper portion size... I have found that by doing bread regularly I don't gorge on it any more... it's a normal part of meals, though not at every meal.... and just tastes good.

What I am doing now is baking my breads in the shape of french bread loaves.. it's really quick to do that way, then, then freeze, I quarter the loaves and take them out of the freezer one quarter loaf at a time.. that why the are always fresh and I usually can kill it in a couple of days, spreading it out.

One thing I've noticed is that it takes some adjusting to get used to doing things in smaller portions.... like when you're used to huge sandwiches, big slices of cake or pies... and lasagna.. that was a challenge.. to figure out mini meal size portions for home made lasagna..... It looked sooooo tiny.. but the calorie content and volume of food was correct for a mini meal portion....but it was like 1/4 of what I had been eating when I baked lasagna.... Oh.. that's freezable in portions too. Quick tip.... bake the lasagna as you normally would.. then let it cool and put it in the fridge over night.. the next day it will slice into clean square peices and can be frozen and then bulk bagged.... Then you can take out just a portion at a time when you want lasagna.. and not pig out on a half a pan!!! hehehehehe

I used to do HEAPs of spaghetti when I made spaghetti sauce... Now that I know how to do the mini meal portions of the sauce.... I can cook up just a couple of mini meals worth of pasta and put on the chunks of sauce... and have a realistic serving size... and not a huge plate full and going back for seconds, like I used to do....

The fun part about a really good mini meal, the kind where you're mouth and tummy are doing the yum yum dance and you want to go for seconds? Just remind yourself that you can eat in just two more hours.... Why two hours? Well... it's easier to say than 2 hours and 45 minutes..... and, well, it's a head game... you get to have more, soon... guilt free, in a healthy way, good for your body, your meds... your health.... and it will taste just as yummy and delectable in two hours as it does right now... with NO guilt..

.... but do the 'I get to eat in just two more hours' song silently to yourself... otherwise the people around you... well... they kind of move away in little steps...so as not to rile you and make you do something REALLY crazy!!! hehehehehehe

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On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:29:53 -0400 " " writes:

I love baking bread, but since it's just my husband and me to eat it, I either have to greatly reduce recipes or plan to give some away. How does it work to freeze homemade bread? Do I make the dough and freeze it before baking, or will that harm the yeast? I've always wondered, but only think of it when I bake bread, and that's not very often because I love it and I will eat it til it's gone!! If I could plan to freeze most of it in the beginning, then I could have it more often but in much smaller quantities and that would be wonderful.

I learned how to make homemade pasta this summer, and that was so much fun. But as it turned out, it didn't really have that much of a different taste than dried pasta, so I haven't done it in a while. Made my own cheese ravioli and it turned out great, and froze a bunch of it, so I still have some in the freezer. I love to cook. Unfortunately, I also love to eat. Hehehe!!

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LOL!! Cheese rules. I love cheese! Learning how to make authentic italian dishes, I'm finding, was a very dumb idea for someone like me who loves cheese and loves to eat. LOL! We've found ways to cut back the cal's and fat, though, so that helps, and I purposefully measure and make only 2 portion sizes (sometimes 3 cos hubby works out a lot and needs the extra).

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That's true.. you dont' need two or three of everything if you wash as you go..... On baking days I have a routine so that the mixer gets used to start the bread, that has to rest a bit before I knead it so I clean up the mixer bowl to let the dough go through the first two proofs in it... it's the biggest bowl we have and I like to do BIG batches of bread and freeze it too.... so when the bread gets shaped for the final rise the bowl gets washed and the other stuff gets mixed and put in pans and the baking begins... when the bread is ready to bake that gets slipped into the oven too... that's usually the last thing to bake and the other stuff is already knocked out of it's pans, or muffin tins or whatever I was baking and that is laying out to cool and all it's bakeware is washed... so the kitchen is pretty close to all done by the time the bread comes out of the oven... I wash the pans for that... and then stuff gets laid out on the big sheets in the freezer to freeze, next morning it's all bagged up.... done.

