Please let me properly introduce myself

"Monique Y. Mudama" wrote in message
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On 2005-02-22, Christina Websell penned:

I love cilantro (here we call it coriander) but Earl Grey tastes like
washing powder water to me, I hate it. Maybe I have half of the soap
gene.

Tweed

Wait, I'm confused. I've bought cilantro, and it's a parsley-looking
green
leafy thing. And then I have a bottle of coriander; it's a bunch of round
pellet-looking things, I think. *confused*

Just the difference between the fresh herb and the dried. Coriander
tends to be the seeds, cilantro the green part.



I do love both cilantro (the leafy type) and earl grey.

--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

On 2005-02-23, Mary penned:

Just the difference between the fresh herb and the dried. Coriander tends to
be the seeds, cilantro the green part.

They don't taste the same, though, do they?

--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

For dessert, try some shortbread: Dr. Atkins would shrivel with horror,
of course. But if you want to live dangerously, here's the recipe
anyway:
preheat oven to 300 F.
2 sticks butter (must be butter)
*1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 3/4 cup regular flour
**1/4 cup rice flour
*I recently tried a variation of using light brown sugar in this
recipe, and it was quite good. =o)
**Look for rice flour at natural food stores or places that sell
spices in bulk, or in the baking ingredients aisle at your local
grocery store. If you can't find it, it's not a disaster. Just use 2
cups of regular flour and the shortbread will still be very good. I
use rice flour because it makes the cookies a little more crisp and
delicate when they're baked.

Cream the butter, sugar and vanilla together, then gradually sift in
the flour, until it is all incorporated. These cookies are much easier
to handle when you pop the dough in the refrigerator and chill it for
ten to fifteen minutes. Roll out the dough, and cut cookies in any
shapes you wish. Bake the cookies for about 15 minutes, or until the
edges are light brown. The recipe makes 15-24 cookies, depending on
how thin you roll the dough, and how large a cookie cutter you use.
They're delicious with milk or with a cup of hot tea or coffee.

Melissa

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:08:23 +1100, "Yowie"
wrote:

"Christina Websell" wrote in message
...
Yowie wrote:
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If someone by whatever name they care to post under wants to talk
about their kitties, then thats what the group is here for.

Of course, that is understood, that *is* what the group is for but what it
is not here for is for the very genuine and kind-hearted people that post
here to be taken advantage of.

Very true.


We are
not a witch hunting party (apologies to the Wiccans out there) and we
aren't a crack investigation team.

I don't think we've witch-hunted and we may not be the best detectives in
the world, but I think (and it's only my personal opinion, mind, after
looking at each and every post) that there is/was something very wrong
here.

Welcome the stories about kitties, and leave it at that. Any mistrust
or hard feelings can be done in private.

Stories about kitties I love. Any mistrust or hard feelings are
appropriate
to be expressed here, as it all happened here after all.
You may have to go along with a few more posts about this as we all
gradually, at our own pace, get over it.
I didn't want it to be all a fake either, but I'm fairly sure it is.

And yes, it's sad. While any of us feel sad about it, it's nice to share
that between us.

Also true, but I guess I'm willing to give a person the benefit of the
doubt. If "one&only" is who she says she is, the we have no right to jump
all over her. If she is who we suspect she is, it will become obvious soon
enough and getting angry with her and threatening her isn't helping anyone -
neither her nor us. And even if "one&only" does turn out to be the person
who was originally posting as Holly, her cat anecdotes are not off topic
here and it may help her to know that we can and do like reading her kitty
stories (there is no rule to say they have to be true).

I can understand feeling sad, upset, dissapointed and taken for a ride. I
did too. But the anger that seems to be coming out now is so out of
character for this group. The discord and hostility I now see is upsetting
me far more than the original deception, which, if I understand MBI, was not
done out of any malice or ill intention but rather part of a disease. Its
like getting mad at someone for swearing when they have Tourette's. It
doesn't help the person with the illness and blinds us to the fact that the
person is just as much a victim of their disease as we are.

We didn't get mad and threaten the person who typed in all-caps when we
found out she had a vision impairment, instead we tried to help by typing in
all-caps as well when replying to her. I'm wondering why we can't find it in
our hearts to be understanding of "Holly" as well.

Yowie


Thanks, Yowie. We don't know what the true circumstances are behind
all of this, and I would hate to see rpca break up over something as
trivial as this. It is a very good possibility that Holly is a victim
of someone who is trying to get even for something. We don't know.
She may very well be the person who has instigated all of this. We
don't know. It's time to let it all go and hope and pray that the
person behind all of this gets the help that they so desperately need.

Ok, time to get off the soap box.

Hugs,

Nan

Me too, Mary. Love Earl Grey and Lady Grey, but have never liked the
taste of either Cilantro OR Coriander.

Melissa

Nina must have that gene too, then. I have to hide plastic bags from
her. Although before trying to eat them, she spends a lot of time
hunting and killing them. Maybe they're infested with Greeblings, I
dunno.... =o)

Melissa

Shiral wrote:
For dessert, try some shortbread: Dr. Atkins would shrivel with
horror,
of course. But if you want to live dangerously, here's the recipe
anyway:
preheat oven to 300 F.
2 sticks butter (must be butter)
*1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 3/4 cup regular flour
**1/4 cup rice flour
*I recently tried a variation of using light brown sugar in this
recipe, and it was quite good. =o)
**Look for rice flour at natural food stores or places that sell
spices in bulk, or in the baking ingredients aisle at your local
grocery store. If you can't find it, it's not a disaster. Just use 2
cups of regular flour and the shortbread will still be very good. I
use rice flour because it makes the cookies a little more crisp and
delicate when they're baked.

