Absinthe & Cookies (a bit bitter, a bit sweet)

damn you. Now I want some. And I feel like crap and I'd have to clean up the kitchen first.

Oh, and buy yeast.

A reasonable breadmaker is ~$50 at Target. Works great. I love mine. Still takes up to 3 hours, though.

Heh -- misery loves company :)

It's not the time, it's the physical labour!

I killed my bread maker! Not intentionally, but by overuse! I still haven't gotten a new one. As for the kneading...the couple of times I've needed to knead (ha!), I used the kitchen table because I am too short to use the counter.

My kitchen table is a plastic patio jobby with a leg that has a broken bolt. Safe to say that kneading on it would have resulted in three other brokem legs! :)

My counters are too low for me to do that sort of thing. I blame my parents for me being so tall.

Making bread, with or without a breadmaker, is too much work. That is why my breadmaker sits in the cellar in its box, after only three uses. I find it much more convenient to walk to one of the two Italian bakers, within a block of home, that make their own bread everyday, all day, and get either rolls, scali, panni's, french or any other type of bread I am in the mood to eat.

Sorry folks. : )

Roberta, there's a satisfaction in making your own bread. Even if I did have a bakery next door, I'd still bake myself. Really, you can say that about any food stuffs. It's no different to me from making my own meals, or making everything I bake from scratch. I could buy everything premade if I wanted to.

Anna, I have a bread maker on my list of things to get sometime soon.

There are some disgusting appliances in modern day living. Two of those are the dough kneading machine and the automatic dishwasher.

Dispose of both, simplify your life, improve your health and admit that your common sense tells you these suggestions are correct.

A bread making machine may be reasonable if you have lost the full use or strength in your arms, however, to keep your strength longer and feel better, kneading bread is a privalege and very theraputic.

Every batch of bread dough you knead by hand will extend the health and use of your arms by six months. Why allow some gimmicky machine to take that away from you.

The auto-dishwasher is where you park dirty dishes until you have enough loaded to do an auto-wash. What a disgusting, hot water wasting disgrace this usless excuse of an appliance is.

How much more satisfying it is to take command of yourself and snappily do the dishes promptly every time they show up in the kitchen sink.

How much more in control you will be. No more guilty feeling as those dirty dishes look out at you from the dishwasher window. What a relief, with the dishwasher gone. Everything clean and put away. Nothing allowed to pile up in the sink. Much less handling and stacking of dirty dishes, and a lower hydro bill to boot.

Now, if you have kids who can wash dishes, will they be domestic cripples, not understanding the simple advantage of always being ahead with the dishes?

An automatic dishwasher is an industrial machine suited to restaurants and hospitals.
As a home appliance they are nothing more than a gimmick that allows General Electric to bank an extra $500 for no worthy reason at all.

Show your husband this, and ask him if this is really the truth he was to polite tell you, because he thought you worshipped these shiny appliances.

I am a little older, and having been around the block a few times, the truth is now clearer than ever. Be wise, simplify, 73s TonyGuitar

As you are a friend of a friend, I couldn't resist.

Tony, I'm going to give you a pass, since you obviously haven't ever been here before. But a word to the wise -- don't patronize me on my own blog. I'm not a child for you to come and preach to. I'm a 42 year old woman who has worked since she was 15. You don't get to come here and tell me I'm evil for using a dishwashe -- or for anything else I choose to do in my own lifer. Not to mention, why do you assume I have a husband? I've never had one, and everything I have, I've earned BY MYSELF. So keep your sanctimony to yourself, thank you very much. There's a lot that's disgusting in this world, and my choice of kitchen appliances isn't one of them. I think you should consider a reality check.

PS,
That wouldn't be yours, over on
Http://BendGovernment.Blogspot.com
.... would it? '3s TG

My what? What on earth are you talking about?

Not for a second would I dream to instruct you in any way. This is merely an expressed opinion I have about two kitchen appliances.

