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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / January 2006This is NOT Dan and Monica
My attorney has told me I am getting myself into deep doo-doo in these newsgroups, and I need to step back from the prepuce lest I be slapped with a lawsuit for defamation of character. Accordingly, I wish to advise everyone that the following picture is NOT a picture of Dan Mahoney and Monica Towle: www.geocities.com/wallofgrays/pupil.htm It's exactly how I picture them in my mind, however... Thank you for your kind indulgences. Charlie I found some strawberries today at 99 cents a quart. Beautiful strawberries. So I bought 2 quarts, kind of forgetting there's only 2 of us around here. Has anybody got any heart-healthy ideas? We really like jello things, but maybe something different? There's a dish I've seen other people make. It's simply bananas and strawberries cut up, except the juice is very thick and saucy-consistency. Have ya'll seen that? It almost seems like un-jelled jello. Just wondering how they make that. Sherry >I found some strawberries today at 99 cents a quart. Beautiful > strawberries. So I bought 2 quarts, kind of forgetting there's only 2 [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Sherry One of my favorites, a friend used to have on the salad bar at his restaurant. Wash and halve ripe strawberries. Place in bowl and just cover with hot strawberry jello. Made double strength. You know how you use a cup of boiling water and then a cup of cold water? He skipped the cold. Chill and serve. We do strawberries a couple of ways here. Rinse whole berries and leave out on counter with a dish of sugar for dipping. Or a dish of chocolate sauce. When the kids get to lazy for even that, I just cut off the tops, halve the berries and sprinkle them with splenda. They disappear in about 30 minutes/ Jo >I found some strawberries today at 99 cents a quart. Beautiful > strawberries. So I bought 2 quarts, kind of forgetting there's only 2 [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Sherry I love strawberries, and I will often have a snack that consists simply of sliced strawberries topped with nonfat plain yogurt. Healthy and delicious!  SignatureMaryL Photo albums -- Duffy: http://tinyurl.com/cslwf Holly: http://tinyurl.com/9t68o Duffy and Holly together: http://tinyurl.com/8b47e > I found some strawberries today at 99 cents a quart. Beautiful > strawberries. So I bought 2 quarts, kind of forgetting there's only 2 [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Sherry Could be they used frozen thawed strawberries rather than fresh. Frozen strawberries always have a thick juice upon thawing. Jill Sliced strawberries with cut up pineapple chunks are a nice, light dessert. It's especially good chilled on a hot summer evening. If you're being virtuous, you might sprinkle in some splenda, if not, you could use sugar. It depends entirely on taste and how sweet the fruit is to start with. Melissa Ingredients: 2 1/3 cups Bisquick baking mix 3 Tbsp butter, melted 1/2 cup milk 3 Tbsp sugar for the biscuits, 1/2 cup of sugar for the strawberries 3 baskets of fresh strawberries whipping cream vanilla Remove the stems from the strawberries. Slice into thin (1/8") slices. Put into a large bowl. Add 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup of sugar (depending on how sweet the strawberries are to begin with) mix into the strawberries. Set aside at room temperature to macerate (which means that the sugar will soften the straweberries and help release their juices). The strawberry shortcake biscuit recipe used to be on the side of the Bisquick box. For some unfathomable reason, the company has started to print the recipe on the inside of the box. Talk about not understanding your customers! If you can't find the recipe, here it is: Heat oven to 425°F. Stir baking mix, melted butter, milk, and 3 Tbsp of sugar in a mixing bowl until soft dough forms. Drop by 6 spoonfuls on to a greased cookie sheet. Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. After the strawberries have been sitting for 20 minutes or so, take a potato masher and mash them a little. Not too much, just enough to get more juice out of them. (Note my father made the above batch pictured; he tends to over-mash. I leave more big slices of strawberries when I make them.) Whip cream, adding a drop or two of vanilla and a teaspoon of sugar. To serve, break up one biscuit per person into big pieces into a bowl. Ladle strawberries over the biscuit. Add a dolop of whipped cream. Hugs, CatNipped OMG, how excellent is this? Strawberry Shortcake is my husband's favorite. I rarely bake (once every eon or so) but for THIS, I think I might give it a try. Too bad his birthday is *tomorrow*, because it's not going to be possible for me to get everything together in time for that. But what the heck -- people send belated birthday cards, belated birthday presents... why not a belated birthday CAKE? :o) Sounds good to