Has anyone else ever had a stunning success when trying to come up with a meal when the cupboards seem bare? I had just a few pieces of leftover chicken, a bag of baby carrots and staples and somehow came up with this impressive dinner. I made basic crepes which is way easier than most people suspect. For those all you need is flour, salt, milk, eggs, butter and cooking oil. Then I deboned the chicken got rid of the skin and diced the meat pretty small. I julienned the fresh baby carrots on a mandolin. Then I made a basic white sauce, (butter, flour, salt, pepper and milk) adding the carrot strips just as the sauce came to a boil, stirring constantly brought it to a boil again and stirred for about a minute til the sauce thickened, I then seasoned that with fresh ground nutmeg and added the chicken and stirred gently just long enough for the chicken to warm up. Put the chicken filling in a strip down the middle of the crepes and rolled them up. Three to a plate with a perpendicular strip of sauce across all three for garnishment. They were beautiful and the nutty flavor of the nutmeg highlighted the still slightly crunchy carrots which contrasted with the creamy white sauce and slight bounciness of the crepes. It's as good as anything served in a fancy restaurant.

put your eggs on tore up biscuits before the gravy and the buiscuits soak up the egg yolk, oooh it's so good

Now that sounds so good, didn't get a deer last year so I'm more than ready for more venison. I love a roast with red potatoes, baby carrots and onions, Yum! Lost that boyfriend though. Don't know when I'll get more. waaaaah

you don't need toast with that, you already have your biscuits, you need fresh fruit like a big juicy orange!

Down home biscuits and gravy with eggs over easy, tear the buiscuits up first then put the eggs on and break the yolks so the buiscuits soak it up good then top it with the gravy with big ol' pieces of country style pork sausage in it. The secret to good gravy is making sure your rue browns long enough before you add the milk and add a daddy sized pinch of sugar to the rue, not enough to make it sweet, just enough to wake the salt up. Served with fried potatoes with onions and green peppers and a big juicy orange and a really cold glass of milk. Now I'm hungry!

I only get one day off a week and it was way too pretty out to spend any of it on the laundry, so I took the dog down to the riverwalk instead. We had a great time, he loves chasing all the geese back into the water.

Think I'll put off the launrymat thing til tomorrow, today it's going to be full of all the other fools who put it off all weekend.

What I find disturbing are the guys whose profiles look decent, (you know, they can spell and put together complete sentences) who send you an e-mail then keep asking to meet you but never answer your questions as you try to get to know them.

Endless hours of games with my sister; SuPerfection, Parcheesi, Go Fish. Rummy, War, Backgammon, Sorry, Connect Four, Battleship, Master Mind, so many others. Our bedroom was the whole upstairs, an attic really, we got so many splinter in our feet when we first moved in. Then our mom laid 1'sq black and white linoleum tile that was so cool in our sunshine yellow room with spring green trim. We would move all the furniture to either end of the room and play checkers with our shoes on what we thought of as the world's biggest checker board! Got in so much trouble with the neighbor when all the kids on the block picked his grapes to engage in a grape spitting war, you'd remove the outter purple skin and spit the squishy green ball from inside at each other and they'd stick to anything. We all got whoopin's for that one. Playing Ghost in the Graveyard. And I was 9 in Jan '78, after the blizzard we and the neighbor kids across the street and two houses over decided to tunnel across and meet in the middle. We worked so hard, probably 6' to 8' in our dad realized what we were up to and came out yelling. We hadn't even considered a cave in. I remember him swinging that shovel, knocking it down and being so heartbroken.

I miss really cool toys in my box of breakfast cereal. Remember running to be the first one at the table so you could open the new box and run your whole arm down into the box to find out which of the four toys was your prize? Good times!

I'd be a cuttlefish, shapeshifting squared! Masters of disguise, they can change colors and even the texture of their skin in an instant! They flirt and give warnings by literally flashing like a neon sign. And W shaped eyes are cool. I could squirt ink at those I want to get away from and use jet propulsion to do it! Eat shrimp, already a favorite. Have 8 arms for hugging while mating and have oral sex. She keeps his sperm in her mouth til she's ready to use it. And they have huge brains. Cuttlefish are cool.

I guess I'm the minority here. I believe a man should be the dominant person in a relationship, but with his lead role come many responsibilities. Don't get me wrong, I want to be respected as an equal as a human being, but a man should be the king in his own castle. As head of his household a real man will truly listen to what his lady has to say and want to please her. He will make decisions based on what he believes to be best for the whole family, not just himself. There should be equity in the amount of give and take when it comes to love, respect, emotional support and trust. Dominant does not have to mean domineering. Give me a man with balls enough to make decisions based on intelligent choices and my best interests at heart. I know it's really tough to believe that's even possible in todays culture where every man on tv is a buffoon with a beautiful wife, but I still think there may be a few left out there who are strong and wise enough to make me feel like a queen.

I'm single because I haven't ever taken enough time to get to really know the guys I fall for. They give me a compliment and hold me tight and I give myself to them completely believing if I love them enough they will want to do the same for me. If only being held at night when I'm falling asleep wasn't the best feeling in the world to me maybe I'd make wiser choices.

Isn't it crazy, the things that can can turn into the final straw to end a relationship?

spent many a weekend in my youth waiting for a classic monster movie on the Son of Svengoulie(don't know if I spelled that right) Show out of Chicago. Saw him again recently and can't believe he's still doing his classic shtick. It still makes me moan and laugh as much as when I was 12. Berwyn....

I'm reminded daily of the movie with the giant radio active mutant ants, I think it was called "Them." Press #23 in the plastics factory where I work makes a high pitched droning hum that sounds just like they did in the movie. Had some others say it reminds them of old b-rated 50s or 60s outer space or alien movies, but I think it maybe just about the same sound effect.

I knew it wouldn't take you long. Oh, Master of all Media! I've been asking that question for over 30 years! Thank you and I say to anyone else wanting a title, just ask the Master, he knows all. (or is stubborn enough not to give up until he can find it)

I've been trying for years to remember the title of a movie I saw on late night tv when I was young. It was the first time I was taken aback because at the end the "bad guys" won. It was about a little town being overrun by ordinary looking little spiders. There was a scene towards the end of the movie where all the people not yet killed ended up in a house where they were putting towels under doors and boarding up windows and generally going mad. It ends in the morning when all is quiet and they decide to take a look outside. They take the boards off of a window to find the whole house encapsulated in a giant spiderweb. that's where the movie ends with the camera panning back, first you see the house then the whole town then maybe even the whole country wrapped in a glistening white web. I only saw it once but loved seeing a movie without a happy predictable ending. What was it?
Does anybody else want the movie buffs to help you remember a title?

I miss that a whole lot lately, too, but we ladies must NEVER lower our standards. If anything, raise the bar so the next man you hook up with might be a real keeper!

I work with a woman like that, truly bitter and wonders why nothing ever seems to go her way. I'll sympathize with her then I try to be kind and find nicer things to point out to her instead, but I always make a quick exit from her work area. Some people thrive on being miserable. You won't be able to change her perspective on life, so be nice when you have to interact with her, but don't think anything you can say will help.