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this is a favorite and very easy:
Barefoot Contessa, Berries with White chocolate
- 2 half-pints raspberries
- 2 half-pints blueberries
- 1 pint strawberries, hulled and sliced thick
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 10 ounces good white chocolate (not chips), chopped
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Early in the day, spread the berries on a sheet pan in a single layer and place them in the freezer. (This prevents them from sticking together.) Once they’re frozen, store them in a freezer bag.
In a heat-proof bowl set over a pan of simmering water, heat the cream, white chocolate, and vanilla just until the chocolate melts. Don’t let the bowl touch the water. Heat the mixture until it’s warm to the touch, about 110 degrees.
Place the frozen berries in one layer on 6 dessert plates and allow them to sit at room temperature for 10 to 15 minutes to defrost slightly. Pour the hot white chocolate evenly over the frozen berries and serve immediately.
Congratulations on making through chemo and Happy Birthday!
The purple / white fruit on the plate is called cainito. Botanical name: Chrysophyllum cainito. It grows in tropical and subtropical climates. In Jamaica, where this photo was taken, it's called star apple, and it's available in the early spring and mid autumn. The flavor is unique. Not totally sweet, but addictive once you've tried it.
The yellow stuff that looks like scrambled eggs is ackee, another fruit and the Jamaican national breakfast. The round fried thing is a dumpling.
The bloom's purpose in nature is to protect the egg from rotting during the 21 day incubation period it takes to hatch a chick. But with no rooster in the flock the bloom has no purpose other than to allow the eggs to be kept unrefrigerated for those 21 days. Beyond that they should be kept in the fridge. I have one Cochin hen that insists on being broody every couple months and sits on the eggs layed by the other hens. I have to battle her to collect the eggs. I tried to explain to her that they aren't fertilized (no rooster) but she doesn't listen.
I put mine in the fridge after I've filled a carton. I'll sometimes have 6 dozen in the fridge and keep track of which ones are the oldest so they get used first.
“ I tried to explain to her that they aren't fertilized (no rooster) but she doesn't listen.”
LoneJack - That poor little hen - such a strong instinct to care for those eggs! Maybe you could present her with a couple new live chicks so she’d feel her purpose was accomplished?
A veggie omelet with red peppers, red onion, mushrooms, and spinach. Top with cheddar. And, that someone else cooks for me.
Most of what’s been mentioned. I do especially like egg salad, deviled eggs and eggs in potato salad.
"Ha! No Cadburys! Dang"
I'm addicted to them! Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, they're only available a few times a year. I stock up during those times 😆
"So you can be sure to be home to receive them?" - Absolutely!
With 120 pounds of dry cat food and 80 pounds of canned cat food delivered roughly every 2.5 months, we want to be there when it arrives. Chewy specifies on the FedEx labels where to place the boxes. FedEx gives us a window. We always set out a couple of dollies in that spot. If we're not "on the spot" it's about a 50/50 chance that we'll miss getting them on a dolly. If we're waiting for them, they will sometimes be nice enough to help us get the boxes into the garage. Sometimes not. Even though the packages are 40 pounds each, that's a heft for us oldies.
@OllieJane - I owe you an apology. I jumped to conclusions about your “no offspring” comment and in retrospect I was completely unjustified. I think I was simultaneously puking and diarrheaing from your Baron comment when I misread that final part. 😉
FOAS, I can see how something like that could happen. :)
My feeling is that it is kind of creepy to make statements like that. Who cares who has children and who does not? Does that make a difference here?
Do not forget to check for UTI. My neighbor about the same age had one and she did not even know it. UTI causes confusion. .
Hearing should also be checked. My mom has some interesting cognitive things happening and it all gets worse when her hearing aids need tweeking. It's a tough road to walk with these issues.
I missed the fracas. Legal and business terms are often borrowed in a casual speech meant humorously or at least not literally. The daughter who currently takes her mother to Dr.s appointments as a regular occurrence is totally within bounds to confer with her Mom about whether they should get a second opinion. Period.
If you want to spar for sparring's sake don't gum up a thread where the intent is to help a poster and reply to their request for opinions on a matter.
Of course, you will post again anyway if history is any guide. 🤦♀️
Done! I think they all disappeared. Let us know if you see more.
There are usually two new posts using Chinese characters every day in the "Other" forum, Whack-a-mole.
I just flagged three of them.
Frozen all beef patties, among other meats ans flavors.
