Girls Coffeeshop Talk

[Kinnakeet]

Originally Posted by FeelingTheBlues

1700's? Dear, you like older men don't you?

...Sorry, couldn't resist!

Je parle français à la maison ainsi qu'au travail (avec les clients francophones, évidemment!) mais je ne connais pas le français cajun! J'aimerais bien connaître quelques petites expressions à la Zachary Richard (I don't know if you know him).


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Ok Carl,with my very limited grade school french, I will attempt to translate what you just said:
I speak french at home and also while at work,( with french clients of course) but i don't know cajun french! i would very much like to know the small stories of Zachary Richard.........
so how close am I Carl?

[keschete]

Originally Posted by FeelingTheBlues

1700's? Dear, you like older men don't you?

...Sorry, couldn't resist!

Je parle français à la maison ainsi qu'au travail (avec les clients francophones, évidemment!) mais je ne connais pas le français cajun! J'aimerais bien connaître quelques petites expressions à la Zachary Richard (I don't know if you know him).

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Hehehe, its okay if you don't understand cajun, if you listen close and pay attention it isn't that different from regular French except some of the expressions down here, you have to know to understand. The little sayings can be unique to one small community even.

Different dialects have different expressions. My husband knows who Zachary Richard is, but I don't.

I understood most of your post, but he helped me with the few words I didn't understand. He could read you post without trouble. And he is about 8 or 9 generations removed from Montreal!!!

[FeelingTheBlues]

Originally Posted by Kinnakeet

Ok Carl,with my very limited grade school french, I will attempt to translate what you just said:
I speak french at home and also while at work,( with french clients of course) but i don't know cajun french! i would very much like to know the small stories of Zachary Richard.........
so how close am I Carl?

Replace small stories of by some expressions "à la".

Originally Posted by keschete

Hehehe, its okay if you don't understand cajun, if you listen close and pay attention it isn't that different from regular French except some of the expressions down here, you have to know to understand. The little sayings can be unique to one small community even.

Different dialects have different expressions. My husband knows who Zachary Richard is, but I don't.

I understood most of your post, but he helped me with the few words I didn't understand. He could read you post without trouble. And he is about 8 or 9 generations removed from Montreal!!!

Kaya,

Here's Zachary (my favorite song, I'm not the biggest fan of French music but this one is very nice)!



As for your husband, I guess we Montreal people have some kind of a spiritual link between us...

[dbelle7]

Ok I'm getting Rosetta Stone.

[FeelingTheBlues]

By the way, ladies and gentlemen, here's another set of pictures for those of you who are interested!

The harvest (those ones are dedicated to Lisa), some tomatoes and chili peppers (I've had a few tomatoes, they taste very good).







Here's another friend of mine! I met him/her in my bathroom while I was taking a shower (pictures were taken after, don't start thinking I take pictures of myself in the shower...).

As you can see, there's a little hole in my bathroom's wall, I think that's where it lives and it decided to come out today, we hung in the shower and stuff, it's quite nice!



There was still some steam when I took the pictures, hence the so so quality...





And a last one, my new bronze skull ring (don't laugh! As I've said before, I like things related to voodoo and demons, those types of spooky stories regarding sorcerers, witches and maledictions...things related to that part of religions and legends regarding demons in different cultures' folklore). This ring kind of reminds me of those and I really liked the look of the ones Keith Richards and Eric Clapton have.

Here it is on my acoustic guitar, I kind of liked the look of that picture...looks somewhat...bluesy...

[dbelle7]

[QUOTE=FeelingTheBlues;3438242]By the way, ladies and gentlemen, here's another set of pictures for those of you who are interested!

The harvest (those ones are dedicated to Lisa), some tomatoes and chili peppers (I've had a few tomatoes, they taste very good).








You grew those veggies? You are a multi-talented dude, Carl!

I'm not sure which is scarier, your visitor or your new ring

Maybe the spidey came out to visit for your birthday!!!

[FeelingTheBlues]

Well I can't say I grew them, I just planted them and today my mother decided to go take a couple of those but I didn't do more than watering them from times to times (the recent rainy days helped me out a bit...). My father also took care of the weeds one day while I was at work!

As for the scarier thing, I guess it would have been nice to take a picture of my visitor on my ring!

...Now I have to hope that Spidey will have some cake with me!

[Lisa]

Originally Posted by dbelle7

Ok I'm getting Rosetta Stone.

Me, too. That year of French in high school isn't coming back to me much at all.

