Looking to the East - An MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Ok, German Chocolate Pecan Pie - from Every Day with Rachael Ray:

1 baked pie crust
2 eggs
5 tbs butter
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 c brown sugar
1/2 c corn syrup
2-1/2 c pecan pieces
3/4 c sweetened coconut flakes
3/4 c semisweet chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 400°F.

In a medium bowl, whisk the eggs. In a heavy, medium saucepan, whisk together butter, salt, brown sugar and corn syrup until melted and smooth. Whisk the sugar mixture into the beaten eggs. <I would temper the eggs first!> Stir in the nuts and coconut.

Spread the chocolate chips in the cooled pie shell. Pour in the filling and bake until set, about 25 minutes. Let the pie cool completely before slicing.

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[del]Cover with Cool Whip and serve[/del] what?

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What a day. All my joint ache, I guess my scurvy is acting up. I had a loony lady customer today. She got pissed off because I didn’t make the next customer wait while she ran out to the car for more money. I took Nelly to the vet for her adoption check up. She’s in good shape, except for, you guessed it, an ear infection. Next time I adopt, I am going to Petfinder, and typing “beagle, ear infection, separation anixiaty” into the search engine. Time for beer and chilli

Welcome back, kai! Nelly already has a special place

:hands Haze a daisy, gropes:

:shoots LOUNE with a tranquilizer dart:

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::sigh:: Does this kick me out of the cool-kids club?
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Bless your heart, you just weren’t raised right. :smiley: I only use mayo.

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Rebo, that sounds positively sinful and I usually don’t like chocolate.

I like Cool Whip, but not Miracle Whip. Miracle Whip is vile.

Now I want those Red Vines in the vending machine. It’s all your fault, LOUNE!

Did someone mention badly made pumpkin pie? My aunt makes the worst pumpkin pie EVAH! She makes it for every holiday dinner, so you’d think she’d have improved sometime in the last 2 decades. It’s so nasty, it’s impossible to eat, even smothered in Cool Whip. My uncle always chokes a piece down, though. You may wonder how you can tell how bad it is - that’s easy, besides the filling being burnt and the crust being visibly gritty, we also watch Uncle’s face while he’s eating it. Since this is a man who regards spaghetti sandwiches as haute cuisine, you know it’s bad.

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I didn’t know until I left for work, but last night we got just a dusting of snow, enough to stick to cars that were left outside (thank Og I have parking under my building out of the weather!) and to roofs. it didn’t stick to anywhere I could see from my windows, though, which is why I didn’t know it had fallen until I started down the road.

This made me go to talk to a nice guy my aunt recommended about snow tires. $450! OUCH! But I have an odd size of tire that’s always expensive. These better last me awhile, at that price. At least I can put them on credit guiltlessly, since it’s either the tires or I won’t be driving from about November to May!

kai, we’ll have to compare snow totals, or something. g

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Welcome back Kai, and congrats on getting the cable internet - I lurve it. :slight_smile: Yay for your own phone line too!

Well count me in Plynk’s group - I also lurve Miracle Whip (and even it’s generic equivalent!).

Thank you for that recipe, Rebo; my son loves pecan pie so I’ll try that recipe for him when he’s home for the holidays.

All day, I’ve thought it was Thursday! Argh!! Well, at least it will be tomorrow, right?

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I just have to say that the title of this is driving me crazy (er).

“Look to the East” is not a phrase I run in to very often outside of the Lodge, yet in Lodge it has certain meanings and I nearly find myself acting appropriately when I happen upon this thread.
Just like Inigo Montoya with his location, yet he gives no indication it means anything esoteric at all…

17/23

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**MamaTigs ** - how long will you be in Miami? I’m flying down there on Sunday, and I’ll get back here next Friday. Oh yeah, I’m sooooooooo excited about it. :rolleyes: Actually, it could be a good trip. I found out I’m going to be working on the Energy team instead of being assigned to the White Team (which is where they stash people just in case they need to ask questions.)

