Making the CB more fun

[My2Cinderellas]

quit being sissies and get yourself a jar of nutella! and then hide it from yourself so you don't eat the entire jar at once. It's great on crusty bread, croissants, waffles or the end of a knife. Imagine fresh hot homemade waffles, with a big dollop of Nutella and lots of whipped cream.

Chocolate and hazelnuts are one of nature's perfect pairings - one taste and you will be figuring out how to justify the 2-pack of giant size jars at Costco for $7.99.

 

[Missy1961]

By the way, I looked for fluff in the supermarket the other day--they didn't have it near the marshmallows! I might look near the ice cream toppings, maybe they put it there.

 

[Missy1961]

Since so many of you are new to the world of cliques, let me explain one rule:
the first person to sign in always comes to the clique thread and says good morning!

 

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Oops, I forgot. To my credit, though, this thread is the very first non-work-related thing I've clicked on since getting here this morning!

 

[Missy1961]

Now my fluff story: I went to the supermarket last night, and my local supermarket does not sell Marshallow fluff! I looked everywhere I could think: by the candy, by the ice cream, by the ice cream toppings, the baking aisle--it wasn't anywhere.

then when I got home, I was watching Food Network (after NCIS was over). I was watching "Chopped", did anyone ever see that? There are 4 chefs, they make an appetizer, an entree & a dessert from a basket of 'secret ingredients" & what's ever available in the studio. One of them gets 'chopped' after each round, so the best 2 are left doing the dessert. Well, one of the secret ingredients for the dessert round was marshmallow fluff!

 

[Missy1961]

Oops, I forgot. To my credit, though, this thread is the very first non-work-related thing I've clicked on since getting here this morning!

That's good. Besides, you did one other clique thing very well: sharing pretty pictures.

 

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Well, a good portion of them were off playing the WBC (another subject for another day), the search for the 5th starter wasn't pretty (looks like it'll be Livan Hernandez), and John Maine has been having location problems. The bullpen appears to be fixed, but I wonder if they can even get there. But they will have a pretty new field to play on, it is spring, and I'm hopeful. I've already got my ticket in hand for a game on May 9 (vs. Pitts., $28), and May 25th (vs. Washington, $90!--but my sister is paying for that as my birthday present)

Well, hey, spring is nothing if not hope! And yay for having tickets in hand to see games in the new digs! It was so cool getting to go to games very early on when the Cards moved into the new Busch in '06...I brought my video camera and recorded everything and my eyes probably looked like this: . Now if they could only figure out what to do with what's left of the lot where the old one was (the new one overlaps with the footprint of old Busch). They were supposed to be building this "Ballpark Village" thing that would have had shops and lofts and whatnot, but they pretty much sat on it until someone finally (last fall) said, "Oh crap, we're supposed to be hosting the All-Star Game in less than a year and right next to the pretty new stadium is something that looks like Beirut in the '70s." Whoops. So now the plan is to have it be a "softball field and parking lot," which is pretty much what it is now that they've let grass grow on it. Throw up a backstop and we're good to go. Or something. Sigh.

I'm so ready for baseball to get here! I'm actually watching Game 5 of the 2006 World Series right now at my desk on my iPod... I <3 technology.

 

[OK!]

Now my fluff story: I went to the supermarket last night, and my local supermarket does not sell Marshallow fluff! I looked everywhere I could think: by the candy, by the ice cream, by the ice cream toppings, the baking aisle--it wasn't anywhere.

then when I got home, I was watching Food Network (after NCIS was over). I was watching "Chopped", did anyone ever see that? There are 4 chefs, they make an appetizer, an entree & a dessert from a basket of 'secret ingredients" & what's ever available in the studio. One of them gets 'chopped' after each round, so the best 2 are left doing the dessert. Well, one of the secret ingredients for the dessert round was marshmallow fluff!

Oh yeah! I watched Chopped for the first time ever a few weeks ago...I never used to watch shows like that (or Food Network in general...it always makes me so blasted HUNGRY!) but then they featured the Foo Fighters on an episode of Top Chef right before Thanksgiving, so I've been giving it a chance. It's amazing what some of those people can do with the oddest combinations of ingredients! I wish I had culinary instincts like that, but with me, if I don't have a recipe, don't plan on enjoying whatever I come up with.

 

[Missy1961]

Well, hey, spring is nothing if not hope! And yay for having tickets in hand to see games in the new digs! It was so cool getting to go to games very early on when the Cards moved into the new Busch in '06...I brought my video camera and recorded everything and my eyes probably looked like this: . Now if they could only figure out what to do with what's left of the lot where the old one was (the new one overlaps with the footprint of old Busch). They were supposed to be building this "Ballpark Village" thing that would have had shops and lofts and whatnot, but they pretty much sat on it until someone finally (last fall) said, "Oh crap, we're supposed to be hosting the All-Star Game in less than a year and right next to the pretty new stadium is something that looks like Beirut in the '70s." Whoops. So now the plan is to have it be a "softball field and parking lot," which is pretty much what it is now that they've let grass grow on it. Throw up a backstop and we're good to go. Or something. Sigh.

