Various Comments
Either I liked the comment so much I wanted to pull it out of the comment pit or I have a response.
Below, a comment in response to my post about my cherished indoor plants:
The Flowering Chinese Evergreen.
I to am a plant lover. This time of year I take comfort that spring is comming. By my violet plants that are blooming their bright floresent purple flowers.
The real trick to growing violets is truly love them. Always water from the bottom and place in a window without direct sunlight. Late afternoon sun is ok.
Darlene Jones :D
I used to love growing African violets. Frankly I don’t know why I don’t have any now but I plan on getting a few and I have the perfect spot…Fish
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Follows a neat recipe mined from a comment I know not where. But the recipe seems worth a repeat.
Make your own Gourmet sandwich and use a little of this "Vinaigrette" on it! It makes a great as salad dressing. I also use it in "Italian Pasta Salad".
VINAIGRETTE FOR SANDWICHES AND SALADS *****
1 Tablespoon red wine vinegar
½ teaspoon Dijon mustard
½ teaspoon Kosher salt
3 Tablespoons olive oil
Procedure:
Whisk together until ingredients emulsify.
This is good as Italian salad dressing substitute.
You can add other ingredients to taste if desired:
minced or chopped :
green peppers
red onions
olives (black or calamita)
tomatoes
lightly sauteed garlic
nuts
scallions
by Darlene Jones :D
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Any Winners to the Web Site of the Week Challenge? At least I think that is what the commenter is asking. Refer to this Blog missive to get the link as well as the challenge.
No, no one could explain it and I know this, PLENTY of folks visited that Blog page. Which makes me think plenty of folks HAD to try out the web site and couldn’t figure it out.
Snort, Snort.
Do, we have a "Winner"?
Darlene Jones :D
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The response below is from my excellent photo essay on the Golden Globes as regards all things fashionable.
If Barbie were a real person, she would be 6' 0", weigh 100 lbs., and wear a size 4. Her measurements would be 39"/19"/33". :D
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I’m quoting the comment below because I see it as one of the most indecipherable comments I’ve seen on this Blog. Though I kind of thought the words were amusing. Below the original comment, another commenter aptly responds.
“An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure” - Benjamin Franklin
Wal Mart, if you don’t want, American Products ,we don’t Want You!
Mr. Bush, the Dalai Lama doesn’t want to be a Republican.
In my personal belief and opinion,
To Mr. President,
1. Stop Clear Cutting “OUR” National Forest!
2. Clean up our Waterways and Stop Water Pollution.
3. Stop Air Pollution.
Now, you and your brother Jeb, dive into that, like Geronimo.
Darlene explains:
THE FLOOR IS NOW, OPEN.
ELVIS, HAS LEFT THE BUILDING.
DARLENE JONES
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Below a comment from the inauguration post.
Gifts ranged from 25,000 to 250,000 dollars.
Among the private donors was Marna Schnabel, who contributed 100,000 dollars. Schnabel is the wife of Rockwell Schnabel, the US ambassador to the European Union (news - web sites) since 2001.
Also feeling generous was Richard Farmer, chief of Cintas, a US work-uniform giant. Farmer, who gave 250,000 dollars to Bush's re-election campaign, chipped in with another 100,000 dollars for the inaugural committee. The Washington Post reported that he is a main beneficiary of a recent law easing industrial laundry pollution regulations.
Among businesses delivering 250,000 dollars to the committee were banks such as Wachovia and Bank of America; oil concerns such as ChevronTexaco and ExxonMobil; pharmaceutical firms such as Pfizer; carmaker Ford; communications groups AT and T and Time Warner; and hotel chains such as Marriott and Ritz-Carlton.
To whomever posted the above: trust that I believe your comment. I too could post a list of contributors to the Clinton Library, the Toricelli defense fund, various candidates across the spectrum.
What’s your point?
Or did you just want to point out contributors to the REPUBLICAN inauguration and think we are all stupid enough to take umbrage without noting what readers intelligent enough to read this Blog already know? Which is: POLITICS IS ALL ABOUT MONEY!!
Heh, we get it.
2 comments:
This pasta salad works for me. You can add a little sliced meat if desired. Sincerely Darlene Jones.
ITALIAN PASTA SALAD (deli style)
Large kettle, 2 medium bowls, plastic wrap. 2 cup, 1/4 & ½ cup measuring cups and spoons, spice grinder, colander.
2 cups farfalle pasta (bowtie) uncooked.
1/4 cup Parmesan
8 ounces mozzarella, cubed, use french fry cutter
2 cups Roma tomatoes, chopped
1/4 cup red onion, slice thin, then quartered
½ cup kidney beans
1 cup artichoke hearts, water packed, drained & halved
1/4 cup bell pepper, small dice
1 cup black olives, quartered or course chop
2 cups baby spinach leaves, whole
Vinaigrette
3 Tablespoon red wine vinegar
1 ½ teaspoons Dijon mustard
1 ½ teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 cup plus 1 Tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
Vinaigrette Spices
1/8 teaspoon rosemary, then grind
1/8 teaspoon fennel seed, then grind
1/4 teaspoon pepper corns, then grind
½ teaspoon parsley flakes
1/8 teaspoon ground oregano
Procedure
Cook farfalle 18 to 20 minutes, rinse, drain and set aside . Whisk vinaigrette to emulsify, then add spices. Put pasta back in cooking pot and add vinaigrette and the rest of the ingredients mix gently until all is coated with oil. Place in serving bowl and cover. Serve chilled, it’s best the next day.
Was that Condoleezza Rice, I saw on CNN doing the “Goose Step”, shortly after being sworn in as Secretary of State? ...Not Yet, Condi, not yet...
PARIS -- In Europe, it's hard for some to think of Condoleezza Rice -- Colin Powell's expected replacement as U.S. secretary of state -- without recalling the low points in trans-Atlantic relations that grew out of the war in Iraq.
1. After all, it was Rice who raised eyebrows last year with her Machiavellian suggestions for how Washington should treat European opponents of the U.S.-led invasion.
"Punish France, ignore Germany and forgive Russia," Rice was widely quoted as telling associates in the spring of 2003.
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