Peculiar Email,and Cauliflower chips appie

Today I received an email from a distant friend, saying she is tranded in England and needs to raise 1650 pounds and can I help her. Oh yes, the title was I need your help urgently. Sure enough when I tried to phone her, her voice mail was full. What do you make of that? It seems to me like someone has spoofed her name and is using it to try to acquire money, tho , on the other hand, sometimes she can be a little sketchy herself.:-) The wording of the whole email isn't anything like the way she normally speaks so I think it is a hoax, besides I have no money to send.
Has anyone else received an email like that. If one comes from me, asking for dough... don't believe cause I am filthy rich and couldn't possibly use another cent!
So much for that mystery ... be aware...
Someone suggested that your first email entry on your contact list should be a fake one...like 111@111.com, and then the spoofer will go onto some other contact list when it nets no return on its first try. I don't know how true that is, but I sure know that when we advertised a canoe for sale, someone definately sounded legit. but was a spammer trying to get money. I only figured that out after three emails back and forth. maybe with this one, I ought to ask for their visa number and expiration date , so I can deposit some money in their account...heh-heh...

So I am having the Randy and Faye over for a long over due dinner tonight and I found a recipe for roasted cauliflower that you eat as an appie... just wash a cauliflower and slice up the florets into 1/4 inch slices... some will be big, some small. I left some whole as small florets. Put into a big bowl then coat with 2 tablsp. good olive oil blended with 1/4 cup soya ssauce and 2 tsp sugar. Spread out in a single layer on a broiler or cookie pan and roast at 400* stirring often to brown up toasty all over. Apparently there is a lot of shrinkage so it says to use 1 cauliflower per 2 people. That sounded excessive, so I just prepared one cauliflower. I'll let you know how it turns out.
Ok, I 've had a coffee and a little break, now it is back to cleaning and cooking!
Have a great week-end. I am glad the fog has settled in around the mountain tops so I can't look at the darn fresh snow up there...brr

"The Creator"

Snow on them thar hills

Skiers will be happy to see the white stuff, but I am not so sure I am!

Yeppers, had to turn on the heat yesterday for the first time... and now I can see why I was cold... snow!
Ok Lynn, I can see you smiling as you think about your trip wouth soon!


"The Creator"

The Lost Symbol

Certainly worth the read and demystifying the FreeMasons.
I like how Dan Brown can delve into the world of puzzles and myths and ceremonies that the average cat has no idea about. Very interesting ...Makes you believe that we only live our lives scratchingthe surface, when others go to a depth we are oblivious to. MAybe it is safer that way!

Emil on the deck at the Burrowing Owl on our way back from the golf tournament...Yep those are vinyards for as far as your eye can see.


If you ever get the chance, it is worth the drive on the back road from Oliver to Osoyoos to see all of the vinyards. Apparently it is a great road for motorcyclist enthusiasts as well... We enjoyed it with Deb and Ashley.

"The Creator"

Dinner out with the girls

Well, I would certainly recommend The Cuisine of India restaurant in Castlegar
if anyone is looking for some tasty Indian cuisine. The dishes were plentiful and by the end of the evening, nearly everyone took a doggy bag home! On Sunday, a few of us grad girls and a great turnout out of cousins and sister-in-laws, made for a pleasant gathering of nine of us. The food was served almost immediately after the beer, so not much time for chitter chatter. It was full concentration on how to eat what first. Joyce and I split a combo for two dinner and there was enough for three for sure... Our order included a curried lamb dish, Korma vegetables, rice Tandori chicken and Naan bread... all very yummy and ,leaving absolutely no room for the mango custard that I had my eye on for desert!

Judy is looking over her appetizer platter

Leona has enough rice for two days dinner there!

I loved the cute little copper pots that the main dishes arrived in

More rice in front of Lori

Lynn and Lori


Ginny, moi, Lynn, Joyce and Leona

Yes, I look like a tuna there...but how to lose weight when all the food is so good?

Christine, then Judy, then me and Joyce and Leona in the orange on the left at the end of the table. On the right, we have Ginny, Lori, Lynn, and Karen

I picked up Joyce before we left and had to catch a few photos of her new littel runt...Amigo...Now isn't he the cutest?

It was a nice evening all in all to catch up with everyone's news and to see Karen again, who came from Nanaimo. We were reuntied with her and her sister Christine, at the grad reunion.

Sometime in the spring we will try another get together for dinner. In the meantime, I am planning a girly get together on November 15th for my annual hen party where we can order PArtylite candles, Pampered chef and maybe even some Epicurian spices. You are all invited! Lynn was asking for tupper ware, so if anyone knows of a dealer out in the Nelson area, let me know! We can have it at the hall and make an event of it!! Just joking... I don't have the energy.

In fact after all of our hard labour planting the tree yesterday, some little burrowing animal did an excavation down under the tree and up the other side. and out again... Perhaps a mole...grrrrr. I will try to find my trap and set it tomorrow. I was too busy finishing off my canner of borsht tonight,( I did the first part of it this am before work), then I did my beans and froze two bags. They were getting a little on the old side, so I chucked a few out and just did the best ones. Then to add to my on honey do list, I had already fried up onions and garlic and chopped swiss chard on Saturday night, so tonight I mixed in ricotta cheese and stuffed manicotti tubes and made the sauce to go over and baked them. They smell good, but what will they taste like? I never had mozzerella cheese, but added a few other kinds. It should be reasonably tasty. The rest of the ricota mixture went to the freezer, as did two bags of borsht. I canned six jars of borscht and even processed them. I hope they will last in the basement fridge now.

Ok good night everyone. It is quarter to twelve and I am pooped!
"The Creator"