Steve,
Thanks, hon.. that's what every woman loves to hear.. that she nearly made a
man wet his pants <evil grin>
You know.. I'm still thinking about the Pamela Anderson mixup with the
cookbook "How to cook without a book". Maybe it was her... and she wrote it
because she couldn't see around them to look at the book.
lucy

"Steve Calvin" > wrote in message
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> Lucy wrote:
>
>>
>> "Experiment" ?? You have no idea how much fear that strikes in my heart!
>> I have experimented before, m'dear. I set off the smoke alarms, and could
>> not figure out how to turn the things off, or disable them even, and
>> meanwhile, my next door neighbor, a retired cop with way too much time on
>> his hands.. called the fire department. That was a lovely evening.
>> (Please don't ream me re the cop remark.. he's a dear man!)
>> And that wasn't even the time I decided I could do flambe just as well as
>> any tv chef, which lead to a real fire.
>> I just didn't pause to think, beforehand, that all those tv chefs do not
>> have an above stove vent, with pot holders attached on there with cute
>> magnets. Ugh.. that time, I called the fire department while DH attacked
>> it with a towel. (Ya, he's about as good a fireman as I am cook). The
>> damage, fortunately, was minimal.. just had to get part of the ceiling
>> replaced, (and the vent-a-hood).
>> I could type stories that begin with 'And then there was the time..' for
>> hours. The banana bread, even when I followed the recipe to the letter,
>> came out with a sunken hole in the middle. I still can't figure that one
>> out.. it was one of my mother's recipes. (She is deceased now).
>> Maybe before I try to learn to cook, I should take a fire prevention
>> class.
>> lucy
>
> OMG lucy, I was almost wetting my drawers on that one. Hang in there, and
> here and you'll gradually pick up things. Don't give up. Honestly, it's
> worth it eventually.
>
>
> --
> Steve
>
> Ever wonder about those people who spend $2.00 apiece on those little
> bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards...