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Yes I have a breast lump.

No it doesn't look like cancer.

I was told to go back to my doctor and ask for more definitive tests to be run.

If it gets bigger, see a breast surgeon.

Now you know all I know.

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Thank you for the breast support. I had to say that because I am just naturally funny like that.

 

Greek Quiche by Eve

Ingredients

The Crust:

4 ounces (half a package of the brick-style) Neufchatel cheese (it's like cream cheese but lower fat)

1/2 cup butter

1-1/2 cups white flour

2 tsp. cold water

a pinch of salt

a pinch of Salt-Free It's a Dilly seasoning by McCormick (if you like dill and a savory crust)

Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl and cut together with a pastry blender until it is moist and crumbly. Pat the dough directly into the pie pan, shaping it with as little handling as possible. I like to use a fork on the edges because I am not that great at fluting dough with my fingers. Prick holes with a fork in the bottom of the pie crust. Pre-bake your pie shell for ten minutes at 350 degrees without the filling in it. (I use a cookie sheet under my pie pan, so that in case any filling runs over, the cookie sheet will catch it.)

The Filling

4 ounces of chopped frozen spinach

2 tbs. butter or olive oil

2 tsp. minced garlic

1/4 cup minced onions (if I make this again, I will try green onions instead)

another pinch of Salt-Free It's a Dilly seasoning (if you like dill)

While the shell is pre-baking, lightly saute the above filling ingredients in a nonstick skillet. You don't want to brown the ingredients, but you do want to cook out most of the water from the frozen spinach, so that your filling won't be runny.

While those ingredients are sautee-ing, in a bowl (same one you used for the pie crust is OK) whisk together the following:

3 eggs + 2/3 cup of half and half (or milk if you don't have half-and-half)

4-6 ounces of crumbled FETA CHEESE

2-3 tsp of grated Parmesan cheese (I used 3 packets of Parm cheese that was delivered with a pizza!)

a pinch of nutmeg

I know it sounds weird, but it makes the quiche taste very Greek.

Slide your oven rack out and spoon in the hot spinach/onion filling; spread it out evenly. Pour the egg-cheese mixture on top of the spinach mixture. Sprinkle a little more nutmeg if desired. Don't overfill the eggs, because they will rise a bit. (If you have extra egg mixture, you can make a quickie omelette for yourself! Next time I will use a deep-dish pie pan.)

Carefully slide the quiche on the rack back into the oven and bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes, or until the center is no longer quivering.

Let the quiche cool for 15 minutes before serving. Letting it rest means it will solidify a bit more.

Too bad my husband will not eat anything with feta cheese. All mine for this week's lunches to take to work, or as long as it lasts!

One of the saddest slips of the tongue I've heard thus far in this campaign is McCain saying "my fellow prisoners" instead of "my fellow Americans" -- I beg of you, please do not vote for this guy. He is probably actively suffering from PSTD. He cannot lead our country. He's very sick...

watch this -- you will be convinced that this is not the man who should be our next president. Politics aside, this is what war does. Decades after he was a POW, in his mind, he is still there in that POW camp, being tortured and trying to hold up his fellow prisoners:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4FADXTI-vc

p.s. I suppose this could be faked, but so far, no one has debunked it. It is more than a misspeak if he said it.

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I was a bit heavy into the Gothic and anything with magic or witchcraft or orphaned English girls sent to some horrible boarding school. I know, I was, and am, so noir, but here's a list of memorable books from my childhood during elementary school. Onceupon's entry has brought back memories:

A selection of childhood favorites

Black and Blue Magic by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (a boy gets wings, very cool!)

The Princess Who Never Laughed. <<------------------ This book was so about me...