JavaJane

I like him too JJ!

Thanks!

I've been feeling a bit bitey lately, so he works for me!!

I think one of the valuable things here at GSC is in being able to view conflict from a safe distance--especially for those who were in for a long time and developed habit patterns of 'how high should I jump?' Even if you are involved in the conflict, there is a degree of separation that isn't there in a face melting session. Also, the playing fields here is level, which it never was in TWI.

YES! It is a great thing to be able to see the disagreements happen, and both sides have the ability to speak their mind, even if the other side NEVER agrees... and it's OK to do that. That has taken me a long time to learn - that disagreements are ok, and healthy. Around here they are sometimes silly, too... This site re-affirms for me that it's ok to be human.

well, I changed mine, as you can see... I am now represented by Bucky Katt from Get Fuzzy. He makes me laugh. No deep significance, I just like him.

Today would have been a good day for the soundtrack to Lost Highway or Fire Walk with Me... Surreal, with a real evil undertone... or maybe some Megadeth from my husband's collection.

I've been working 9-12 hour days without a break cleaning up a mess someone left at my work... for 9 days in a row, no end in sight. I need something a little angry that will keep me awake. The caffeine is not cutting it anymore.

Honestly, I came here seeking answers - i wanted to know WTF had happened.

I had come here before then - but in my twi-glazed eyes, I only saw a group of people who wanted to whine about how bad twi was in the LCM days... Now I know better.

What GSC has done for me is give me another avenue to express my anger and as my questions. I get some answers I expect, and some that I don't. It gives me a community to be a part of that really understands what it is to have been involved in an organization that permeated every corner of your life.

I needed that, because who in the heck else is going to believe me?

I also keep coming back because this place is helping me to remember and figure out who I am independant of any relationships (good or bad) that I have had with people in twi - I can be myself here in complete anonymity, something I was never given the luxury of in twi.

NO NAMETAGS for ME!!! I'M FREE!!!

Shifra,

I'm not sure what pain you are talking about... the place was a spa during the days when people believed walking in mineral waters would cure just about everything. If you read about Charles Darwin's life, he was a big fan of such treatments. From what I understand the "electrical looking things" with the tubs were simply whirlpool-thingies. I'm not aware of anything like shock-treatments, etc. taking place on that site. It was not a place for the mentally disturbed but those looking for physical or spiritual rejuvination.

If I am mis-informed, I'd like someone to point me to the information.

Thanks,

THW

I think Shifra was pointing to the "cruelty and hurt" caused by twi more than the previous residents. I might be wrong, though... It was a sanitarium (a health resort) not a sanitorium (hospital for long term care, usually of tuberculosis patients) or an insane asylum (as I have heard in rumors)....

The article in the link early in the thread states,

The campus originally was the site of the Kneipp Springs health spa that was developed between 1897 and 1910.

The spa was named Kneipp Springs in honor of a Catholic clergyman who had developed a method of hydrotherapy for the treatment of illnesses. Several natural springs on the property provided an abundant supply of water for the treatments.

In 1902, the Catholic Order of the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood, which had been located in Maria Stein, Ohio, bought the property for use as a convent and retreat.

The Way International purchased the bulk of the property from the Sisters of the Precious Blood in 1976 and bought the remaining acreage from a couple in 1979.

JavaJane,

What a great collection of recipes you have.

Keep posting them.

Thanks! I collect old cookbooks. I have so many of them that most are in storage until hubby and I decide where we are going to put down roots for real.

Here's another one from the old recipe box:

Fettucine and Olive Sauce - think I'm going to try this one very very soon....

12 oz noodles

1/4 c olive oil

2 garlic cloves

6 oz pitted black olives and 6 oz pimento green olives, both chopped

1 sm bunch parsely chopped

1 tsp oregano

1/2 tsp red pepper

1/2 c parmesan

Prepare noodles, drain and keep warm. Heat oil, add garlic, cook until brown. Stir in olives, parsely, oregano, red pepper, and 1/2 c water. Over high heat, heat until boiling, stirring occassionaly. stir olive mixture into noodles, add parmesan. Toss until mixed.

Now I'm back two old favorites: Peter Gabriel and Sting.

