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kev20 said:
guess it wasn't in here that I posted it. it was a different thread.

archives are still there. she was recruited for a more professional blog group, but that has since been taken offline. she grew tired of having deadlines and it stopped being fun for her.

https://akarapas.wordpress.com/2010/12/
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Hey, I noticed you're offline now. I don't remember you getting my permission. :)

Are those her blogs under "archives" on the right? I read the 3 (Dec 2010) then started on January 2011, but I got confused and wasn't sure that was her. Before going any further, I want to make sure.

I hope it is. She has a new fan!
 
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Haha, I came back here to ask you that so I could continue reading, and you were gone. I was like... dammit.

I was confused when she mentioned Julia instead of Sydney in the January blog, but I get it now.

I can appreciate her comment on when she was young.....foods she didn't like but wanted to, because of people she admired liked them, or no one else liked them and she wanted to be original. That's cool!

I'm glad I read the comments too. Heathers comment on Baklaka, especially the last line, was as perfect a compliment as she could have received. Always been most important, to me.

I know none of this is new to you, so I won't repeat everything back that I liked, but I can't promise I that I won't make any. comments.
 
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Behr said:
Haha, I came back here to ask you that so I could continue reading, and you were gone. I was like... dammit.

I was confused when she mentioned Julia instead of Sydney in the January blog, but I get it now.

I can appreciate her comment on when she was young.....foods she didn't like but wanted to, because of people she admired liked them, or no one else liked them and she wanted to be original. That's cool!

I'm glad I read the comments too. Heathers comment on Baklaka, especially the last line, was as perfect a compliment as she could have received. Always been most important, to me.

I know none of this is new to you, so I won't repeat everything back that I liked, but I can't promise I that I won't make any. comments.
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Trust me when I say your comments are more than welcomed. She is very happy to know that I'm proud of her stuff and want to show it off. I've been truly blessed.
 
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VolNExile said:
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Hmmm...

"NegaOl"?
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Actually, Neither.

Everything I came up with was stupid so I'm just gonna forget about, for now. Sorry you suffer from this, I love cilantro. Wish I suffered from an olfactory receptor with that reaction to Vodka.:crazy:
 
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Behr said:
Actually, Neither.

Everything I came up with was stupid so I'm just gonna forget about, for now. Sorry you suffer from this, I love cilantro. Wish I suffered from an olfactory receptor with that reaction to Vodka.:crazy:
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Well dang, I was pretty proud of NegaOl! :)

My husband slides into a quiet little nap after two drinks. Three if he's being a wild man. That's a handy gene to have.

That being said, there's always a 1.5 liter bottle of Stoli in the freezer, should you find yourself up in the Arctic wastelands of WNC. :wink2:
 
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kev20 said:
my wife has always been in love with food, and I think I shared in here somewhere, that she had a food blog. she doesn't do that anymore though. as far as the healthy cooking as of late, it is a result of a type II diabetes diagnosis for me back in August. plus, we do like each other, and like to spend time doing it together. :)
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Nice to see people cooking gorgeous AND smart for DMII!
 
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Thanks Lima bean, but I gave up the Vodka. My days of chasing rabbits and barking at the moon, are over.

We had a good run tho!

Have you seen the movie Julie and Julia? I can't seem to get it off my mind, thanks to Kev's wife.
 
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Behr said:
Thanks Lima bean, but I gave up the Vodka. My days of chasing rabbits and barking at the moon, are over.

We had a good run tho!

Have you seen the movie Julie and Julia? I can't seem to get it off my mind, thanks to Kev's wife.
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I'm batching it for 2 weeks while hubby is off visiting family. I might try to hunt it down. I've heard great things about it.

Of course, I'll have to invite the son-in-law with the engineering PhD who set up our TV to hit all the proper buttons on the three remotes so I can watch. lol
 
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Haha.

Well, just know it follows the book almost carbon copy. I've read it and several books by Julia, including Mastering the Art of French Cooking, which is what the "Julia" half of the movie is about. From everything I know about her, Meryl Streep nails the part of Julia.

There is a section in the local paper every Wednesday. It features area Chefs with an interview that asks the same 10 questions. The first is "who is your cooking God"? Mine is Julia. "No one compared to her passion for food or life", quoted from Jacques Pepin, my second choice. Gordon Ramsay, agreed. You can see in the movie. She had a fascinating life.

Anyway, just running my "mouth".
 
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I once tried to take on one of her recipes, only to crash and burn on the peeling of a gazillion pearl onions.

But I discovered that Birds Eye has frozen already peeled pearls, and I might give it another whack, even though it seems like cheating to use frozen. I used them this weekend in a chicken with smoked paprika + sausage + red wine one pot meal, and they weren't bad.
 
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Trying to follow one of her recipes step by step, would drive me back to drinking. Hell, I could almost say that about any recipe though.

When I'm going to follow a recipe, I'll read the ingredients then the instructions, then do what I want.

"Don't be afraid of cooking, as your ingredients will know and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave"

Julia Child

Edit: I butchered the quote. Fixed now.
 
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kev20 said:
Trust me when I say your comments are more than welcomed. She is very happy to know that I'm proud of her stuff and want to show it off. I've been truly blessed.
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She does make some pretty food.
 
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At the risk of causing Behr to abandon it, I love this movie and have watched it thrice since its debut.
 
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BTW, Behr, Jaques Pepin and Julia Child are two of my faves. I too treat recipes more like guidelines than doctrine.
 
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