[blparent] Garlic sundae, anyone?

Tue May 29 15:20:28 UTC 2012

It is.  I've done it.  You wouldn't think, but cinnamon adds a really nice 
flavor if you don't overdo it.

Jo Elizabeth

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a 
song."  Maya Angelou

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From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 9:11 AM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Garlic sundae, anyone?

>        You can make a nice chile with cinnamon. I'm not kidding. It's 
> really good.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf Of Veronica Smith
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 6:50 PM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Garlic sundae, anyone?
>
> I put hair gel on my toothbrush and the other day I actually put face
> clenser in my hair.  I have been known to put cinnamon in chile and like
> you, dump half a bottle of garlic powder on something.  Such is life.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Erin Rumer
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:23 AM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Garlic sundae, anyone?
>
> Been there done that sort of thing as I'm sure we all have.  It makes for
> great stories.  There have been a few times I've been in a rush and put
> orange juice on my cereal and just the other night I was frying some
> zucchini and when I went to add the garlic, I didn't check which side of 
> the
> shaker I opened and dumped nearly half the container in just a few shakes.
> GRIN  One of the funniest things I've ever done though is when I was a kid
> and staying the night at my grandma's house.  I went into the bathroom to
> brush my teeth and I grabbed the tube of tooth paste and put some on my
> brush as always.  I quickly discovered that the toothpaste wasn't 
> toothpaste
> at all, but instead my grandma's denture glue and my grandma nearly wet 
> her
> pants while helping me wash it out of my mouth.  My eyes were watering and
> snot was coming out of my nose I was laughing so hard because my mouth was
> nearly pasted shut.
>
> Good times!
>
> Erin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:36 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Garlic sundae, anyone?
>
> 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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