me! Donna, Captain, and Stanley P.S. Oboy! Paw's birthday! It's a holiday! Does that mean we get toys? :3 Captain and Stanley [[Ingredients: 2 1/3 cups Bisquick baking mix 3 Tbsp butter, melted 1/2 cup milk 3 Tbsp sugar for the biscuits, 1/2 cup of sugar for the strawberries 3 baskets of fresh strawberries whipping cream vanilla Remove the stems from the strawberries. Slice into thin (1/8") slices. Put into a large bowl. Add 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup of sugar (depending on how sweet the strawberries are to begin with) mix into the strawberries. Set aside at room temperature to macerate (which means that the sugar will soften the straweberries and help release their juices). The strawberry shortcake biscuit recipe used to be on the side of the Bisquick box. For some unfathomable reason, the company has started to the recipe on the inside of the box. Talk about not understanding your customers! If you can't find the recipe, here it is: Heat oven to 425°F. Stir baking mix, melted butter, milk, and 3 Tbsp of sugar in a mixing bowl until soft dough forms. Drop by 6 spoonfuls on to a greased cookie sheet. Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. After the strawberries have been sitting for 20 minutes or so, take a potato masher and mash them a little. Not too much, just enough to get more juice out of them. (Note my father made the above batch pictured; he tends to over-mash. I leave more big slices of strawberries when I make them.) Whip cream, adding a drop or two of vanilla and a teaspoon of sugar. To serve, break up one biscuit per person into big pieces into a bowl. Ladle strawberries over the biscuit. Add a dolop of whipped cream. Hugs, CatNipped]] > I found some strawberries today at 99 cents a quart. Beautiful > strawberries. So I bought 2 quarts, kind of forgetting there's only 2 [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > saucy-consistency. Have ya'll seen that? It almost seems like un-jelled > jello. Just wondering how they make that. It sounds yummy, as I love strawberries and nanners mixed up on cereal. Every time I take Fabio (new pup) out to pee, I go to the way back of my yard b/c there are wild raspberries. He pees and explores, and I nibble! Gawd I love summer!! Signature·.·´¨ ¨)) -:¦:- ¸.·´ .·´¨¨)) Laurie ((¸¸.·´ ..·´ -:¦:- ((¸¸ ·.· *~*LiveLoveLaugh*~* Aloha!!!!! "There is no remedy for love but to love more"... ~~Henry David Thoreau > Sherry > > I found some strawberries today at 99 cents a quart. Beautiful > > strawberries. So I bought 2 quarts, kind of forgetting there's only 2 [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Gawd I love summer!! Me too. We don't have raspberries here (I guess they don't grow here? Never had a fresh one!) But we have wild dewberries thickets all over, and possum grapes. Some wild sand plums. They make awesome jelly. These strawberries are the best ones I ever had. I took note of the brand, they were from California. Sherry > -- > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > > Sherry >I found some strawberries today at 99 cents a quart. Beautiful > strawberries. So I bought 2 quarts, kind of forgetting there's only 2 [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > saucy-consistency. Have ya'll seen that? It almost seems like un-jelled > jello. Just wondering how they make that. I do wonder if anywhere on this planet people eat strawberries like we do around these parts of Sweden (kind of to the north). Where I live now in the very south they think I'm insane when I tell them about it .. we eat them in a bowl with "hard bread" which we eats lots of in these parts, with the food and otherwise - I am sure we call it something in English?, anyway we break the bread in to peaces and then poor milk over the lot - sort of like if you have some cereal with fruit I guess. Until I was 15 or so I don't think I ever had strawberries any other way, and it's still my favourite! =) this time we have them like this more or less every day. Now it's just a wait for the one berry to beat strawberries - raspberries, the ones on my parents' bushes should be ready sometime second half of July depending on the weather, and yes I do prefer them with milk and hard bread too! But for a nice dessert with strawberries and other fruit for civilized people I might suggest: "Gino" Strawberries Kiwi Banana (you can also add apples and/or other fruit) White chocolate Melissa/lemon nettle Vanilla ice-cream warm oven to 275 C peal kiwi and banana, cut fruit into pieces not larger than 3 cm3, split the strawberries put the fruit in something oven-safe like a pie tin, buttered, spread it to an even layer (parts sticking up might get burnt), not more than some 3 cm thick if you like, cover the fruit with powdered sugar and let that soak in for a minute, me I don't need sugar grate the white chocolate and spread it over the fruit stick the thing in the middle of the oven for a few minutes, until the chocolate starts changing colour Decorate with the melissa and serve with