OT: Buffet Menu HELP!!!!

And I also wonder if those people circumcise their sons. Do extremists / radicals / the like see themselves that way?

Cyndi

I don't support animal testing for commercial products either. Heck, there aren't that many products I can use with my skin - lanolin drives my eczema crazy. I do eat meat (chicken and fish and the occasional bit of good beef), and I do think a creature should have a pretty decent life, if it's at all possible. Now having said that, I have a rabbit fur hat that came in mighty useful when I was in Siberia. Last time I checked, there were millions of rabbits in the world, and no sign of any shortage. I hope the rabbit meat was utilised from that creature too, because I don't believe in waste. (Russians really like their meat and I think a vegetarian would starve to death there). If I have a choice, I would usually buy cotton clothing (wool drives my skin crazy, even though it's a great insulator, and man-made fibres like polyester give me a rash) but if there is a real reason for using an animal product, then fair enough. I was pretty grateful I had that hat when I was in Russia, and I used to use it sometimes in Alaska as well, hiking out in the middle of nowhere. Anything else would not have been warm enough, or wind-resistant enough (this was before Goretex and all of that). I too support World Wildlife Fund, but don't have time for the extremists. I also wonder what sorts of drugs they [the extremists] take, when they need medical assistance.

-- Jo in Scotland

Several years ago the fields of eastern Idaho were literally overrun with hundreds and thousands of rabbits. The farmers had to kill them or lose their entire crop and their entire income. The Animal Rights Activists had fits. All of us who live on farms wanted to take a hundred, or a thousand, bunnies and toss them in the Activists back yards. They might have had an entirely different outlook on the situation then.

I just had a couple bow hunters knock on my front door to tell me they would be hunting in the woods in my backyard. The city has hired them to thin the deer population. I have had 4 in very close range in the last 12 hours. One was on my front step checking out the dead geraniums, the other was up next to the window in my sewing room checking out the bushes just outside (and looking in the window at my latest projects) and the other two were standing in the yard when I went out to get the newspaper this morning. A friend just got her car back from being repaired after a deer slammed into the side of her car. Dumb, dead deer. KJ

Maybe they don't take any - and therefore they will become extinct within a few generations!!

Actually we are kind of wierd to be involved in Voudon. But that is because we are pagans, so far as we are concerned it seamlessly meshes with our polytheistic belief system. As far as other practitioners are concerned we are beyond wierd because we are not Catholic. Most Voudon practioners are Catholic, and the majority of them quite devout. There is a strong Catholic base to Voudon, it is no more evil than any other Catholic based system. Considerably less so than some.

Nope. Anything that happens any day to anybody can be adressed through Voudon beliefs and practices, the good and the bad. Just like any other belief system.

But of course!

I am Carnifex to the Red Queen! If she ever comes back and shouts "Off with her head!" at you, you will want somebody on your side who can put in a good word.

*grin*

NightMist Sword not rotary cutter. Beheadings are heck on rotary cutter blades.

Yes vegans eat yeast in more than one form: in bread in beer in marmite

and probably several more that I don't know off the top of my head.

Probably depends on how strict they are. I know some who will eat honey and others will not. I suspect the will not crowd also doesn't do yeast. I don't work with them anymore or I'd ask. I know the will not guy would eat my pumpkin quick bread as it had no eggs or dairy. Baking powder is the levener.

marcella

well speaking from personal experience (my mother) she does eat yeast but doesn't eat honey

my mother is quite an activist about this stuff and I would probably put her in the strict crowd

Howdy! You know how when you make ChexMix it takes several boxes of cereal? (The pre-made mix at the store just isn't as good.) I use at least 6 kinds of cereal, as well as the nuts, pretzels, Goldfish, and other crunchy tidbits; so there's this counter full of ingredients and the pantry is still full (we're expecting 2 days of icy-cold weather; we all stock up ). And everyone we know loves ChexMix (esp. w/ a dash of cayenne pepper) so I make a bunch, use up all that cereal. Seems like only a wheelbarrow could hold all that. >

Sandy - my recipe is called Texas Trash and sometimes I do use Chex cereals, sometimes I use Crispix (actually crispier than Chex) and then all the other goodies too, oyster crackers, goldfish, pretzels, nuts, etc. etc. etc.

My seasoning mix? mostly secret, but I will tell you this much

Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning! Zzzzzingggggggggggggggg

Hugs, Tina, people start asking when it's coming, in September!

Mmmmm, I will have to look for that seasoning mix. We like to make the mix with Crispix too and use copious amounts of Crystal hot sauce. I suspect the creole seasoning would be great.

marcella

What on earth is ChexMix? And I thought only cats ate goldfish...

Yup! Good ole UK, me! :)

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Ah... So a bit like Bombay mix but made with breakfast cereals? Shreddies, yet even! Hehehehehehehehe!

Kate, you must be somewhere outside the USA, as this is almost as American as hotdogs/apple pie/Chevrolet. Chex, first of all, is a cereal brand that comes in rice, wheat, and bran varieties. It is called "chex", because it is a little square that looks like a woven checkerboard. Anyhoo, Chex Mix is a snack blend which (originally) consisted of the following:

1 stick of butter 3 cups each rice, wheat and bran chex 1 cup mixed nuts 1 cup pretzels 1 cup bagel chips Worcestershire sauce (I forgot how much, something like 2T) onion powder, garlic powder, seasoned salt. You melt the butter in a giant pan in the oven, add the W. sauce and seasonings, toss in the cereals and pretzels and bake an hour on low heat, stirring to mix up every so often. My mother always used Cheese Nips in place of bagelchips.

The chex mix is so popular (the recipe dates at least back to the late

1950's) they have come out with various variations on the theme and packaged in the snack food aisle with the potato chips. It's not nearly as good as the homemade version tho.

My DMIL has used a variety of things in this over the years DW and I have been together, and it's been weird. She puts in M&Ms sometimes, raisins, and then she uses these sweet cereals all the time(yuk). This year is really the limit. She's put frosted Mini Wheats in there of all things! BLECH!

I bought all the ingredients for Chex Mix at the store on Monday. DW is bringing home the onion powder from work, so I can make the real deal mix tonight. :) Woo hoo! My favorite are the Bran chex in the mix. I always pick those out first.

L

Well in Oz it would be the Granny Smith (green) apples for cooking most of the time. They are firmer, and have a stronger, slightly tart taste.

What a pity - our nearest Tescos is 20 miles away - so don't get there very often, but DH went there earlier on this evening after 'going to a meeting' which does not take place until next week! (we geriatrics!).

Tomorrow is WI party and Saturday Flower Club Christmas Lunch, but can manage dinner on Friday if you don't mind a spare bed covered in glitter and things for the Flower Club Christmas Sale! (the Lunch is the reward we give ourselves for all the hard work.).

-- Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~

Granny Smiths are the only ones DH will eat as an eating apple. I call them 'green concrete'!

-- Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~