There are many, nay, likely a mojority of people of people who would forcefully disagree with my observations.

By the way, after living in Corpus Christi Texas for about a year in the 60s, I then moved and lived in Ventura, and like you watched the Watts breakdown on television.

I respect your opinion and understand your quicknes at deflating any attempt at what may at first seemed pushyness on my part. It is merely directness. Not quite the same, but sometimes mistaken for such. .. eh? 73s TG

Tony

hey, man, whatever you're smoking...step back from the bong. Some bad sh*t there.

In life, my man, the one thing we can never have back is TIME. Time is the great leveler, the silent thief. We all need to prioritize our time and do, not only what we WANT, but what is most valuable to us.

For women especially, the CHOICE of what to do with out time has been the most liberating.

Shall we spend more time doing dishes by hand, or spend those extra minutes saved by a dishwasher with our kids, or a great book, or ...

Maybe someone LIKES washing dishes by hand. Maybe they find it as relaxing as I find vacuuming, so more power to 'em if they like it.

But washing dishes by hand as a MORAL decision?

Condescension doesn't even come close to describing the bizzareness of your claim.

Ok, guess we differ on dishwashers. That's easy to accept. Your reasons are perfectly logical when outline them that way.

I read where you like wolves, that's why I was kidding you about looking at http://BendGovernment.blogspot.com

Just happens to be a beauty there.

I was going to ask you if you ever visited up in Ojai... up behind Ventura. What a picture of a place that is, or I hope it still is. '3s TG

ahhh, Tony. Spoken like someone who has his housework done *for* him.

Guilty?!? about **dishes*?!?!? bwahahahaha. Busy doing better stuff, maybe. Busy doing more pressing things, certainly. Guilty?!? ROFLAMO

So, did you have a look? Isn't he a great looking Timberwolf?

One nice thing about blogsites, if you over a site, you can get an idea of what that person is like.

I was just wondering if you happened to spend any time around Venture and Ojai.

I thought that was a nice area and the enduro trails up in the dune are just excellent.
TG

Tony, yes it's a beautiful wolf.

Let's just say I'm one who doesn't really think there was such a thing as "the good old days". I'll take appliances, central heat, and not having smallpox over the old days any day.

I've been to Ventura. It's very pretty.

Speaking of the old days, I'm currently watching a series on 17 people living as if in the Iron Age. Good old days indeed!

Yeah, I built a small cabin up behind Cumberland on Vancouver Island and enjoyed quite a bit of time there.

It was hidden on crown land in the Beaufort Mtns. I used to often hear a bear snortig and sniffing around 5 am in the mornings and so got photos of him. He was Black with a diamond crest on his chest. Kinda rare.

I had a little wood stove, a gravity fed sink. counter space for Radio communications gear and not much else.

Primitive, but not too bad.

BTW, If you or your friends would like a free book/thesis on the Blogworld, help yourself on my site. http://Anchorpin.Redpin.com

I never look for free stuff on the web. It's a guaranteed way to pick up bugs or cookies you just don't want.

No, these two books... one is 88p the other 145p are through friends of friends and they are excellent. Especially James' Thesis.

Anyway it's been fun and I'll come back again.
73s for now TG Visit eh?

Nothing quite like using the comments section of someone else's blog to do a little advertising, eh?

Oh, and Ith, we used to have a iron and glass-top patio table in our dinette area. Would not have worked well at all for kneading!

Tony would have liked my mother, she not only made her own bread, she ground the wheat for it. (and my brother and I washed the dishes)

Anna, yes I very likely would have liked you grandma.

And, you made a small error there, Anna, but that's OK, we'll forget about it. No harm done.

I'm the last person to use another's site to *advertise*. Any sight of mine is a sleepy reference spot. I am in no way in any race.

But don't worry, I made a mistake once too.. I think it was about 1969... what a great year that was. '3s TG

My blogroll has about twenty friends on it and it's not growing fast by any means.

Actually, you just made a mistake. I said my mother not grandmother.