Three Things...Gratitude Thread

[TiggerTrigger]

While I'm not sure it's a point of gratitude, all I can hear in my head is the scene from Shrek where ogres are like onions...they have layers...followed by Donkey suggesting cake, because everyone loves cake...and parfait, everybody also likes parfait.

Seriously though...

Anything involving phyllo dough - Truly a food of love thing if you've ever made anything where you're going layer by layer, buttering each sheet, to form your crust. This is making me crave baklava!

Puff pastry - if you watch enough cooking shows, both true puff and rough puff (when successful) have "lamination." This means that the end result is a crust with layers created through the dough folding process.

A good sandwich - When you think about it, a good sandwich is achieved with proper layering. It's all about balancing layers of stuff with the right kind of bread for your stuff. That bread also counts as layers.

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[citruscurtis]

Baklava

I forgot baklava... unfortunately.. what I have discovered is that baklava is like Grandma potato salad.... so many varieties

 

[citruscurtis]

While I'm not sure it's a point of gratitude, all I can hear in my head is the scene from Shrek where ogres are like onions...they have layers...followed by Donkey suggesting cake, because everyone loves cake...and parfait, everybody also likes parfait.

Seriously though...

Anything involving phyllo dough - Truly a food of love thing if you've ever made anything where you're going layer by layer, buttering each sheet, to form your crust. This is making me crave baklava!

So when you find a cure to erase the Shrek scene from our psyche...please let me know...my first reaction also... I always think of that scene to be of cinema significance and David Cohen song as a very good film in cenimatc history

 

[WDWEPCOT]

I read that in their voices

 

[citruscurtis]

When the massive mountain range that defines our Yuma desert Eastern border burst through the mantle of the earth it brought up many layers of minerals and heat intensity causing many visible strata formations. It is beautiful to look at and when leaving Metro Yuma I take the 4 lane farming road heading east instead of freeway

But mountains do crumble and after each flash floods removing the layers of sand in the dry river bed there are hand held rocks with multiple layers of minerals to form one Rock... really beautiful wet.. not so much dry

Yuma farm soil is from the states North East of the Grand canyon...the Colorado River carving away the soil and depositing in the flatlands of California and Arizona... creating perfect layers of soil for iceberg lettuce... you know... the round green vegetable with leaves that pull back into layers..."Ogoers are like iceberg lettuce... their green

 

[bluecastle]

Lasagna

Artistic expressions with layers of meaning

Desserts with layers

 

[citruscurtis]

Artistic expressions with layers of meaning

Well okay...... here comes some layers 12:30 Disneyland...1:30 sunniest place on earth time... it's raining...a fellow on a motorcycle is slowly driving around the blocks... letting the Rain fall on his face....I letting the rain fall on my ears under the shelter of the massive tin roof.
It's all my fault... I didn't put plastic tarp over the truck... the last two times I did it didn't Rain.. though not careless I had put small remnant of plywood chunks so no harm
Like a child I listen for the tiny tracks upon the rooftop as TV weather suggest though not promised... and tiny drops they are and so infequent
I think we were at 147 days since our last unmeasurable drops.. Dec 2023 since our last volume of rain and that was flash floods rain

Here in Yuma we hear weekly marines flying their jets over the Barry Goldwater bombing range and Apache helicopters on their way to maneuvers... but it's quiet now and for that I am grateful as drops and drips hit the tin and concrete sidewalk building.... it's a symphony

 

[PollyannaMom]

Today's Topic (Fri, 3/7) - 3 blue things you're grateful for

 

[PollyannaMom]

.....National Oregon Day

Today's Topic (Sat, 3/8) - 3 things you're grateful for about Oregon, or things that come from Oregon


Hey folks! I logged on here to post this morning's topic and realized I never hit enter on yesterday's post - so do either topic or both, whatever you feel like

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Blue Jeans
My warm soft comfy blue blanket on my bed
Bright Blue skies
Ocean

 

[PollyannaMom]

Color Blue:
blueberries
blue jeans
the sky on a gorgeous day

Things grown in, or people from, Oregon:
Apples
Christmas trees
Beverly Cleary

 

[DaisyDuck001]

Columbia River Gorge
Tillamook dairy
Oregon Trail

 

[citruscurtis]

Oregon... how many pages do you folks want to read

 

[DaisyDuck001]

Oregon... how many pages do you folks want to read

I'm OK reading up to about half a page.

 

[citruscurtis]

Central Oregon Beaches are the best on the West Coast for easy parking at surf access... sunset...if you pay lodging for a Disney visit then lodging is affordable.... sunset...high surf, low surf, tidepools, sand dunes, wet sand to dig, rocks to collect.9:00 bonfires . sunset .... but only in September... the other 11 months are risky for 2:00 -9:00 pm wind and sideways rain

Senator Mark Hatfield

He put a lot of pork into Oregon.. massive medical complex in Portland..VA.. Shriner... university medical complex. You can fly into Eugene or Portland and not need a rental car... Amtrak buses can take you to the ocean or central Oregon... Lane county Transit can take you to the ocean or sight seeing to the east and Amtrak has a nice timetable of buses and trains... plus PDX has nice rail system... very European ina transit access

Volcanoes on a clear day you can see two of them from Salem the third you can see from the freeway....so yes..need a rental to see Mt Hood.. but a much better visit than Rainer ... nothing like driving around and have a volcano on the horizon

 

[Grand Koalafornian]

Oregon: Marionberries, beautiful forests, my sister-in-law who lives there

 

[citruscurtis]

Oregon: Marionberries, beautiful forests, my sister-in-law who lives there

Wild berries have taken a hit the last two years...on my summer/fall visits the drought has taken a toll on my sister estate fence hugging berries.. fortunately I knew of some irrageted school fence lines

 

[bluecastle]

When the castle turns blue
October blue skies
My favorite sports teams wear blue!

 

[PollyannaMom]

Today's Topic (Sun, 3/9) - 3 things you're grateful for about Daylight Saving Time (even if you hate the change itself, what do you like about the "new normal"?)

 

[PollyannaMom]

I am grateful the cat did NOT wake me up at 4:30 this morning.

I will be grateful to drive home while it's still light out much more often.

I'm grateful that's it's easier to physically change the clocks for this one than in the fall.