<p>Thank you once again B&D! It takes an immigrant to keep our cultural icons straight…the mixed up files…I probably read it when I was 7 or 8 and you are right it was the museum. I remember it being very attractive idea when I planned to run away from home to teach my unappreciative family (particularly mean older brother) a lesson. I never made it much further than the woods out back … no museum or likely library near us in cracker barrel north florida so the thorns and mosquitos and snakes and heat usually drove me back home after an hour or so…an automatic food machine versus having to catch and cook little muddy catfish to survive on your own…kids in NYC definitely have some advantages.</p>
<p>The book is first published mid 60s I think, so you are ahead of time, or your parents have been, if they gave it to you.
I regret never to read anything while it is hot ( remember the talk about a skate key in the catcher in the Rye?) I only read children’s books here with hindsight and curiosity.
It was recommended by matron-y coworker who knew about my scheme, but didn’t fly for the kid, too prissy tighty.
He was more of “The night at the museum” kid, thou I hated its graphics and avoided reading it to him maybe after just one go when someone gave it for his birthday.<br>
When the movie came out, he asked
" didn’t I have the book, or something?"
" … really?"
He was too old for that kind of movie then, all was well (or not)
the book came back to the popular market along with the movie, often in these cases, they’d use different illustrator to beef it up a bit if the author wasn’t also the illustrator.
no luck on this one, eek<br>
<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Night-at-Museum-Milan-Trenc/dp/0764136313/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279490714&sr=1-1[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/Night-at-Museum-Milan-Trenc/dp/0764136313/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279490714&sr=1-1</a></p>
<p>You all didn’t think I’d let this thread die just yet, did you?</p>
<p>Found out that kid’s roomie @ MICA also has celiac disease, so that part of life just got a bit easier. Third roomate will have to adjust her ways to accommodate the other two. Since they have a meal plan for the first semester, I wasn’t stressing about getting too much in the way of kitchen gear – it’s gonna be hard enough to get all this STUFF down there. But I did promise her a microwave and coffee maker so I suppose I’ll have to get that.</p>
<p>On a more sour note, some of you may remember how stressed out I was about being able to afford the gap between her scholarships and cost of attending. Then Fortune smiled upon us and my four year hunt for a job finally paid off and I returned to the corporate world. First day on the job there’s a successful hostile take over of my new company by a bigger Pharma fish. So… kablooey goes the job, more or less. They will not be going ahead with their consolidation plans and state of the art research facilities here and are moving the whole shebang to Chicagoland. So now Miss Fortune has turned into Misfortune. Oh well. So goes life. Ever optimistic that things will work out, I figure if I continue to save all money from my paycheck that we can probably swing first three semesters of MICA. Then things get really ugly. But maybe things will work out in the end and they’ll let me work remotely or something. We shall see.</p>
<p>Anyway, yeah, I resurrected the thread. Just for grins!</p>
<p>GMom, I’m sorry to hear about your job troubles. Maybe things will turn around again in time to prevent anything from getting really ugly. A lot can happen in three semesters!</p>
<p>thank you for bumping G and G</p>
<p>Gmom I just gotten now the fact your D can not eat any cheapo Mac cheese.
I had battle against my kid’s pimple without hard chemicals and drugs. While reading up about gluten, noticed that forbidden food items are kind of similar.
We leaned to love quinoa, quit white pasta (awhile) and it did make differences.
It is hard not to eat whatever around in abundance but better to be educated what would fuel you body correctly.
Just wish almost everything taste good weren’t bad for us.
I have been thinking about chocolate dipped soft ice cream cone from Mr. Softee truck.
