Where the Deer and the Antelope Play - Living in the USA (visitors welcome)

[SuperBunny]

East Coast
MaNanny - Boston
Twinmommytobe - Boston
MuminCT - CT
Greatgooglymoogly - NY State
Yesthereare4ofthem - NY State
Brooklynmom - NYC
alarkaspree - NYC
MKG - New Jersey
Mummimamma - PA
Poetmum - PA
Twirl - MD

South
Earlybird - TN
jabberwocky - AR
Sunchowder - Florida
Marls001 - Bentonville, AR
Tinpot - NC
MadameDeathStare- AL

Midwest
SuperBunny- Chicago
Dodgykeeper - Dayton, OH
Chocchipcookie - Ohio
MonkeyLover
KickAssAngel - Ann Arbor, MI

Rockies
Alipiggie - Boulder, CO
Ribena

Northwest
AnnieLaurie - Seattle, WA
Dooneygirl - Oregon City, OR

California
SittingBull - nr San Francisco
Califrau - Milpitas
loopsngeorge - Brentwood, LA
Syd - Manhattan Beach, LA
SofiaAmes - LA
LATyke - Redondo Beach

Texas
Texan - Dallas
Tiggyhop - Houston
Vixie78 - Houston
BananaPudding - Austin
Cosmicdust - East Texas

Canada
Hellish - Ottawa
Shouldlistenedtomymum - Hamilton
Nooka - BC
Jacksmama - Langley

Exotic Islands
Anorak - Bermuda
cp - Trinidad
Barefeete - BVI

Brazil
Albert

hmm, i think being a sahm has rotted my brain!!
can only think of 'i put the BRIT in celebrity' (robbie williams) or 'we weren't born in the USA' (springsteen), both of which are fairly appalling tbh, for a thread title.

Cali, I'm curious about your Bara Brith recipe. I always make the same one but when I googled, some use yeast and kneading - that's not right is it? Or am I doing it all wrong?

Do you glaze yours?

Ok, that's more or less my recipe, so that's good. And I wouldn't glaze it either. I always made it the same way and made the mistake of googling and it made me wonder...

Anyway, hope you all had a good weekend.

Pumpkin pie spice is a good idea. I made my own and it seems fine.

I thought of you today, SB. We were at our favorite foodie market, and they had mixed peel. For $11 a pound.

For all those wondering, never get a Martha Stewart enameled cast iron pot. Unless you only want to use it 5 times. Because on the 6th time, the enamel is going to totally wear off and incorporate itself into little pieces in the dinner you were cooking in it.

Dooney! That's awful. Can you return it?

It actually did it a few weeks ago when I was really sick. Fortunately, I took really good care of it, and kept the box it was in, and since it was from Macy's, I had the little sticker thingy they put on it for receipt-free returns, and took my coughy, snotty self down there, for a no-hassle return. I've never returned anything, so was pretty impressed. We also bought a MS tea ball at the time, and it lasted for less than a month, while our cheap $1 one is still going.

I'm now the proud owner of a Le Creuset pan. If you ever go to their outlet store here's a tip: have a hard time deciding between the red and blue colors. When the salesperson asks if that is the one you want, scrunch up your face and say Welllll. . . (because you can't decide if you want that one or the red one.) Then they will quickly say "I can give you 30% off that if you'd like." So not only have they made up your mind for you, it saves you lots of money, and you're really happy.

You won't be disappointed with Le Creuset. I have a set of their pans at home, which I miss a lot. The outlet sounds like a great place! Well done!

I really don't think I will be disappointed. I just didn't get them in the 1st place, because they are SO expensive. I got a 2nd quality, and if you look at the inside of the handle there is a tiny stripe of a place that the blue color is missing from. The lady also said to check the lid fit, and the one we picked out seemed to be as good as the 1st quality ones to both of us. So I got it for about $100 less than it was at Macy's.

Fab. And the blue ones are best

dh wants to get a pot big enough for two chickens (and lots of other stuff too) to make jambalaya. I'm not quite sure where such a thing can be obtained! My mother had this great copper cauldron she used for jam that would be just the job (except no lid). He is steadily going through a USA cookbook I bought for him about 15 years ago, and now makes great ginger and buttermilk pancakes, muffins of all sorts, and scrummy fried chicken too. I'm really enjoying him being a SAHD

I love le creuset. I'm still miffed that I let ex-h keep half of our set. Hadn't realized wife #2 was going to be around quite so quickly

Hi everyone, has anyone heard of or bought from this website www.buybangers.com

DH and I were discussing British sausages or rather 'lack of' again. He decided to go googling and found this site. So we have been brave and ordered some, they arrive Thursday The reviews sound good, so fingers crossed.

Oh, I'd be a bit peeved about that, Jabber.

Hope the sausages are good, mumoffive. There is the pork pie company in new york who do very good pork pies, apparently - british pigs, british spices etc. And there is a sausage company here that is meant to be good but I forget what it is called

Question - I ordered an IN the Night Garden DVD that said it would play in this zone. Of course it won't. Is there any way to re-record this to play on a US player?

I'm not sure about how to do that Jabber. We bought this from amazon as people kept sending us English dvd's. It works really well and the price isn't bad either.

yep, we have a philips thing for english dvd's & another one for US! one laptop does uk, one does US.

mumof, i went to joanna's & spent too much money today, on 'just a few bits' for cards. dd has got REALLY into doing easter cards ( ithink she thinks it's be valentine's all over again). i let her have free reign, not quite aware of what she was planning, and they are terrible! impossible to read, she 'loves' everybody & there's no discernable front or back, just one huge mess of stickers, & writing, all over the outside & inside. i'm willing to make a certain amount of allowances for age, but they really are car crash arts & crafts. she's desperate to hand them all out to her whole class, and has asked if she can take them in this week!! oh no, there's nothing i can do, is there, just grin & bear it.

oh, and 'meijer' sell polish sausages which aren't too bad, but take about an hour to cook. i know mumof can get them not sure if meijer is also in chicago, sb

i have a geek as well. sadly our 'region free' dvd won't 'talk' to our tv, so it'll happily sit there & play the damn things, but the tv can't pick up the signal. there is a way to reprogram it to send out a different type fo signal, but it would need to be attached to a uk tv to do that ...
we learnt all this on new year's eve, when we had planned a nice drink & dvd for our 'celebration', on the tv which arrived that day.

whilst dh googled to find a solution, he found instead a horrific virus, which meant he spent the next 24 hours fixing the laptop & i went to bed early.

the international lifestyle is just sooo glamorous.

I have a DH geek, too. I know you all know this many times over, but I never get tired of pointing it out.

On a totally different subject, I'm wondering why the preschool teacher needed to teach the children the words "body hair" as in they were learning about mammals and how they have fur, but humans have body hair. I've heard it about 10 times just in my typing this, and about several hundred more since we've been home. Make that 17.

body hair

so, dh is home from the UK (that sounds odd) and is asleep on the sofa, snoring. shuld i wake him up, help him to bed, or leave him there? he's averaged about 5 hours sleep a nigth for the last 2 weeks.
for a geek, he snores a lot