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  1. I wear L'Oreal's Enless Platinum lipcolor, and it IS gluten-free, according to the note I received from the company. But I don't know about anything else.
  2. You have a point........BUT - - in my reading of the book, decades ago, seems to me he did live also on JUST bread, as he had no money? And then years later I decided he was hypoglycemic and malnourished......and then years after that I decided he was an unmedicated bipolar..........and now I am CERTAIN that he was Celiac. And bipolar. I dunno. ...
  3. Well SOMEone should be here helping me bake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Um, confession........ I've pulled the cupcakes out of my freezer - let them thaw - - was going to use them as dog biscuits - - but instead - as I am menstrual today - - I've gently warmed them in the microwave....with the ganache..........have eaten three........no, maybe four...
  4. WHAT??? already? do not tell us there is trouble in paradise........ Avatarize. Van Gogh: lived on cigarettes, absinthe, and coffee, hence a wildly malnourished, alcoholized and caffeinated GLUTEN BRAIN. when he went to the asylum, ate and slept and had no alcohol, he did not paint. Um, DID he eat the cadmiums and the pthalocyanines...
  5. Um, the YETI is not ALLOWED to drink absinthe, simply by reason of his sheer size. It will require too much of our precious elixir to get him drunk!!!!!!!!!!! OMG are those artists in the Group of Seven absinthe drinkers?????? methinks yes... Van Gogh and Gauguin, though technically not Fauvists (think Matisse, Derain, Manquin, Rauol Dufy), were...
  6. Bev - what have you started???????? BRING BACK ABSINTHE!!!!!!!!! Check this out, adn look at the third paragraph. oh what joy! It's NOT a hallucinogen, and not as eeee-villle as was always thought!!!!!!!!!!!! Open Original Shared Link 'Tis now the official beverage of the Gustavian Silly Yak Lunatic Madness Bacchanal and Parade!!!!...
  7. Yeah, he's about 5 minutes away. Well, absinthe, um, burns holes in teh brain....hence its other name, Wormwood. No, it's made from Wormwood. I think. Well.. it burns holes in the wood on the tops of bars. Or is that just urban legend? Um, it's about 80% alcohol. OMG I DID get a small vial of real absinthe, from France!!!!!!!!!...
  8. So..........evidently the RECIPE is okay........it's a case of Operator Error!!!!!!!!!!! Well, that doesn't surprise me. I am NOT a baker.......can't stand it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks for the hints everyone - - I am determined to have cupcake success! <shaking head> you are just a lunatic, aren't you???????? and if I could...
  9. Um, Sarah, I am a CA native - trust me - it IS another planet. Well, southern Cal and parts of northern and nearly all coastal.......unfortunately I live in the MIDDLE. Sooooooooo pedestrian here, I do not belong. But, I do like the wide open spaces and the farmlands around me, and being able to see the Sierra Nevada about 2/3 of the year, and knowing...
  10. p.s. Tom - - clearly you ahve too much stuff. It is time, my friend, to liquidate. My models will not travel, however, for less than 10k a day - apiece. You are on your own.
  11. Hi Liz, they WERE heavy and chewy! Blech! But, it was tapioca FLOUR and not starch - does that make a difference? I will definitely try your recipe, in fact, probably tomorrow, as there is still plenty of chocolate ganache frosting left. Also wonder if I beat them too long? Does that make a difference? I think it does.....
  12. <green-puke-face emoticon here> OMG - brandy could make me vomit - - I TRIED to be a brandy drinker...and a scotch drinker.......but dang, those things could just make me THROW UP. I have to stick with wine adn candy-flavoUred cocktails, or mojitos, that's about it..... HOWEVER - - at a campfire a couple of years ago a nice lady was...
  13. So we're goign to New York? YAY!!!!!!!!!!!! Richard...........get ready for us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the smell of Wee and Yeti............well, isn't there a special Febreeze for that? I have one for my car but I swear I saw a Febreeze Wee-be-gone version at Big Lots the other day.........hard to find, though........... OMG do you know what some...
  14. I think that's true.......I have read of SO many problems w/ Frito-Lay.......but I can't even remember a problem with Trader Joe's, thank God!
  15. :lol: :lol: :lol: OMG - who's Ashley, and.........can she bring a freakin' salad, maybe? OMG - - I feel for you......we had 25 at dinner yesterday and she ordered ALL of it from a restaurant - no one had to do anything - - EXCEPT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dude, you TOTALLY need to enlist some help..................... ...
  16. Well, I made my FIRST and only attempt at gluten-free cupcakes to take to a pre-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving dinner yesterday, out-of-town. The cupcakes did NOT make the trip with us - they were horrid! Spongy, and hard, and not even REMOTELY fluffy. Folks, I know it can be done, because I went to the Stanford Celiac conference 1.5 years ago, and...
  17. *snigger* :lol: oh my gawwwwwwwwwwwwd......................
  18. Emily of the North........I just HAVE to comment on this e'er-so-poetic and APT musing of your'n......a moment.......a spot of time........just a wee second.........and then BAM - - indeed, the setting sun, whining dingos, a burnt college-educated turkey breast............. that really describes how my life has been since the internet entered my...
  19. YES!!!!!!!!!!! do you think he's GOT his mojo back?????????? Hoping for a report on Tuesday.................... I HATE it when Richard abandons us!!!!!!!!!!!!!! harrumph!!!!!!!!!! *snort* OMG - - Peter - - - he's still reading - - it's his Sunday Recreational Reading!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This gives me great joy..............he's still...
  20. I eat them also......TONS of things from Trader Joe's. Try them once, see if I react - if I don't, I consider them safe until proven otherwise......
  21. OMG - Nikki - - PIMP MY POODLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol: Patti - - yes - heinous - we have to cook no matter what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Although, my mom and brother are just really fabulous about the whole thing and work so hard to accommodate.... and Patti - - what pictures am I posting.... Is it my family gathering...
  22. Yes, King Augustus Octavius Celiacus Maximus the FIRST............. and there's steve, requiring me to google another latin phrase................. Well, just pour yourself a stiff drink and read along...............it's just mayhem, really. OMG my ebay totals are nearly $300!!!!!!!!!!!! and a few days to go...
  23. OMG :lol: You know, we haven't heard a PEEP from our founder during her WHOLE honeymoon.....what has he been up to, exactly? THAT is where she's been, so late at night! and all the coffee and cigarettes - I just HAVE to get her into rehab right away..............I'll call Lindsay's agent.......... Bev, as former and most...
  24. YAY!!!!!!! This sounds perfect! So glad you're back and glad you had a great time!!!!!!!!!!!! *snort* I forgot what St. Remy is. Maybe THAT's what we need, whilst reading? The yeti - - should I tell him? I do recall it had to do wtih whether a restaurant in the south was gluten-free/cf/yf - etc. And we just went...
  25. Oh this cracks me up........the very scholarly Peter, goign back to see our TOTAL and COMPLETE buffoonery and madness. Folks........can I just say this............I am sitting here, as we speak, cooking the herb-incrusted turkey breast, five pounds, for which I paid TWENTY-ONE DOLLARS. Yeah, no one had a fresh or frozen certifiably...
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