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Most of mums family died young in thier 60s dads family are all still alive in thier 80s ALL heart problems so i aint worried im gonna go with a "bang". We just dont know do we? i know i havnt started living yet so im going nowhere ill be travelling around at 90yrs and still drinking and smoking! its the processed foods that get you in the end and sugar. Avoid all that and you will live forever!!
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Kazz, Bacon dark chocolate is really good too :)
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Oh you guys only in america!!! BACON? that will hit here soon i guess we are a bit slow on the dark chocolate!
The best is "greene and black" but you have to win the lotto to eat this every night!! i will treat myself to this once a week maybe but it is good AND with a glass of red wine is supposed to clear the arteries! WIN WIN!! Ok so i guess a bottle of wine and a whole bar of dark choccy is super healthy RIGHT?????
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I've been thinking of the choco-mayo cake my mom used to make, and discussing it with my sister. We both remember a dark rich chocolate cake made with mayo, and we remember a dark moist cake with maraschino cherries. We can't agree on whether those were two different cakes, or if the cherry cake was made with mayo. We can't remember if it was a doctored cake mix (very popular in the late fifties) or from-scratch.

In looking for recipes to try I came across one in a fund-raiser book from 1986 for "Wisconsin's Finest Chocolate Beer Cake." Now that is not the recipe Mom used, but only because she never saw it. It is something she would have tried. So I tried it tonight. (I took an extra half dose of insulin.)

Its liquids are beer, maraschino cherry juice, and buttermilk. Barb and I agreed it is pretty good. (Hope Pat agrees, because I used his last bottle of beer to make it.) In color and texture and taste it reminded both of us of German chocolate cake, which is odd considering I used bitter-sweet chocolate.

I'm still in search of a recipe to match a 55 year old memory, but this wasn't bad in the meantime.

I made my standard chocolate buttercream. I HATE measuring powdered sugar, so all my recipes have been converted to use a 2-pound bag of powdered sugar. That makes 5 to 6 cups of frosting, way more than needed for small sheet cake. So now I have buttercream in the freezer for the next experiment.
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Dinner was cheerio's for both of us just too darn hot for anything else.
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Jeanne-it is amazing what we can measure out with our hand with practice. I can easily weigh out 1 lb, 1/2lb, and 1/4 lb of sliced lunch Keats at work...just by the feel.
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Jeanne, that’s how I used the salt when I was suppose to use it for the chops. I was too scared to pour it on the meat like my mom used to do. Instead, I poured it into my hand and sprinkled on the meat. Hence, it wasn’t salted enough. It sure looked a lot on my palm. Thanks for the tip.

Captain, I have instant reaction to MSG. My sensitivity seems to be getting worse quickly. Before, it was 15 minutes after the meal. Now, I get it while eating. Very bad throbbing pounding headache that sleep and pills won’t stop the pain. I was eating out with my niece/hubby at a Japanese restaurant when I felt the pounding headache suddenly. I did’t have my Tylenol (useless against this pain). The only pill I had was an allergy pill (shrimp). I can’t believe. After I took it, the headache ceased!

Boni, that always happens here. I was worried when I buy 2 boxes of ice cream. What if the power goes out? What a waste!!!

