Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Daughters Are Good To Have Around

Daughter was here for the week-end.  She lives in Texas and tries to fly up about every 6 to 8 weeks to check on us.  She's a nurse so she's a lot of help to both of us with Bob's health problems.

This week-end she took me shopping for clothes.  I do despise to shop for clothes worse than just about anything.  I rank that about the same as shopping at Costco.  Periodically I find I'm desperate and am forced to deal with the situation.  It's awfully nice to have her along because she has much better judgement than I do on such things.  

This was grandson's 14th birthday celebration and homemade ice cream was requested by the guest of honor.  I've made homemade ice cream all my life.  When I was growing up my mother made homemade ice cream often.  It's mighty good on a hot summer day in Texas.

Last year when I went to make it I was informed I needed to use pasteurized eggs.  Had never heard of such a thing. It's amazing I'm still alive eating all those unpasteurized eggs throughout my life.

Our daughter-in-law is Japanese and eats raw eggs.  She clued me in to pasteurized eggs.  No doubt they are safer.


Daughter introduced us to 'drinking vinegars'


I think it's suppose to be good for your health to drink vinegar. This was the 'Summer Peach' flavor she added to sparkling water. I got a whiff of vinegar and that did it for me.  There's some things I will not do even for my health.

It was a very good week-end.

9 comments:

  1. One of Charles Dickens' novels, either Davis Copperfield or Great Expectations, mentions "srub" as a drink. No "h" in it, but I suspect it's the same thing. My mother made switchel when the men were in the hayfields on hot summer days, and it contains cider vinegar. (l'd never heard of pasteurized eggs!)

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    1. Never heard of switchel until you mentioned it. Seems it's also called haymaker's punch. I suspect the vinegar serves the same body need as salt pills. My father worked for the railroad on the tracks. In the hot Texas summers he took salt pills. It seems something gets washed out of the system if you sweat too much.

      I'd never heard of pasteurized eggs either and they aren't available everywhere. This year we didn't find them in egg cartons but were able to buy them in liquid form like Eggbeaters. That worked just as well. Got to keep my daughter-in-law happy if I can.

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  2. I also detest shopping.
    I draw the line when it comes to drinking vinegar ...

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    1. I shop about twice a year and that's it.

      I join you in not drinking vinegar. As soon as I got the first whiff of vinegar I knew it wasn't going to be my drink regardless of how you flavor it.

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  3. I like Costco, but I do not like shopping for clothes.
    I guess the pasteurized eggs (which I've never heard of) are to be used if you do not cook your ingredients. When I have made homemade ice cream, which was a long time ago, we cooked the custard base so that would not be a problem.

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  4. I hate Costco period. Yes a lot of people do cook their ice cream but that was never the tradition at our house. I just do what my mother did.

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  5. Pasteurized eggs are new to me. I'll have to check into it. I have a friend who swears by consuming vinegar. Like you, I never acquired a taste for it. I'll get mine in the form of crunchy apples.

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  6. Yes daughters are full of information...learn new things from my 2 girls everyday. Good to know about pasteurized eggs. I stopped making eggnog at Christmas because of the raw eggs.

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  7. Sigh... Yes, daughters are truly wonderful. I have only one and wish I had more like her.
    I know about pasteurized eggs, but I'm still leery of eating raw eggs. The Japanese often eat tamagomeshi which is a half cooked egg or sometimes even a raw egg over very hot rice.

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