Today was a day from hell. I forgot my watch and my money this morning. Then I got to work and couldn’t get into my office - they’d changed the combination yesterday and didn’t bother to tell most of us. Swell. Then my 2:00 VTC was rescheduled for 3:00, but it didn’t actually start till 3:15, so it was after 4 when I got out of there. I’m just too tired to mess with glazing, I think. We’ll see.

Incidentally, for those of you posting song lyrics - please don’t do that! It violates copyrights and we don’t need the mods coming into the MMP messing it up with their jackboots. Remember, it’s OK to post a line or 2, but not the whole thing. And with that, no more junior modding from me.

Is it Friday yet? <insert deep, sad sigh>

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'Ullo, all. Home from a very nice day at work. Horrible sinus headache, though. I may just rotoroot my head. It would be an improvement…

Up early tomorrow–0430. But I get out early as well. Yay!
When do we set the clocks back? I’m confused.
And may I just say this: would everyone just call NPR already and pledge some damned money so I don’t have to listen to them natter on about raising money anymore? Please? thanks.

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We fall back the first weekend of Nov.

And I agree with you about the beg-a-thon. There’s got to be a better way, doesn’t there?

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Sunday, November 4.

All these relatives making inedible pies! If you know how to read the instructions on the can, it should be impossible to make a bad pumpkin pie.

Going from memory, it’s what… the canned pumpkin, eggs, evaporated milk, sugar and some spices. Pour into a pre-made “pet-ritz” crust and bake. If you can make microwave popcorn, you should be able to make this work.

ETA: or even easier, Libby’s makes Pumpkin Pie Mix For Absolute Idiots: Pour contents of can into pre-made crust and bake. You don’t even need to stir it!

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Hi everyone. I’ve been hanging out on the couch for a while, contemplating what to eat. Settled on sweet potato with honey and cinnamon. (Too lazy to make chicken.) Might consider something else once I’ve finished that.

Wow there’s been a lot of action in here today! ::Gropes random Mumper::

Hi Bobo! Don’t mind the mess. Nice to see you stop by.

I wondered about the inedible pumpkin pie, too. Really - it’s the easiest pie to make. I suppose burning it is a danger, but it seems like you’d learn to pay attention.

Have to admit I like Miracle Whip. I think it’s a “what you were raised with” thing. I can live with mayo, but it doesn’t generally taste right unless it has Miracle Whip in it. (You may bless my heart now…)

Today’s the last day of our public radio drive (at least of the station I listen to). It ended at 7. They’re generally amusing and not terribly intrusive, so I don’t mind them terribly. (And yes, I’m a member. And I always give something extra even if it’s not the drive when my membership expires. It’s the only radio station I listen to and I really like their programming, so I figure it’s the responsible thing to do.)

Yay! kai’s back!! Hope the computer and internet connection hold. I was just wondering where you’d gotten off to.

Yes, Roo, I’ve been keeping a food diary; that’s helped me figure out what I’m sensitive to. We’ll see what the doc thinks next week.

Still tired…time for a nap.

Back later…

GT

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Howdy Y’all!

Jah yay on the job!

Snakes I hope they’re out of everything but baked cod! :stuck_out_tongue:

I’m sittin’ here yawnin’ away. Dunno why cause I slept like nine hours today. I was tahred! Oh well, another third shift comin’ up… purple pocket t and black jeans tonight.

I have a pecan pie recipe somewhere that makes a custardy, as opposed to a syrupy filling. I need to dig it out. I like the traditional syrupy pecan pie but the custardy one is good too.

Ok, need to move around and/or ingest some caffiene so’s I can get all woke (waked? woken?) up.

Later Y’all!

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I’d never heard of Miracle Whip until recently, so when my friends mentioned it I thought they were talking about Cool Whip. They teased me mercilessly about being a FOB. Apparently knowing what Miracle Whip is on the American citizenship test. My mom never used it, for some reason, when we were growing up here in the US.

