If you get Chinese food delivery, use the

I save every packet of sauces from my Chinese food delivery.  Whether I'm cooking bar-b-q (ribs, chicken, pork chops, etc), or baking whatever or grilling, broiling, or boiling, I can usually throw together something from those packets depending on what flavoring I want to achieve.  My dad taught me not to look at recipes, but just to think about how flavors work together and trust your guts.  That doesn't work for everyone, but I've made some delicious dinners when I didn't have any other seasonings in the house but those Chinese food packets :)  Try to remember to balance out a sweet with a sour (or salty) flavor.  I remember how I was horrified when he put cinnamin in a pot roast once, but it was the best roast I ever had.  He had been doing it for years...he just hid it from me.  Once I knew he used it, I enjoyed it more than I ever had!

• Help with Grilled Chicken / Indoor grilling please - Inept
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  • try italian dressing powder packet that you mix yourself. sm - LMT
  • If you get Chinese food delivery, use the - packets of duck sauce - SM
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My neighbor uses it every week.  She works as a nurse but does like to 18hr shifts twice a week.  She has 9yr old twins, a 4yr old, and an 18mo old.  She home schools her children.  He DH works for the railroad. 

I am just curious if it really is a benefit and worth the money.  Maybe for that size family it is more practical for them but maybe not for a smaller family.  Is the food ready made and frozen, how much work is there in fixing a meal, etc.

Anyone familar with this?  Just wondering!

start with your parents first (i'm assuming their still with you).  They're usually the most understanding of these situations.  Explain that you're simply strapped for cash, but would love to have everyone come together at your place for dinner.  Suggest to your parents (if they're on board with you) that the others want to exchange gifts, they can meet at someone else's place later for that.  I don't see anything wrong with it as long as everyone knows up front that you're not exchanging gifts. 

I usually give them 3 or 4 dollars.

But I got to thinking with the cost of gas, maybe that's not enough? Don't they usually pay for their own gas?

How much do you tip?

Why doesn't our country do more about this crap!  Lead in toys, poisonous drywall, and I once saw a Chinese business woman on TV bragging about her drug business ... how she uses ingredients other than the real drug (often poisonous to humans) and is getting rich on this business.  She said she sells to many other countries with the U.S. being a top buyer.  WHAT?!  This woman was literally bragging on TV about it.

I don't understand why we haven't done something MAJOR about this. 

I never go to the doc or get RXs, but does anyone know if one can tell if they came from China? 

were involved with ball playing by women too.....here's a link for their culture and their sports history....they were always thought of as weak but they were not weak....

http://chineseculture.about.com/library/weekly/aa032301a.htm

Hi all:  I've recently noticed that a prominent pizza chain that begins with a D has started charging me a 1.50 delivery charge.  I normally tip the delivery guy anywhere between 3 and 6 depending on amount of order, weather conditions, etc.  I'm wondering who this 1.50 goes to and why are they charging me 1.50.  If goes to the delivery guy, great, more power to him. 

Also, do you tip higher on Superbowl Sunday?  Just curious.  TIA

And my husband is trying to tell me that means I already have everything.

Hmmm......

Since language is "our thing" - and particularly ESL - I thought you'd like to get a head start on what to expect from future Chinese dictators.  Get a load of these Chinese-to-English learning blocks (I'll post this as an URL you can paste into your browser since some are reluctant to click on links):

http://peer-see.com/blog/chumble-spuzz/2006/07/09/

I suggest we practice by forming sentences, such as:  "The patient is a construction worker who was operating a navvy when a crustacea flew into the cab.  Mistaking it for a darning needle, he swatted at the crustacea and lost control of the navvy, which crashed.  Unfortunately, he was not wearing a safety armet at the time and was knocked unconscious..."

Has anyone fed their cat Science Diet's CD dry food for FUS? My 8-year-old male, Sam, has been on this for about 5 years with no recurrence of FUS. To keep him away from any other type of food, I have fed the other two the same; however, we now are up to 6 cats, 4 males/2females, and it is getting too expensive. Thinking I could feed all of them a very good dry food and add some CD to Sam's, but cannot decide what would be a good choice.

Thank you.

This is the food that I refuse to eat:

Carbonated beverages
Mayo (Mayonnaise)
Tomatoes
Onion
Spicy Food
Jalapeños
Plain Milk (In cereal it is ok)
Bananas
Beer
champagne
soy milk
coffee
olives
hot peppers
green & red peppers
parmesan cheese
blue cheese salad dressing
raspberry vinaigrette salad dressing
spinach
coconut
mango
tofu
eggplant
yams
cottage cheese
artificial cheese (Mac & Cheese in a box)
cheese flavor gold fish crackers (Bad memory when I got sick as a kid from eating too many)

There is probably more, but this is what I can think of now.