Haines His Way

DR Jennifer, I like all types of soup, especially when I am sick...most partial to split grean pea soup, oyster stew, and veggie soups...particularly if they are homemade!

Hope you feel better soon!

Things I once loved and now detest: Martin & Lewis films. I was a big, big fan as a child - mostly because Dean was so handsome, had such a good voice, and was so cool and laid back with all of Jerry's craziness.

Now, Jerry's antics are a total turnoff, and Dean has lost his luster in my eyes.

That's the primary reason why I can't summon much enthusiasm for bk's Jerry Lewis-a-thon on DVDs. His persona both in tandem with Martin and solo is just of no interest to me at all.

With any luck, when you reach your senior years you will be able to rediscover the remembered joys from your youth (ooh, a Proust reference).

der "Hey, pull my finger" Brucer

 Evening all!

Does anyone know of a production of “Oz” that needs a Tin Woman?  I think I could win the part without even trying!  Oh, my aching aches!  Maybe a good “stiff” drink would loosen me up?

I called about renting a chipper/shredder.  The next step in the process.  Either that or hauling it all down to dump.

DR Jose, I also enjoy all of your food, travel and show stories. I wish your travels would bring you to the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, we could do lunch or maybe dinner.

SWW—about the dogs doing the dishes.  So you discovered that little trick as well.  We haven’t had to wash a dish since we got our dogs!    Just kidding guys.  They might lick the plate but it gets washed in very hot and soapy water, I swear!  

Soup.  I didn’t like it very much as kid but have learned to love it.  I make my own Ham and Bean soup.  I love mushroom soup (and use it in many, many recipes).   French Onion is another favorite.  Tomato, Collard Green, chicken noodle, vegetable and vegetable beef rank among my other top favorites.  Home made where ever possible.

This must be teeth week.  I have to go on Thursday morning to have a filling redone myself.  Darn them.  Darn them all to heck.  

DerBrucer, I wish I had a penny for every time my Dad “pulled” that old joke on me!  LOL!  That and 52 Pick up.  

Vibes to Jrand!  Vibes to DR Elmore!  A round of vibes to everyone on me!

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DRelmore - Hope you're feeding that cold - soup is especially good and this group has lots of good suggestions.  One of my favorite canned soups is Progresso Tomato Rotini, which they seem to have taken off the market - story of my life.

Ron Raines' wife tells me that everyone she knows has got a bad cold right now.  Since I couldn't get a flu shot this year, I'm hoping what I've got passes without turning into the flu.  Between the surgery and the flu, I'd be living in the bathroom and that's too gross to contemplate.

For dinner, I ordered from Artie's Deli a quart of matzoh ball soup with noodles and a quart of mushroom barley.  I had a bowl of matzoh ball soup with a tuna salad sandwich and a handful of Vitamin C (rosehip, 1000 mg/tablet).  I'll have a few cashews, dried apricots and dried dates before I sleep.  I  meant to reschedule my first therapy appointment tomorrow, but I called too late, so I have to be at therapy tomorrow morning at 8:30.   I'm about ready for bed, but I'll check back in before I turn out the lights.

As for musicals that I didn't like at first listen (based only on the recording, of course) was The Hired Man.  I have the original London recording (produced, but not written by Andrew Lloyd Webber) and just didn't care for it the first time I heard it.  I put it away for about three years and told myself that I just had to listen to it again to make sure that I really didn't like it.  Well, I put it on one day and actually listened to it.  I didn't just have it as background music or worked while I listened and I instantly loved it.  I don't know what happened in those three years or if something at that time just hit me right, but I love the recording.  I now also have the complete, live concert recording that has most of the original cast.  That's also very good!

I just had a lovely conversation with Tony Walton, who begins tomorrow rehearsals for Noel Coward's AFTER THE BALL, based on LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN, for the Irish Rep.  10 of the cast are from WHERE'S CHARLEY?, and I told him it sounds like a reunion on which I want to be involved.  They're doing itr with only piano, so there's no role for me, but I can't wait to see it.

I am obsessed with soup right now.  All I want is Hot and Sour.

Does anyone know if they sell this at the grocery store?

You can certainly get the ingredients.

Trim the fat off of a 2 oz. boneless pork chop and slice it into thin shreds.  Soak 2 dried Chinese mushrooms in
1/2 cup warm water for about 10 minutes, until soft, then drain, reserving the liquid.  Stem the mushrooms, discard the stems, and shred the caps.

Bring 3 cups chicken stock and the water the mushrooms soaked in to a boil in a large saucepan.    Add 3 T cider vinegar (the sour), 2 t soy sauce, and 1/2 t cayenne (the hot) to the broth and simmer for 5 minutes.  Stirring the pot, add the pork strips and cook for about 2 minutes, until the pork is cooked through.  Add 1/4 c shredded bamboo shoots and 2 coarsely chopped water chestnuts, along with the mushroom strips, and simmer for a couple more minutes before adding 1/2 lb firm bean curd that has been cut into 1/2-inch dice.

Bring the soup back to a simmer.  Make a slurry of 2 T cornstarch and 1/2 c cold water, stir into the soup, and bring everything back to a boil, stirring until thickened.  Finally, while still stirring (but using a fork to stir at this point), add a lightly beaten egg, and salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste.  Serve and be humble in accepting your glowing reviews.

Charles Pogue guess I had better not watch WHERE’S PAPPA again.  Keith and I also thought it was hysterical.  So often movies just aren’t as good as I remember them.  If I could put my brain into gear I might possibly name a few.

The first time I attempted to read A TALE OF TWO CITIES I couldn’t get into it.  The second time I picked it up I didn’t put it down until I had finished reading it.

td, 2001: SPACE ODYSSEY still bores the Hell of me.  Once in the theatre was enough for me.  And any snippets I've caught of it on TV over the years have not convinced me to change my mind and give it another look. BORING!!!

Me too Charles.

It was a perfect autumn day here so I leisurely did errands in town and walked in the park.  I should have taken my camera it was so beautiful.  We have a very small Japanese Garden which is brilliant in the fall.  I shall try to capture it with my camera tomorrow.

Goodnight.

Tonight I watched a movie that I loved the first time I saw it and I still love it--Georgy Girl.  I never seem to think of it when I'm making a top ten list, but it's a definate favorite.  

td, 2001: SPACE ODYSSEY still bores the Hell of me.  Once in the theatre was enough for me.  And any snippets I've caught of it on TV over the years have not convinced me to change my mind and give it another look. BORING!!!

Thank you for that, DR Charles!  For so long, I had thought that there was something WRONG with me, for everyone of my circle of friends were wildy enthusiastic about it, and at the time, to me it just sat there like so much cold fish. . .

Now, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER is one movie that I haven't changed my mind about. . .didn't like it the first time, saw it recently on dvd and still was not impressed in the least.  Don't get me wrong, I love soap operas on the big screen (my GONE WITH THE WIND arrived earlier today!) but, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER still does nothing for me.

Cavities were not as prevalent once we entered the seventies.  I don't know what happened, whether it was the water or just people taking better care, but when I was a kid, everyone had cavities, and lots of 'em.

Ah, but when we were kids the Commies were still trying to fluoridate the water, an activity fought tooth and tooth by the pro-dentist John Birch Society.  Once the Commies won and the water was fluoridated, both they and the JBS evaporated, leaving a cavity in our political system.