Subj : Pizza To : Dave Drum From : Ruth Haffly Date : Mon Jul 28 2025 14:11:29 Hi Dave, DD> When I wore a younger man's (much youngrr) clothes I used a reel style DD> push mower. All I can say is thank you Mr Briggs and Mr Stratton. RH> I have faint memories of one that my family had when I was small. It RH> must have been the summer after (or the one after that) we moved across RH> the street and into a house with a bigger yard. I was probably about 4 RH> or 5. Anyway, Dad got a power mower, then, after Mom started working RH> outside the home, a riding mower. DD> Shortly after I moved from being "trailer trash" to being a home owner DD> I aquired a riding mower from a friend who was desparate to raise DD> U$400 to pay a big speeding ticket. I mowed my yard with it once - DD> which proved to be more hassle than using the electric moewr. And I DD> had to get out the DD> electric to mow the plces the rider would not get to. Bv)= We've got a lot of wide open space in our front, side (2) and back yards that a riding mower does a good job. The back yard is the most limited but a regular mower can make short work of the grass there. Stephen has looked at riding mowers but by using the lawn care service, hasn't had the need to buy one. DD> It lived in a back corner of the garage until one fine afternoon when DD> a friend called and asked if I knew where he could find a reasonably DD> priced mower for his son who had bought a house with a large yard. The DD> son came by, we fired up the mower and he cut a lap around the yard. DD> Then he gave me 4 Benjamins and I helped him load it into his pick up DD> truck. Good deal. My parents owned about a quarter acre but kept a small strip of the one neighbor's pace mowed to extend our back yard slightly. Neighbors owned several acres surrounding ours but let us have free run of most of it, including a good sledding hill. Only part of their acreage was kept mowed, the rest was left wild. DD> 8<----- BITE ----->8 DD> Don't look now but we're all edging closer to our "use by" date. RH> I know, I just had a birthday earlier this week. I'm too young to be RH> this old! DD> I'm totally amazed that I've lived thi long since my parents both had DD> their candles go out in their mid-50s. And remembering some of the DD> bone headed stunts I got up to when IK was young and invulnerable. My mom lived to a couple weeks short of 86; dad, a couple of months short of 96. He was 7 years older than mom, married after fighting in WWII and then going to college (where he met her). DD> 8<----- AGSIN ----->8 DD> I'm gonna Meal Monster that. Expect to see it posted back to you in DD> future. Bv)= DD> Oh, heck. Why not right now???? DD> Title: Easy Pizza Crust DD> Categories: Five, Breads DD> Yield: 1 pizza RH> Hopefully somebody will benefit from it. We came across this recipe RH> when we lived in Swansboro; I think we found it around 1978 or 79 but RH> have used it countless times since. A friend of mine called once, RH> asking for the recipe so I dictated it over the phone. A while later RH> she called back saying it was soupy; in trouble shooting, she thought RH> I'd said 3-4 cups (instead of 3/4 cup) of water. I was able to tell her RH> the extra amounts of flour, yeast, oil and sugar (or honey) to add to RH> the bowl to make several crusts (the dough freezes well) so she'd have RH> them on hand for a quick meal. DD> I'll bet you told her three-fourths of a cup where I would have said DD> three quarters of a cup. My grandpa taught me that when we were making DD> a sewing table for my grandmother. He had asked me for a measurement DD> and his ears elided the three fourths inch in the same way your lady DD> mis-heard your DD> water measure. Sso he instructed me to use quarter instead of fourth. DD> Bv)= Probably so, been so long I don't remember. Do you say "oh" or "zero"? I grew up using the former more but some time ago switched to using the latter. DD> Title: Three Cheese White Pizza DD> Categories: Five, Breads, Cheese DD> Yield: 10 slices DD> Olive oil DD> 1 Recipe pizza dough DD> 4 oz Ricotta cheese DD> 4 oz Mozzarella cheese; sliced DD> 4 oz Parmesan cheese; grated Interesting, I don't think I've seen a recipe (or on a menu) for a totally cheese pizza. Most often the "white pizza" recipies/menu listings have a number of other toppings, most often some sort of greens like spinach or endive, maybe mushrooms as well. I've tried some of them but have yet to find one I like as much as a "red" pizza. --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... Gone crazy, be back later. leave a message at the Beep! --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .