Subj : T.O.H. Daily Recipe - To : Sean Dennis From : Ruth Haffly Date : Thu Dec 14 2023 13:51:01 Hi Sean, RH> Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I'm not going to speculate but hopefully it's RH> something that has already cleared up or is easily treatable. SD> It can be anything from leaky gut to cancer, honestly. Quite a range of possibilities but hopefully it's something minor. RH> I got all of mine thru Walgreens. Actually bought about 3 pairs but RH> ended up wearing one pair 99% of the time. SD> I have glasses scattered everywhere, even in the bathroom. Since I wore the same pair almost everywhere, I carried them around, in a case if they were going into my purse. I did have an extra pair on my nightstand for bedroom use--checking care tags on clothes and things like that. Had thought about keeping a pair in the kitchen and sewing rooms but realised I was carrying the one pair just about everywhere so never bothered to do so. They were most handy in the kitchen and living room (on the computer), also the sewing room. RH> I'm trying to cut my carbs somewhat, not as severely as when I was RH> first diagnosed. Some days are better than others, planning pasta and RH> salad for supper tonight so will go heavier on the salad than the RH> pasta. SD> I'm cutting out bread, pasta, anything with grains since grains cause SD> inflammation. At least for now. The biggest issue is rebuilding my SD> gut biome after unnecessary antibiotic treatment destroyed it all. What about yogurt with active cultures--would that help? We ended up doing farmer's style chicken the other night, a riff on something we'd had in Germany. Had the pasta last night without the salad but I went easy on my serving. RH> Sounds good. I used to make a version of chili that was a hybrid of RH> what both of us grew up on but some years ago found a basic meat, RH> peppers, onions and tomato recipe. I base my chili on that, using a RH> variety of peppers, both fresh and powdered. SD> My chili is a shortcut: cook a pound of ground beef; add a can of SD> kidney beans, a can of tomato sauce, a package of chili seasoning, a SD> little extra cumin in a pan; simmer for 10 minutes and et voila! SD> dinner is served. Cooking for one--very understandable. Even when Steve was gone for extended TDY's in the Army, I still had to cook for the girls as well as myself. Did do a few quick and easy things like hot dog stew (can of veggie soup and cut up hot dogs to taste) but most often it was same as when he was home. He took cooking short cuts if he was TDY and had to do his own meals but since he didn't usually have much of a kitchen, it was more practical for him to do so. RH> We had the 20' R-Pod but now have the 27' Grey Wolf. No slide out but RH> it's roomier inside so you don't have a "tight" feel. Kitchen is nice RH> (a real oven) but lacks the counter space the R-Pod had in proportion RH> to its size. SD> I'd love to get a 19' Scamp fifth wheel if I had my druthers but I'd SD> take a 16' ultralight trailer since it's just me. We prefer the tow behind over the 5th wheel--the back of the truck is full of other stuff. RH> They are handy--our younger daughter gifted my parents with one some RH> years ago. Mom's decline had begun so she wasn't getting dishes as RH> clean by hand washing. Even with the dish washer, we had to remind RH> Mom every time we came up to clean the filters so that old food RH> wouldn't get on the dishes she was washing. Don't know if my brother RH> who inherited the house kept the dish washer or not; I've not been up RH> since my dad's funeral, 7 years ago. SD> I had a very nice Maytag portable dishwasher but I was forced to leave SD> it outside after my divorce so it was destroyed. This one I've been SD> looking at is at Home Depot. Too bad you couldn't have kept it under some sort of shelter but do understand the space limitations. I'm glad I have a full sized dishwasher built in; it gets used several times a week. --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... Always butter up the SYSOP, they taste better that way. --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .