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Hope you all like this jello salad, it's got pineapple, coconut, and of course, miniature marshmallows. I molded it in the shape of the head of Sir Francis Bacon, but I'm not sure those maraschino cherries as his eyes worked out so well. But it does taste great!
Yippee!
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I'd like to take this opportunity to mention that as of today, i.e. a day that will from here on out known as Word Day, or the Day of the Word, or AWADay, or .... etc.... ......... I am a MEMBER.
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Ol' Belli is now a fine upshtanding member. Hic!
Roll me over, in the gutter, with a stutter make a start and drink again!
cheersh
the shunshine... oops I forgot
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It's nine o'clock in the morning, and you guys are making me hungry. And all I have is an untoasted Pop Tart to eat at my desk. Sigh.
Anyway, I brought the costumes. Who wants to be the conehead? Or the crash-test dummy? A vampire? Two can dress as a pair of dice. Does anybody want the green top hats and St Patty's day paraphernalia? I wonder if I can still fit in the Queen of Hearts dress? And, oh look, here's a pig nose...
[Sparteye's voice disappears as her head is buried in a big cardboard box, old costume bits flying hither and yon]
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Oh i am all for dress up-- i wore a costume for halloween (to work!) it was a full skirts (in black) and rufflled blouse, in white georgette, with pearls and pearl earings. i also had a wonderful mask of a Madam du Barry (or Marie Anttonette, or Madam Pompaduor(sp?)-- take your pick!) On went the mask, and I was Madam du Barry--of came the mask-- and i was dressed perfectly okay for work -- a little dressier than average (the standard IT uniform being demim).
so let me have the piggy nose, i'll let down my blonde hair, throw it over my shoulder and be Miss Piggy for the day! So I guess i have to me madly in love the Hyla-- since we don't have any kermits here!
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Costumes! What a great idea! I'd like to be a Star Fleet officer, please, and I bet I know who'd like to join me, for galaxies of love. Marianna, I'm glad you made two bowls: your gazpacho sounds fabulous--one for you, and one for me! Bacon is Jell-o? Ohmigawd--how funny! Sounds yummy! I have my CD/tape/record player, so all can bring their favorites and hear them. Paulb? lusy? Any suggestions? Oh! One of you-all bring your record that has this song; the one we MUST start off with, the one our sweet Maxie suggested: AWAD a Beautiful Morning.
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Since my wife and I are dieting, she because of being greatly overweight, I to try to fit into the clothes I have bought over the last 2 years or so and haven't been able to wear, the gourmandizing will have to be low-fat and low-cholesterol (so I don't end up with another heart attack), and the drink will be of the grape only.
But that's OK -- it is possible to eat and drink well on a restricted diet; it just takes some figuring out which would make Humpty Dumpty proud.
So I shall go home and cook up a marinara sauce with lots of fresh portobella and white mushrooms (which I have already in the fridge) and have it on spaghetti (imported from Italy) with a green salad with my own nonpareil vinaigrette. And to wash it down, I have a 1.5 liter bottle of a nice red Italian, I forget what, which was on sale last weekend and has been waiting for me all week.
BTW Marianne, how do you get edible tomatoes this time of year? Being on the E. coast of the U.S., there are no local tomatoes available and the ones that come from warmer climes are inedible (to me, at least) -- if from California, they are picked green and shipped in railcars and gassed to make them ripen. They are very pale pink in color and have almost no flavor. We don't eat fresh tomatoes from the time the local ones disappear (October) until they are available again (late June, maybe). Then we go crazy. If we need tomatoes to cook with in the winter, we have to use canned ones, but they wouldn't be good in gazpacho.
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Well now, I will bring good Irish soda bread and offer it toasted with whipped cream cheese and a choice of several fruit preserves for the Breakfast crowd and fabulous Hawaiian Kona coffee, regular and decaf. Then for Luncheon a light salad of greens, baby shrimp, Mandarin orange slices, topped with coconut shreds and a light creamy dressing thinned with the Mandarin orange juice and a glass of Blanc wine from Maui, Hawaii's Tedeschi Winery. And for Dinner : Bushmill's "Black Bush" Irish whiskey with an appetizer of Roquefort-cheese-based-spread on crackers or stuffed into celery. Tenderloin of beef, sweet potato french fries and a garden salad all washed down with good Portsmouth, NH, Red Hook Ale. As for my costume, at such an auspicious gathering I would be remiss not to wear the formal garb of Anu's devoted High Priestess. Of course no party is complete without Champagne! I will kick off my shoes about 10 p.m. and then, **watch out** !! wow
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I just gotta say, you all are an awesome bunch!
The contributions to the Happy Birthday thread really have been great, and really underscore for me how special this place is. I've spent time on a few other fora on the web, even feeling a mild sense of addiction to them for a while. But none of them has lasted in my attention, as there's always so much squabbling and misunderstanding. AWADers seem to work hard to just be decent (or perhaps are just naturally so), in a time when that ain't always the case.
Cheers to us!
As to culinary contributions - I'll bring the paella I got addicted to in Spain (even if no one else in the house is willing to peel shrimp), and a box or eight of fresh chocolate truffles. I will then sit very close to Rhuby's home-brew (mmmmmm, truffles and porter, mmmmmm).
Hyla
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I just thought of something (and almost posted it to the Happy B-day thread! ). With that thread we may actually have a thread, where all or many of AWADtalk's regulars post, that actually starts on a topic, finishes on the same topic, and doesn't cover 62.4 other topics along the way. Now I wonder: is this a good thing? [pondering-anarchic-posting-on-Birthday-thread-but-thinking-better-of-it emoticon] Hyla
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