Thursday, January 24, 2008

Playing house


This is a carrot dish from the Naked Chef's newest book. I'm trying out the rice pudding in the crockpot today. My chum is home with a cough. I feel like making our own throat lozenges with custom flavors and colors. I imagine them looking like antique marbles in a mason jar. I will use my antique silver sugar tongues to pick them out! This would make a nice Valentines gift as well. I'm sure Martha did this once.

7 comments:

  1. that would look so beautiful! wait, i feel a sore throat coming on....

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  2. I would just buy those sour balls we used to get as kids, and unwrap them all. They were fantastic. Old ladies always had them for you.

    The rice pudding in a crockpot comes out really well. I used 2 percent milk and it was fine.

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  3. That's what Ma Ingalls would have done with the leftover verbena. What is horehound, anyway?

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  4. My doctor says that is the act of sucking on hard sugar that is effective for a cough/sore throat. Any flavor will do: peppermint, sour ball, lemon drop. No eucalyptus, menthall needed.

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  5. let us know how the crockpot rice pudding turned out:: the one time i tried it, the results were an unqualified 'awful.' perhaps the starch & the sweet milk will have a soothing effect on the cough, as well as on the soul?

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  6. Rice pudding just makes me hot----- wow, I can't believe I just said that out loud. I adore the stuff. Did the crockpot recipe come from Naked???

    The throat lozenges sound lovely, lookout or you will have the whole neighborhood feeling puny!!!!

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  7. giant carrots!! tiny woodstove!!!

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