I'm so ready for baseball to get here! I'm actually watching Game 5 of the 2006 World Series right now at my desk on my iPod... I <3 technology.

Shea is gone. It's weird, most of the time, I always said "they need a new stadium, the only reason I go to Shea is because my favorite team plays there" but now that's it's history, I'm sad. I saw my first game there (in 1968), I saw Tom Seaver pitch a one-hitter there, I watched on TV when they won the 1969 World Series there, and the 1986 WS. I'm gonna miss the stinky old joint!

I still have the 1986 on video (I taped every game in those days), and we'll pull them out once in a while (still have a working VCR). I did buy the DVD set of the complete games, that's cool to watch.

 

[Missy1961]

Oh yeah! I watched Chopped for the first time ever a few weeks ago...I never used to watch shows like that (or Food Network in general...it always makes me so blasted HUNGRY!) but then they featured the Foo Fighters on an episode of Top Chef right before Thanksgiving, so I've been giving it a chance. It's amazing what some of those people can do with the oddest combinations of ingredients! I wish I had culinary instincts like that, but with me, if I don't have a recipe, don't plan on enjoying whatever I come up with.

I'm the same way---no recipe, no good. LOL

I love the Food Network--if there is nothing good on the other channels, I flip there first. And I've got my 10 yr old niece & 6 yr old niece hooked on it too, I figured that it was better they watch that stuff then some boring old cartoons. Well, they have been influenced--this past winter, when they made a snowman, the head wouldn't stay on. they decided to put a stick in the body & stuck the head on it. When I asked them why they decided to do that, the younger one told me "well, the people on those challenge shows always use sticks to hold their cakes together, so we figured we'd try it." And they know all the chefs on the Food Network Challenges, we've watched so many of them together, they root for them like they root for David Wright!

 

[coles1mom]

 

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Shea is gone. It's weird, most of the time, I always said "they need a new stadium, the only reason I go to Shea is because my favorite team plays there" but now that's it's history, I'm sad. I saw my first game there (in 1968), I saw Tom Seaver pitch a one-hitter there, I watched on TV when they won the 1969 World Series there, and the 1986 WS. I'm gonna miss the stinky old joint!

I still have the 1986 on video (I taped every game in those days), and we'll pull them out once in a while (still have a working VCR). I did buy the DVD set of the complete games, that's cool to watch.

I know what you mean! Busch was really falling apart toward the end there and while I love the new place, I still miss old Busch. While they were demolishing it (they couldn't just implode it because construction on the new one was going on and was well advanced basically up to the point where the footprints started to overlap), most of the news places in the area had live webcams aimed at the stadium, so I have a whole series of photos where you can see it, bit by bit, vanishing. It's kinda spooky. I'll post a few when I get home.

Oh, and pretty pic:

That's one I took last summer of a gorgeous dahlia I had...I wish I could remember the name of the color so I can find it again!

 

[Missy1961]

You do a great job with those pictures! You took it, too? Wow.

 

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Thanks! Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, if it ain't pretty, why bother?

 

[Missy1961]

Thanks! Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, if it ain't pretty, why bother?

So I guess that's why I have tons of pictures of my nieces & nephews, huh?

 

[bigmerle1966]

Pick your weapon and let's go.

Fluff, I love Fluff, it's so fluffy! Now I want Fluff!

 

[Missy1961]

Fluff, I love Fluff, it's so fluffy! Now I want Fluff!

I need some, but I can't find it. I wonder if someone sells it on ebay?

 

[NMAmy]

Since so many of you are new to the world of cliques, let me explain one rule:
the first person to sign in always comes to the clique thread and says good morning!

Well, this is probably why I have never been in a clique. I don't have the persistence to remember to post every morning. I'm easily distracted.

Soooo....Good Afternoon, everyone!

 

[Missy1961]

Well, this is probably why I have never been in a clique. I don't have the persistence to remember to post every morning. I'm easily distracted.

Soooo....Good Afternoon, everyone!

Good afternoon to you too!

And a good afternoon is acceptable as well. Especially if it bumps the CT to the first page again.

 

[Va-bear]

Yeah, I love the colors in it, but even I have to look away after a while. I can't wait to get out and shoot some of my own photos of the new spring flowers! I walked to Starbucks with a coworker this morning and some of the properties downtown here have planted some absolutely gorgeous tulips (I especially love one hotel across the street from Busch Stadium that has all red and white ones...just masses and masses of them.

Ohhhh, cant wait - tulips are my fav!!! Maybe you'll come up w/ a wallpaper shot of them that doesnt require sunglasses for me!