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@wesleyrayne I have several used ones since they don't make them anymore, but I love my Foley kitchen fork. You can find them on Ebay quite frequently. Tried the Granny Fork, but the tines are not even, they are on an arc and I find it catches when I use a plastic bowl. I don't think I even have it anymore.

2 cups uncooked elbow macaroni
8 oz Velveeta or similar, sliced into 1 oz slices
8 pats of butter
4 cups whole milk, 2% might work
1 1/2 cups grated cheese of your choice
Seasoning - pepper, dry mustard, garlic powder, bits of cream cheese or sour cream

Put macaroni evenly in lightly greased 9 x 13 pan. Put Velveeta, 4 slices and 4 slices on the long way. Put a pat of butter on each slice of Velveeta. Pour on milk. Season as desired. I always use garlic powder and pepper. Cover and bake until most of the milk is absorbed, about 50 minutes at 350F. Uncover, evenly sprinkle grated cheese on top. Continue to bake until melted and browned as desired. I find Aldi So Cheezy better and cheaper, but either way, this dish does not taste like velveeta, just rich and creamy. Saves a boiling pan and colander at clean up time.

6 medium pork chops
Potatoes peeled and cut 1/4 inch thick
2 lbs fresh green beans
Several onions
Seasonings of your choice - salt, pepper, garlic powder
1/2 cup good parmesan cheese or other white Italian cheese, grated
1/2 cup mayonnaise

Lightly grease 9 x 13 pan. Add 2 or 3 layers potatoes. Next add green beans, then pork chops. Peel and slice onions in half, then into several wedges. In a bowl, stir onions, cheese and mayonnaise. Place on pork chops. Cover and bake 350-400F about 90 minutes. Remove cover to brown onions. The cooking time will vary, depending on how thick everything is and how much moisture is in each item. Check after about an hour or so. I have made this several times now and it is delicious. For those who aren't crazy about mayonnaise, there is no mayo taste.

obviously no one made this in all these years.  it is a 9 x 9 pan.  Grandpa used 4 cups of whole milk and 4 cups of half and half and 6 or 8 eggs to fill a 9 x 13 pan.

Try to imagine this being told by a male comedian standing on stage…

So, you know how you always hear "wear a condom, be safe?"  Well, my friend always wore one and he still got run over by a bus...……..

So the hunky jock gets to class early.  The manly professor is sitting at the desk, preparing his lecture.  The jock saunters up besides him and purrs "Dr. Jones, I would just do anything to get an "A" in your class…."    "Really?" replies the prof..."Anything?  Okay, STUDY."

Seems like people would stop posting if the original poster doesn't respond to any suggestions or questions.

I have read more than a little about Kirk Cameron, and I have written to his website, in very general terms questioning their stance on homosexuality (surprise! no response.)  It is sad and hateful etc.  But he speaks about a lot of other things, and he is not a closet case just because he concurs with his brand of fundamental Christianity's view of homosexuality.

I suppose one could make this very simple and say sometimes good people do bad things and bad people do good things.  Since we have never known world without religion and will not for many centuries, if ever,  it impossible to objectively measure its presence or absence.

However, with regard to babies or very young children, they will poke out a sibling's eye or push anything off the table and break it.  Not intentionally in every case, but in many cases.  The point being children are interested in self to the exclusion of everything else.  So it follows, I think, that while religion won't guarantee everyone to be good all the time, it asks people to try. I can't imagine how the mass of people would behave without this foundation of even trying.

Another good example - I went to Unity for a while.  They almost always talked about light and love, higher consciousness etc. and seldom about sin and "wrong."  They never spoke with denigration about any other religion but strongly implied one did not need a list of sins as most of Christianity has.  Many many younger adults took this to mean "do whatever you personally feel is right" where the older people raised in "traditional" Christianity had a very different interpretation.

Ultimately, I don't know what the answer is.  I have said this in other philosophy/religion posts - often it seems we exchange one set of problems for another.  People of earlier times were taught sex after marriage, especially women (purity/virginity etc.)  Now people live together (when I was kid it was called "living in sin".) and reproduce, moving from partner to partner.  Still a great many are unhappy, personally and sexually.  I think looser moral codes benefit the attractive more, they may flit from flower to flower without nearly as much social disapproval…..And while not directly related to the subject at hand, money and attractiveness argue against polygamy since if a few men had all the women, many men would have none, causing social unrest........the much larger point being philosophy and religion at its best seeks to understand human behavior and hopefully modify it for a larger societal goal.