I started out with a generic coffee sign, but it didn't seem to fit well.

Then I changed to a baby drinking and HUGE cup of Starbucks. It fit because I felt I was getting into something forbidden to me by twi, but something that would wake me up. It fit for a while.

And now I am using the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland... I seem to be heading down the rabbit hole the more I read and the more I learn. My reality is being reordered.

I feel a change coming on soon, but I'm not sure what it will be.

Pig candy... sugar and fat! I like it!

Glad to see you here, exwaycorps!! Welcome to GSC... Want some coffee?

Plurality Palace? Way Mart?

I remember those!

From an old recipe box:

Red Raspberry Ribbon Pie

1 3 oz pkg red rasp jello

1/4 c sugar

1 1/4 c boiling h2o

1 10 oz pkg frozen red raspberries

1 tbsp lemon juice

1 3 oz pkg cream cheese softened

1/3 c sifted confectioners sugar

1 tsp vanilla

dash salt

1 c whipping cream (whipped)

1 baked 9 inch pastry shell or graham cracker crust

Red layer:

Dissolve gelatin and granulated sugar in boiling water. Add frozen berries and lemon juice. Stir until berries thaw. Chll until partially set.

White layer:

Meanwhile, blend cheese, confectioner's sugar, vanilla and salt. Fold in a small amount of whipped cream, then fold in the rest.

To assemble:

1. Spread 1/2 white cheese mixture in pastry shell.

2. Cover with 1/2 red gelatin mixture

3. Repeat and chill until completely set.

Then wrap it in bacon and feed it to the squirrels hahaha!!

I'd LOVE to use my cast iron skillet, but my house came with one of those fancy-dancy glasstop stoves that is NOT made for people who actually cook.

I agree that those stoves are a pain to work with - but they are great for ONE thing - and that is warming tortillas directly on the stovetop. But that is the ONLY thing I have found they are good for.

Interesting this subject just came back up...

Just last weekend I had pulled out the slow cooker and was getting ready to slow cook a pork roast to make pulled pork. I put the stoneware in the cooker, turned on the heat and added my ingredients. About an hour later I heard this awful hissing noise. I checked the cooker and the crock was cracked - almost in two! The thing was less than 3 months old!

Ever have this happen?

The last one I had was almost 10 years old when it gave up the ghost - and it had quite a busy life. I bet had used this one maybe 10 times.... :(

Yes. I have had it happen with a crock pot less than 3 months old. It cracked right in two. I have no idea how or why.

polar bear -

I can only speak for myself, and I know my parents would argue the point with me, but I place no blame upon them for anything that happened to me in twi. They did what they thought was best, made some mistakes along the way, but they really tried to be good parents. They loved us the best they knew how. The only ones to blame were the leadership who taught things wrongly and encouraged the hurt.

This is only my opinion, of course, but as you said, you can't go back in time to change things. Now we know better.

Love your kids for who they are and don't look at them as "damaged goods" because of what happened before. Believe in your kids. Encourage them. Teach them to be independant thinkers and back up the decisions they make for their lives.

I love my parents even though they got me into twi. I don't hold it against them. If it wasn't for that I never would have met my husband, who I love very deeply. I guess I got one good thing out of twi!!

Hugs to all the parents.

Thanks! I'll use my own spaghetti sauce after I make it for spaghetti.

The girls want to know if I can make spaghetti sauce in the crock pot - I think I can but not with sausage and meatballs..I'd imagine the grease would be horrible

have you ever tried it?

One of my best friends in high school made meat sauce in the crock pot... it was a littlegreasy but it was yummy good. I still crave it sometimes. If you cook the meat beforehand and drain it, it cuts down on the grease a lot. Although it seams to defeat the purpose a little bit.

Can you say "Road kill?" :biglaugh:

It's NOT ROADKILL.

It's "recycling."

My recipes don't really have measurements, per se... but this one is good if you like sauerkraut.

Into your crock pot put a pork roast - whatever size you need. Then dump in enough sauerkraut to feed your gang. Then pour a can of french onion soup on top. Cook on low for the whole day. It's good if you add caraway seeds to it, too, and maybe some thinly sliced apples.

