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ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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MinnieM123 said:
Because all my cooking stuff is old (except for my Instapot), I decided to buy a (6 quart) Dutch oven (cast iron with some sort of glass cooking surface in the pot). Didn't realize the price of cookware had increased (with tax it was around $75.00, but I wanted a solid one from Lodge). It can be used on any range top, and in the oven. Bought it at Target.

Cooking a pot roast now in oven, with potatoes, carrots and onions. Hopefully, it won't come out hideous. :hilarious: No guarantees! :p

Oh, while I was first browning the roast on the stovetop, I opened a cabinet and pulled out a pyrex measuring cup, and I dropped it. Broke into about a hundred pieces all over the floor. 🤦‍♀️ Then again, it's one less thing I have to wash now! :happy:
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Yikes about the Pyrex! But you and I were thinking alike today, I also made a pot roast with potatoes, carrots, and onions (I also threw in some chopped garlic). It was very tasty and I purposely bought a large roast so we would have enough for pot roast sandwiches for lunch this week.
 
SteveBrickNJ

SteveBrickNJ

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ajrwdwgirl said:
I'm curious about the teach from home thing....were you told to prepare for this on Friday or during the weekend? What would happen if not all teachers or students had their supplies (laptops, etc) with them and left them at school? We haven't been told what would happen for us if there was a snowday or a looming snowday, but I could see students and our teachers not having what they need for a spur of the moment virtual day at home.
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Gabe1

Gabe1

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ajrwdwgirl said:
I'm curious about the teach from home thing....were you told to prepare for this on Friday or during the weekend? What would happen if not all teachers or students had their supplies (laptops, etc) with them and left them at school? We haven't been told what would happen for us if there was a snowday or a looming snowday, but I could see students and our teachers not having what they need for a spur of the moment virtual day at home.
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Here last spring when our schools did not reopen after break the schools set a schedule pick up time for them to retrieve all their stuff over 2 days. The board had already decided not to reopen until fall but they decided not to share that until a few weeks later when they had a game plan for the teaching staff and student.

Here because of snow last week they just had a snow day.
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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Gabe1 said:
Here last spring when our schools did not reopen after break the schools set a schedule pick up time for them to retrieve all their stuff over 2 days. The board had already decided not to reopen until fall but they decided not to share that until a few weeks later when they had a game plan for the teaching staff and student.

Here because of snow last week they just had a snow day.
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Our school was the same last spring and had pick up times for supplies, a random snow day is a little different though. I know some schools have told their teachers to watch out for possible inclement weather and be prepared for virtual learning and some have just given a snow day.
 
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wdwfan4ver

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ajrwdwgirl said:
Was it because of the vaccine that he can't do physical work? I hadn't heard that as being something not to do with the vaccine. Sorry you are getting the snow, we got a light dusting up here.
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They did not directly say do not do physical work, but he had to keep an eye on himself for 24 hours after the vaccine since it was the 2nd dose of the vaccine. Some people at his work had issues with that 2nd dose. He was told to drink plenty of fluids and check temp after so often.

It is ideal not to, but it does not affect his work. He got the vaccine on the weekend he's off. He's going back to work tomorrow.

The other thing is he wanted to take it easy since he was scheduled off Saturday and Sunday considering he had the 2nd of the 2 doses.
Yesterday, he got the side effect of being drowsy after the vaccine injection and also got a stiffness where he got the injection. He woke up with a stiff neck today although I don't know if that is vaccine related. The neck issue got better, the arm was something bothering him.
 
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wdwfan4ver

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figmentfan423 said:
The word intervention comes to mind;)
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No need to. The Breadsticks from Olive garden taste great:hungry:. My younger brother's birthday meal before 2020 was at Olive Garden. He likes the soup, Tour of Italy, and the breadsticks.

I like the chicken gnocchi soup there also along with Tour of Italy. My younger brother's birthday is the only time I go to Olive Garden for the entire year.

He didn't go to Olive Garden in 2020 for his birthday, but did get homemade lasagna and breadsticks.
 
