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

Tue May 29 16:03:06 UTC 2012

Oooo, lol mix the eggs or ground beef idea with my taco bell sauce one
and you'd have an awesome ramen meal! lol cooll!

On 5/29/12, Jo Elizabeth Pinto <jopinto at msn.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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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