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I didn’t think anyone would know what that was! It’s supposed to be used with Tonkatsu (usually fried pork cutlets, or these days, chicken). It’s not as sweet as most Teriyaki sauce, but it’s much thicker and not as strong as Worcestershire sauce. The most essential things in my ‘pantry’ are white and brown rice.

I’ve given up on worrying about my sodium level. I know it’s shortsighted, but my medical bills were unaffordable even though I’m on Medicare, MediCal, Extra Help, and using the County Health Care System. Besides, even after I stopped taking my blood pressure medication, I was in the normal range. I started on the meds when I was more stressed than I am now. While I was being prescribed additional medication, my situation got worse. There seems to be no mechanism ratchet things down to see if the meds are still required. Unless the patient (me) just stops taking the meds.

When I was working at Target, my coworkers were convinced I had a wife who was preparing my pasta with pasta sauce that I brought in for lunch. I just boiled the pasta and poured the jarred sauce on top – at work it went into the microwave. Just how incompetent did I look? ;-)

B (my B maybe I have to find a nickname for him lol) and me have certain things, which we like especially and especially home made, for example "Maultaschen", which is something like a giant ravioli. It is pasta filled mostly with grounded meat and spinach. We make everything by our self, even the pasta dough. It needs quiet a time, so we always do a big amount to go in the freezer. I think doing something in advance is smart, so every post is much welcome here. I like cooking as an event, we use to cook a lot with our friends. Every second day after Christmas, there is a pizza left over dinner at ours, were our friends come, we bake the hole afternoon pizza and everything goes on it, which is left over, like roast etc. But there has to be a day to day version at there is smart very necessary.

I’m not as dedicated to avoiding processed food as many of you. I cook for myself and I hate cleaning up after cooking. I cook 2 lbs of pasta at once and split it for several meals. I’m incredibly lazy, so I do use pasta sauce in a jar (usually Classico, but they don’t make my favorite anymore: spinach and cheese). I also buy ground beef by the chub and brown it all at once (I have a 12” frying pan) and split it into many small containers. I use prepared sauces to flavor the beef (or boneless, skinless chicken breasts) – often Teriyaki sauce.

Hi tim, thanks for doing the post today. I just came home after 12h work and saw, how the forum is participated. I do my own sauce from lingonberries, which I pick usually in the forest. It is a lot like cranberry sauce and we eat it most often with meat. I cook it without sugar, but it gets sweet trough the cooking process. I can eat it spoon wise, too. As you said, what you do with leftovers on boxing day and rutabaga I thought of what I do in the same occasion. I cook a stew with leftover goose-roast and rutabaga. I just take everything that is left over from the roast, add some broth, the rutabaga in little dices and one or two potatoes and cook everything until it is nice and thick. Than I add some cut parsley.

Please, feel free to copy, that is why we started this topic it in the first place.

I came across a recipe for a cheap and easy Macaroni and Cheese substitute for Kraft’s horrid travesty-in-a-box*. It was interesting, but used non-standard quantity ingredients. The author mentioned finding a similar recipe on the Pillsbury site. It uses only three very common ingredients: macaroni, evaporated milk, and shredded cheese. An alternative to canned evaporated milk is to use powdered milk. You use less water when you reconstitute it. The recipes I’ve seen generally call for 1¼ cups of water and 1 - 1½ cups of powdered milk. Some recipes add 2 Tablespoons of oil or butter. One uses 1½ cups of water and 2 Tablespoons of butter, but heats the mixture. The others just call for mixing the ingredients well – whisking, using a blender, immersion blender, or even shaking it in a sealed container. Warning. I haven’t tried any of these recipes yet. I trust Pillsbury to test thoroughly and the multitude of very similar evaporated milk recipes suggests it works too. I bought the ingredients and plan to make it soon. *The box contains elbow macaroni and a foil packet of powdered ‘cheese.’ I haven’t made it in decades, but you boil the macaroni and add milk or butter (I can’t remember which) along with the orange ‘cheese’ and stir to coat the macaroni. It’s cheap, but doesn’t even come close to the real thing.