I am dog-sitting for my friend - hi maintenance (can not leave it alone for seonds becouse of my worrying, he does not have care in the world, or it seems) French bull - and can not go inside of the store to get food with him in tow… hummm just have to buy that ice cream for dinner.</p>
<p>Gmom…very tough about the job. Good for you for staying positive. Keep talking to the Mica folks as the situation clarifies. Good luck. </p>
<p>About the roomate with no gluten issues. My son just came back from travelling in Europe with 3 other kids and one who couldn’t tolerate gluten…Italy was a challenge but the three without dietary issues quickly adapted to their friend’s diet, discovered all sorts of fun ways to eat cheaply–did some cooking in hostel kitchens, ate a hell of a lot of fruit and rice cakes and seemed to thrive on the challenge of finding gluten free foods where they couldn’t speak the language (Budapest). Students seem very adaptable and flexible these days so I would assume the third roomate will adapt quickly.</p>
<p>The gluten free diet is much more widely accepted in Europe than here. Over there, Mickey D’s even offers gluten free Big Macs. No such luck for us in their home country of the good ole’ U.S. of A. I haven’t been ambitious enough to try to take my family back to Europe (all three kids have celiac, along with their Dad) because I worry about the language barrier. My youngest (Bears, she’s a HUGE manga fan and takes manga drawing classes every week and longs to live in Japan – she is even studying Japanese with a computer course) is very sensitive and gets very very sick for four or five days with even the tiniest exposure to gluten. She’s our ‘canary’. Since I can keep her healthy at home (lots of cooking from scratch, not too much processed foods) I figure I must have this gluten free diet thing figured out. When she goes off on her adventures though, that’s another story. Right now she’s in California with my sister and has already spent most of last week sick, courtesy of Red Robin Restaurants.</p>
<p>My husband has had to deal with the gf diet while on business trips to all sorts of places all over the world. He took a whole suitcase of guten free food with him when he went to India for a couple of weeks; he’s been to Istanbul and to Budapest and to Israel, hmm… Edingburgh, Paris, some lake in Italy… he gets the good adventures these days, lol. When our youngest was diagnosed, she’d been in the hospital for about a week and he had a trip planned for Australia and her doctor told him to go ahead and go. While he was in Australia we got the family blood screening results in and found out he had celiac too, so he had to try to figure out how to go gluten free at first while he was in Australia. But that was all a long time ago.</p>
<p>The MICA kid is the tortilla chip junkie. I suspect she will live on chips and salsa and maybe ice cream. I don’t see her making herself quinoa or even plain old rice, white, brown, or otherwise. But maybe her roomie will be more enthused about having a healthy nutritious diet. I figure I’ve done the best I can over all these years (she was five when she was diagnosed) so now it’s up to her. If she’s too bashful to talk to the chef… then she’ll spend most of her time sick and that won’t be good for having a successful college career. But my words fall on mostly deaf ears.</p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
<p>Walked around last night Union square with the dog looking for Mr. Softee. Heat wave have settled, maybe fewer business.
Found new mint green fancy truck selling frozen yogurt alternative ( healthy!) $ 2.75 with chocolate dip. ( gawk! my budget was like, $1.50?)
DO NOT settle for alternative. If you are not exactly obese and could digest it, go for the real thing. It was rather drippy yet gummy and regrettable, more so when I found true Softee around the corner on my way back.</p>
<p>my kid away, noone to cook for, I am living on cereal and banana. ( and any junk food left around at my job - chocolate covered caramels, licorice shoestrings, tiny Japanese tea cake from some visitor - packed individually with its own chemical pouch to keep them fresh. Things Japanese does are nuts.
Gmom, manga is only a tip of iceberg. far as I remember, these regional brand name tea cakes are sold at kiosk in the major cities’ department stores and come in beautifully designed box with some strings to tie with, wrapped by the confectioner’s signature wrapping paper, then wrapped up by department store’s own wrapping paper, then put in the store’s paper bag with matching handle, handed to you with manual trained practiced words of appreciation for doing business ( paying 75 bucks plus for 16 pieces or so) bowed and smiled by pretty sales girls in matching costumes, all under size two. (though often not straighten nor whiten teeth; what do you call in dental term- those vampire fang stick out on side is consider “cute” in Japan, and polite girls hide their mouth with her tiny hand when they laugh, so not to show teeth)</p>
<p>My Dad had to go gluten free a couple of years ago. Not celiac exactly, but gluten was causing him to be anemic. I can find GF goodies for him here, but he has a hard time finding alternatives where he lives (VA beach). He misses beer and whiskey too. </p>
<p>I’ve seen GF beer on restaurant menus but haven’t found it in a store yet. There’s even a GF (mostly) restaurant near us here. We have more allergy issues in our family. Shellfish allergy, tree nut allergy, raw fruit and veggie allergy. It seems that everyone is on a different menu.</p>
<p>Do they still have the vending machines that pop out a can (or was it bottle?) of hot sake when you put a coin in? </p>
<p>I used to love the little shops that made candies from yokan (bean paste everyone!). They were always so pretty, the most amazing little edible sculptures in those wonderful pastels and then dusted with a light coating of some sort of powder. Little flowers and bees and frogs. I just loved looking at them, especially after a couple of cans of hot sake from the vending machine LOL!</p>
<p>smarty, greenwitch beat you this time by few seconds?