Lentils only take about an hour to cook so you're not saving much time and pressure cookers need constant monitoring.  I tried one several times -it was such a pain to clean, one has to be so careful with the safety valve (legumes foam a lot etc) and I didn't like the constant hissing.  And since you can't take the lid off like with a regular pot, it is easy to get too much or too little water.  There are other downsides too.  So I say 'no thanks' to pressure cookers.  (it is easy to make extra lentils or beans and freeze them - they thaw very quickly in the microwave)

I've seen the first one, and thought it was pretty funny.

Can't say I really like the second one.  The messages are kind of mixed up.  They aren't extreme enough for those who need to think about it to catch on.  Some of it is just silly - a giant gay umbrella?

Any idea why these need to be refrigerated?  And while I'm sure they're delicious, that is a LOT of sugar (between what you add directly and what is in the chocolate!) 

2 eggplants
8 oz baby spinach, washed well, spun dry and cooked until just wilted.
5 oz white sharp cheddar, cut into 16 slices
sun dried tomatoes, marinated in oil (12-15 oz jar)
sea salt, pepper
1 1/2 tsps herb mix of your choice, in 2 Tbsp sunflower or canola oil

Take the eggplant, cut a small slice off the bottom (so it will stand up on the cutting board) , and cut off the woody stem. With a serrated knife, cut slices vertically about 1/4 to 1/3 of an inch thick.  You should get 8 slices out of each eggplant. Lightly brush a frying pan with oil and fry each side 3 minutes to soften.  Do not use too much oil, eggplant can soak it up like a sponge.  Set aside.  Take one cooked slice, on 1/2  of it, brush lightly with herbed sunflower oil.  place 1 spoonful spinach and one sun dried tomato cut in thirds.  Season with salt & pepper, cover with cheese slice, fold in half.  Place in lightly greased baking dish and bake 350 for 15 minutes until heated through and cheese is melted.  You can make ahead and bake when your guests arrive.  Of course, serve hot.

The recipe didn't call for this, but I would imagine some sauteed oniion pieces would go good with this too.

***I have never had this problem but some say eggplant can sometimes be bitter. (how you tell before cooking and eating, I don't know!)  If so, sprinkle with salt, let set 30 minutes, rinse well and pat dry with paper towels.

I was raised on meat and dairy, try to get off it and get lazy and start eating it again since it is everywhere!  I will say this, I truly believe a vegan lifestyle is the healthiest - elephants, giraffes, rhinoceruses (rhinoceri?) do not eat meat or dairy and they are pretty strong I'd say.  No other animal besides man drinks milk after infancy.

Kefir health claims are probably much like the fallacy about how healthy olive oil is. Yes, absolutely Olive oil is much healthier than Crisco, or butter, or other saturated fats, natural and artificial.  That doesn't mean it is healthy by itself.  Looking at people who live in the Mediterreanean region they also eat less processed foods, more whole grains , more fresh fruits etc.  THAT is probably what makes them healthier coupled with their genetics.  Our bodies actually need very little fat. And what we do need can be found in food that we eat such as nuts, seeds etc.  Eating butter on toast etc. and much of the recipes are from an era where the majority of people in days gone by did much more physical labor than they do now.  Think of the extraordinary effort for example to do laundry. Pumping and heating water over a fire, lifting wet clothes and blankets out of tubs of water!  Now we throw it in the washing machine and then into the dryer.

try www.foodnetwork.com - they had dozens of meatloaf recipes

Here is the recipe for KFC Extra Crispy Chicken  (marinade recipe follows)

