The movie "Mermaids" was on tv recently. Most remember that movie because Cher was in it, or because of that strange scene where a teenaged Winona Ryder licked the leather coat of the guy she was crushing on, or because it also starred a young Christina Ricci. My sister and I remember it because it caused us no end of angst. In the movie Cher, the eccentric mother, never actually cooked a meal, she just prepared finger foods and called it dinner. When the movie first came out, virtually everyone my sister and I knew called us to tell us that they thought of us as soon as they saw it. By us I mean my mother, my sister & myself.
Not that I'm saying anything about my mother's cooking or anything; we ate, we were healthy and we were happy. But, you know, lets just say there were some similarities (purely hypothetical, of course). That could shed light on the fact that I can prepare a mean hummous but can't find my way through a soup recipe. It may also explain why my sister, who stayed in my apartment while I was away, left me a cupboard fully stocked with:
-1 can flaked tomato & basil tuna
-3 cans flaked lemon & pepper tuna
-3 cans flaked chicken
-1 can ackee in brine
-2 cans bamboo shoot strips.
Not withstanding the fact that I'm a vegetarian, what exactly does one DO with so much flaked meat?
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I have a (purely hypothetical) answer to the tuna question: Dad + Costco = lots'tuna in your cupboard. He shops and then offloads. He probably has one tuna can in his cupboard leaving about 5 or more other tins that needed to be 'offloaded' (given to Ekah & left in your cupboard--I have my own cupboard full of Dad + Costco stuff).
I've finally figured out that this goes two ways. I got a huge gift basket from the real estate agent that sold this house & i 'gifted' them to dad---who seemed happy enough to get them. So, if you get offloaded a bunch of nuts or fudge--they originally came from my house. Love L.
Okay so I didn't cook, but you did eat healthy food, just things that weren't commonly available. And we could have called the small 'bits' of things tapas which would have put us eons ahead of the rest of the world. Just as you were way ahead in taking granola (the healthy kind) with little tupperware tubs of yogurt. You thought that was weird but now they sell them that way!!
Love your mother:)
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,
i took the nuts from dads
whatever about ma and mermaid food. (getto cracker tunacassarole yyyumm)
lets talk about taking a honda shop hostage somehere outside of Wawa.
that was drama
As far as the Honda shop goes, nothing gets faster service than a distraught woman and 2 kids hanging around on a dealership lawn - and threatening to camp there overnight. To further complicate things, said woman didn't have enough $$ to pay for the 'real' parts and had to talk them into finding used parts! But - we did get to see the Terry Fox memorial before they moved it. I still think moving it was wrong.
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