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Comment on Featuring Famous Father Foibles by Melody

Melody — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:22:42 +0000

My dad loved Sunday dinner: roast beef, roast potatoes, gravy, fresh veggies from the garden and Yorkshire pudding. He would cook it and then the kitchen would look like a disaster area, but the food tasted so good.

I grew up on a farm so most of what we ate, we grew. We had beef cattle, chickens, eggs, and a huge vegetable garden. However, we had to buy milk in town. I loved growing up on a farm.

Comment on Featuring Famous Father Foibles by Tina Menchions

Tina Menchions — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:48:52 +0000

My father-in-law is no chef, but he does excell at making waffles and every Sunday he would make them for the family. One Sunday morning we arrived at the breakfast table only to watch him throw out a whole bowl of batter and the waffle he had just made. His lack of basic kitchen knowledge was revealed when looking for oil to brush the waffle oil with and to add to his waffle recipe. He found “Palm Olive” and thought it was olive oil, which he thought would be just as good as the usual oil that had run out. He discovered his mistake when the waffle began to bubble and ooze out of the iron. I think we had toast that day.

Comment on Featuring Famous Father Foibles by LIBRRIAN

LIBRRIAN — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:04:21 +0000

Reading these emails reminds me of my Dad’s spaghetti and meat sauce recipe:

Brown 1 lb. ground beef
Add 1 can tomato soup concentrate
Pour over (over)cooked pasta

Imagine my amazement when I finally tasted pasta the way it is supposed to be made!

Comment on Two planning sessions, dozens of great ideas by Lucca

Lucca — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:26:00 +0000

Sounds like the overall theme was trust. Trust your staff to 1) know what the issues are and 2) have their ear to the ground in terms of what the customers want/need/suggest, and 3) to pass that along to the right people in SPUD.

The other half of the trust theme is the customer end. I’m one of the people who volunteered to give you feedback on your website when you redesigned it. I was encouraged that you were listing to your customers. I’ve always had a positive experience when I have given feedback to your staff. I am delighted to hear that you are trusting me to return my bin, my freezer jackets and my ice packs. I always do. Now you don’t have to spend time fiddling with the invoices.

Thanks for trusting; staff AND customers. After all, we’re all in this together!

Comment on Featuring Famous Father Foibles by Cathy

Cathy — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:40:00 +0000

My dad didn’t cook much, but I remember one time he tried to help with the dishes by putting on the dishwasher… unfortunately he used dishwashing liquid instead of the powdered dishwasher soap. The dishwasher overflowed with bubbles all over the kitchen floor. The kitchen looked like a giant bubble bath.

After that he stuck with just putting the dishes in the dishwasher.

Comment on Featuring Famous Father Foibles by Danielle

Danielle — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:19:44 +0000

Oh man, I nearly sprayed my coffee on the computer screen laughing at your entry. That’s just amazing! Potato soup on pizza. Creative, that’s definitely one word for that!

Comment on Featuring Famous Father Foibles by Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:08:36 +0000

Oh dear, well – he cooks using two basic rules:

1. Colour. If it seems like it needs some yellow, in goes the curry powder or tumeric. Green? Perhaps dill will do the trick, or dried mint? You can imagine the flavour combinations that ensue.

2. Leftovers. We joke that I make the beautiful food, and he uses it all up. Except he tends to use it all up at once. On top of Pizza. Which is why we’ve enjoyed pizza toppings as eclectic as rice stirfry, pasta, hummous and potato soup. I kid you not.

Will such culinary courage he occasionally comes up with something really good. Like the time he made mango muffins and forgot to put in the flour – divine.

Comment on Featuring Famous Father Foibles by Plate+Simple

Plate+Simple — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:13:31 +0000

I have such fond memories of my dad making breakfast for me and my brother to enjoy over Saturday morning cartoons. Always scrambled eggs and Mickey Mouse pancakes. I remember savoring every bite. It was the best!!

Comment on Featuring Famous Father Foibles by Candace-Ann

Candace-Ann — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:54:21 +0000

I do admit… my Dad is the table flinger.
But I thought maybe I should share a less Child Protective Services Intervention memory… I remember Dad would put us on the kitchen carpet and would pull us around the kitchen while Mom tried to cook and then he would dump us off at the table like it was the train station. SO much fun… never any cooking going on with Dad tho.

Comment on Featuring Famous Father Foibles by Katharine

Katharine — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:43:59 +0000

My Dad loved cookies. He had two rules about cookies:

1. A kid always has to have two cookies, one for each hand.
2. If a grown up is having cookies with their coffee then the stack of cookies must equal the height of the coffee cup.

I think these are good cookie rules to live by.