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From: Mother in Law
Date: 12-26-2003, 09:57 PM (1 of 29)
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Well Ladies and Gents, Today I made a year that I signed on this board. I've really become attached to getting on line and seeing what everyone is doing or chatting about everyday. You are a great bunch of people, and I love being a part of Mary's group. Thank you for a wonderful year of Friendships. Love and Hugs to you all. susie |
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From: MaryW
Date: 12-27-2003, 07:33 AM (2 of 29)
One year, wow.   Congratulations. MaryW
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From: DorothyL
Date: 12-27-2003, 09:20 AM (3 of 29)
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You are one of the people that make this a great place for me too. Dorothy |
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From: Bama
Date: 12-27-2003, 02:25 PM (4 of 29)
I'm glad you joined Susie. You've been alot of fun. I think I've been here almost 4 years now. Ya'll feel like family now.
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 12-27-2003, 02:25 PM (5 of 29)
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Actually I just realized that I have been on these board before I signed on as Mother In Law. I was SusieQ26 for about 20 post but it was taking and not giving at the time. Taking information from whomever would help me but then I got to know everyone and it became my daily ritual to sign on and visit with you wonderful people. Now I'd rather give then take. Hope each one of you have a wonderful New Year. Love susie |
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From: Bama
Date: 12-27-2003, 02:27 PM (6 of 29)
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Did we post at the same time Susie?
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From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 12-27-2003, 04:39 PM (7 of 29)
Happy Anniversary, Susie ! ! we are so glad for your input here... 
Sew With Love
Libby |
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From: Karebear
Date: 12-27-2003, 05:45 PM (8 of 29)
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Mother in law.. aka ..Susie!! The pleasure is US finding YOU.... Karen 
Karen
http://www.dancingwicks.com "If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." --Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 12-27-2003, 08:17 PM (9 of 29)
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You see that's what I mean!!! You are guys are great. You make everyone feel so special. I am the one who is blessed you have you all. The Angels were sure looking after me when I found this board. You got me through my Mother's death and lots of painful things. I miss my Mother so much this past week too. She would always call me on Christmas Eve and say I need to go to the hospital emergency room and off we'd go. I didn't get that call this year and it felt so bad not to hear from her. But you were there helping me forget my sorrow. Thanks Friends. You're the best!!!! Love and Hugs susie |
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From: maps
Date: 12-28-2003, 11:15 AM (10 of 29)
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!! suzie, this is the best site i've found too!!! i'm glad your here too!!!
Marge
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From: Magot
Date: 12-28-2003, 12:32 PM (11 of 29)
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Hey Susie, we're about the same age! I lurked for a while before getting up the courage to post, but I'm glad I did 'cos this international community is fun! PS I like the look of your bean recipe - but it must feed an army! love and kisses, Jan
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 12-28-2003, 12:48 PM (12 of 29)
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Thanks Maps I'm happy to be here too. Jan, the beans freeze well. It's a wonderful dish to cook and then freeze smaller portions. If you work and want to come home to a hot meal it's the best. Warms up in the mircowave just like you just cooked it. When I cook them they get eaten without ever seeing the freezer. The kids must smell my food from where ever they are and come running. I was packing up the left over turkey I had to vacuum seal and they came over one by one and got food and when they were finished it was all gone. I didn't need to freeze any. I made a special trip to Wal Mart to get the vacuum bags and didn't use one. LOL Oh well next time.  Susie
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From: bren
Date: 12-29-2003, 01:26 AM (13 of 29)
It's hard to believe you have only been on these boards for ... one year Susie ... I feel like have known you all my life ... we have become such great friends... your part of my family... you have helped me so much... and we have had so much fun ... I agree with everyone ... people on these board's are so caring and giving... Susie... glad you made it threw the holiday's ...your angel was there for you 
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 12-29-2003, 02:43 AM (14 of 29)
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Hey Bud you're pretty special yourself. I've had some hard times here lately and you've made them bareable. Thanks My angel guided me here. Bren you were only one month ahead of me signing on. I didn't know that. What makes it so unique to me is that everyone is so far away yet I feel so close to each one of you. Jan over there in England and I don't know what happened to Miss Minx I haven't heard from her in a while but she's in Austrailia she was pretty cool to talk to too. And all you ladies in Canada. I feel like I've been all over the world and I never left my sewing room. God Bless you all. And Bren we are going to meet face to face one day I promise you that. Susie
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From: MaryW
Date: 12-29-2003, 10:04 AM (15 of 29)
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LOL. Yeah Bren, one day we will all be standing on your doorstep with big appetites and a road map.