My general time table is to start as soon as the house empties in the morning, 6:30 with my breakfast and then get started with the kitchen stuff and whatever laundry or house work I have to do.... and have everything done and in the freezer or set up for the next few days mini meals by noon.... then I'm done with all that stuff for the day.... I do cooking/baking on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays when folks are home... and when they are on vacation I do it as the whim strikes....

Today I'm cleaning my office... with the summer heat I've just done gutted this room good to clean it.. so that is my project for today.... I'm getting everything sorted and properly put away and then getting out the polish to polish the wood and get all the electronics all dusted and polished and all shiny and clean..... I must be in just the right humor for it cuz, so far, it's been fun to do....

.... lets see how I feel when I start sorting all my program CDs! hehehehehe

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On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:11:20 +0100 "Dianne Lam" writes:

washing by hand, everything is washed up right away and put away right away, ready to use when you have the ambition to cook or bake...

YES & YES !!!! My DH and I get up from the table and do it together in moments, and we wash up the pans etc as we go along with the cooking.. this way, no waste of resources and none of that salt being poured into the drains and needing to be extracted by the water company…

I think they are so horrible, you need to leave stuff drying in there until you have enough to run it.. YUK..

(you can also get by with less crockery & cutlery too.. J )

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LOL!! Cheese rules. I love cheese! Learning how to make authentic italian dishes, I'm finding, was a very dumb idea for someone like me who loves cheese and loves to eat. LOL! We've found ways to cut back the cal's and fat, though, so that helps, and I purposefully measure and make only 2 portion sizes (sometimes 3 cos hubby works out a lot and needs the extra).

Re: Re: To vaccinate or not to vaccinate

That's true.. you dont' need two or three of everything if you wash as you go..... On baking days I have a routine so that the mixer gets used to start the bread, that has to rest a bit before I knead it so I clean up the mixer bowl to let the dough go through the first two proofs in it... it's the biggest bowl we have and I like to do BIG batches of bread and freeze it too.... so when the bread gets shaped for the final rise the bowl gets washed and the other stuff gets mixed and put in pans and the baking begins... when the bread is ready to bake that gets slipped into the oven too... that's usually the last thing to bake and the other stuff is already knocked out of it's pans, or muffin tins or whatever I was baking and that is laying out to cool and all it's bakeware is washed... so the kitchen is pretty close to all done by the time the bread comes out of the oven... I wash the pans for that... and then stuff gets laid out on the big sheets in the freezer to freeze, next morning it's all bagged up.... done.

My general time table is to start as soon as the house empties in the morning, 6:30 with my breakfast and then get started with the kitchen stuff and whatever laundry or house work I have to do.... and have everything done and in the freezer or set up for the next few days mini meals by noon.... then I'm done with all that stuff for the day.... I do cooking/baking on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays when folks are home... and when they are on vacation I do it as the whim strikes....

Today I'm cleaning my office... with the summer heat I've just done gutted this room good to clean it.. so that is my project for today.... I'm getting everything sorted and properly put away and then getting out the polish to polish the wood and get all the electronics all dusted and polished and all shiny and clean..... I must be in just the right humor for it cuz, so far, it's been fun to do....

.... lets see how I feel when I start sorting all my program CDs! hehehehehe

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On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:11:20 +0100 "Dianne Lam" writes:

washing by hand, everything is washed up right away and put away right away, ready to use when you have the ambition to cook or bake...

YES & YES !!!! My DH and I get up from the table and do it together in moments, and we wash up the pans etc as we go along with the cooking.. this way, no waste of resources and none of that salt being poured into the drains and needing to be extracted by the water company…

I think they are so horrible, you need to leave stuff drying in there until you have enough to run it.. YUK..

