On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:12:15 GMT, hahabogus > wrote:

(Victor Sack) wrote in news:1i9cf5v.1ait0f51e2kluyN%
:
>
>> Roses in December? So, what is left there for you to grow in June
>> (beside beetroots, of course)?
>>
>>
>
>I wonder if there's a old country recipe for rosehip and beet soup?
>You're Harry's Granny...have a recipe?

Do not go there, Gran. Alan is Evil . . .

Harry

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:55:19 +0100, (Victor Sack)
wrote:

>Harry Demidavicius > wrote:
>
>> This is Harry coming out of Hibernation and tagging on to Gran's [Hi
>> Gran] post.
>
>Good to see you post, Harry, even if the occasion is so very sad.
>
>> Who along with Samantha are your current visiting expert on Nanaimo
>> Bar Experts.
>
>What do you think about Debra's recipe?

Must be OK, because Samantha saved it.
>
>> Why you ask. Because after spending 30+ years in
>> Alberta, mostly in Calgary, we picked up and mover - NANAIMO.
>> A nice town on Vancouver Island and where we are growing roses in
>> December.
>
>Roses in December? So, what is left there for you to grow in June
>(beside beetroots, of course)?
>

You don't want to know about BC Bud, eh ...

Actually we get great tomatoes the big ones - about 3 crops before it
gets to be Supermarket time again, the grape ones that never stop.

As to beets - go stand in the corner with Ha Ha.

Harry
>Gran

hahabogus > wrote:

> I wonder if there's a old country recipe for rosehip and beet soup?
> You're Harry's Granny...have a recipe?

You do not need rosehips, just beets. See
<http://www.finedinings.com/recipe_beet_rose_garnish.htm>.

Harry's Granny

Harry Demidavicius > wrote:

> You don't want to know about BC Bud, eh ...

Makes you forget all about roses, eh?

> Actually we get great tomatoes the big ones - about 3 crops before it
> gets to be Supermarket time again, the grape ones that never stop.

They are all good for tomato juice - to make Bloody Marys.

> As to beets - go stand in the corner with Ha Ha.

Don't you get impudent, young man! Your beet greed is well known. You
have always refused to share your beet loot, no matter how large it was.
You probably grow 'em on industrial scale now, all year round.

Gran

In article >,
jamz > wrote:
>Yesterday on December 15th, our friend Debra Fritz passed away after a
>long and brave battle against cancer.

Debra?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

shit shit shit

>She was a great cook.

And a great woman!

>And she was one of them more remarkable people I've ever met in my
>life. She was a good friend. I will miss her. The angels are
>learning a thing or two today, I expect.
>
>Here is her recipe for Nanaimo bars, the first thing that brought her
>to my attention.

I feel somewhat cheated now - don't think I have had the bars . Will
try them at some time in the not too distant future.

*takes wee dram and settles self*

She was a Righteous Sister. Other people have mentioned the delicious
brisket so I will tell another Debra story, which should help explain why
Ms. Orange County Republican co-existed so well with Ms. Berkeley Liberal
and other assorted characters. She told me this the first time I met her,
which I think was at Janis' house for a SoCal cook-in in 1999.

Debra, as has been noted, worked for the Republican party. One day in the
late fall of 1998, her phone rang. Her boss, then-Speaker Newt Gingrich,
said "I want you to come to Washington for a meeting". Now it's a PITA to
get between Orange County and DC and a long flight in any case. But, when
your boss says jump ... So, she drops everything, slogs through the
pre-holiday traffic and bad weather, sits her butt on an airplane for God
knows how long, and presents herself in DC for the meeting.

Newt asked her what the "mood on the ground" was, especially in relation
to the Republican congress' series of actions against the then-President,
William Jefferson Clinton. "What do they think about impeachment?" Her
honest answer was "Everyone is sick of it, stop there, don't do anything
else.". Newt's response was a sickly smile and "Well, we're going to go
ahead with it anyway."

Debra's immediate response was "The next time you aren't going to listen
to anything I have to say, could you at least do it over the telephone?"

History will note that Debra was right about the country's mood and that
Newt shortly thereafter lost his speakership.

*another dram*

I will miss her. I extend my deepest sympathies to her family and to her
good friends (thank you, Jamie).

Rest eternal grant unto her, O Lord
And light perpetual shine upon her.
May her soul, and the souls of all the departed,
rest in peace.

Charlotte
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