MaryW
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From: Magot
Date: 12-29-2003, 10:24 AM (16 of 29)
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... and take home bags....
love and kisses, Jan
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 12-29-2003, 08:33 PM (17 of 29)
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Hey don't laugh. They are sending crawfish all over the place from here with dry ice overnighted. Nice thought for people who love Louisiana crayfish. We boil them down here in New Orleans like no where else. We boil them with the hot pepper in the pot. My husband has been down to Laffayette, La and Baton Rouge and they ask you if you want them hot and if you say yes they sprinkle the hot ceyanne pepper on top of them. Yuck. I want them succors juicey with hot peper. Makes your nose itchy. LOL Mary and Jan, I'd cook for all of you. Come on down. Just bring your own cots at the moment my rooms are all full of sewing and computer things. Now when I get my new house I'll have plenty of room for everyone. 3200 square feet without the garage. I went today to look at my new stove I want. It's the kind Emeril cooks on It's a Viking. It's georgerous. I also picked out the fridge I want. It's acturally two different things. One side which is 36 inchs wide is the fridge and the other one is the freezer that is 36 inchs wide. It's so nice. I know Bren tells me I'm nuts I'm the only person she knows that gets excited over pots and pans. LOL Anyway I can't wait to build. Just waiting to sell what I have here and it's coming soon I hope. It's offically up for sale and it's a prime peice of property in the heart of Chalmette. Should sell quick now that it's listed. Susie |
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From: talking_head
Date: 12-30-2003, 11:49 AM (18 of 29)
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Ooooooooh! The viking stoves are soooooooooooooooooooo coooool!!!!!!! Jeeez, I hope I can afford em some day...sigh... I need a stand mixer and I have no room for that one.. so the viking stove is a looooong way for me. Does this one have a broiler on top? with 6 burners?, or did you go for the eight?
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From: MaryW
Date: 12-30-2003, 12:43 PM (19 of 29)
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Susie, I told my daughters how excited you were about your pots and pans and other kitchen stuff. I think you are crazy too. LOL. Some just love their kitchens! I had a SIL like that, she could cook and putter around all day and half the night. Me, I just love to make..............reservations. LOL. 
MaryW
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 12-30-2003, 01:23 PM (20 of 29)
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I think of my pots and pans and cooking things as toys. My husband has his toys, (1930 Ford Model A tha's his baby) and I have my toys, (sewing machine, and cooking things.) I love to cook and I think the best way to discribe it to anyone who doesn't cook is I feel like I'm mastering something. When I try to cook something new and it comes out well, I feel like I created a masterpiece. If it doesn't come out good I see what I could have done to make it better and try again and again until I get it right. It's easy when you have the right tools, and I've got plenty of them. I'm eating a frozen apple juice sorbet as I'm typing and it's so good. Made with my ice cream machine I got for Christmas. Yes the viking with the six bruners and the grill and griddle is the one I'm looking at. I didn't know they made an 8 burner one. I can't wait to get it and start using it. I have an electric caloric downdraft stove now that is 18 years old and all the burners are shot. I've taken it all apart and replaced them but they are getting harder and harder to find these days for it. It has modules that come out and can be replaced with a grill or griddle and I use it all the time. I have the kitchenaid stand mixer and I use it almost everyday. It's wonderful. If you can find the room for it get it. It's great. I even got my sister one for her birthday one year. It sold for 259.00 at JC Penny's and went on sale for 199.00 and when I got there they told me since I used my Penny's credit card they took another 20% off I finally got it for 175.00. It had the pouring shield with it and 3 beater attachments. Didn't have that much luck with buying my sisters. I ordered it from www.cooking.com and had to pay full price plus shipping. I was busy with Mom and didn't have time to run out to Pennys at the time and save the shipping. Viking has a cabinet that is stainless like their fridge is and it hold the microwave. It's cool too. Susie |
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From: talking_head
Date: 12-30-2003, 01:31 PM (21 of 29)
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Funny.. I thought it was a viking stove I saw.. 8 burners and two ovens and a grill (no griddle)... but it may have been some other company... I envy you for all your cooking gadgets... I have a galley style kitchen right now and I had to work hard to make room for an extra offset spatula..LOL.. We are hoping to move into a bigger house this year
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Cheers! Savani |
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From: talking_head
Date: 12-30-2003, 01:39 PM (22 of 29)
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Forgot to ask.. how do you make the apple cider sorbet? I tried making organe sorbet with orange juice, but it turned out all crystally. I guess I needed to put in some emulsifier/stabilizer..
