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To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sat Jul 27 2024 13:47:19

Hi Dave,

 DD> Sadly, there won't be any more as Clavell felloff his twig in 1994.

 RH> I know, it makes me wonder what he and Michener would have written had
 RH> they lived longer.

 DD> Michener did great, if exhaustive, travelogues.

He'd concentrate on one place, from prehistory up to the time he was
there researching it.

 RH> True; some of my "savings" are on the old 5" floppies; I started with
 RH> the echo when we had the C-64. Don't know if Steve still has them or we
 RH> tossed them out with one of our moves after we went with PCs.

 DD> I still have a Commode Door 64 w/floppy. My 1702 moitor is at the
 DD> fixit shop. I've been going through my floppies and e-mailing anything
 DD> I want to save to myself on the "big" confuser. That way i can have it
 DD> on hard disk or USB drive.

TBH, I've got a huge enough collection of recipies that I don't really
care if these are salvageable or not. Some, maybe but not the vast
majority.

 Marinade, RH> then grill. A restaurant in central NY has become
 regionally famous RH> specialising in chicken done this way. Recently
 talked with somebody RH> from the Albany area; he said his family used
 to go there quite often RH> (probably an hour or so's drive away).

 DD> I don't know that I'd drive that far just for a meal. Although if I
 DD> was already in the area for another purpose ........

 RH> It's an hour from where I grew up; my family's eye doctor was there and
 RH> it was a big enough place for more/better shopping than the little town
 RH> we lived in (population about 850). For the last almost 3 years of his
 RH> life, my dad was in a nursing home there & we'd visit him on our way
 RH> to/from VT. We'd always have a meal at Brook's while we were there.
 RH> Knowing that Nancy was going to host a picnic at the pond one year, we
 RH> bought a bottle of their sauce. I also made my version; the consensus
 RH> was that the home made beat the commercial in taste. (G)

 DD> We had a Brook's Drive In (no relation I'm sure) in the town where I
 DD> was born. We used to go there about once a week and eat in the car -
 DD> they
 DD> actually had car-hops back then. Even as a 6 y-o I could put away an
 DD> order of fries, burger andchocolate shake.  Bv)=

I could do a regular burger, small fries, small drink at McD's when they
first came to our area. Whole thing cost me 45 cents. (G) I still don't
eat more than that but usually sub out chicken for the beef and salad
for the fries. Cost is a lot more tho.


 DD> If I marinade my chicken it's more likely to be something like this:

 DD>       Title: Buttermilk Fried Chicken
 DD>  Categories: Poultry, Vegetables, Dairy, Chilies, Herbs
 DD>       Yield: 4 servings

 RH> That looks good but the way we do it keeps the kitchen cleaner and
 RH> cooler. (G)

 DD> My stove is well enough insulated that usig the oven does not heat the
 DD> house substantially. Although when my furnase quit last winter setting
 DD> the thermostat to 350ºF and leaving the door of the oven ajar while
 DD> the fan on the air handler was set to "RUN" kept it liveable if not
 DD> toasty.

Ours is fairly well insulated and we have central a/c but the kitchen
does get on the warm side. We use the toaster oven for small bake jobs,
like the chicken casserole I made last night or the raspberry scones
Steve made earlier in the week (from a mix).

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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