[blparent] Garlic sundae, anyone?

Veronica Smith madison_tewe at spinn.net
Tue May 29 16:33:05 UTC 2012 

Now that sounds good.

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Amanda Matheny
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 9:42 AM
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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
>
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> 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
>>
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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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