Oddly enough I keep the skin on. It's supposed to contain all the nutrients. BUT!!! You must scrub that sucker clean before you cook it.

Oh, go out and buy a grater. You'll be so happy. Try the cheese grater first. Yeah, I know it's a lot of work. And be careful you don't skin your knuckles.

That's why I use the V slicer FOR EVERYTHING. It came with this handly holder thing so you just jab into into the potato and grate away.

can't wait to hear how you made out.
melody

Dear Bob:

Thanks for the warning about those plastic films in the microwave. As Melody has, I have a hard plastic cover thingie that I got at the grocery store a couple of years ago - it sounds exactly like Melody's cover. I love the thing and it just fits over my dinner plates which have a silver edging that arcs if not covered - these are antiques but I use them and they are holding up fine. I rarely even have that thin plastic stuff on hand - I do have good old fashioned wax paper and thanks Bob for reminding me of that. It handles more easily too. I am old fashioned in many ways.

What would we do without these helpful hints? I love it.

Shirley H.

Why do you think the Russians and others developed a recipe
for potato pancakes. "Latkes" .
It was peasant food and helped feed the whole family

Hi ya Aussie, have you tried that " Lite Salt " ?, i have been using it for years.
I don't think i could use regular salt now, nearly makes me sick when i see how people pour it all over their food, yuck.

I don't know what they sell in Australia or the rest of the USA, but here in Brooklyn, NY we use a product called Salt Sense made by Diamond Crystal.

There is also a product on the shelves called "Salt Substitue". I think it has Potassium something or other in it. IT DOES NOT TAST LIKE SALT, I BOUGHT IT AND THREW IT AWAY. It had to be the most awful thing I ever tasted.

And the other day, when I ran out of Salt Sense (I was eating a piece of grilled Salmon) with some veggies on the side, I looked in the cupboard for some regular salt. I figured, "well, I'm out of Salt Sense, so I'll use a bit of regular salt". Forget it. When you tongue is used to a bit less sodium (Salt Sense has 33% less sodum than regular salt ), and THEN, when you sprinkle regular salt over something, eweeeeeeeeeee!!!! disgusting.

I spit it out, went to my local supermarket and bought the Salt Sense.

Melody

It is called Cardia salt.

http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/2A0EA.htm

This is where I get mine:
http://www.puritan.com/pages/file.as...CPID=7900&np=1
It can be hard to find however. I do recall special ordering it from pharmacies at one time.

I also use the potassium stuff...it does not taste strange to me. I have trained
myself on it. I think the more you need potassium the better it tastes!

I do use Lite Salt in the white canister. And i even moderate eith that too. SAlt just gives me the willies. When I see someone adding more salt to some of the worls already saltiest popcorn or food!! YUK!!!

Studies have shown that children borne of mothers who were on sodium
restricted diets, have an elevated barometer for salt intake.

I don't salt food. And I was on a 2gram max daily diet while pregnant.
My son is a saltaholic....I have watched this since he was a baby.
He was also very small at birth... 3lb 14 oz. I have been on Blood pressure meds since I was 30 yrs old. I had my son at 34.

Here is an article that is just fascinating...about babies, mothers, and salt:
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060128/food.asp

Alan went to see his podiatrist Dr. Baird, and right next door is MODELLS. What were they selling today??? Mini-trampolines.

Alan walks in the door with this great big thing and says “ooh, look what I got?” All I saw was the word BOUNCER on the box and I said “you’re not serious, we live on the second floor, over two 80 year old people. You want to BOUNCE on top of them?”

He replies “well, we’ll place it on the exercise mat”. I said “the whole house will shake”.

Didn’t matter what I said: He was determined to BOUNCE his way to being Rocky Balboa.

This one is called The Body Burner. Oh, and this is important!!! Ask me what he paid for it??? The box said $45.00. Not a bad price for this size mini-trampoline, I thought to myself. I go: “oh, you paid only $45.00, wow”. He smugly said “no, I paid $10.00.

I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN IMMEDIATELY WHY HE PAID $10.00 FOR THIS THING!!! The thing comes folded up and you have to kneel on it and open it up until it clicks into position and locks.

So it comes with a dvd that EXPLAINS HOW TO OPEN UP THE TRAMPOLINE!!!

Oh, sure, after two hours on our knees trying to open the thing up, (it wouldn’t open) I call the 800 number only to be told that because we didn’t have it shipped to our house, they can’t talk to us on the phone”.

So Alan says to me “Stand on it and I’ll open it up” Stupid me, I stand on it, I go flying on the floor spraining my wrist and cutting my knee. That’s when I let lose with words that no Christian woman would say.

Then he tries to do it and he almost falls on the floor.

I simply got up and said quite distinctly “You will take this back to Modells the next time you see Dr. Baird”. You will get your $10.00 back. If they don’t give it back to you, I don’t care if you leave it, you will not bring this THING back into the house.”

If I ever see a trampoline again, it will be too soon!! This thing was not stable, not secure and I wouldn’t go on it for all the tea in china. It even came with a Stability Bar.

All this for $10.00???? Yeah, I bet this has been bought and returned so many times, I can’t count. Alan is keeping away from me as I put betadine on my knees. I will have to use a wrist splint too.

I know he wants to exercise, be healthy etc. Just now he said to me “I’m going to the gym tomorrow”. I said ‘Please do!!!!”


melody

I am so glad you were not more seriously injured!

Trampolines are atrocious... cause huge numbers of injuries/year.

Very dangerous.

Since you live upstairs... I'd suggest you have Alan just do the stairs, several times a day. This is FREE and good exercise!