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@all -- thanks for replies

@Jerzee -- wasn't sure if was some particular sort of flavoring that was unbeknownst to me (banana??? Vanilla????). I couldn't tell from the pictures

@shecooks -- I tried GoogleTranslate and it kept telling me the "protein layers"... I'm like WTP* "protein layers"???? I'm all up for some healthy stuff, but I think I call it at "protein layers" in my desserts

@Teachertalk -- hoping to get back here a lil more often... nice to be missed. Although gone (mentally and site posting-wise) my abilities to be a half cooked posting fool still live on LOL

side note : WTP = what the phooey???

@ everyone -- thank you for the mini-welcome back!

@jo_wang -- perhaps it's the guy's microwave and its wattage isn't high. Perhaps try different time intervals on your microwave. I know I'd probably need 8 because I have one of the "elder" Amana Radaranges from the 70s.

Hello everyone from burnt up, hotter than Hades Kansas.

Thanks again to Saucy Johnny for tipping me off to this thread. =)

I have been extremely busy with work these days. A mixed blessing in that I don't get much of a chance to be here, but do hope when things slow down i will get back into the swing of SE things.

My family issue dynamics have changed as well and as such very limited time for any sorts of fun. i think often of all the great people here at SE and miss you all terribly. I learn so much here and expand my knowledge exponentially to cooking and foods i never would have dreamed of trying before.

I don't FaceBook but always feel free to drop me an email (it's on my profile). I can't say i'm always great about getting to them super-timely but that's about all I have time for computerwise these days.

Thank you again all... Bon appetit and I'll try (just for bleu!) to drop in and leave a National ________ Day ;)

@Traveller -- sorry to hear of the difficulties. I'll have to get consensus of the family, but i might be able to part with my banana bread recipe ;)

I don't know where it happened, or if the weight loss caused it, but he got just incredibly strange to me a few years back. The Feasting on Saphalt was borderline, but then he started on Iron chef and he was ... weird! I can't watch that show anymore... he's just can make some of the strangest commets. I surmised it's be surrounded by an army of kitchen unitasking equipment that has taken him hostage.

My Achilles Heel is pie crust. We have such a nasty history together we don't go to the same cooking parties anymore.

Gravy -- I don't understand how people get lumps in it. Make a slurry first and if necessary mix the tar outta it before adding into the hot liquid.

Nay all the way around. I don't like any cruchiness factor except vegetables (celery and onion) and no sweet factor to any chicken salad I make or eat.

hands down favorite if I go there is the cake batter ice cream

@ all concerned for the "cat paddle"... lemme rephrase so I don't get hunted down by PETA. Cat paddle is me taking the cutting board and shoving their butts (ones 30 lb and one's 27 lb cats) out of my way when I'm cooking in the kitchen. Verbal commands of "GIT!" do not work. They do hear but use their size to block every attempt of me moving effeciently thru the kitchen in the attempt of getting human food. I'd lock them up but one claws their way through the wood door and the other does the stick the paw under the door to where I feel guilty or even more angry at the ruined wood.

for the SE management crew -- i did a Free Translation on Google on this post. It's Spanish Spam.

I've used the rubber mallet to pound chicken for parmesana

I know it's a sin, but I've used sharp kitchen knives as box openers

Old wooden cutting board for a cat paddle.

Tupperware lids as make-do frisbees for visiting kids

@boobird -- they made a great antiseptic liquid that forms a hard but flexible "bandage" I keep around the house called Liquid Bandage.

commercial cat snacks... but by accident.

the 3cats always get a small handful of snack and each one gets them in the morning & evening. I got home and had a handful of skittles in one hand and a handful of kitty treats in the other. I slipped the cat treats into my pocket when i couldn't find kitty #3. I went about evening chores only to get sidetracked and thought I had put my skittles in my pocket. I reached in a grabbed a few and they went into the mouth...

WTF... Tuna flavored skittles???

Yup.. you guessed it. So 2 chomps down I'm deciding whether to spit or swallow. I swallowed. I wouldn't intentionally do it again.