I looked up.
wow they got hot canned ramen “zihanki” (coin operated self dispensing everything you could imagine machine)
<a href=“http://akibamap.info/archives/50820633.html[/url]”>http://akibamap.info/archives/50820633.html</a>
this is what you get for 300 yen (about 3bucks?) noodles are made out of “connyaku powder” non wheat gummy stuff that won’t get soggy when left in the hot broth in long stretch of time. Gmom, this could be gluten free ramen!!
[YouTube</a> - Broadcast Yourself.](<a href=“YouTube”>YouTube)
disgusted?
here, have some dessert.
[wagashi</a> - Google Search](<a href=“http://www.google.com/images?q=wagashi&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=oXxTTJDQIsbnnQ***9zo]wagashi”>http://www.google.com/images?q=wagashi&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=oXxTTJDQIsbnnQ***9zo)
what are they made out of?
[Types</a> of Wagashi | TORAYA Confectionery](<a href=“http://www.toraya-group.co.jp/english/wagashi/types.html]Types”>http://www.toraya-group.co.jp/english/wagashi/types.html)</p>
<p>^ I just noticed that on first link, you can translate entire blog by clicking small Japanese to American flag arrow.
thou I warn you, you’d get ever more confused by reading scary Japlish, my bears’ndogish are not THAT crazy (or is it?)</p>
<p>Redbridge beer – it’s made by one of the major beer companies (I don’t drink beer, so I don’t remember which one). We sometimes find it at liquor stores. One time we were driving to Poughkeepsie and passed a beverage store that had one of those big lit up signs in the front where you can change the letters and it said Gluten free beer on special – the girls got a kick out of that!</p>
<p>Maybe I’ll have to investigate ‘Connyaku’ powder a bit more, though the description didn’t sound too appetizing.</p>
<p>My youngest daughter who loves all things Japanese got a Bento box for Christmas along with a book of bento box recipes… and funny little teensy squirt bottles for soy sauce in fanciful shapes like flowers and butterflies. In the book there are all sorts of ways to dress up your food to make it beautiful… mold hard boiled eggs to look like animals and garnish the other items to look wonderful. Unfortunately for her, I’m barely conscious in the mornings and I put together gluten free peanut butter and jelly sandwiches stuffed in her bento box.</p>
<p>I fail…</p>
<p>Baltimore is blessed with a Whole Foods, but the Trader Joe’s looks to be quite a hike away. I believe that there might be a small health food store within walking distance of MICA. But heck, I’m worried about the kid filling her prescriptions on time…it will be a miracle if she manages that. Hopefully the cafeteria will actually serve some gluten free meals… though the upwards of $10/meal is fairly outrageous. I’m working on convincing her that in January she will be cooking…</p>
<p>Gmom did you see charaben (character bento) link in my cooper thread? Japanese homemaker live for that s**t. They’d get up before dawn and deepfry tiny piece of meat or potato ball, cut cocktail sausage in the shape of sea creatures ( octopus, crab) apple wedge with decorative skin slashing teq (bunny rabbit, tulip, autumn leaves) steam one small floret of broccoli (tree) one boiled quail egg cut zigzag horizontally (daisy) grape tomato cup filled with mayonnaise infused mystery paste, riceballs shaped as hello kitty to your neighbor totoro… nowadays they have gotten tool box for the game like you said, molds, cookie cutters, scissors, tweezers, stamps, seaweed template, exacto knife and cutting mat with diagram printed on it.
Fewer babies are born today. every child is a masterpiece to be kneaded and molded and polished just like riceballs and shown off. of course then dressed up with immaculate seaweed or shiso leaves then put in kawaii container lined with anti germ disinfectant bento guard sheet.
If you are not alarmed by this, you can live there happily and raise small children. I couldn’t. No way.</p>
<p>Oh oh oh but I have one bragging right!!
My kid went to the same elementary school here with a son of food director of Martha Stewart Magazine. the kid was older but small school that big on community thing, they all ate together.
parental grapevined story goes, the boy saw my kid’s clammy riceball and asked if he could have one ( thanks to Pokemon everyone was dying to sample food Ash and gang were eating in the show)
Imagine, a kid who fed by mighty Martha’s food editor wanting the no frill riceball I made with my own hand!!
I asked my kid if he shared any.