[Lisa]

Carl, thanks for the pics! Looks wonderful. You could make some homemade chili and use both harvests in the recipe!

[FeelingTheBlues]

Originally Posted by Lisa

Carl, thanks for the pics! Looks wonderful. You could make some homemade chili and use both harvests in the recipe!

That would be lovely! Otherwise I could chop one of those peppers (or two) and mix it in a mayonaise-ish sauce for steaks? We're having that tonight for my birthday...I'll think about it!

[Lisa]

Originally Posted by FeelingTheBlues

That would be lovely! Otherwise I could chop one of those peppers (or two) and mix it in a mayonaise-ish sauce for steaks? We're having that tonight for my birthday...I'll think about it!

Sounds very good - and spicy!

[FeelingTheBlues]

Originally Posted by Lisa

Sounds very good - and spicy!

Meh, it's just mayonaise...

...Oh, wait...

[The Joker]

Originally Posted by Lisa

Karis and Wes, and y'all other coffeeshoppers, the trip to WalMart paid off today! The girls and I had a nice little 4 o'clock tea time. The girls had herbal/berry tea and I had the Earl Grey with milk:







The digestives are quite good. You're right, Karis and Wes, they're not too sweet and the chocolate ones are divine. I'm reminded just a bit of a graham cracker, but with a heartier texture and not quite so sweet. I'll be buying more of those.

Yay

Excellent. Yes the chocolate ones are better. The plain are not too bad, quite a good biscuit to bulk out the biscuit tin with. Did you dunk the biscuits in the tea? I'm not seeing any evidence of this. Best way to eat them, although if you dunk too long you end up with half the biscuit at the bottom of the cup. You will get bored of digestives every day, so keep a look out for the others I mentioned, or maybe have afternoon tea with cake.

Now I'm gonna start on you with the tea. Earl Grey is good, but a better all round tea is a more original/English type. Might be called Engish Breakfast. Tetley, Twinings , PG Tips, Typhoo are brands. And 20 teabags, how long is that gonna last, a day. We can get Tetley with 1100 teabags, good for at least a couple weeks



And milk in last. Have you got a teapot?

Well I think you can now be called a honorary Brit, Lisa. Did you sing God save the Queen just before having the tea?

Oh, and your girls are adorable.

[The Joker]

Originally Posted by Kinnakeet

Hey coffeeshop,
Here are some of my own Bar Harbor shots...

pic#1- hanging out at Balance Rock...at low tide

pic#2- Bar Harbor from Mt. Cadillac

pic#3- a quartz vein runs the length of the island- I found a bit of it and was thrilled

pic#4-my friend Karen and I about to go kayaking....I look pretty happy at this point....

pic#5- out on some ocean swell....Karen is saying "Yes! bring it on!"...I'm saying " !! I'm going to hurl..."

Great memories from last October;
Mark and I are heading back there in a couple of weeks and I can hardly wait!!!

Bar Harbor looks stunning. I wanna go there.

Did Carl ask you for more pictures of the quartz vein.

[FeelingTheBlues]

Originally Posted by The Joker

Bar Harbor looks stunning. I wanna go there.

Did Carl ask you for more pictures of the quartz vein.

I almost made a joke about that but figured a lot wouldn't get it...seems like you would have understood...

[East Bay Rider]

Originally Posted by dbelle7

Ok I'm getting Rosetta Stone.

Originally Posted by Lisa

Me, too. That year of French in high school isn't coming back to me much at all.

'Coffee Break French' free on iTunes.

[Kinnakeet]

Originally Posted by FeelingTheBlues

Replace small stories of by some expressions "à la".



Kaya,

Here's Zachary (my favorite song, I'm not the biggest fan of French music but this one is very nice)!
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That's a beautiful song....it sounds as if Zachary is telling a sad story...

Originally Posted by FeelingTheBlues

Well I can't say I grew them, I just planted them and today my mother decided to go take a couple of those but I didn't do more than watering them from times to times (the recent rainy days helped me out a bit...). My father also took care of the weeds one day while I was at work!

As for the scarier thing, I guess it would have been nice to take a picture of my visitor on my ring!

...Now I have to hope that Spidey will have some cake with me!

HAPPY belated BIRTHDAY CARL
Those tomatoes look delectable indeed!
Would you be able to post a pic of your version of Calabrese salad ?
Your ring is very cool- I have two nephews and a niece who would all appreciate it! Looks great on the guitar...now what about with your watch?
lastly- you must have powerful spidey senses to attract all these arachnids showing up of lately ! Have you ever read "Charlotte's Web"? Its a children's story, (Disney also got their hands on it so there is a movie as well ), and it completely convinced me to live release spiders when I find one- I'll never smoosh another spider!