Cream the butter, sugar and vanilla together, then gradually sift in
the flour, until it is all incorporated. These cookies are much
easier
to handle when you pop the dough in the refrigerator and chill it for
ten to fifteen minutes. Roll out the dough, and cut cookies in any
shapes you wish. Bake the cookies for about 15 minutes, or until the
edges are light brown. The recipe makes 15-24 cookies, depending on
how thin you roll the dough, and how large a cookie cutter you use.
They're delicious with milk or with a cup of hot tea or coffee.

Melissa

Oh, goodness, I absolutely adore shortbread. Hmmm, going to be eating
good stuff on my "Free Day".

Smokie Darling (Annie)

"Smokie Darling (Annie)" wrote in message
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Shiral wrote:
For dessert, try some shortbread: Dr. Atkins would shrivel with
horror,
of course. But if you want to live dangerously, here's the recipe
anyway:
preheat oven to 300 F.
2 sticks butter (must be butter)
*1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 3/4 cup regular flour
**1/4 cup rice flour
*I recently tried a variation of using light brown sugar in this
recipe, and it was quite good. =o)
**Look for rice flour at natural food stores or places that sell
spices in bulk, or in the baking ingredients aisle at your local
grocery store. If you can't find it, it's not a disaster. Just use 2
cups of regular flour and the shortbread will still be very good. I
use rice flour because it makes the cookies a little more crisp and
delicate when they're baked.

Cream the butter, sugar and vanilla together, then gradually sift in
the flour, until it is all incorporated. These cookies are much
easier
to handle when you pop the dough in the refrigerator and chill it for
ten to fifteen minutes. Roll out the dough, and cut cookies in any
shapes you wish. Bake the cookies for about 15 minutes, or until the
edges are light brown. The recipe makes 15-24 cookies, depending on
how thin you roll the dough, and how large a cookie cutter you use.
They're delicious with milk or with a cup of hot tea or coffee.

Melissa

Oh, goodness, I absolutely adore shortbread. Hmmm, going to be eating
good stuff on my "Free Day".

Throwing in some semolina makes yummy shortbread too, although can't
remember what proportion you have to use.

Yowie

Smokie Darling (Annie) wrote:
Shiral wrote:
For dessert, try some shortbread: Dr. Atkins would shrivel with
horror, of course. But if you want to live dangerously, here's the
recipe anyway:
preheat oven to 300 F.
2 sticks butter (must be butter)
*1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 3/4 cup regular flour
**1/4 cup rice flour
*I recently tried a variation of using light brown sugar in this
recipe, and it was quite good. =o)
**Look for rice flour at natural food stores or places that sell
spices in bulk, or in the baking ingredients aisle at your local
grocery store. If you can't find it, it's not a disaster. Just use 2
cups of regular flour and the shortbread will still be very good. I
use rice flour because it makes the cookies a little more crisp and
delicate when they're baked.

Cream the butter, sugar and vanilla together, then gradually sift in
the flour, until it is all incorporated. These cookies are much
easier to handle when you pop the dough in the refrigerator and
chill it for ten to fifteen minutes. Roll out the dough, and cut
cookies in any shapes you wish. Bake the cookies for about 15
minutes, or until the edges are light brown. The recipe makes 15-24
cookies, depending on how thin you roll the dough, and how large a
cookie cutter you use. They're delicious with milk or with a cup of
hot tea or coffee.

Melissa

Oh, goodness, I absolutely adore shortbread. Hmmm, going to be eating
good stuff on my "Free Day".

Smokie Darling (Annie)

My maternal grandparents were straight off the boat from Scotland in 1923
and grandma definitely made wonderful buttery shortbread. Don't even think
of attempting this without using real (unsalted) butter.

3/4 c. butter
4 c. sifted all purpose flour
1 c. sugar
1/4 tsp. salt

Blend salt into flour. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter with the
sugar and then blend in with the flour mixture until you have a stiff dough.
Pat the dough out in a 6X9 inch pan, pressing with the sides of a glass to
smooth the dough. Prick it all over with a fork. Bake at 275F for 50-60
minutes or until lightly browned.

Jill

Jill

Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
On 2005-02-22, Christina Websell penned:

I love cilantro (here we call it coriander) but Earl Grey tastes like
washing powder water to me, I hate it. Maybe I have half of the
soap gene.

Tweed

Wait, I'm confused. I've bought cilantro, and it's a parsley-looking
green leafy thing.

The actual live growing plant looks a little like parsley.

And then I have a bottle of coriander; it's a
bunch of round pellet-looking things, I think. *confused*

I don't know the things that look like pellets, unless they could be
coriander "seeds" I have some myself, they are round. Small. I also have
ground coriander, like powder, which I use in curries and Asian cooking.

I do love both cilantro (the leafy type) and earl grey.

I like the leaves torn up on top of any Asian spicy dish and the other types
of it in curries and dahl. As far as I'm concerned Earl Grey can go
straight down the sink. It's vile, tastes *exactly* like soapy water to me.

Tweed