Here's another one:

Put all of these things into the crock pot and cook on low: Chicken breasts (as many as it takes to feed your people) two cans of italian stewed tomatoes with juice, and 8 ounces of mushrooms (whole is fine). Add the tomatoes last. Cook for the whole day. It comes out like a stew... pretty close to Chicken Cacciatore.

And another one that's REALLY SIMPLE:

Chicken breasts, a can of decent prepared spaghetti sauce. Cook on medium for a couple of hours until the chicken is done. Shred up the chicken and then serve on pasta. My husband loves this one.

I am a huge fan of slow cookers. As I remember more recipes, I will let you know!!

Oh, wait!! One hint for slow cooking meat - as long as it's not a terribly horrible cut, the less liquid used with it, the better. The crock pot lid will make a sufficient seal to allow it to cook in its own juices, much like a roasting bag. I have found this actually makes a more tender roast than adding a ton of liquid...

Here's a nice old recipe for you, courtesy of Monty Python.

Thanks for my new wallpaper, Mr Hamm!!!

Found your recipe in the same book, Waysider. It was right before the Brunswick Stew recipe. Says you can substitute muskrat for the rabbit... (like that will be easier to find) But it doesn't have the spaetzel in it.

Hasenpfeffer

Cut a large dressed hare or jack rabbit into serving peices. Let the peices stand for 24 to 28 hours in a cool place, well covered with a marinade of 2 cups vinegar, 1 cup water, 1 cup claret, 2 large onions, sliced, 1 tablespoon salt, 1 teaspoon black pepper, 1 teaspoon mustard seed, 1 teaspoon crushed juniper berries, 8 whole cloves, and 6 bay leaves. Turn the meat every 12 hours.

Wipe the marinated meat dry, lightly dredge in a little flour and saute in 1/3 cup fat until well browned on all sides. Drain off the fat. Strain the marinade, dilute it with 1/2 cup hot water, adding 1 tablespoon sugar, if desired, and pour it over the meat. Bring it to a boil, cover the pot tightly, and simmer for about 40 minutes, or until the meat is tender. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Arrange the meat on a heated platter and pour over it the gravy, strained and thickened with a little flour if necessary. There should be an ample quantity of gravy. Serve with potato dumplings.

NOTE: The fur-coat-bearing muskrat lives on water plants, and this diet produces succulent meat that can be prepared in any of the ways suggested for hare and rabbit. The meat is usually cut up and soaked overnight in salted water before cooking.

Just in case you had caught yourself a muskrat and were wondering what to do with it.

Too bad there's no recipe for groundhog in here... I have a monster sized one living under my porch right now. Lots of meat on him!

I love my crockpot. It is great in the winter - throw stuff in it, turn it on, come home from work and dinner is done.

Also, if you slow cook a corned beef roast in one - the meat comes out so tender and juicy it almost falls apart. It is as good as anything you can find in a real Jewish deli!

My husband LOVES it when I cook corned beef in the crock pot!! I glaze mine with spicy mustard mixed with a little bit of honey and some cloves. MMMMmmmmmMmmmmmmmm. It's good. And easy to clean up if you get those crock pot liners!

Bacon wrapped bacon. Bacon wrapped sausage. Bacon wrapped butter.... I found a recipe for bacon fritters!

You take the bacon and dip it in egg that has been beaten with a little worchestershire sauce.... then you dip that in breadcrumbs and fry it in butter.

Can you feel your arteries hardening while reading that paragraph? I bet it would be good dipped in a big old tub of SOUR CREAM and sprinkled with cheese!! MMMmmmmMmmmmMmmmmmm....

I had a novel breakfast item yesterday - sausage gravy made with bacon-sausage. Yes. They make sausage with bacon in it. I have proof... well, no I don't because I ate it. And it was good. Especially with the biscuits. Yummy Yummy in my Tummy.

In many ways, Mini, it seemed like the "devil spirits" were used as a sort of twi boogie man who would come and get you if you weren't good enough for God to protect you.

How in the world is anyone supposed to be able to dictate what God can and cannot do it God truly is all powerful? God CAN'T protect you if you disobey. God CAN'T prosper you if you are in debt. God CAN'T protect you if you leave the way. Makes God look pretty weak, doesn't it?