[blparent] Garlic sundae, anyone?

Thu May 24 04:35:58 UTC 2012

My ex husband learned the hard way that he'd have to put canned goods and 
the like in the same place every time.  He didn't, and I dumped applesauce 
into a big pot of spaghetti sauce.  We couldn't afford to throw it out, and 
really, the spagetti was good, with just a hint of sweetness.  My ex took 
putting things away in the same places every time very seriously after that.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Garlic sundae, anyone?

> Thanks for sharing.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Robert Shelton
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:00 PM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Garlic sundae, anyone?
>
> Jo Elizabeth.  That is so funny.  I have a similar story.
>
> I was to go on sabbatical to Canada for the summer.  For reasons unrelated
> to the point of this story, the whole family was not able to go.
>
> Before I got married -- my wife is sighted and had always done the cooking
> -- I'd either lived in dorms, or just made out the best I could.  So, 
> before
> I headed for the Great White North, , I got a crash course in cooking, as 
> a
> blind guy.
>
> That went really well, and I got to be reasonably handy in the kitchen. 
> I'm
> OK with mobility and other living skills, so no worries.
>
> My oldest son, 12, at the time, really wanted to go.  Big adventure --
> father and son, off to Canada for the summer.  Since Rob (number 1 son) 
> was
> coming along, we didn't feel it necessary to label anything -- my wife
> insisted on sending various staples, not knowing whether we could find 
> them.
>
>
> So, all went well.  We found the local grocer, walked everywhere.  The 
> house
> provided by the university was pleasant, and life was good.
>
> So, one Friday evening, it had been a hard but very good week, I decided 
> to
> make my specialty -- beef stroganoff.  It was Rob's favorite, and if I say
> it myself, I could do it pretty well.  I had all the ingredients which I'd
> purchased locally and stored in places I knew -- everything except the
> Lourie's Stroganoff seasoning -- the secret ingredient which I'd brought 
> in
> my suitcase.
>
> It had been a long day.  Rob at that time doubled as my reader (screen
> readers were just a dream then -- actually I was working on one at the 
> time,
> but it was still the bad old days when we had to depend more on LDPs) was
> zoned out in front of the tube watching George of the Jungle -- Canadian 
> TV.
>
> So, I was browning the beef I'd just cut up, and was getting ready to put 
> in
> the seasoning.  "Bleep! -- where was the seasoning?"  I went back to my
> stash of ingredients I'd brought, and there were two packages.  I grabbed
> one, and brought it back to get Rob to confirm it was the right one.
>
> "Rob -- is this the Lourie's stroganoff mix?"
>
> "Huh?"
>
> "Is this the stroganoff seasoning?"
>
> "Uh, yeah... I guess so."
>
> Wrong!  Turns out, it was AusTex taco seasoning.  To this day, the saga of
> "taconoff" is still a favorite story in the family.  Rob, who will turn 40
> this year, still claims that it was wonderful, but it seriously tasted 
> like
> "insert vile substance of choice."
>
> Yes, I'll bet 30 or so years down the road Sarah will have fond memories 
> of
> her mom and the garlic sundae.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto [mailto:jopinto at msn.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 2:57 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: [blparent] Garlic sundae, anyone?
>
> A funny thing happened this afternoon.  Sarah moved up to the four- and
> five-year-old class at preschool, so to celebrate, I made her an ice cream
> sundae.  Neopolitan ice cream, all three flavors, whipped cream, and
> sprinkles.  Everything went well till the sprinkles.  I had two kinds, and 
> I
> took one kind out of the cupboard.  Sarah objected, so I thought she 
> wanted
> the other kind.  I let her guide my hand up to the bottle she wanted.  I
> should have tasted or smelled the contents of the bottle, which I usually
> do, but I figured Sarah knew the bottle she wanted by sight.  I sprinkled
> the sundae generously and put the bottle away.
>
> Then I heard a wail, "It tastes awful, Mama!  It tastes like ... yuck!"
>
> You guessed it!  Garlic sundae.  I felt so silly.  I made another sundae,
> but this is one of those things we'll probably remember and laugh over for
> years to come.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant 
> of
> the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all 
> of
> these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist
>
>
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