(you can also get by with less crockery & cutlery too.. J )

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LOL!! Cheese rules. I love cheese! Learning how to make authentic italian dishes, I'm finding, was a very dumb idea for someone like me who loves cheese and loves to eat. LOL! We've found ways to cut back the cal's and fat, though, so that helps, and I purposefully measure and make only 2 portion sizes (sometimes 3 cos hubby works out a lot and needs the extra).

Re: Re: To vaccinate or not to vaccinate

That's true.. you dont' need two or three of everything if you wash as you go..... On baking days I have a routine so that the mixer gets used to start the bread, that has to rest a bit before I knead it so I clean up the mixer bowl to let the dough go through the first two proofs in it... it's the biggest bowl we have and I like to do BIG batches of bread and freeze it too.... so when the bread gets shaped for the final rise the bowl gets washed and the other stuff gets mixed and put in pans and the baking begins... when the bread is ready to bake that gets slipped into the oven too... that's usually the last thing to bake and the other stuff is already knocked out of it's pans, or muffin tins or whatever I was baking and that is laying out to cool and all it's bakeware is washed... so the kitchen is pretty close to all done by the time the bread comes out of the oven... I wash the pans for that... and then stuff gets laid out on the big sheets in the freezer to freeze, next morning it's all bagged up.... done.

My general time table is to start as soon as the house empties in the morning, 6:30 with my breakfast and then get started with the kitchen stuff and whatever laundry or house work I have to do.... and have everything done and in the freezer or set up for the next few days mini meals by noon.... then I'm done with all that stuff for the day.... I do cooking/baking on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays when folks are home... and when they are on vacation I do it as the whim strikes....

Today I'm cleaning my office... with the summer heat I've just done gutted this room good to clean it.. so that is my project for today.... I'm getting everything sorted and properly put away and then getting out the polish to polish the wood and get all the electronics all dusted and polished and all shiny and clean..... I must be in just the right humor for it cuz, so far, it's been fun to do....

.... lets see how I feel when I start sorting all my program CDs! hehehehehe

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On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:11:20 +0100 "Dianne Lam" writes:

washing by hand, everything is washed up right away and put away right away, ready to use when you have the ambition to cook or bake...

YES & YES !!!! My DH and I get up from the table and do it together in moments, and we wash up the pans etc as we go along with the cooking.. this way, no waste of resources and none of that salt being poured into the drains and needing to be extracted by the water company…

I think they are so horrible, you need to leave stuff drying in there until you have enough to run it.. YUK..

(you can also get by with less crockery & cutlery too.. J )

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...... I must be in

just the right humour for it cuz, so far, it's been fun to do....

Well you are doing a

basic human thing , celebrating Samhain, by instinct !!!

http://www.celticspirit.org/samhain.htm

as you read down the

page you will see what I mean ! J

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...... I must be in

just the right humour for it cuz, so far, it's been fun to do....

Well you are doing a

basic human thing , celebrating Samhain, by instinct !!!

http://www.celticspirit.org/samhain.htm

as you read down the

page you will see what I mean ! J

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I have developed a terrible

sensitivity to bleach, also mint.....

One symptom that a lot

of people have that have lupus is an allergy to bleach(chlorine)

Feisty

It is tricky isn’t it , .. but just you wait till you have to cut

knicker elastic out of your life L LOL!!

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I have developed a terrible

sensitivity to bleach, also mint.....

One symptom that a lot

of people have that have lupus is an allergy to bleach(chlorine)

Feisty

It is tricky isn’t it , .. but just you wait till you have to cut

knicker elastic out of your life L LOL!!

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use bleach every day to do the cat's litter trays,

but I can't think of a solution to that one......

Chris

Same here. Should we train them to do it themselves ?

J

[Guest guest]

use bleach every day to do the cat's litter trays,

but I can't think of a solution to that one......

Chris

Same here. Should we train them to do it themselves ?

J

[Guest guest]

use bleach every day to do the cat's litter trays,

but I can't think of a solution to that one......

Chris

Same here. Should we train them to do it themselves ?

J