To our Neighbors in Canada

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:36 am

Will, don't take this the wrong way, but you appear from your photo to be very handsome...don't sell yourself short, receding hairline or not.

Thanks for permission to use your photo in the next update. My apologies for not having it in the first two. Guess our posts may have crossed at just the wrong times. I figure at the beginning of next month, I will do an update to add those who have joined and submitted photos and ones, like yours (sorry), that I failed to include.

Have a nice day!!!

WAFlowers · Post by **WAFlowers** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:21 am

rock and roll wrote:Gosh I feel like I am in a different country but what is Indian pudding?

It is pudding in the British sense of a cooked/steamed batter such as their plum pudding (which we make from scratch for Christmas, flambe with ginger brandy and serve with custard sauce, but that's for a different episode of Good Eats ).

Indian pudding is made primarily of corn meal, molasses and milk with spices. Some recipes call for eggs and/or raisins plus other variations.

Indian pudding, also known as Hasty Pudding, is more American than apple pie, as the earliest apple pie recipes came from Europe and called for European ingrediants that weren't available in "The Colonies". However published mention of Indian Pudding appeared in the mid-1700's and it was aparently known for perhaps 150 years before that.

rock and roll · Post by **rock and roll** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 3:57 pm

HMMM, my family has lived in the US since the 1700's and I never heard of this. I wonder if it is a northern thing more than a southern?

Flower51 · Post by **Flower51** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:19 pm

Hi R&R....I made Indian pudding when I was a little girl...got the recipe out of a child's Treasure Chest magazine (remember those? lots of pictures and stories and ideas of things to try out....usually I read them in my dentist's office). Its a combo of milk, molasses, cornmeal, salt, spices, egg and a dab of butter that is slow cooked for hours over low heat, stirring occassionally. Its very thick and served as is or w/a hard sauce or vanilla ice cream if you need an excuse to eat some ice cream. Loads of calories and carbs. Not something I'd dive into anymore.

BTW Will Succeed....what did you have for Thanksgiving as a child? How about this year? Terry

seanconnery · Post by **seanconnery** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:32 pm

Thanks for the Thanksgiving wishes - how thoughtful..and downright neighbourly!

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:54 am

seanconnery wrote:Thanks for the Thanksgiving wishes - how thoughtful..and downright neighbourly!

Hope you had a nice day!

WAFlowers · Post by **WAFlowers** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:51 am

rock and roll wrote:HMMM, my family has lived in the US since the 1700's and I never heard of this. I wonder if it is a northern thing more than a southern?

Yes, Northern, specifically the NE.

Oh 2 breathe · Post by **Oh 2 breathe** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:50 am

Very nice of you to think of us Canadians. I made a lovely meal with turkey, stuffing, homemade pumpkin pie, homemade bread and mashed potatoes with gravy. Had a dilemena about what to do for my teenage daughter who suddenly announced she is a vegetarian this month, so I just rolled with it and decided to get her some brie cheese to melt over the fresh bread. She really enjoyed this. How that for a good balance of traditional and modern?

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:13 am

Oh 2 breathe wrote:Very nice of you to think of us Canadians. I made a lovely meal with turkey, stuffing, homemade pumpkin pie, homemade bread and mashed potatoes with gravy. Had a dilemena about what to do for my teenage daughter who suddenly announced she is a vegetarian this month, so I just rolled with it and decided to get her some brie cheese to melt over the fresh bread. She really enjoyed this. How that for a good balance of traditional and modern?

Sounds extremely delicious to me!!!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:27 pm

Hi O2breathe....my friend's son is also a vegetarian....when he comes over for Thanksgiving she makes stuffing in a separate casserole without meat juices and his favorite soup...can't remember what else. Probably corn on the cob and sweet potatoes. If I talk to her soon I'll give you some of her ideas. Terry

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:35 pm

I thought some vegetarians did eat poultry and turkey, just not red meat. See how much I know??? And did you ever meet someone who has been a vegetarian for a long time who is overweight? I haven't yet. Makes you think.

rock and roll · Post by **rock and roll** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:52 pm

Heah and they are always regular!! I tried going vegetarian but was always hungry and had low bllod sugar all the time. Does not work for everyone.

Wulfman- · Post by **Wulfman-** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:09 pm

You guys have been making me hungry reading this....and we've got about a month and a half to go till ours. I have an old friend in Calgary who wrote me on Monday to tell me all of the yummy stuff that they had on Sunday, too.
So, since the Canadian Thanksgiving is over and this thread seems to be morphing into a "health" issue, I thought I'd pass along a few excerpts from an e-mail I got a few days ago that I thought were kind of humerous.....hope you don't mind.

Ponderisms:

I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.

Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.

Best wishes,

Den

rock and roll · Post by **rock and roll** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:25 pm

I love it wulfman!!!!!!!!

Your health nut sayings cracked me up LOL!

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:41 pm

"Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. "

Den,

How true!!! Thanks for the laugh.