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Vintage Pyrex

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I made a dish this past weekend that used a recipe that has been in my family for many years. It’s a dish I helped my mom with many times as we often took it to potlucks. As I set out to make it, I realized I couldn’t picture mixing it in anything other than my mom’s (and now mine) yellow, Pyrex bowl. The bowl seemed almost as much a part of the recipe as the ingredients themselves!

From what I can tell from a few online sites, these bowls were manufactured in the 1950s. They are still the bowls I use more than any others.

Here’s the original recipe:

Stuffed French Rolls

1/2 dozen hard boiled eggs, chopped
1 pound. cheddar cheese, shredded
1 t salt
1 c vegetable oil
1 c tomato sauce
1 large onion, chopped
7 ounce olives, chopped
24 small french rolls

Combine all ingredients and let sit for several hours.

Scoop out insides of rolls. Fill cavity with mixture. Wrap in foil and steam in heavy covered roaster for 3 hours at 200°.

My main job as a kid was scooping out the insides of the rolls. As I got older, I filled and wrapped the rolls as well. When I decided to use this recipe for a party I had this past weekend, I wanted to find an easier way to use the filling without all the effort of stuffing and wrapping rolls.

My solution was to pull out my mini-muffin pan and buy some puff pastry. I cut each sheet of pastry into 24 squares, pressed them into the muffin pan, and filled each little puff with a dollop of the filling. Then baked at 400° for 12 minutes or so. Perfection!

The other change I made was to cut way, way down on the oil. I think I used about 1/8 of a cup; just enough to make everything come together. The recipe made enough for 72 little puffs: perfect vegetarian appetizers.

The Final (?) Laundry Room Experiment

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Yesterday was wash day again and I decided to try one last experiment. This time I turned all the underwear inside-out before putting them in the washing machine. The final count: 10 inside-out and 3 right-side out. After the dryer, the count only changed by one: 9 to 4.

Obviously, the washing machine does something to keep or turn underwear inside-out. My working hypothesis is that it has something to do with the seams on the inside of the underwear. However, I am not planning on exploring this phenomenon any further!

Another Experiment in the Laundry Room

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You may remember that in my post back on April 1st I pondered the mysterious question of why underwear panties seem to come out of the wash turned inside out so often. Yesterday I did another load of wash and decided to do a more controlled experiment.

12 pairs of underwear went into the washing machine, and I made sure every one of them was right-side out. When I took them out, the count was an amazing 10 inside-out and only 2 still right way round! This certainly seems to point a finger at the washing machine as being the culprit.

Next, the dryer: 10 pairs of wrong-side out went in along with the 2 that were correct. Here’s the count when the dryer was finished: 7 inside-out and 5 outside-out. This result is in keeping with my feeling that, in general, it’s a toss-up as to which way the panties come out of the laundry.

Not sure I care enough to explore this issue further, but it did make doing the laundry more entertaining for the day.

P!nk

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I mentioned to a friend that P!nk is one of the few big-name performers that I might actually want to go see in a live performance and she was unfamiliar with her. Just in case you don’t know her either, here’s the link to her official website: https://www.pinkspage.com/

And if you do know her but haven’t caught any of her recent videos, I recommend “Trustfall” and “Irrelevant” which particularly strikes home now.

Enjoy!

One of Life’s Great Mysteries

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I know that some people wonder why the universe seems to delight in producing unmatched socks when doing the wash, but I, personally, have never had that problem. No, I have a much more difficult question: why does my underwear almost always turn inside-out when I do the laundry?

Over the years, I have consistently noticed that 2/3 to 3/4 of the underwear I pull out of the dryer have to be turned right-side out as I fold them to put them away. For a long time, I just assumed I was putting them in the hamper inside-out. Occasionally, I would make an effort to put them in the hamper right-way out, but when I emptied the dryer the large majority of them were still wrong-side out. I chalked this up to just not paying enough attention when I threw them in the hamper.

I just bought 8 new pairs of underwear and washed them this weekend. I took them straight out of the package, unfolded them, and tossed these right-side out items in the washing machine and then the dryer. When I took them out, ALL FREAKING EIGHT OF THEM WERE INSIDE-OUT!

I admit to not understanding how the universe accomplishes this. How does it manage to turn the right-side ones inside-out but never back the other way? Perhaps it’s just best if some questions in life are not looked at too closely.

Becoming Katherine Graham

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I was debating an Amazon Prime boycott until I happened upon its new documentary about Kay Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post during the Pentagon Papers and Watergate eras. Holy Sh!t. I don’t know how Jeff Bezos let that film through as it puts him in a terrible light.

The parallels between Graham/Nixon and Bezos/Trump are uncanny. Watch it if and while you can!