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sounds good!

Sush, Don't use "quick reply" use "add reply" for more options, then paste the EMBED thingy in from YouTube. Then, you have to change Post Options at the bottom of the Reply window.... the default is "HTML off" You have to change it to "HTML on - Auto linebreak". That did it for me. The EMBED thingy is just below the viewer window of the YouTube video. Right-click on it and choose COPY.

I'd like to try this one, Abigail. Is it a Jewish thing? Is it supper or dessert?

OK, bow, but just for you! It's kind of embarrasing, really, because it's not made from home-grown tomatoes as you might think. It's made from Hunt's Tomato Sauce! But it's really good. I was raised on Campbell's tomato soup, and really liked it, but after having this for a couple of years, if I go back to Campbell's, there's no comparison. It's a killer warmer-upper out of a thermos on a cold day in the field, and great with grilled cheese sandwiches. Make a roux by melting about 2 tbsp of butter and adding 2 tbsp flour in a saucepan. Keep stirring with a whisk over medium heat until the flour just begins to brown. Add a large 28 oz. can of Hunt's Tomato Sauce, then fill the empty can 3/4 full of milk and 1/4 full of water, and add to soup. Add maybe 1 tsp of Better Than Bullion, Beef. IT'S NO GOOD WITHOUT THIS STUFF. Better than Bullion is kind of expensive, but goes a long way, and it's so superior to any other kind of bullion (like cubes or powder) that it's the only thing we'll buy. It's like a paste in a jar. Comes in chicken, too, which is very good. There is a brand which is almost as good called Minor's Beef Base. You can make chicken or beef gravy with either of these in a pinch, and it's very good. Finally, add a pinch of oregano. Just a little. Warm through; do not boil. I'm gonna go make some now! edit: I just saw Sudo's post... I didn't see it before I started composing this... had to call Liz for the recipe... I've never tried the bisque! Thanks for the tip, Sudo! OK, I just made it (it's still warming) Took me 5 minutes. I timed it. I like just a tiny pinch of oregano, and nearly a whole tsp of dried parsley, and a dose of black pepper. We serve it in mugs instead of bowls.

I totally understand, John. I've been here just a few weeks myself, and I definitely could have written that same post a number of times. If you do go, I will miss you. Then again, I may follow you out the door, and "they" can miss us both! If I stick around, I do hope you come back. There are decaffinated forums for folks like us, you know! And chat is quite different from posting, though it often gets just "chatty" instead of substantive, which can be fine, too -- even welcome. It does get downright ugly here. The only way to survive is to find some friends, and love everyone else, too. You would definitely have a friend in me. I am glad you stopped in, but sorry you got hurt. I love you, man (but you're not getting my Bud Light)

Or go out to eat, George! :lol:

so what about those rhetorical questions at the end of 1Corinthians 12.... are all apostles? ... do all speak with tongues? ... do all interpret? The Greek in fact gives greater force to this figure. For this reason, the translators of the New American Standard Bible translate it like so: All are not apostles, are they?... All do not speak with tongues, do they? In the preface to the NASB, they explain this part of their translation paradigm under "Greek Tenses": The line of Paul's reasoning is that we are different from one another, but have the "same spirit." The Corinthian church was "puffed up" about a lot of things which are handled throughout the epistle, even in "spiritual matters." In chapter four, Paul touches on this, and it is expanded in reference to spiritual matters in chapters 12, 13, and 14 Why would a Christian want to boast about something that is given to him? The point is that God is who causes us to differ. This is made very plain (except to followers of TWI, who were taught otherwise) when Paul writes in chapter 12 The spirit does not "divide to each one his own" as he (the man) wills, but as the spirit wills. Virtually the whole Christian world is agreement on this. They may be divided about whether "tongues have ceased," but only a few mavericks misread Paul to say that as a man wills to "operate the manifestations," the spirit will "divide" it to him. Certainly, a man must be willing. But this is never a part of what Paul is attempting to address. The point is that the various people were not giving glory to God for these various gifts, administrations, operations, and manifestations of the spirit, of which there are more than nine, as I pointed out in an earlier post from Romans 12. What say ye?

Another grilled sandwich for those of you who are fearless of cholesterol problems is the California Pattymelt. You can alter the contents to your liking, but I think the traditional pattymelt goes like this: Saute some onions Butter good seeded rye and put butter-side-down in hot skillet or on griddle. Put cheese on one or both slices to get it melting Add a grilled or fried juicy hamburger on one slice. Oval is nice to fit the bread. Salt, pepper, garlic powder to taste when cooking the hamburger. Put the onions on, and close the sandwich after the bread is golden-toasted, like a grilled cheese sandwich which it is. Excellent with home-made tomato soup! Eat good food the rest of the week.

