[blparent] Garlic sundae, anyone?

Tue May 29 16:25:18 UTC 2012

I know you can, but my fam didn't like it.

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)
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.

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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
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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.

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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
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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

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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
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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.
>
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> 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
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> 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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