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   Hi Ben,   
      
   RH> The last couple weeks of 2025 were pretty quiet too--is nobody posting or   
   RH> is there a hiccup in the system?   
      
    BC> I suspect it was legitimately quiet, not a hiccup.   
      
   Hopefully we'll see more people in here this year. Did Sean ever find   
   out anything about Dave Drum?   
      
      
   RH> OTOH, I have 5 sewing machines, a serger and an embroidery machine (Steve   
   RH> runs that, back story to that.) but one machine and the serger get the   
   RH> most use. I've got enough projects to keep me going for years. (G)   
      
    BC> Wow, you have even more sewing machines than my mother does.  She has   
    BC> 4: her own, one inherited from her mother, another inherited from her   
    BC> sister, and another spare that was a bargain from the thrift store.  I   
    BC> believe my mother's is a Singer and my sister's is a Brother.  I am   
    BC> not familiar with Serger sewing machines.  Oh, is that a type an not a   
    BC> brand?   
      
   Sergers are an overlock machine--if you look at the seams on T shirts,   
   they're generally sewn with a serger. It sews the seams with an overlock   
   stitch, trimming it at the same time. It puts a better finish on the   
   seam than just leaving raw edges and is a lot faster than using pinking   
   shears to prevent ravelling. My serger is a Baby Lock (brand).   
      
   As for regular sewing machines, I had 6 but after Hurricane Helene hit   
   western NC, I sent my Janome machine out there, with a box of sewing   
   supplies. I currently own a Pfaff which is my main (work horse) machine,   
   a Brother (rides around in the camper and gets used when we're on the   
   road), a Juki semi industrial machine for the heavy duty projects, a   
   Bernina that I inherited from my aunt and a Singer Featherweight, one of   
   the original lightweight, portable machines. The Juki and Featherweight   
   do just a straight stitch but the Featherweight one is very fine, good   
   for quilting or if I have to work with some of the finer fabrics--hemmed   
   a 5 layer wedding gown some years ago using the serger on the under   
   layers and the Featherweight on the topmost layer. I'd love a treadle   
   machine but we've no room for it in this house.   
      
      
    BC> I think it's cool that Brother makes both sewing machines and laser   
    BC> printers.  There's cross-stitching between the computer market and the   
    BC> textile market.  ;)   
      
   They also make free standing embroidery machines; we own one. About 10   
   years ago my Brother machine started giving me problems so I took it   
   into a Brother dealer down in Raleigh. It was an unrepairable problem so   
   I came home with a new one. The store was going out of business so   
   selling out their stock so a couple of days later, Steve and I went to   
   look at their embroidery machines. Didn't make a decision then but went   
   back a couple of days later to get (the only one left) of a machine.   
   While the sale was being rung up, the owner got a phone call---"Do you   
   have any model XXX machines left?". "We're ringing up the sale of the   
   last one now, sorry" was the reply. We've enjoyed it. (G)   
      
   RH> One of the first recipies I printed off shortly after I joined the   
   echo in RH> January, 1994 was posted by Michael Loo for Pseudo-Melinda's   
   Hot Sauce. RH> Steve still makes it, altho not as regularly as he used   
   to.   
      
    BC> Cool!  I started making my own hot sauce after a friend served me some   
    BC> of his home-made hot sauce.  It's cheap and easy.  Just need a   
    BC> blender.  I like to save seeds from squash that i cook, and put them   
    BC> into the   
    BC> hot sauce mix.  I believe capsaicin is oil soluble and that the   
    BC> saturated fats in the squash seeds helps make it hotter.   
      
   This one has carrots and lime juice, besides habenero peppers. We kept a   
   bottle in the church fridge when our small group was meeting regularly   
   after Sunday morning worship. We always had lunch so Steve brought in a   
   bottle of the sauce for heat lovers--I made him draw a skull &   
   crossbones on the label, besides written warnings. It was too hot for   
   me; I like a medium heat level. I've also made salsa, but not in the   
   last few years, using a recipe from our AZ pastor's wife.   
      
   RH> We've not tried the vegetable pancakes but do enjoy seafood pancakes   
   every RH> so often. Sometimes we'll order one, plus just one main dish   
   and take part RH> of the pancake home to enjoy another time. Sam's Club   
   had a bag of mixed RH> seafood in their freezer section a few years ago;   
   we bought one and had RH> enough seafood for about 5 pancakes. A bit   
   fiddly but they tasted good. RH> Guess I ought to see if they have it   
   again.   
      
    BC> Interesting idea... it's using the pancake batter as a substrate   
    BC> rather than a breading to fry seafood.  I can imagine pancakes with   
    BC> those tiny shrimp they catch locally off the Oregon coast.  It could   
    BC> be like a   
    BC> seafood version of biscuits and gravy.   
      
   It's basically the same as the vegetable pancake but with seafood   
   instead of the vegetables except the green onions; they are part of it.   
   But yes, a shrimp gravy over biscuits does sound yummy, a varient on the   
   southern favorite, shrimp and grits.   
      
    BC> Here is the only Melinda's copycat recipe that i am aware of having   
    in BC> my database:   
      
      
    BC>       Title: Melinda's Habanero Pepper Sauce   
    BC>  Categories: Copycat, Sauces   
    BC>       Yield: 1 Batch   
      
    BC>     1/2 c  Onion; chopped   
    BC>       2 cl Garlic; minced   
    BC>       1 tb Olive oil   
    BC>     1/2 c  Carrots; chopped   
    BC>     1/8 c  Water   
    BC>      12 ea Habaneros; stemmed, chopped   
    BC>     1/2 c  White vinegar   
    BC>     1/4 c  Lime juice   
      
      
   That's basically the same one we have, probably a minor tweak somewhere   
   in it so it can be called pseudo-Melinda's.   
      
   ---   
   Catch you later,   
   Ruth   
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