Ingredients
1 whole frying chicken, cut up and marinated
6 -8 cups shortening ( for cooking)
1 egg, beaten
1 cup milk
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons salt
3/4 teaspoon pepper
3/4 teaspoon msg
1/8 teaspoon paprika
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
1/8 teaspoon baking powder
Directions
Trim any excess skin and fat from the chicken pieces.
Preheat the shortening in a deep-fryer to 350 degrees.
Combine the beaten egg and milk in a medium bowl.
In another medium bowl, combine the remaining coating ingredients (flour, salt, pepper and MSG).
When the chicken has marinated, transfer each piece to paper towels so that excess liquid can drain off.
Working with one piece at a time, first dip in egg and milk then coat the chicken with the dry flour mixture, then the egg and milk mixture again, and then back into the flour.
Be sure that each piece is coated very generously.
Stack the chicken on a plate or cookie sheet until each piece has been coated.
Drop the chicken, one piece at a time into the hot shortening.
Fry half of the chicken at a time (4 pieces) for 12-15 minutes, or until it is golden brown.
You should be sure to stir the chicken around halfway through the cooking time so that each piece cooks evenly.

MARINADE

Ingredients
2 tablespoons potassium chloride (this is one kind of salt substitute, been reading nasty things about it, I'd omit it)
2 tablespoons kosher salt
4 tablespoons msg
1/8 tablespoon garlic powder
1/3 cup bottled chicken base  (a paste in a jar but you could probably use several bouillon cubes dissolved in water)
5 cups water
Directions
Mix above marinate and soak the chicken in it for 24 hours under refrigeration.
The Original Recipe is not packaged in three different places.
The way it is cooked and the process makes it taste like it has eleven herbs and spices when in reality there is not.
The way it is done in the restaurant is using dried eggs and milk in the flour along with box of breading, salt and the seasoning bag and a bag of breading flour.

****personally, I would just marinate the chicken in kosher salt, a few chicken bouillon cubes and garlic.

let me know how it turns out

Mexican Dip

8 oz cream cheese softened
1 cup sour cream
1/2 package taco seasoning mix (those envelopes that are for 8-10 tacos, maybe 2oz or less)

toppings of your choice, finely shredded lettuce (I buy this), finely shredded cheese, black olives sliced, fresh tomatoes diced, jalapeno peppers, green onions sliced etc.

Soften the cream cheese, mix with sour cream and taco seasoning.  Many people say it tastes exactly the same with light or fat free sour cream and fat free cream cheese.  The cream cheese is important, because if you use sour cream alone, it will get watery fast.

Spread on the bottom of a pie plate, glass looks the prettiest, or another flat dish.  Add toppings, cover with tin foil or plastic wrap and chill for 30 minutes for flavors to blend.

****some people like a layer of refried beans on the bottom.

I personally thought this was so delicious I couldn't believe how simple it was when my neighbor gave me the recipe.  Enjoy!

Lentil Stew

1 lb of dry lentils, rinsed
1 16 oz can diced tomatoes (low sodium if you prefer)
1 large green pepper, cut into 1 inch pieces
2 large onions, cut in half and then cut each half into 4 pieces
1 cup or more carrot slices (cutting rinsed baby carrots in half is really fast)
2 ribs celery sliced
1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt
2 teaspoons Mrs. Dash table blend seasoning or other seasoning blend
1/2 tsp black pepper
4 Tablespoons minced garlic from the jar or less dry garlic powder, divided

Add lentils to pot, add water until it is two inches above them.  Start stove burner. (after it boils turn down)

While it is starting too cook prepare vegetables, add, along with spices, tomatoes and half the garlic.

Cook until lentils are almost tender, adding water if needed (maybe an hour or so?) Stir every 15 minutes.  Then add remainder of garlic.  Simmer about 10 more minutes.

What makes this good, I think, is cutting the onions into larger pieces, sometimes if cut too small, they cook down to almost nothing.  You could saute the onions/celery/pepper for more flavor, but it is quick this way and still good.

Even my friends who like meat in everything thought it was delicious.  Probably a bit of an appetite didn't hurt either!  

one of the local business owners here put an article in our small town newspaper - very similar to the above but a different focus.  Example "he wound the bandage around the wound."  I'll ask her if she has it handy and I'll post it here. Thanks for a great post!

what does it say on the line where "lemons" is?  that word is covering up something probably funny. Thanks!

How am I supposed to sleep tonight?  My cat does everything on the list except sleeping on my electronics.  Hmmmm, maybe they do, they might be smart enough to do it when I'm not looking… YIKES.  I'm DOOMED!!!!!