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Abi.... Sushi's sausage gravy doesn't make the top list? :huh: My mom used to make cucumber / onion salad, too, with vinegar, salt, and sugar. Sliced the onions and cukes very thin... better the next day! I forgot one of our real favorites: Stroganoff with egg noodles. I tried what turned out to be an outstanding recipe for this while looking for something to make with the finest cuts of venison I got one year. The recipe is from the New York Times Cookbook.

OMG! what a cool post! Thank you, Bliss! Waysider, well, if you're ever in the area....

Is it your birthday, Larry? Darn! I coulda had Lauren bake you a cake! As far as cakes go, Lauren's are the best, but sometimes even they cannot compete with killer biscuits and gravy! Happy birthday, brother! Here's that new thread you suggested, bro.

waysider: you're smart, or wise, or both. I'd like to have you over for dinner sometime. How far are you from northern Delaware?

likeaneagle, I appreciated your posts. I too think it's important not to dismiss people as a "splinter group" of a cult. The only real measuring stick is if truth and love are held to. I hang out with what some would call a splinter group. I FORBEAR what remains of "Waybrain" that I now reject, but I love the truth, and so do these folks. We're all on a journey of redemption and salvation. It's good to hang on to the good, and shed the bad. May we have the wisdom to tell the one from the other!

My mom was an inspired cook, and she instilled in us a love for good (if not fine) food. All her sons enjoy cooking. I love the old standbys, and we have invented or stumbled upon some keepers over the years that have become new standbys. Here's my list of standbys. What are yours in your family? A good old "regular" potato salad. Some hardboiled egg in it. We also have a German style, with bacon. Spaghetti with meat sauce, real veal parm, egg plant parm, and lasagne. We also do a clam sauce. chili -- dark red, with beans "white chili" this is made with white beans, chicken breast, and green chilis and tomatillos salmon and steak on the grill. We've become fans of mahi mahi (get it at Trader Joe's, frozen, wild-caught) beef stew and pot roast meat loaf -- we have a red and a brown spicy shrimp, New Orleans style (recipe below) tacos, burritos, home-made flour tortillas. Ground beef is fine, but also crock-potted beef or pork. _______Liz makes a GREAT salsa corn cakes (pancakes) with bacon in it and fresh corn. It should go without saying, but real maple syrup is not optional. We have two distinct favorites of turkey stuffing: my mom's, and my wife's. _______We generally have one at Thanksgiving and the other on Super Bowl Sunday. Daddy makes manhattan clam chowder (that's red). Spicy Shrimp, n'awlins-style I think the provenance of this recipe is: a chef in New Orleans, H0ward Stein's boss, Howard, D0ug S33d, and now us. We may have mangled the recipe in translation, but it's one of our family favorites, and oft-requested for birthday dinners. (When it's your birthday, you can have anything you want, right?) Now, you have to trust me and not second-guess me. My brother had his mind blown by this recipe when he came out for Sarah's wedding, but he hasn't been able to reproduce it at home. This is because he's a chef, and he thinks he knows better than I do, so he changes things. Medium shrimp (about 25-count per lb_) raw, "easy peel", thawed. You can thaw these in water in about half an hour. The easy peel is split up the back, deveined, but with the shells still on. Heads are off, legs are still there. 2 or 3 sticks of butter: melt in cast iron frying pan. add: a couple of tbsp of cooking oil. This helps the butter to not burn. add: half a handful of chili powder or more. Don't worry about it. The shells keep the shrimp from absorbing too much heat. Chili powder is only as good as it is. And it's only as hot as it is. You can find flavorful, non-hot chili powder if you can't handle spicy. You can use VERY hot stuff, which we like, and once you peel the shells, you're OK. We're always trying out new sources for chili powder, and have a few favorites. add: maybe 2 tbsp of coarse salt. The recipe we got said that it's hard to add too much salt. We found out otherwise. Get the mixture almost smoking hot. Put in the shrimp for just a few minutes. Do NOT overcook or they will be tough and tasteless. We often add more of the butter and other ingredients to the pan if we're cooking a lot of shrimp. Don't overload the pan with shrimp. Cook in batches. (Batches? We don't need no stinking batches!) Pour the chili/butter mixture into small bowls. You use this to dip crusty french bread into while you're eating the shrimp. This is NOT optional! This is some VERY good "bread and butter." The chili powder sinks to the bottom of the bowl, and if you like it spicier, you dip deeper. You can cover the table with newpaper, and provide a roll of paper towels, and a big bowl for the shells. Beer is good. Fresh corn on the cob is good company. The shrimp is very good. So what are your "family favorites"?

cman: That's debatable! I think I was stupid! :) BTW, Tonto is a "she." Larry, I've read HUNDREDS of your posts, and I still haven't got you in a box. It would be easy to say that you're not self-revealing, that you simply question and prod and even taunt others, but at other times you are quite self-revealing. In my own relation to you, the sheer volume of the "prodding" and sparring posts clutters the landscape, so that I can't really get a handle on who YOU are, but I suspect that behind that avatar there is someone who really has something to say -- not just someone who snipes at what others say. You've suggested that you can figure people (like bulwinkl) out by reviewing their posts. How would you describe yourself? (Obviously, no review necessary.) I guess what I'm saying is how about an honest statement-of-faith. Just plain talk about how you feel about your TWI experience, and where you've gone from there. Who are you, Larry? Waysider, your first post (way back there) was outstanding. Thanks for that.