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I’m only overlapping you in Miami by a few hours, apparently, FCM – I’m leaving late Sunday afternoon. But I’ll be spending the day at my friend’s house, anyway; we don’t get much chance to visit these days, and after everyone else has gone, it’ll be our chance to just catch up a bit. Plus I’ll probably be clear across Miami from where you are – she lives in the Kendall area, which is way SW. My biggest problem? I found a skirt, but finding a top to wear with it this time of year in Maryland that would be wearable in Miami was a major challenge! I finally found an extremely lightweight sweater, but for a while there I was ready to give up and try a plan B outfit. I just don’t do skirts any more!

I remember one beg-a-thon at the public TV station in Austin years ago, they didn’t do the regular beg-a-thon – they just had occasional spots, “Okay, rather than interrupt all our programming and annoying you with begging, just send us money and we’ll go away happy, okay?” I loved it. Sent ‘em money. But it didn’t work. :frowning: They were back to the regular “See all the wonderful programming we show you, except that we only show it during beg-a-thons and then we interrupt it five times every hour to annoy you with our cheesy beggers” beg-a-thon. :frowning: I watch a decent amount of PBS, but I really, really wish they could either find a better fundraising model or else have their on-air talent actually have some talent. Even in a major market like DC, the people doing the rambling on cannot speak coherently to save their lives. I’m sure they’re very nice people, but giving them all that time to fill with not more than about 15 seconds’ worth of actual material to base it on? Is just not fair to them or to us, the viewers!

…pant pant…End of PBS beg-a-thon rant. :smiley:

Time to get back to the congressional [del]drivel[/del] hearing. It’s due by 8:00 a.m., so it’s now or never. :frowning:

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The only interesting thing that happened at work was that a Real Live Famous Actor came in, and I talked to him. And didn’t ask for his autograph. I figure anyone who lives in our area doesn’t want people bothering him.

I’m sleepy. Time for bed.
Miracle Whip is vile. Thanks for the pie recipe!

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WAKE UP! Where is everyone?

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Well, shit. I meant COOL Whip. I don’t know where I got Miracle Whip. I don’t even like Miracle Whip. Just the thought of it makes me taste it in the back of my mouth, somehow.

My mother ruined it for me, I think. Back in first and second grade, way back in the age of dinosaurs, my mother used to make me bologna sandwiches with Amercian cheese and Miracle Whip. Ugh! To this day, I will not eat American cheese on a coldcut sandwich. I don’t buy Miracle Whip, only Best Foods mayo. I don’t really like mayo all that much either, but my husband and kids do.

So, it seems there has been some slight improvement in how some of you folks are feeling. I’m glad to see it.

Work was kind of, well, not really bad, but not really great either. I had a meeting that lasted over an hour and a half. Meetings should not last more than an hour, TOPS. This particular meeting ALWAYS, ALWAYS runs over. The start time isn’t great either, because it cuts into the time I need to be running a report for publication on one of our Sharepoint sites. Publishing that report includes several steps, which I won’t go into here. Well, actually, I did, but I deleted them. Reading them made MY eyes glaze over, so I know it would bore you all to tears.

Fortunately, if it looks like the meeting is running beyond 11:30, one of my co-workers will publish the report for me, if she isn’t on a huge project or something. Today, she was nice and did it for me.

I heard from an ex-co-worker today. We worked together years ago. She e-mailed me, and I e-mailed her back. We’re going to try and meet up sometime.

Well, I’m tired, and what I’m typing isn’t making much sense to me. I think I’m going to veg for just a bit, then hit the sack.

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I’m here, in between diverting HRH from pulling side tables over and crawling off to new destinations!

Miracle Whip is a disgusting substitute for real mayonnaise, just as Cool Whip is a poor pretend version of whipped cream.

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::Shakes head::

OK, that seems to have worked…

At work. Vertical. Nose stuffed up beyond belief (and beyond pronouns). Despite Ibuprofen and anti-histamine cocktail.

Where’s Roo?

Need coffee.

Stoopid head-cold… :frowning: