Odd question about cooking pasta
#272021 - 07/01/06 02:02 PM
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Sand
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Let's say I want to have spaghetti for dinner tonight and a pasta salad for lunch tomorrow. Could I cook the pasta for the pasta salad in a pot of boiling water, scoop it out when it's done, and then cook the spaghetti in the same pot of boiling water?
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Hi, I don't see why not, unless the water is starchy. But I would let the water reboil first. Unless you can cook both together then try and just pick out the spaghetti. Never mind that might not be too easy to do! Sue
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I don't see why not - just make sure you have enough water left. Any time I've had to do pasta twice, I've ended up starting over with fresh water just because there was barely a half pot of water left by the time I was done with the first.
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You guys really do have all the answers. Maybe we should play "Stump the Recipe Board". 
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If you use a very large pot to start with you can, otherwise the water will be too starchy and the next pasta will be sticky and not nice. But a very large pot is recommended at any rate, even though people usually do not use one.
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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Thanks, LM. -nt-
#272520 - 07/05/06 07:23 AM
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Sand
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Haha didn't want to waste a whole thread with this nonsense but I thought of you when I did something last week, because I think you did something similar once, if I remember correctly. I saw a tremendously bad type-o on foxnews.com and wrote them the meanest letter ...
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Dear Foxnews.com,
Who does your proofreading? When I first read the headline, "School's Get Failing Grades on Junk Food Report Cards," I thought the writer must have intended irony. To my surprise, the article was not satirical. Since when is an apostrophe necessary to create the plural of "school?"
I got a nice laugh out of the ironic placement of such an error within a headline dealing directly with a school's report card. I suggest, however, that you spend a little more time in the editing room. I'm embarrassed for you.
Sincerely,
Amanda
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Amanda
I live in the Big Apple, but I don't eat the skin
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If you're a stickler for correct spelling... you would probably enjoy reading Eats Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss - it's a hoot.
Leigh
Edited by Gr8ful (07/05/06 09:49 PM)
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I LOVE your letter. I am really anal about that kind of thing too. It's very important as a lawyer to be that way. You should see some of the brochures and terms and conditions that come my way.
Eats Shoots and Leaves is good to start with but is even too anal for me when talking about some things, like the dashes etc, I like dashes and was never taught how to use them.
My brother is a journalist and his punctuation is appalling. Anytime he sends me an article to proof (often one that he has already submitted) I can't stop myself sending him back my corrections. Drives me crazy!
I do over-use exclamation marks though, I know that I do in emails and posts, and Lynne Truss would not approve.
She did teach me about "two weeks' notice" which has proved very useful in legal contracts.
I would prefer that people don't punctuate at all rather than add in superfluous apostrophes.
And don't even get me started on text language, I cannot understand emails that my younger sisters send me, I have to decipher before I can reply! (superfluous exclamation mark alert)
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I was already a nutcase, and Lynn Truss made me worse! I adore that book. I would read it to myself on the train and find myself yelling YES! YES! YES! I'm sure people thought I was reading a dirty romance novel.
There's a pizza place in my neighborhood with a sign that reads "Hot Hero's Hamburgers, Gyros." Every time I walk by, I wonder who the hot hero could be, and if he minds that people are trying to sell his hamburgers. 
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Amanda
I live in the Big Apple, but I don't eat the skin
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Panda
#272821 - 07/06/06 04:11 PM
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cailin
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are you sure you're not my friend Denise who's a lawyer working in NYC in disguise.
My anti-favourites:
1. pizza's
2. potatoe's
3. strawberrie's
That'll do for now but it's great to know that someone feels my pain!
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Sinead
#272832 - 07/06/06 05:07 PM
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Nope, not Denise ... but if you're ever in town again soon maybe we can all get together!
You know, I dabbled a little in online dating (didn't go great) and one really cute guy sent me an initial email that closed the door before it could be opened. Among other things, he mentioned that he really enjoyed romantic dinner's. I closed the email immediately and clicked that I didn't wish to hear from him in the future. My friends thought I was nuts, but I just knew I could never have anything in common with a guy who thinks that apostrophe was necessary!
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Amanda
I live in the Big Apple, but I don't eat the skin
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Panda...
#272857 - 07/07/06 02:49 AM
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cailin
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I would be exactly the same about the email. I just couldn't. It would feel wrong. "dinner's" eugh. I am definitely a punctuation snob. Poor P knows it and is very good with his apostrophes but there are a few words he has a mental block about spelling0 like he always spells "wrecked" as "wreaked" which I really don't get. I get over it though, he knows where his apostrophes go.
Another thing that bugs me in work stuff is commas where they just don't make sense. Lots of people I work with or review documents for add them to make things look pretty. They don't seem to realise that they are used to pause things and sprinkle them randomly into long sentences.
OK rant over
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S.
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#272858 - 07/07/06 02:51 AM
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cailin
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I forgot the question mark in my post from last night.
(offers hand for lashings)
In my defence, I was just in from a boozy lunch when I typed so my guard was down. I was over the legal posting limit! I was going to edit the post now but felt like that would be cheating. 
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S.
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I have to admit that I am also a bit of a punctuation freak too....though you wouldn't think so from my posts...cos I post how I speak more or less...so I type in 'chat language' as I call it on here! But when it comes to magazines, books, people's essays....anything written where it is important to use the correct punctuation and they don't...then I actually feel my blood itch inside of me and want to change it.... 
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Natalie
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Apostrophes are a real sore spot. I mean apostrophe's.
Another thing that bugs me is ending in prepositions in formal situations. Anyone can do it casually, but there are times when we must speak formally.
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"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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My otherwise intelligent husband cannot spell deodorant. He spells it deoderant, like it needs to get rid of oder. I used to work for a women who always wrote that she wanted us to vaccume, but that one is hard. My dad wrote a note on our door when we were kids that said 'Clean up this day-bree'. But he pronounces everything wrong so that makes spelling correctly impossible.
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"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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Ugh, spelling ... it was much more of a struggle for me than grammar, and I still have to check a ton of words. I'll forgive spelling errors readily. What annoys me about so many of the typical grammar / punctuation errors is that it always seems like the person making the errors is doing so out of a desire to appear more intelligent than he really is. For example, the people who always use "I" even where "me" would be correct ("would you like to come to the mall with Amanda and I?" Um ... no I would not.). It's so ... pretentious I guess. One spelling error that drives me nuts though is "definitely." Why do people insist on spelling it "definately?" I don't judge people on that though ... it's an honest phonetic mistake. But superfluous apostrophes and the incorrect "I" -- unforgivable!
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Amanda
I live in the Big Apple, but I don't eat the skin
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The superfluous apostrophes totally kill me, too. Comma splices bug me, too. Like, if people can sense that there's some kind of pause there, why can't they tell that it's the end of a sentence/thought???
Since I work with high school students, I see tons of mistakes all the time. I'm so accustomed to poor writing that it hardly fazes me anymore. The ones that do bug me, though, are the ones that just don't make sense. For example, how can someone write, "I didn't no that she knew"? How can the kid not get the connection between "know" and "knew"?
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Christine
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