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Songbird76

Songbird76

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donaldtoo said:
Oh, I understand, and Bisetti’s sounds a lot like Reale’s.
We have an Olive Garden less than 5 mins. away on the opposite side of our neighborhood. We’ve had more than a few meals there over the years, and none of them have ever been bad. We also have a Maggiano’s about 20 mins. away just across the street from youngest DDs place. Maggiano’s is definitely a step up from Olive Garden, but, Reale’s is definitely better than Maggiano’s...!!!!! :hungry:
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Well, to be fair, Bisetti's is slightly more expensive than Olive Garden, but it's totally worth that little bit extra. One Summer, I had gotten word that my dad was delclining, and he wanted me to come help him get his affairs in better order, meet his lawyer, etc. I went for the first couple of weeks by myself and then my husband joined me for one week and we left the kids with my inlaws. We didn't rent a car, so we were at the mercy of friends and family to drive us places. We went back home on my brother's birthday and he drove us to the airport and we told him we'd celebrate his birthday on the way and asked him where he'd like to eat. My brother is a BIG boy and when it comes to food, he's all about the quantity rather than the quality. We had made a few suggestions, one of them being Bisetti's....he'd never been there. Instead, he chose this massive "Italian" buffet, kind of like Golden Corral, but much larger, and only "Italian" food. He said it was SO good and they had such variety, there was something for everyone! I will not ever be eating there again. The pizza was like eating wall paper paste....no flavor and just a chewy, dry texture. Everything was mass-produced cafeteria food. It was terrible. He LOVED it, and I guess that's what matters, since it was his birthday. But Olive Garden is several steps up from that and Bisetti's might as well be on a different planet!
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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@ajrwdwgirl , Can I ask you how you are doing testing for your remote students? I know you are doing a mix of remote and in person, but I was just wondering about it because my kids are both remote exclusively, and back when schools closed the first time, they couldn't do any testing for grades because they had no way to supervise the kids to make sure they weren't using their books or whatever. Well, now that they are closed again, the teachers feel like that HAVE to be able to give tests, which is fine, and I totally get it...they have to have something to grade on. But one of the teachers is demanding that all the kids MUST have a webcam turned on...some kids' computers aren't equipped with webcams. They HAVE to have a webcam, and she will require them to move the camera around the room so that she can see that it's not a still picture, and that they don't have cheat sheets somewhere in their rooms. And she's also telling them they will be required to download some computer program from a website that will let her see whether or not they have clicked away from the test to another window. This feels like it's going WAY too far and it's a violation of their privacy, etc. I'm uncomfortable with E downloading unknown software onto her personal computer that we don't know what it does. And I'm uncomfortable with her insisting she needs to see into our house and look around E's room. It feels creepy to me and I don't see how that's going to keep the kids from cheating. We've written to her mentor about it, and he said they had a meeting last week about privacy, but the software issue was not discussed, so he has to take it up with the administration as to what's allowed and what's not. But I'm just wondering, as it's only one teacher who is going to extremes, the other teachers aren't requiring anything extra, how are you handling it and is there any sort of protocol you have to follow from the district? Does this teacher seem reasonable to you? I get that you want to ensure kids don't cheat, but it doesn't seem like a reasonable expectation to me for parents to have to buy webcams for one test....some may not be able to afford it, or to have to download what sounds like spyware onto their computers so the teacher can see what they are doing. If the school had provided the computers and was providing the webcams, etc, it might be another story (with the exception of making them show her their rooms), but as these are personal devices, some which the whole families use, not just the one student, I'm uncomfortable with the teacher making demands of this type.
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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ajrwdwgirl said:
Yikes about the Pyrex! But you and I were thinking alike today, I also made a pot roast with potatoes, carrots, and onions (I also threw in some chopped garlic). It was very tasty and I purposely bought a large roast so we would have enough for pot roast sandwiches for lunch this week.
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Oh, I had to push the dog out of the kitchen, with the broken pieces of Pyrex flying over the floor. (Pyrex really shatters!) He thought it was some sort of game that these shiny things were all over the place, and he wanted to play with the pieces. :jawdrop:

By the way, what do you put on your pot roast sandwich? (Never had one, so I'm curious.) Anyway, the pot roast and veggies came out great last night in my new pot. :hungry: Plenty left over, too! :happy:

@figmentfan423 , thanks for the tip about no metal utensils in that pot. (I had also read in the instructions to use either wooden or rubber-type tools, to not scratch it.)
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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Goofyernmost said:
Well, the was my observation. Italian food in Italy is very bland and spaghetti is almost none existent, but available in tourist catering restaurants. Lot's of varieties of pasta though. Don't get me wrong compared to most of the countries in Europe, Italian food is awesome, but not with the degree of spicing that we are normally used to in the states.
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My parents took me to Italy in 1985. We spent 3 weeks on the Riviera, and of course went to other sights. My mom worked for a tour operator, so she had lots of perks. It was amazing!!! Anyway it was there where we first tried pesto sauce. It was one of the best things I ever tasted. When we got home my mom tried to recreate it. Was really happy when we could find it in stores.
 

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