Heh, that's pretty good.

My friend, the former Oxford professor, had a good point about ID. "Fine, teach it in school. It takes up, what? 10 minutes? 'Proponents of Intelligent Design believe ____.' And you're done."

I am a big fan of the try everything on your plate school. Found out that there are a number of things I don't like - because of how they are prepared - backed beans and sweet potato cassarole - I don't like them because they are two sweet. I actually like beans in most forms and love sweet potatoes.

I would like to have watched Leif make pizza dough

My favorite is when I make it homemade, from elbow noodles with melted velveeta and then baked in the oven.

Teppy, you know Velveeta sells a boxed mac-n-cheese thingie now, right?

Ro-Tel is a key ingredient in the macaroni salad we ate growing up. Ro-Tel, Cheez Whiz, cubed green peper, macaroni. That's it.

Dear me, this is why the people in the fly-over states (said with tongue and cheek to harken back to your newbie days) shouldn't be allowed to make up recipes. One time, mom and I took a friend of mine along, to visit a friend of the family who was a college professor at U-Mass. She said we were having spaghetti for supper. Friend and I were young, innocent, and Bostonian enough to think we'd be getting typical Italian spaghetti with typical red sauce.

There were freaking cut-up hot dogs in the sauce. BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD. My love for prof-friend died a little, that very day.

but Cindy, chef boardi does it.

Thank you for proving my point. :)

Seriously, that's also bad, bad, bad, but they tell you there are franks in it, right on the label. They don't just say, "Oh, here's some 'spaghetti'," and BAM!

I have a deep and abiding love for Kraft Mac and Cheese, and also Velveeta Shells n Cheese (to a lesser degree). But either has to be eaten right when made, and hot, or thrown out.

In first grade we had to each contribute the recipe for our favorite food to a class cookbook. I contributed macaroni and cheese, and basically said "Follow the directions on the box." When my mother saw the project she was mortified, and it took me years to figure out why.

She should've been relieved; I mean, lordy, if I'd given one of her homemade recipes we'd've been brought up on abuse charges.

On another topic, what do babies wear when swimming? Those Huggies disposable swim diapers? The washable swim diapers? A swimsuit over? Does anyone make a swimsuit for babies less than 18 months old? Why does the only company selling a baby sunsafe suit appear to be one of those cheesy swimsuit companies that sell camoflage bikinis?

Dear me, this is why the people in the fly-over states (said with tongue and cheek to harken back to your newbie days) shouldn't be allowed to make up recipes.

HEY, uh, how many HEYS I'm up to.

Midwestern is the cuisine food critics eat at home -- and are ashamed of.

Where is the baby swimming, in a pool or in the ocean?

In a pool, I used the disposable swim diapers, on the off chance of one of them having a disgusting accident that might need containment until I noticed. I don't think they ever had one, though. My kids wore bathing suits over, but that's probably because my kids are my parents' only grandchildren, and so I think they were always given bathing suits by a shopping Nana. I would not have a problem with a baby wearing just some sort of swim diaper.

Do not use a regular disposable diaper, though. They swell up to unbelievable proportions, and this gel stuff gets all...well, it's just ucky, and heavy, too.

On another topic, what do babies wear when swimming? Those Huggies disposable swim diapers?

That's what Annabel wore in the wading pool this summer.

In my parents lake she wore just her suit. In our friends pool, regular diaper.