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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on May 26, 2019 17:53:25 GMT -5
I know this thread is old, but I'm adding more (I've been sick for over two weeks since coming home from Sweden/Finland, but I'll update my experiences with that on my other thread later, when my head works better...) While in Sweden, I discovered their cheese slicers, and I love them! I don't know, maybe somewhere they use them in the states, but I've never seen them here (or noticed them if I've seen them in a store, I've never seen one used). It's like a stubby pie serving thingy, but has a slot in it where you drag it along the top of a brick/round of cheese, to make nice, thin, perfect slices. I've used a cheese slicer with a wire, but this is so much better! Anyway, I came home with a few (one for my kitchen, one for my parents, and one for my son's "move the hell out of the house" stash). I brought home a couple jars of lingonberry jam and my son asked "Why is that not a thing here?" It's good stuff. Does Ikea sell it? Is this it? www.amazon.com/Boska-Holland-307063-Cheese-Slicer/dp/B001WSMMKK/ref=sr_1_8?crid=2NYWQI3CSV7ZI&keywords=cheese+slicer&qid=1558911074&s=gateway&sprefix=Cheese+%2Caps%2C179&sr=8-8
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on May 26, 2019 18:13:15 GMT -5
My grandparents had those types of cheese slicers. I didn't realize it wasn't a common tool in America.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2019 18:15:34 GMT -5
Since this was resurrected: I haven't had a hamburger or a steak since I got back from India over a year ago. No, I'm not turning Hindu; it just seems like too much meat and it seems alien to me. I'm eating a lot less meat in general for health reasons. I've added some new stuff to my pantry. When DH and I visited Greece I fell in love with tzatziki and I make it occasionally. On my cruise in the Sea of Cortez I got a gift basket with vanilla-steeped agave nectar and some dried arbol chiles. That agave was HEAVENLY in oatmeal and plain yogurt although I've read that it's not very good for you (very high in fructose, any health benefits destroyed in processing). A couple of days ago I bought some agave syrup and put a vanilla bean into it, and bought arbol chile powder.
And, as someone else mentioned, I like the cheese at hotel breakfast buffets now!
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Post by Apple on May 26, 2019 19:14:58 GMT -5
I know this thread is old, but I'm adding more (I've been sick for over two weeks since coming home from Sweden/Finland, but I'll update my experiences with that on my other thread later, when my head works better...) While in Sweden, I discovered their cheese slicers, and I love them! I don't know, maybe somewhere they use them in the states, but I've never seen them here (or noticed them if I've seen them in a store, I've never seen one used). It's like a stubby pie serving thingy, but has a slot in it where you drag it along the top of a brick/round of cheese, to make nice, thin, perfect slices. I've used a cheese slicer with a wire, but this is so much better! Anyway, I came home with a few (one for my kitchen, one for my parents, and one for my son's "move the hell out of the house" stash). I brought home a couple jars of lingonberry jam and my son asked "Why is that not a thing here?" It's good stuff. Does Ikea sell it? Is this it? www.amazon.com/Boska-Holland-307063-Cheese-Slicer/dp/B001WSMMKK/ref=sr_1_8?crid=2NYWQI3CSV7ZI&keywords=cheese+slicer&qid=1558911074&s=gateway&sprefix=Cheese+%2Caps%2C179&sr=8-8Yes, that's it. They were everywhere.
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Post by TheOtherMe on May 26, 2019 20:11:04 GMT -5
I have and use that kind of cheese slicer. A friend gave it to me for Christmas.
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Post by NastyWoman on May 26, 2019 20:17:00 GMT -5
Sinceso many are commenting on cheese at the breakfast table: it has taken me a very long time, but if I eat brunch I will occasionally eat hash browns and actually like them. Fried potatoes is a dinner dish
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Post by stillmovingforward on May 26, 2019 20:56:12 GMT -5
Very much so. I traveled a lot in east Africa. I cannot stand to see food of any sort or water wasted. To the point of: I have to be careful because my reaction is embarrassing. Seems I don't care if you put meat in my cloth shopping bags. There are worse germs out there.
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Post by thyme4change on May 27, 2019 8:41:34 GMT -5
My grandparents had those types of cheese slicers. I didn't realize it wasn't a common tool in America. My parents had one. It wasn't very sharp, so it didn't work that well. I had a friend that had one too. I preferred a knife. I didn't know they weren't commonplace either. Maybe I will get a good sharp one and see if it changes my mind about them.
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Post by happyhoix on May 28, 2019 7:42:42 GMT -5
Never drank coffee for breakfast until I went to France on a business trip and got hooked on café au lait. Now I drink that daily (but with 2%, not the lovely whole milk/cream their coffee machine used).
Also, since I lived in Europe as a kid, I've used a duvet cover and comforter. Coming back to the States in 1978, there weren't any duvet covers around, so I had to sew my own from flat sheets, but gradually, duvets took off. So I was a trendsetter for once in my life
Saw a thing about Britain and how the wool industry has suffered since duvets became a 'thing' in Britain and people rarely buy blankets anymore. I feel bad for the shepherds but I can't give up my duvet. So much less fuss and less weight than the old sheets and blankets thing.
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Post by thyme4change on May 28, 2019 8:14:10 GMT -5
Never drank coffee for breakfast until I went to France on a business trip and got hooked on café au lait. Now I drink that daily (but with 2%, not the lovely whole milk/cream their coffee machine used).