Dinner - I just lost my favorite local restaurant at the mall. I always drop by and pick up a large cup of beef soup - what the Filipinos call Sinagong (sure I'm spelling it wrong). I take it home and add more water since this soup is very salty and very sour but lots of veggies like okra, etc... So, I got a strawberry chicken salad at Wendy's. I cut up thin slices of avocados and threw it into the salad.
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FYI-My Mothers false teeth are old and terrible. And she doesn't want to eat vegetables any more. Broasting them on a cookie sheet ( all kinds). Makes them soft and so sweet. Changes the taste completely. Use parchment paper underneath. And wrap red beets separate in foil. Takes about 40 min. 350
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My refrigerator miraculously came back to life. Thank goodness! Of course, I had finished the Ice Cream by then!
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Gazpacho! Super easy with an immersion blender.
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fridge has a timer that shuts down the cycle and even fires up a heating element in the freezer section for coil defrosting . dont be surprised when it screws up again , boni .
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Baked cod with tomato salsa and kale...........so angry i forgot to buy some dark chocolate hope i dont crack as while i was out mum made scones she does make good scones but god only knows whats in them as i wasnt here to supervise? maybe her teeth are in one!! LOL
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liver doc sed my chicken livers are extremely high cholesterol -- but , on treatment i went from 174 lbs to 161 . where the f is this cholesterol supposed to live ? i have bones and muscles , not much else . my thyroid might have been injured during treatment but a hormone supplement for the rest of my life still sounds a lot better than liver cancer ..
theyre all still smiling . if attitude could beat this virus i had it whipped from day one ..
ive been thru some s*it in 15 years . i planned to stomp this virus ' guts out this time ..
if i can make some money ill jam back to chicaggy and see those grandkids again .
i just heard ike in the garage twitching .. he he
fought an electrical snafu all the way home last week . must have stopped 30 times . NEVER got exited . by eliminating one crappy connection at a time i finally found it -- a loose sta - kon on the ignition ballast resistor . then ike blew an old brake line . meh , better luck next time karma . smashed a brake line off and came home with one brake .. made right turns a breeze . lol
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Bob, I will have it checked out soon. Both brothers are on vacay and I don't want to bother them, if I can help it. I pulled it out today to vacuum the back vents. One side was very clean. The left was caked with dust and grease. I realized I had it pushed too far against the left wall and I don't think the air was circulating. I centered it better leaving 2 inches on BOTH sides. I sure hope that was it. It's a very nice one and only 6 yrs old.
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Cap im reading a book now and its called "trick and treat" this guy dosnt beleive in good and bad cholesterol he thinks we can eat as much protein as we want just avoid the bad carbs ie wheat,prosessed foods sugar etc... I find it hard to believe that chicken livers can be bad for you?
Anyway maybe check this book out its interesting stuff as im off wheat i do feel better so will be interesting to see if my chol is down when i get my bloods done again. Then stress can up your chol so we are stuffed either way!! Yeh avoid stress? and negative people HA! LOL
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Oh the book is by Barry Groves! he thinks we can cure all by cutting out the bad carbs?
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Cap "milk thistle" you can get it in any health food store is very good for liver helps it detox!
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Went and got potato chips and real chocolate feel like crap now but did enjoy them!
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PIZZA.
That is all. ;-)
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Have to say never been one for pizza! I know americans cant live without it like us irish cant live without potatoes!!!
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Moms with sister tonight. (yay) It doesn't matter what I eat, it's all about the eating, quietly,uninterrupted and without repeating everything 537129465537 times! Woooo Hooo!
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I had lunch at the nursing home with Mom. I stopped at Costco on the way home. I suddenly felt weak, shaky, with cold sweat. Oh-oh. I know what that is. I must have guessed wrong about the amount of insulin I had with lunch. Hypoglycemia.(Blood sugar was 52. That is Not a Good Number for me.) :( I tried to quickly calculate whether it was faster to go to the front of the store and buy a sandwich or pop or something or hope that the nearby samples would have enough carbs. I went for samples. I had to actually sit down in an aisle near the ice cream sample, for feat of falling. But I made it through the shopping experience OK. Gee, I HATE low blood sugar! And even after the blood sugar level is back in the safe zone, you feel so HUNGRY. I went to the snack bar and bought a slice of pizza on the way out. I was definitely not going to pass out on the way home.

I would willingly have skipped dinner tonight, but it was Barb's birthday and her kids took her out for dinner and wanted me along.

I sure hope tomorrow is back to normal for me!
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Jeanne, that is frightening. I've seen hypoglycemia a few times, so I always carry a glucose tube and a pack of peanut butter crackers with us when I go somewhere with my mother. The crackers have come in handy many times. I also carry a pack for myself, since sometimes I get the woozy hypoglycemic feeling. It feels awful. I am glad that you are okay.

I have one of the rescue kits of glucagon in the medicine cabinet. Sometimes I wonder if I should carry it, too.

I think if I were diabetic I would have a bottle of soda in my purse just in case. It would be a lot more tasty than a tube of glucose! I wonder if it would work well enough.
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JessieBelle, I do carry hard candies with me, and have glucose tablets in my car. Soda (we call it pop) works fine. I could have gotten some at the snack counter, or more likely asked an employee to get it for me and bring it to me, if the sample carts hadn't been handy. But it is hard to think straight in that condition. A diabetic friend carries 7-up in her large purse. Warm 7-up that has been riding around for days in my purse doesn't appeal to me at all, but it is better than fainting, I guess. My son used to carry individual serving chip bags in just the right size (about 15 grams of carbs). I don't think he is having low sugar episodes lately. I wasn't either, but I've lost a (very) few pounds and it is enough to mean I have to readjust doses again.

