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Asparagus and prosciutto-- 12/16/10 |
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So... I was kind of busy Monday and decided that I would have to skip an entry for that day... ah, but I guess that once I start slacking off I just keep on slacking off... and now I've missed three entries in a row. My bad. I don't understand Facebook. Okay, so sometimes two or three days go by without me checking it, but other times I pop in multiple times during a day. But the organization of the list of postings by my Friends never seems to make sense. It isn't really in chronological order. There might be a posting from one Friend that is 5 hours old followed by a posting from another that is 6 hours old followed by one that is 2 hours old. What's up with that? The list seems to be labeled News Feed and Top News. If I click Most Recent, then it shows me what does appear to be activity by Friends listed in chronological order and then if I click Top News again I get a different list -- and it is not quite the same as the list that had been there two minutes ago. What logic applies to Top News that is different from Most Recent. The particular reason I bring this up is because a little while ago I was checking email and I had an email from Facebook telling me that someone (the wife of a nephew) had written on my wall asking about an asparagus and prosciutto appetizer that I had served when Nancy and I had lots of family over for food and drink the night before Thanksgiving. The thing is, she had written that about quarter past five on Wednesday and I didn't realize it until almost twenty-four hours later when I noticed the Facebook email. The thing is, I usually totally ignore robot email from Facebook telling me that somebody had commented on something that I had commented on because usually I have already seen their comment but, fortunately, as I skimmed along the list of email her name in the subject field ( Celeste has written on your wall) caught my eye. I had been into Facebook several times today and there was no flag that I saw there telling me someone had written on my wall. (Is there some way of knowing this when I log in to Facebook without going to my wall to check?) I had always thought that if someone wrote on my wall it would show up in that News Feed list. It seems to show up there when somebody writes on the wall of someone on my Friends list. Well, it sometimes does, maybe there are lots of other times when it doesn't. Anyway, in case any of you are interested, here is what I told Celeste about fixing asparagus and prosciutto as an appetizer.
I'm afraid that's that way I do recipes... ideas and suggestions rather than strict scientific formulas. That's also why I love to cook but not bake. I feel as if baking is like a return to lab work in a chemistry course... absolute exact precise measurements and timing and such. Cooking is more free form, like painting or writing. There are still rules, but there is much more flexibility. Yes, I know, real bakers would not agree with me... and your mileage may vary... A brief introduction.... (edited to update it from 2006) A brief introduction for anyone who wanders in here from the Holidailies site -- I'm a middle-aged (*cough* okay,
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