“You put Devon and I in a room where, after I turned had only the option of feeding off him.” This should be ‘me.’ If you take away the ‘Devon and,’ you wouldn’t say ‘You put I in a room…’ In the Ozark National Forest near the Oklahoma boarder. Border. Contact! It worked even faster than they expected. And it sounds like he knows of others…

The new Toyota Mirai ad features another halo-esque image. This time it’s the white half-oval-ish thing anchored by v-shaped pillars (possibly a tilted oval) that sits over the hydrogen fuel pump.

Energy Upgrade California’s new ad features a Gay couple doing laundry together.

I always hate being the center of attention. I don’t know how to respond to compliments properly either. My therapists have pointed out the I minimize or deflect when I’m praised. It’s an aspect of my Cognitive Dissonance. ;-) I can identify with many of Bailey’s issues, but not the cutting…

I don’t think I’ve read any other stories on GA with four pages of reviews for a single chapter! Another possible title for your sequel is A to Z plus R. ;-)

Yes, a huge disaster.

I think you were rushing when you wrote this chapter. Too many oddly phrased sentences to point out. What an over-the-top wedding! As the event to be seen at, I’m sure there were some of the self-described elite were very offended not to be invited – but simultaneously relieved because they oppose Same-Sex Marriage! ;-)

Says the sashaying Texan who claims to be Emperor…

I loved how Corey’s dad lapped up all the attention and flirting from Cornelius and John! ;-) And Corey should be more careful. Charlie might be a Lesbian, but women’s sexuality is more fluid than men’s. One of my former neighbors seemed to date more men than women even though she identified as a Lesbian. In a never to be written future chapter, Adrian might discover Corey and Charlie in bed together – or maybe Charlie and Brett!

I think Drew has coerced LitLover into writing this chapter. It’s the only explanation for Liam dismissing Nathan’s obvious charms! I think Liam should explore living life unencumbered by a boyfriend who is so tethered by family commitments like Alek. But now that Drew has gotten his way, maybe Nathan can accept a job in the SF Bay Area… ;-)

I’m so happy that TP/Wally/Scott finally made it through his dark past and achieved the love he so desperately needed and now deserves with Graham! But I’m sad that we won’t have these beautifully crafted characters to look forward to anymore. Judging from Parker’s extreme reluctance to revisiting Andy and Zander, I guess my fantasy of Zander taking Andy to Miami for a vacation, getting rescued by Scott, and being introduced to Graham, Michael, and Blaine won’t happen. ;-)

Hurricane Dodger? ;-)

Naturally, with you, a simple chapter about family life turns into several very dramatic and emotional scenes! Joel and Lucas balance each other well. Either one of them alone would have been disastrous! Combined, they managed to do the right thing. And now we need a followup chapter featuring Tommy! ;-)

To many people, he might be best known for winning the Academy Award (Oscar) for directing The Silence of the Lambs, but to the LGBTQ community, he might be better known for directing Philadelphia (Tom Hanks won his first Best Actor Oscar – Demme also co-directed the music video for Bruce Springsteen’s Best Song Oscar-winning Streets of Philadelphia from the movie’s soundtrack). He was also politically active for Progressive and humanitarian causes.

Sad story Tommi has to tell. But I am glad, that Lucas and Joel will take care of this.

I never did get around to completing my sewing project. My relatives got origami stars instead. I still have the already cut-out felt pieces waiting to be hand-sewn together, but it always feels like too intimidating a task to even begin. (I know. My therapist would tell me to break it down into smaller, more manageable parts. But it’s easy for her to tell me that! She’s not the one who feels overwhelmed! At least, intellectually, I know how to solve the problem…) ;-)

And that should have been ‘rural areas’ in my last sentence. At least now we can edit out our misspellings! ;-)