This sucks. But not as bad as it did before A Canadian team discovered the role insulin plays!
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Jeanne~I have to admit that I don't understand enough about diabetes to fully appreciate how this happens. I have found that I get angry with sister who has type 2 diabetes and she suddenly has low blood sugar. I thought it was from not managing her diabetes well. Help me to understand more if possible.

Cap~Yes, all organ food is high in cholesterol. You post about your daily activities often...maybe you are burning off the cholesterol...keep having it checked.

So YES, I am going to cook chicken livers again tomorrow. The benefit is they are high in iron. I am also going to make a red, white and blue potato salad, very yummy and of course not so good on cholesterol. Hubby is going to a baseball game. am cooking just for myself. Plus...I am so bad, I went to Baskin Robbins today for an ice cream...they had my all time favorite...Mississippi Mud. I bought a quart!!!
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Used to love pizzas until fave sis would always bring it for lunch almost every weekend visits. And the pizza places (Pizza Hut and Dominos) pizzas are now sold undercooked. It's gross to pick up a pizza and it flops, the crust so white. My BIL always has to re-cook it. Fave niece says she now buys pizza at Little Caesar because their crust is cooked and not still doughy like the other major chains.

Dinner tonight was Wendy's chili, strawberry chicken salad and rice. Ate half tonight, the other half will be my brunch tomorrow. I didn't have enough time to buy real meat after work.
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Too tired to cook after I took my mother to see the denturist and when she got there she didn't have her partial so I had to go back and get it. Then we went to the grocery store and she didn't have her wallet so....I bought a pizza for supper and said, "good enough".
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Self-teaching oneself to cook is getting frustrating. I jumped the gun by ordering recipes books when I should have ordered books on Very Very Very Basics on cooking. It's frustrating when I had to spend 1 hour googling how to properly defrost a frozen meat just so that I can cook it asap. I wasted that hour on the internet when i could have been cooking. Our faucet has one tap - on and off. No hot or cold option. Just what comes out of the pipe -naturally. So, when it says run the frozen meat under cold water, does that apply to just my regular tap - which it being summer time - means the water is lukewarm, not cold.

I've just ordered some very simple books With Pictures for beginners. Cooking Basics for Dummies, How to Boil Water, Betty Crocker Cooking Basics.

After I'm done changing my dad's pampers, I'm going to search the internet bookstores for a cheaper costs of 2 more books: .....How to Cook Everything The Basics: All You Need to Make Great Food--With 1,000 Photos .....How to Cook Everything (Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition)

I'm finding myself getting so frustrated. I was so desperate, I asked dad how did he used to cook chicken soup. Me, asking my father who is going down the road of senility. Of course he doesn't remember! Have to go....time to change his pamper.
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Book if you are following directions as carefully as you are which is good practice but rarely what grandma does and you want cold water to thaw (your tap is good enough) your meat fill a bowl from the tap and throw some ice cubes in.
Don't waste too much money on cook books. Once you have mastered the basics you will find plenty of excellent recipes on the internet. Use your money to buy good quality seasonings.
There is a website called "Living on a Dime" take a look at that and see what you think. Try and plan ahead at least for the week based on the weekly store specials and do that shopping when you have time at the week end not in a rush after work. Keep staples like rice ,flour and potatoes on hand. you can add fresh or frozen veg of choice. once you have mastered a dish for example lasagna cook two pans and freeze the second for another night. It is already fully cooked so all you need to do is reheat. Make your own pizza well until you get to yeast cooking buy a ready made crust and throw your own sauce and ingredients on. baby steps Book, you are in first grade and trying to master college courses.
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I know buying a pizza was an easy way out. To top it all off I bought a large pizza for the rest of my family whom I thought was waiting for me at home and when I got there they had already given up on me and went to KFC. It just wasn't my day. I know I need to get more organized when it comes to making meals. I get so tired of having to be the one responsible for everything. I wish I could be the one who says, "What's for supper?" and having it already done. I am feeling tired, depressed and lazy I guess.
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