" No, why shoulda?"
Martha or no Martha, couldn’t care less when you are first grade and hungry.</p>
<p>wholefoods carries ready made quinoa cakes two for 4 bucks or something in deli chilled area. It is bit greasy side but oh so yummy. one of those with green salad makes room temperature meal with no cooking req.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.shakespeare-w.com/english/konnyaku/whatis.html[/url]”>http://www.shakespeare-w.com/english/konnyaku/whatis.html</a></p>
<p>it is Konnyaku. weired food… but we love them… we are weired.</p>
<p>Bears:
Thanks for the wagashi links, are those not beautiful little pieces of food art?
Here’s a Konyaku for you!
wlteef.blogspot.com</p>
<p>Sorry
You’ll have to search for konnyaku on the site, and then scroll down to see the fish. Pretty amazing although I’m not sure I find them as edible in appearance as the pastel wagashi.</p>
<p>Good morning all
Bears – the book Laura got for Xmas had all that fancy schmancy cutesy bento food in it. She’ll have to do it herself. I don’t have the time or patience and I am practically comatose until I’ve had my coffee in the morning (more difficult to do now that two of the three teenagers in the house raid my coffee and I often go to get a cup and the pot is empty or has a quarter cup in it). </p>
<p>I should investigate rice balls further. I don’t think I’ve ever tried one and I think Laura would like it if I tried to cook some Japanese food at home. I cook Thai and Chinese fairly often. I’d like to even do Teriyaki whatever but I’d have to make the Teriyaki sauce from scratch because the commercial ones all have wheat in them – and soba noodles, even though they’re buckwheat, still usually have wheat in them too, and even miso has barley, I think. So I’ve tended to shy away from Japanese food. </p>
<p>Maybe you can recommend a good Japanese cookbook with things (not fancy schmancy, mind you) made from scratch and I’ll venture a bit more into exploring Japanese gluten free cuisine. The bento box stuff I got for Laura was appealing because it mostly used whole foods just made up to be cutesy.</p>
<p>Took Kid to Marshalls to look for bargain basement kitchen junk. She’s too picky – turned her nose up at 25 piece set of flatware for $6 because it had orange handles. Her tough luck, I suppose. We have to get the xlong twin bedding, but I think she should take towels from home and scrounge from the camping box to find some kitchen gear. There was a really funky rug at Marshall’s for about $80, but I have to pay thousands to MICA this weekend so I’m feeling quite poor. Maybe a roomie will cough up for a rug.</p>
<p>I lived in japan for a year and this thread is making me miss it so much…must go to japanese grocery store…</p>
<p>Gmom I will keep in mind about cook book… gawd, I did not know that Japan was GF hell… well maybe not, basically they lived on rice, fish and veggies until commodore Perry and later McD came along. But miso and soy sauce, how can we go around them? it will be a challenge.
I know exactry how you feel about 1/4 cup coffee left. All the work we do for them…</p>
<p>If your H wear tons of white athletic socks, unsexy,dumpy kind sold at Kmart to drug stores dozen a pack, and if he is kind of picky about the elastic and ditch still new-sh OK socks often, here is cheap and the best rag-rug you can make.
- ignore size, brands, bit of red or green thread on toe markings and shred the sox with scissors in roughly equal width of six strips toes and elastic and all going sort of along with knit weave.
- connect strips’ ends to each other, again ignoring any order, if anywhere gotten holes or stains on it, cut off that area.
- roll up the connected strips as those civil war nurses dong bandage in the movie. continue connect, roll in three separate operation simultaneously.
- when you have significant three skeins of sox strips (about 15 pair of socks total) start braiding three strips together not too tight, not too loose, ignore raw edges or bit of stray cotton, it all add character when finished.
- start from center if you want round or oval rag, corner if you want square or rectangle rag, lay the braid flat while wriggling bit around corner to fit, connect touching sides of the braids with hand stitching. This needs bit of patient and skill. continue until you have achieved the size you want the rug to be. If it is too small and socks braid run out, wait until new supply comes along or compromise and finish, sew up ends.
- If you have a half decent sewing machine, you can wide zigzag stitch over the area of hand sawn braids connection, this will strengthen and rug will stands many many machine wash, dry and torture.</p>
<p>You can dye the socks and mix match colors if you are that crafty. thou somewhat new white and ruggy, feel oh so nice under barefoot as is, perfect for bathmat or area rug where you step out of bed in the morning.</p>