Kushner Farms — maybe Albania
Just saw reporting from NYT that a rule that would have made tracking more timely was delayed to 2028...
"...Cases of cyclosporiasis were mounting rapidly in Michigan and state health officials were homing in on a common thread: Many of those who had fallen ill had eaten at Taco Bell.
On July 1, they asked the company for its supply chain records, crucial information in tracing ingredients that may have caused the outbreak.
On July 3, they wrote and asked for the records again.
On July 6, they wrote a third time.
“With the rapid nature of this outbreak and the number of people affected, we need to ensure we are completing traceback in a timely manner to preserve public health,” Lauren Edwards, an epidemiologist on the state’s rapid response team, said in an email to executives at Yum Brands, which owns Taco Bell. (The New York Times obtained the correspondence under Michigan’s open records law.)
Later that day, Taco Bell provided some records to the state, which by then was working with the federal Food and Drug Administration. The F.D.A. asked for additional records two days later. Finally, on July 13, the agency received all the records it needed to pinpoint lettuce from a Taylor Farms plant in Mexico as a source of the outbreak.
A federal rule that had been scheduled to take effect in January would have required Taco Bell to send those records within 24 hours. But last year, the...administration delayed the implementation of that rule until mid 2028, saying companies needed more time to prepare...."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/health/cyclospora-invesigation-fda.html
" The author seems to enjoy using the em dash. That commonly raises suspicion that it may have been written by AI. "
I was just reading how this has changed - as more people got wise, AI changed to continue to try to avoid detection, I guess, with new updates.
" AI prose is distinguishable by word and punctuation choice as well as sentence and paragraph structure. But its hallmarks are not what you might expect, partly because its writing style has changed with software updates...... The vocabulary that bots overuse has changed: they no longer “delve” and there are not as many “tapestries”. Instead they offer a significant number of polysyllables like “significant”, “increasingly” and “consequences”.....Then look at punctuation. Many believe LLMs stuff their prose with em-dashes, but that is not true after the most recent updates. Today only Claude uses more em-dashes than human writers, with ChatGPT using markedly fewer than any other writer in our study. " https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/07/30/how-to-spot-ai-writing
For what it's worth, I sometimes don't use a period in a single sentence text, but I always use a period in an email (even a single sentence paragraph or email. Sometimes it's because I'm dictating it, sometimes because the period is placed automatically when I double space for the next sentence, and if I don't do that, it doesn't autogenerate a period and I don't bother.
And you can take Oxford comma when you pry it from my cold, stiff, and dead hands.
“The only languages that don’t change are dead languages. Latin no longer changes because no one speaks Latin anymore”
But people are spelling ”ad nauseam” ”ad nauseum” ad nauseam it seems.
Sorry about my punctuation.
Thank you @Olychick! My thoughts exactly!!
Thank you all so much. Yes it hurts and itches but intermittently...but if I touch it, it's very sore. The steriod ointment they gave me does seem to keep the worst of the symptoms more manageable. I've also got swollen lymph nodes on that side by my ear, under my chin and even the back of my neck, and am getting very painful spasms up into my ear which is most unpleasant. I should be getting to the peak today or tomorrow and hopefully after that it will get easier. But I now have a new tender spot on my scalp behind the existing rash, but no rash yet. I thought the anti-virus was supposed to keep it from spreading, but maybe not. So long as it remains in the skin and not in the eye itself! The tylenol seems to cut the edge off some too. I just can't imagine how awful it would've been without the vax!
Definitely a nice luncheon idea. I’ve got something coming up, so I might consider these. Possibly alongside grilled shrimp or chicken.
If it would appeal, this same Instagrammer has a recipe for a whipped feta dip that we like. Chopped tomatoes on top along with olives, red onion, dill, cukes…whatever appeals.
I don't mind the membership cards that give a discount, but the cell phone garbage makes shopping like a homework assigment. I don't want to play this stupid game.
You folks give out your mobile phone #? Do you then use a burner phone?
I don’t like giving my mobile # out ==> marketing calls.
this is why everyone had better rethink buying ANY beef even from a local source. USDA inspected does NOT mean what it used to mean. Due to the closing of so many abbatoirs there are only 5 major ones left in the US and they are foreign controlled/ owned. The local owned don’t have to meet the USDA standards as long as they aren’t shipping across state lines.
We are definitely NOT in a good or safe place with our food supply in the US and it is getting worse by the day. c