[Kinnakeet]

Originally Posted by The Joker

Bar Harbor looks stunning. I wanna go there.

Did Carl ask you for more pictures of the quartz vein.

If you like to hike and bike and kayak etc. its worth the trip across the pond!
Bonus side trip- its only about a 10 hr drive from Montreal..... bring a keyboard....

[Lisa]

Thanks for the tips, Wes. Yes, there was dunking going on. In Violet's photo she had just dunked, in fact. I tried to take more pics of her but she decided it was too embarrassing and finished her biscuit while under the table.

We can get some of the tea brands you describe. Twining's is found about everywhere. I chose Earl Grey because I've used it before for making chai, and I know I've had the standard English Breakfast teas, too.

Do kids drink tea in the UK? At what age do people start? With coffee, over here, it's definitely an adult drink only. I started drinking it in college. My kids hate coffee... but they like the herbal/fruit flavor non-caffeinated teas.

20 bags might last longer than you think, because I'm not likely to have more than one cup a day... though with milk in the tea it's quite nice. I can go through a pound of coffee in a week, though.

Yes, I have tea pots and kettles, too. My kettle is cast-iron. Would it be ok to pour from the kettle directly into the cup with tea bag, or is it better to transfer the hot water into a ceramic tea pot? Do you always make tea one cup at a time, or can you put several teabags into the teapot to steep at once, and them remove them at the strength you want (this is how we're served tea in local Asian restaurants).

[Kinnakeet]

Originally Posted by Lisa

Thanks for the tips, Wes. Yes, there was dunking going on. In Violet's photo she had just dunked, in fact. I tried to take more pics of her but she decided it was too embarrassing and finished her biscuit while under the table.

We can get some of the tea brands you describe. Twining's is found about everywhere. I chose Earl Grey because I've used it before for making chai, and I know I've had the standard English Breakfast teas, too.

Do kids drink tea in the UK? At what age do people start? With coffee, over here, it's definitely an adult drink only. I started drinking it in college. My kids hate coffee... but they like the herbal/fruit flavor non-caffeinated teas.

20 bags might last longer than you think, because I'm not likely to have more than one cup a day... though with milk in the tea it's quite nice. I can go through a pound of coffee in a week, though.

Yes, I have tea pots and kettles, too. My kettle is cast-iron. Would it be ok to pour from the kettle directly into the cup with tea bag, or is it better to transfer the hot water into a ceramic tea pot? Do you always make tea one cup at a time, or can you put several teabags into the teapot to steep at once, and them remove them at the strength you want (this is how we're served tea in local Asian restaurants).

Hi Lisa, it's quite a cultural lesson isn't it!
I was trying to post a youtube vid for you and your little "dunkers"- unsuccessfully so...
if you want to know why you should be drinking Tetley tea instead of Earl Grey...go to youtube and search tetley tea dance....pick the "thats better thats tetley 1980s video... the girls might enjoy it!
ps i have a cup of tea a day, and its Tetleys! great with milk!

[Lisa]

I'll look into that video, Michelle.

And it's so true - tea making is quite the art form. Then again, coffee purists have their share of preferences, too. Over time, I got tired of stuff like grinding my own beans, using a press or other gadgets, and just buy ground coffee and make a pot in my automatic coffeemaker that's probably not clean enough.

It is still fun, every now and then, to perk coffee in Grandma's old Pyrex maker, even though the coffee from it really isn't as tasty:

[kcmo]

Originally Posted by Lisa

Karis and Wes, and y'all other coffeeshoppers, the trip to WalMart paid off today! The girls and I had a nice little 4 o'clock tea time. The girls had herbal/berry tea and I had the Earl Grey with milk:







The digestives are quite good. You're right, Karis and Wes, they're not too sweet and the chocolate ones are divine. I'm reminded just a bit of a graham cracker, but with a heartier texture and not quite so sweet. I'll be buying more of those.

YAY LISA!!!!!!!!!!! I'm SO excited to see you've found them! I hope the girls had fun as well. Correct, the biscuits aren't too sweet which is a plus for me....though that also means I have a tough time eating just one...or 3! So will you be partaking in tea time again today?

