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Rappin' Ronnie Reagan
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Hmm... I looked it up on babelfish and it translated as butter. In my dictionary, butter is mantequilla and lard is manteca de cerdo. (Manteca de cacao (cocoa butter) was also listed.) I searched on google for "manteca lard" and "manteca butter". "Manteca lard" has about 500 hits, and "manteca butter" has about 5000. [Dont Know]
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I think my most amusing baking adventure was when I was 13, and my sister was 10. My mom had bought a box of peanut butter cookie mix...the kind that is supposed to last you a very long time. One time we decided to surprise my mom with cookies, she was upstairs, and we decided to cook. We followed the instructions on the box, but the set of instructions we followed were for restaurants who wanted to make cookies in bulk. We ended up making enough mix for something like 8 dozen cookies. My parents got a laugh out of it when they came downstairs...though they gave us a lecture about using the oven that lasted quite a while.
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I got my gas bill.

It was $211. Now, that doesn't really kill me, since I have had $100+ bills in winter for utilities and some even higher (for cooling) in Summer.

BUT...

My usage when from .9 Million Cubic Feet to

30.9 Million Cubic Feet.

And the bill the prior month was $14, so this is a major increase!!!

OOOPS.

Dumb Bob
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dkw
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[Kiss] Could have been worse.
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Yeah, at least I cooked Rib Eye steaks. Imagine if I'd spent all that and served sirloin!!! [Eek!]

Lesse...6 steaks, $211...

Yep, could've treated everyone to a nice dinner at our local good restaurant.

Of course, it could've been MUCH MUCH worse. It could've equalled the mortgage payment.

Or burned the house down.

Or killed my sweet litty doggie.

So, I got lucky.

Still...dumb Bob
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Good time to resurrect this, we had a small grease fire tonight. [Eek!]

The juices from the meat loaf boiled over the edge of the pan, and fell to the bottom of the oven, and the grease caught on fire.

My sister-in-law turned off the heat and kept the door shut to try to keep the flames down while we talked about what to do -- use the fire extinguisher? (Messy, not good for the meat loaf, and anyway, where WAS the fire extinguisher??) Flour? Baking soda? I talked about how I'd read a Donald Duck Big Little Book when I was a kid that had Huey, Duey, and Luey coming to Donald's aid by putting out a grease fire with flour...

Fortunately, the fire burned itself out before we could do any damage.

Anyway, I got curious and Googled "grease fire." Turns out that flour is NOT a good idea (it can add to the fire and actually explode). Salt and baking soda are possibilities, but ONLY if you have such big quantities that you can actually extinguish the fire by completely covering it.

I'm VERY disappointed with Huey, Duey, and Luey. [Grumble]

Link: http://www.casperfire.com/fire_prevention/fp_greasefiresafety/grease_fire_safety.htm
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*bump, 'cause for some weird reason, the last post didn't bump it to the first page*
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I can't even reheat a hoagie without setting the microwave aflame.

And..I think I misspelled hoagie. o_O
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