I'm sure his research is flawed, too. Wrds says so, and I believe her. He also pointed me and quite a few other folks around here back to Jesus, the Kingdom, the Gospels, and a few other important things that we were really missing. For that, we are grateful. None of us seems to have the whole package. I mean, not even T-Bone knows it all! :B) Jesus is Lord.

The one pan I have that would be hardest to live without is a very old cast iron griddle that covers two burners of our gas stove. I like all the real estate. I can heap on potatoes for home fries and onions separate for those who don't like 'em, and have hotter spots and cooler spots if I want for "holding" stuff when omelets are cooking, etc. I bought it at an antique store for about $18, IIR. But I didn't buy it to hang on a wall. It's perfectly seasoned and nothing sticks to it. Not too snooty, I'd agree, but I wouldn't trade it for the snootiest of the snoot.

dang! Suda, i want one of those!

Serious discussion, here. As a relative newcomer to GS, I've only come to know those who have been actively posting. Well, that's not entirely true, since I've been reading some of the older threads, but I'm coming to know the active folks better because I get to interact with them on the threads and in chat. The topic comes up from time to time (of necessity) about people who act rude, arrogant, and spiteful toward others. I'm particularly sensitive to cutting remarks, I guess, whether they are directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes the offender is just having a bad day, like we all do, and posts thoughtlessly. (Still a sign of immaturity, and not excuseable, but hey, I'm a sinner, there too.) With others, you come to expect it... it seems a part of their nature, of who they really are, as opposed to someone who makes a slip because someone baited them or triggered them. Of course, nobody is beyond redemption, and nobody knows this better than Paul did, though at times I feel I might give Paul a run for his money, myself, as "less than the least of all saints" and "chief sinner." I've gotten so mad at the things some people were posting I didn't know WHAT to do. When they are offered a reasonable and loving alternative by another poster, they just attack that one too! I'm clear as to how God would have me to behave toward them... don't render evil for evil, but overcome evil with good... but at times I'm at a loss to know what "the good" might be. But sometimes someone else comes along and posts something amazing in reply, that I would never have thought of. And what appears to me to be a presently-hopeless case has an AHA moment. I don't see it as my job to sway anyone over to my doctrinal positions or to correct anyone's bad manners, but I do want to love my "neighbors," even if they're "just" cyber-neighbors, and that's what these "amazing" people do. I could name names, but it's not a clear-cut line between offenders and edifiers. Some people, including myself, may cross over that line, in either direction. It is my job, however, to watch over my own heart to keep it from being hardened. I can't do this by myself, I know. If God Himself doesn't aid me, my heart would be too hard to watch over itself. And He does do this, sometimes through other GSpotters. An authentic community of people who care about one another and about the truth is going to be like this, where people will have various levels of maturity, empathy, and capacity to love "the unlovable." For me, it's helped in my capacity to observe others, and part of my AHA moments have been in the category of shifting my paradigm from one of trying to "fix" others to actually helping them, if I can. That may seem a small difference, but to me, it's been huge. Sometimes the kindest thing I can come with is to refrain from commenting altogether. Some people need a lot of time and understanding and interaction, and sometimes it seems no one can do anything at the moment, until someone is truly inspired of God. edit: I hope this reply is OK on this thread, which is directed more to those who "worship a ministry" rather than God, etc.... but it's what got me thinking of hardness of heart. Some people are indeed stuck in a hard-hearted world that was generated or at least promulgated in TWI, and with that comes the doctrine-worship that is disguised as a high regard for the Truth. The Truth is about loving God and loving people, as someone inevitably points out. Sorry for rambling.

wow! hits close to home for us... we lost "flirty," also a cockatiel, when a friend was here at the house without us... he was loading his car and left the door open.... Flirt was used to having the run of the house... it was very sad to lose him, we looked and looked, I posted things, but we never did get him back. It's a joy that you did!! Thanks for sharing!

Sky... it might be that YID was referring to Pilate's question, not your questions! I kinda "misread" it that way too, at first... or did I?

cman, I've never heard of that... is it on this site or on another site? Sounds like a lot of fun. Got me to thinking how I think it costs me nothing to make a conference call evenings or weekends with my cell. I'd have to check. But I could see you and me and Wrds and Abi (yadayada) getting together by phone some time. Have you listened to some of the phone conversations Paw has put up on GS radio? edit: I just tried www.talkshoe.com (duh!) that's it.

no promises.... I'm out of it a long time... you better make other arrangements! Good post, though, earlier... it could give someone with talent some ideas.... You do have my prayers that it will come together. Weddings are way cool

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