Posted on 12/17/2012 5:00:31 AM PST by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 12/17/12
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soupcon; noun . Click here to hear it pronounced.
a slight trace, as of a particular taste or flavor.
Etymology: 1760–70; < French: a suspicion, Middle French sospeçon < Late Latin suspectiōn- (stem of suspectiō ), for Latin suspīciō suspicion
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A++++ because you added a visual to SAJ’s usage : )
This is the best commentary I’ve read on Hillary’s notable absence from this week’s testimony so far. Every word is delicious!
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/12/hillary_in_hiding.html
Do please make it with potatoes, not yucca... and, to compensate for the usual blandness of Panameno fare, add a good bit of sage and a dash (per pot) of hot sauce.
I've never figured out how Latin America gets the reputation for very spicy food. Sure, some Mexican cuisine is highly spiced, as are some Caribbean dishes, but traditional dishes (called tipico, btw) are extraordinarily bland to US tastes. There's even a joke about this.
"What does Columbian food taste like? Like Panamanian food, but not so highly spiced. < / rimshot>". Ah, well...that's why things like culantro and achiote exist, I suppose; to allow correction of this defect.
;^)
I’m anxious to hear if the buffalo chicken lasagna was good?
Nobody exports bland food, ergo all American interaction with foreign food is with that of the more spicy stuff.
We went to see The Hobbit Friday - watched in 3D and it was amazing! My husband, son and daughter went back on Sunday and watched in regular digital and said it was still as amazing. There is a really good book on the making/storyboards available at Target if you are a huge fan...
Tell you how non-spice-oriented the Panamenos are (how do you make an 'n' with a tilde ('~') above it, btw? The 'n' in Panameno should have one, but I don't know how to do it.). Every Christmas season, I make a lot of old-fashioned gingerbread cookies. First batch I made this year were well-received (Panamenos LOVE sweets, period), but I received several comments along the lines of 'are all Americano galletas (cookies) so spicy?' Somewhat ironic, in that I already had reduced the amount of ginger and nutmeg in the recipe and had omitted the cloves entirely, for just that reason: Panamanian non-love of spices. Go figure, eh?
Unfortunately, Hillary didn't land on her butt. She landed on her head. And she got a concussion. And a special kind of retrograde amnesia. She can remember everything except if it is related to Benghazi. That's all a total blank.
aha! well i was a Latin American studies major, undergrad prior to law school and i lived in Colombia and sancocho is a very popular dish and i know that if you are very lucky you get the CHICKEN’S FOOT in your bowl. Cilantro is to barf, i just can’t stomach it. i recall in Colombia that they did use is liberally and i couldn’t eat anything that had it in. My colleague just returned from her vacation Costa Rica and brought me some Cafe Britt, which i had requested. Just spent an hour hearing about the trip. She took her niece who just graduated from a grad program in occupational therapy, on my recommendation. How long have you been in the Panama?
Thanks for the link! :-)
Amnesia? The Clintons have always been a soap opera. I’m still waiting for one of them to have an evil twin. Who, in their cases, would be good.
Did anyone expect her testimony to reveal anything anyway? Remember the Rose Law Firm hearings? If she said I do not recall once, she said it fifty times.
Her memories of Benghazi are safely stowed with the Rose Law Firm billing records.
Hmmm. I thought Mike Huckabee was the evil twin.
http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codealt.html
1. Have a Windows PC with a separate numberpad.
2. Put the numlock key on.
3. Hold down the ALT key
4. Punch in the 4 digit code (0241, in this case)
5. Let go of ALT key.
6. Voila - ñ
Perhaps.
How very clever. I’m saving that!
You could also go to the Start menu, select run and type in charmap.
This brings up the character map which lets you copy and paste.
it was very good. I wouldn’t put the no boil noodles too near the top because they sort of burned a bit and got too dark and were hard but once you got around those the flavor of the lasagna was quite good. I’d have to say the tenderloin was the biggest hit, and the meatballs. I lost a contact lens [what else is new] on Sat PM just before bed, so yesterday, in my half blind state, was quite a comedy of errors. First off, the chili sauce bottle was shaped very similary to the cocktail sauce bottle so when adding to the meatballs yesterday AM before church i mistakenly dumped in the cocktail sauce. It wasn’t the standard grape jelly/chili sauce recipe anyway, it was a cranberry sauce/chili sauce with a can of pineapple thrown in recipe. The cocktail sauce did not really show up in the flavors other than to make it a bit too tomato-ey. So i added some brown sugar and apricot preserves to it. It was quite good and people were raving.
And being half blind made reading at Mass a bit of a challenge yesterday. I literally had to lift the book up off the podium, raise it closer to my face and angle it, in order to see it at all and even then just barely. My contact lenses are mono-vision, which means the left eye is corrected for distance and the right for close/reading. Well i lost the right lens, so while i can see to drive etc. reading and anything close is quite difficult.
Hillary gets the flu and faints..... isn’t that kind of a slap to women everywhere suggesting that women are weak and shouldn’t be in positions of power? First Bammy steps in to protect Susan Rice and wants any mean old men to come to him and not a delicate female, now this? Where are the feminists?
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