[kcmo]

Originally Posted by The Joker

Yay

Excellent. Yes the chocolate ones are better. The plain are not too bad, quite a good biscuit to bulk out the biscuit tin with. Did you dunk the biscuits in the tea? I'm not seeing any evidence of this. Best way to eat them, although if you dunk too long you end up with half the biscuit at the bottom of the cup. You will get bored of digestives every day, so keep a look out for the others I mentioned, or maybe have afternoon tea with cake.

Now I'm gonna start on you with the tea. Earl Grey is good, but a better all round tea is a more original/English type. Might be called Engish Breakfast. Tetley, Twinings , PG Tips, Typhoo are brands. And 20 teabags, how long is that gonna last, a day. We can get Tetley with 1100 teabags, good for at least a couple weeks



And milk in last. Have you got a teapot?

Well I think you can now be called a honorary Brit, Lisa. Did you sing God save the Queen just before having the tea?

Oh, and your girls are adorable.

Wes, you sound just as proud of Lisa as I do! I love PG Tips....have you had Joco tea? We really enjoy it...my husband especially.

[Kinnakeet]

Hey Lisa,
I have 3 close friends who are Brits,one of whose tea prep habits make my jaw want to drop !
First off "tea should really only be prepared in a silver pot" (silver plate is acceptable...)
secondly- "never wash the tea pot-the subsequent pots of brewing tea will be enhanced"
thirdly- "tea should be drunk from a fine bone china cup in order to fully appreciate the flavour..."
I just boil some water, pour over a Tetleybag waiting in a large crockery mug...let steep at least 5 min,(nice 'n 'strong) and then add 2% milk

[Lisa]

Originally Posted by Kinnakeet

Hey Lisa,
I have 3 close friends who are Brits,one of whose tea prep habits make my jaw want to drop !
First off "tea should really only be prepared in a silver pot" (silver plate is acceptable...)
secondly- "never wash the tea pot-the subsequent pots of brewing tea will be enhanced"
thirdly- "tea should be drunk from a fine bone china cup in order to fully appreciate the flavour..."
I just boil some water, pour over a Tetleybag waiting in a large crockery mug...let steep at least 5 min,(nice 'n 'strong) and then add 2% milk

So I take it microwaving a mug of water would be frowned upon?

[The Joker]

Originally Posted by Lisa

Thanks for the tips, Wes. Yes, there was dunking going on. In Violet's photo she had just dunked, in fact. I tried to take more pics of her but she decided it was too embarrassing and finished her biscuit while under the table.

We can get some of the tea brands you describe. Twining's is found about everywhere. I chose Earl Grey because I've used it before for making chai, and I know I've had the standard English Breakfast teas, too.

Do kids drink tea in the UK? At what age do people start? With coffee, over here, it's definitely an adult drink only. I started drinking it in college. My kids hate coffee... but they like the herbal/fruit flavor non-caffeinated teas.

20 bags might last longer than you think, because I'm not likely to have more than one cup a day... though with milk in the tea it's quite nice. I can go through a pound of coffee in a week, though.

Yes, I have tea pots and kettles, too. My kettle is cast-iron. Would it be ok to pour from the kettle directly into the cup with tea bag, or is it better to transfer the hot water into a ceramic tea pot? Do you always make tea one cup at a time, or can you put several teabags into the teapot to steep at once, and them remove them at the strength you want (this is how we're served tea in local Asian restaurants).

Yep kids drink tea in the UK, I was weaned on it. I think the only thing in it not good for kids is the caffeine, and compared to coffee there is a lot less. Especially in a weak cup. Kids normally like weak/milky tea. Decaf tastes ok anyway. Gotta be better than fizzy drinks.

People swear by making it in a pot, but I find in a cup is just as good, and easier to make it to your strength. So yes straight into the cup with the bag. And add milk after you remove the bag. Depends how many I'm making for whether I do a pot or 1 cup.

The combination between getting the strength right and amount of milk added is key.

[Kinnakeet]

Originally Posted by Lisa

So I take it microwaving a mug of water would be frowned upon?

I'd love to suggest this to Cyril! His reaction would be fun to watch!
We love him though- he's a keeper!

[The Joker]

Originally Posted by kcmo

Wes, you sound just as proud of Lisa as I do! I love PG Tips....have you had Joco tea? We really enjoy it...my husband especially.

Yes very proud. Not heard of Joco, looks like it is a SA brand. Will keep a lookout for it.

[dbelle7]

Originally Posted by Lisa

Me, too. That year of French in high school isn't coming back to me much at all.

Two full semesters in college, obviously wasted. lol

[kcmo]

Originally Posted by The Joker

Yes very proud. Not heard of Joco, looks like it is a SA brand. Will keep a lookout for it.