vanilla ice-cream and there is always the possibility to go for dark chocolate ... but if you have lots of strawberries, some lovely jam is nice to have about ... Signaturelewe lewemi at yahoo dot se | cats' pics: photos.yahoo.com/lewemi > >I found some strawberries today at 99 cents a quart. Beautiful > > strawberries. So I bought 2 quarts, kind of forgetting there's only 2 [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > parts, with the food and otherwise - I am sure we call it something in > English?, anyway we break the bread in to peaces and then poor milk over the We call it "hard tac", I haven't had it in a few years, I loved it as a kid >> >I found some strawberries today at 99 cents a quart. Beautiful >> > strawberries. So I bought 2 quarts, kind of forgetting there's only 2 [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > We call it "hard tac", I haven't had it in a few years, I loved it as a > kid Hard Tack as in ships biscuits? My grandpa liked those. From back in his days on a fishing schooner. Jo > >> >I found some strawberries today at 99 cents a quart. Beautiful > >> > strawberries. So I bought 2 quarts, kind of forgetting there's only 2 [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Jo yes, we use them back home for fish and brewis, but I preferred eating them hard, lol they'd last longer than a lollipop > wait for the one berry to beat strawberries - raspberries, the ones on my They are often served here with "shortcake" and whipped cream. Wish I had some now. MLB > we eat them in a bowl with "hard bread" which we eats lots of in these > parts, with the food and otherwise - I am sure we call it something in > English?, anyway we break the bread in to peaces and then poor milk over the > lot - sort of like if you have some cereal with fruit I guess. Until I was > 15 or so I don't think I ever had strawberries any other way, and it's still > my favourite! =) This is the way we ate strawberries in Northeast Missouri, USA, when I was growing up. The town I grew up in was mainly German and Irish descendents. Don't know if that has anything to do with it or not. It was yummy. Diane On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:52:25 -0700, sriddles wrote: > I found some strawberries today at 99 cents a quart. Beautiful > strawberries. So I bought 2 quarts, kind of forgetting there's only 2 of [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Sherry I need to go to the store, but it is so hot! The strawberries sound delicious. MLB > I found some strawberries today at 99 cents a quart. Beautiful > strawberries. So I bought 2 quarts, kind of forgetting there's only 2 [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Sherry Several possible thickening agents added to the juice. Probably the best would be pectin, which is the substance that makes jellies jel. It's common enough in some fruits (IIRC, apples) that you don't need to add any. Natural pectin needs sugar to gel. Some fruits supply enough. Sometimes, adding concentrated apple juice [1], as in thawed concentrate, gives enough. There are no-sugar variants available -- see http://www.kitchenkrafts.com. Next most useful is probably arrowroot, which is starch-like but blends freely -- you don't have to premix it with water. People say it's expensive, but only in relation to cornstarch; I'm about to reorder after using up a quart bottle over a couple of years, with lots of different dishes. http://www.spicesetc.com or http://www.bulkfoods.com. The former has smaller sizes. Another possibibility is premixing starch and water and stir it in. Remember both arrowroot and starch thicken more as they chill. Unflavored gelatin might also work -- not enough to get a hard Jello-like consistency. If you have experience with its use in Asian cooking, you could use agar-agar, but that's not something to try without some guidance. Luckily, agar-agar is used extensively in bacteriology, so I learned some of its quirks while preparing delicious meals (from their perspective) for germs. >I found some strawberries today at 99 cents a quart. Beautiful >strawberries. So I bought 2 quarts, kind of forgetting there's only 2 [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >Sherry Strawberries go well with rhubarb; either baked in a pie, or just mixed with sugar and chilled. Pass the cool whip! -- CATherine > Has anybody got any heart-healthy ideas? We really like jello things, > but maybe something different? Absolutely! Cut the strawberries in slices. Put in a non-reactive bowl with some port. Let macerate for a couple of hours in the fridge. Serve on top of vanilla ice cream (could be diet ice cream). YUM! SignatureVictor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com Ok, that's it!!! I'm off to the store for some strawberries, port, and vanilla ice cream!!! Sounds positively yummy, Victor!!! Just like humans, domesticated animals like dogs and cats are affected by the health hazards of modern living. 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