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 12-30-2003, 01:43 PM (23 of 29)
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Mary I'm like your SIL but I can't stand to gain anymore weight. I'm addicted to eating good things. I also like to make reservations but I always think I could have saved the money and made what I'm eating sometimes better too. LOL I remember the first meatballs I made for my IL's. I lived in Dallas just married, all I ever cooked was fried things, fired potatos, fried hamburgers, things like that. My dear MIL told me she made a Rue with flour and oil first and then added the paste and sauce. Well the more flour the worse it got. Later I found out she browned the flour first then added the paste and sauce. Mine came out like glue, looked like glue, tasted like glue and they ate it with smile on their faces. LOL Big Liars. LOL anyway from that day on I did it my way and it came out great. Just open the Ragu jar throw in some seasonings mix up some ground beef with onions, bell pepers, italian seasonings, parmeasane cheese egg and bread crumbs, roll them up into meatballs and plop them in the oven until they are brown and put them in the sauce and cook them down about 35 minutes and you got meatballs and spaghetti. Oh and you have to cook the spaghetti on the side too. Cooking lesson # 2 stay tuned for cooking lesson # 3 LOL coming up soon. Signing off till then, Emerilette |
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 12-30-2003, 01:49 PM (24 of 29)
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Savani, (Nice name, I like it, ) I just started my ice cream maker, it's a small one the cusinart brand 1 1/2 quart one, and poured in 4 cups of apple juice for 17 minutes. That's it. No sugar, no nothing else added. It wasn't that sweet but it was slushy and every cool going down. This would make a wonderful summer time drink when nothing else seem to cool you down. Susie |
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From: Magot
Date: 12-30-2003, 02:31 PM (25 of 29)
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Susie, you are a cooking wild animal! What you need is a tapeworm or two then you could eat all you want without putting on weight!
love and kisses, Jan
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From: talking_head
Date: 12-30-2003, 02:33 PM (26 of 29)
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Thankyou.. it's got a meaning.. it means like the spring(season) I guess your secret ingrdient is the ice-cream maker... I think the constant motion prevents it from being all crystally.... Your meat balls sound delicious..but alas... I am a grass-eater herbivore :( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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From: bren
Date: 12-30-2003, 06:54 PM (27 of 29)
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I just started reading the post's ... if you all stood on my door step ... with appetites and a road map... I would get you all lost ...and we'd have to order pizza... as I am not a great cook... you'd starve here!!! It's that crazy Susie who get's off on kitchen stuff...LOL ... I can't imagine being happy getting kitchen stuff... but!!! I'd sure love to go to Susie 's one day and let her cook for me ... I'll do the dishes ... not a problem!!!
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From: MaryW
Date: 12-30-2003, 07:08 PM (28 of 29)
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Betcha watermelon sorbet would be perfection!
MaryW
owner/editor of Sew Whats New |
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 12-30-2003, 07:21 PM (29 of 29)
| When it comes back in season I'll let you know. I love watermelon. Yummy!!! |
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