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RDJ-- Cinnamon Beef Noodles, 11-03-09
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Nov 04, 2009 21:19 PST
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Volume 11 Number 257
US Library of Congress ISSN: 1530-3292
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Cinnamon Beef Noodles
5 cups water
1 1/2 cups rice wine or sake
3/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce
1/4 cup sugar
2 teaspoons vegetable oil
2 pounds beef stew meat, cut into 1 1/2-inch cubes
8 green onions, cut into 1-inch pieces
6 garlic cloves, crushed
2 cinnamon sticks
1 (1-inch) piece peeled fresh ginger, thinly sliced
1 (10-ounce) package fresh spinach, chopped
4 cups hot cooked wide lo mein noodles or vermicelli (about 8 ounces
uncooked pasta)
Combine first 4 ingredients in a large bowl; stir with a whisk. Set
aside.
Heat 1 teaspoon oil in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat; add
half of the beef, browning on all sides. Remove from pan. Repeat
procedure with remaining oil and beef. Return beef to pan; add water
mixture, onions, garlic, cinnamon, and ginger. Bring to a boil; cover,
reduce heat, and simmer 2 hours or until beef is tender. Discard ginger
slices and cinnamon. Stir in spinach; cook 3 minutes or until wilted.
Serve over noodles. Yield: 8 servings.
CALORIES 403 (14% from fat); FAT 6.2g (sat 2.3g,mono 3.3g,poly 1.3g);
IRON 5.2mg; CHOLESTEROL 44mg; CALCIUM 80mg; CARBOHYDRATE 50.4g; SODIUM
1080mg; PROTEIN 30.5g; FIBER 2.9g
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Simply Tim: CAN CANS & SIDE MEAT
(From 2005)
Yesterday was a canning-supply sort of day. If you ball-jar your own
produce, you know what I mean: whatever it is you plan to can, can wait
no longer. Period. So it was with a ka-zillion banana peppers bursting
their containers, drooping on the deck, yellow and gleaming and bright,
as well as a half-dozen fully loaded Cayenne pepper plants, shiny
crimson and deadly.
I planned to use my decades-old blue glass Ball jars, but (as it turned
out after several countywide goose chases), those antique, pink rubber
seals are (as I was told more than once) "obsolete" and “scarce as hens’
teeth”.
Eventually, I ended up in the Lawrenceville Hanna Feed store, just
barely into Virginia. Hanna Feed had creaking wooden floors and what the
store lacked in product it made up for in pure country ambience. Stuffed
wild game adorned the walls, and the open interior was infused with
ancient mustiness and something else -- was that smoked ham I smelled?
Yes. There in the aisle on a small table were three smoked hams gleaming
in a pool of sunlight. By golly, while searching for Ball jar seals I
had accidentally stumbled into hog heaven.
I patted the hams. "We have a brand new slab of side meat if you want to
see it," said one of the feed store curators. “Great for collards.”
I nodded my head up and down. The shopkeeper pulled an oil-soaked,
3-foot long cardboard box from under the ham table. When he opened the
lid I began to drool: here was the seasoning stuff of dreams for green
lovers like me. This was the real thing. Like finding a first edition
Mark Twain in a yard sale. "I’ll take three pounds," I said.
"Which end?" the clerk asked, retrieving a curved knife from a nearby
drawer.
"That one," I pointed, suddenly remembering why I had come. "By the way
-- do you have any rubber seals for Ball jars ?" I asked.
"No," he said, slicing off a chunk of salted, pepper-coated ham and
placing it in a paper sack with pork stains already showing through.
My quest for rubber seals ended at that moment. On the way home I bought
a couple dozen newfangled jars at an Ace Hardware. Then I stopped to
browse a roadside vegetable stand. The smoky aroma of peppered ham
greeted me when I hopped back in my vehicle. Man, oh, man, by the time I
got home I was thinking only about green beans and collards.
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When I was growing up audio books were a real treat to me. I can
remember checking them out of our local library, and being sad when I’d
gone through all the ones available at our branch. With the arrival of
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too. Here at Kid’s Audio Books you’ll find over 300 titles to download
and enjoy with the whole family!
To get started you can either click the MP3 Downloads button, or click
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better myself, it takes you to the A-Z index. The letters are shaped
with blocks and it’s just so fun looking! It would be more fun for a
child to explore, at least in my opinion. The Complete Listing link
takes you to exactly that - a listing of all the titles in alphabetical
order!
Once you’ve found the title you’d like to download, click its link and
if it is a series you’ll then be able to choose which book you want to
download. If it is a single title, you’ll be taken to its page where you
can click the download link. Each story has a time next to it letting
you know how long the reading is.
This site is going to be super fun to explore with your kids, or
grandkids at that! Because not only does this site offer audio books but
you can also check out the Coloring Books and Reading Books.
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from Caroline
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A product that I really like using is my FlipFold. I bought mine at a
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any other way. It works great on tshirts and polos. I bought one for
my daughter and she showed me her husband's t-shirt drawer and it was so
neat and held lots of t-shirts. My eight year old grandson folds his
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Can you tell that I am excited about this product? It would make nice
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Do You Remember?
I Thank You
Sam and Dave 1968
David Porter, Isaac Hayes
(spoken)
(I want everybody to get up off your seat)
(And get your arms together, and your hands together)
(And give me some of that o-o-old soul clapping)
You didn't have to love me like you did
But you did, but you did.
And I thank you.
You didn't have to squeeze me like you did
But you did, but you did.
And I thank you.
If you took your love to somewhere else
I wouldn't know what it meant to be loved to death
You made me feel like I've never felt
Kisses so good I had to holler for help
You didn't have to squeeze me but you did
But you did but you did
And I thank you.
You didn't have to hold me but you did
But you did but you did
And I thank you.
Every day was something new,
You pull out your bag and your fine to-do
You got me trying new things too
Just so I can keep up with you.
You didn't have to shake me like you did
But you did but you did
And I thank you.
You didn't have to make it like you did
But you did but you did
And I thank you.
All my life I've been shortchanged
Without your love baby, it's a crying shame
And now I know what the fellas are talking about
When they say that they been turned out
I want to thank you (thank you)
Thank you (oh, baby)
Thank you baby (yeah, yeah)
Oh baby (I gotta be thanking)
Got to say
(horn break)
You didn't have to love me like you did
But you did, but you did.
(And I thank you.)
You didn't have to hold me like you did
But you did, but you did.
(And I thank you.)
Thank you (thank you, baby)
Baby (Got to thank you)
Baby (oh, baby)
Thank! I've! Got! I've got to (thank you baby)
Thank you baby (oh baby)
(fade)
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