[blparent] Raman Noodles (was Garlic sundae, anyone?)

Tue May 29 15:52:49 UTC 2012

Hmm, hadn't thought of that.  You can also drop an egg into the water while 
it's boiling, then stir it up quickly with a fork so that it scrambles. 
Adds protein to the meal and tastes good.  Or dump off the water after the 
noodles are cooked, then add a little butter and some ground beef or even 
thinly sliced hot dogs.  Can you tell I held the title of Raman Queen?  It 
was back in the nineties, but you don't forget.  *Smile.*

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: "Amanda Matheny" <mommyzhuuraan at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 9:41 AM
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Garlic sundae, anyone?

> This wasn't necessarily a blunder, but all of your funny stories made
> me think I ought to share. My husband and I used to collect taco bell
> sauce packets and had a huge gallon sized zippy bag full of over a
> hundred of them. We needed something to use them on, so I tried
> putting them in Ramen noodles. To our surprise, they were actually
> quite tasty and a lot less boring than plain Ramens. Try this
> sometime, especially if you are strapped for cash. Good, cheap meal.
>
> On 5/29/12, Jo Elizabeth Pinto <jopinto at msn.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 9:11 AM
>> To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> 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
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:58 PM
>>> To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>>> 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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