Also, since I lived in Europe as a kid, I've used a duvet cover and comforter. Coming back to the States in 1978, there weren't any duvet covers around, so I had to sew my own from flat sheets, but gradually, duvets took off. So I was a trendsetter for once in my life
Saw a thing about Britain and how the wool industry has suffered since duvets became a 'thing' in Britain and people rarely buy blankets anymore. I feel bad for the shepherds but I can't give up my duvet. So much less fuss and less weight than the old sheets and blankets thing. Our first duvet experience was in London, and I came home and ran out and bought one.
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Post by Cookies Galore on May 28, 2019 9:01:12 GMT -5
Yes, that's it. They were everywhere. I have one. Cheese planes are common tools. And yes, IKEA sells lingonberry everything.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on May 28, 2019 10:07:15 GMT -5
Last winter, we went on a cruise across the Atlantic. Before dinner, we’d watch a movie and sprawl out on the bed and inevitably I’d wind up wrapped up in the wool throw that was at the bottom of the bed. I wound up buying it, it turned out that the colors went nicely with the new furniture we bought and it is lighter than the fleece throws we have that make me bake.
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Post by happyhoix on May 28, 2019 11:47:42 GMT -5
Never drank coffee for breakfast until I went to France on a business trip and got hooked on café au lait. Now I drink that daily (but with 2%, not the lovely whole milk/cream their coffee machine used).
Also, since I lived in Europe as a kid, I've used a duvet cover and comforter. Coming back to the States in 1978, there weren't any duvet covers around, so I had to sew my own from flat sheets, but gradually, duvets took off. So I was a trendsetter for once in my life
Saw a thing about Britain and how the wool industry has suffered since duvets became a 'thing' in Britain and people rarely buy blankets anymore. I feel bad for the shepherds but I can't give up my duvet. So much less fuss and less weight than the old sheets and blankets thing. Our first duvet experience was in London, and I came home and ran out and bought one. I know, right?
Mr Happy was dubious at first about the duvet thing. He didn't understand how it could be 'clean' if you didn't use sheets. He didn't think the goose down duvet would be as warm as layers of quilts and blankets.
He quickly became a devotee. The only thing I saw him embrace faster than the duvet was the charcuterie. Last time we went to Europe I think almost the only thing he ate on our whole visit was charcuterie.
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Post by swamp on May 28, 2019 13:58:48 GMT -5
Our first duvet experience was in London, and I came home and ran out and bought one. I know, right?
Mr Happy was dubious at first about the duvet thing. He didn't understand how it could be 'clean' if you didn't use sheets. He didn't think the goose down duvet would be as warm as layers of quilts and blankets.
He quickly became a devotee. The only thing I saw him embrace faster than the duvet was the charcuterie. Last time we went to Europe I think almost the only thing he ate on our whole visit was charcuterie.
I'm a big fan of the charcuterie. It's like lunchables for adults.
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Post by weltschmerz on May 28, 2019 14:21:03 GMT -5
Charcuterie is huge, here. Pick up some cheese, smoked turkey, pickles from a barrel, sausages, a baguette, a bottle of wine and have a picnic in the park. Topless, if you want.
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Post by swamp on May 28, 2019 14:29:26 GMT -5
Charcuterie is huge, here. Pick up some cheese, smoked turkey, pickles from a barrel, sausages, a baguette, a bottle of wine and have a picnic in the park. Topless, if you want. my boobs would drag in the hummus.
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Post by weltschmerz on May 28, 2019 14:33:36 GMT -5
Charcuterie is huge, here. Pick up some cheese, smoked turkey, pickles from a barrel, sausages, a baguette, a bottle of wine and have a picnic in the park. Topless, if you want. my boobs would drag in the hummus. Mine would park themselves in the paté.
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Post by happyhoix on May 28, 2019 14:56:59 GMT -5
Charcuterie is huge, here. Pick up some cheese, smoked turkey, pickles from a barrel, sausages, a baguette, a bottle of wine and have a picnic in the park. Topless, if you want. That would cause quite a stir, here.
Not the charcuterie - the topless part.
I just had to listen to a co-worker complain bitterly about how she visited a garden on her vacation last week and was outraged to find it wasn't a floral garden, but a garden mostly of naked Roman type statues of men and women. The worst part, according to her, were some little 'butt naked' boys chasing each other around the edge of a pond.
She was sure glad her sons (grown adult men) weren't with her or she'd have to hustle them right out of the garden.
The Bible Belt - where everyone is built like Barbie and ken dolls, with no functional sex bits, or so we would like to pretend.
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Post by swamp on May 28, 2019 15:00:42 GMT -5
was it Ashcroft who draped Lady Justice at the DOJ? We can't have stone boobies at a workplace.
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Post by Cookies Galore on May 28, 2019 15:03:43 GMT -5
Charcuterie is huge, here. Pick up some cheese, smoked turkey, pickles from a barrel, sausages, a baguette, a bottle of wine and have a picnic in the park. Topless, if you want. my boobs would drag in the hummus. Don't get hummus. Easy solution!
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Post by bobosensei on Jun 6, 2019 7:06:45 GMT -5
I lived 7.5 years in Germany. Sunday is family day to me now, and I don't even think of going shopping because I lived in a place so long where the stores were closed on Sunday.
Typical day may be church, eating out, baseball game, hiking, and cook outs with family and pets.
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