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On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:48:22 -0500, (z z) wrote:

> I should be on the show. Last night I spent hours on a potluck dish.
> First I bought an enormous package of noodles from the asian store (more
> substantial than ramen) boiled those with ramen spice packets. Then I
> bought this beautiful package of shredded organic carrots-i kid you not
> they were pink and yellow-perfect for baby shower-washed them, Then bag
> of baby spinach-washed and removed stems and tore into tiny pieces. Then
> a jar of dried beef-used scissors to cut them into thin strips. Tasted
> my new bottle of hot oil-too hot for this dish but I needed something to
> keep the noodles from sticking so I added some ginger sesame marinade.
> So far so good fingers are tasting good. Then I made my fatal error. I
> wanted to do lime juice just like I do with my ramen and scrambled egg
> breakfast. I do that with one of those little green plastic limes that
> squirts juice out. So I bought a bottle of key lime juice from Florida.
> Not the same thing at all. To make matters worse I had also bought
> limeade juice concentrate which I think is sweetened. That's what I
> should have used. Live and Learn. Tossed it out this morning and bought
> cartons of macaroni salad for 99 cents.

I'm glad you tossed it because the ingredients you used sounded vile
together.

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