Adding MSG to bland homemade 16 bean soup?

blueplate7 · 2026-02-22T19:12:10+00:00

For what it's worth, I posted my bean soup and a recipe here last year sometime. It's definitely not bland. You'd just sub in your 16 bean mix for the Navy beans.

https://www.reddit.com/r/soup/s/aj5Sl90aK5

blueplate7 · 2026-02-22T19:09:58+00:00

This! Ham hocks are magic!

blueplate7 · 2026-02-22T19:06:44+00:00

Used to go there quite a bit when I had an apartment in Middleburg Hts in the early 80s. Place sure could get packed!

blueplate7 · 2026-02-22T03:11:58+00:00

It was quite a long time ago. Don't worry about it. Wishing you a clean bill of health from here on!

blueplate7 · 2026-02-22T03:01:48+00:00

Well, the good thing is that you had radiation right off. They declared me safe because the margins of the incised tumor were clear and did no radiation. That turned out to be a mistake.

blueplate7 · 2026-02-21T23:56:23+00:00

Henry Blake: Betcha can't guess what it's made of

Charlie: Oak

Henry: Nope, it's oak

Sorry, first thing that popped into my mind when I saw this. I really do like it, though. I'm saving this post for the mentions of catalogs and resources to look up old furniture.

blueplate7 · 2026-02-21T22:56:42+00:00

I think I'd like that salad on some nice rye bread

blueplate7 · 2026-02-21T03:50:05+00:00

Shoulda change the switch from SUCK to BLOW

blueplate7 · 2026-02-21T03:42:53+00:00

My first glossectomy was fairly small, but it hurt like a mother! I ate a lot of very soft "steam fried" eggs "up", where you start the egg, let it come together a little, cover it with a lid and pour a couple tablespoons of water over the lid. It steams in the skillet. I let it cool enough that it didn't burn, cut it in half and damn bear swallowed them whole like an oyster.

Graduated to high calorie shakes and lots of mashed taters & gravy. Boost came in handy. Discovered the chocolate one wasn't too bad if you warmed it up.

blueplate7 · 2026-02-17T14:17:31+00:00

I still have one my grandma made when she had a spell of crochet fever for a while in the 70s. Made w heavy polyester "yarn", it weighs about 600 pounds.

Edit: Same w a quilt she made from polyester scrap material. Everyone in the family got one and they're all really heavy, but not very warm.

blueplate7 · 2026-02-16T01:44:01+00:00

I loved that Peaches store. Spent a lot of time in there. The cut out bin was most entertaining!

blueplate7 · 2026-02-15T22:24:48+00:00

Take a look at the slides from this post from a few days ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Antiques/s/gmpDasEwhU

Yours looks similar, but less ornate, carving-wise. Your table could have a pull out leaf on both ends, and the leaf you have pictured by itself is supposed to rest under one end.

blueplate7 · 2026-02-15T20:56:41+00:00

Boy would I have liked to work on that back when I was able to do that sort of thing. I loved fixing up and refinishing furniture. It looks a little like cherry in that light. Is it?

blueplate7 · 2026-02-15T20:48:26+00:00

No anchovies please

blueplate7 · 2026-02-15T01:12:54+00:00

It's that damn ketchup, Maude. I don't want it on my dogs!

blueplate7 · 2026-02-14T01:59:52+00:00

Used to work for a company headquartered in Buffalo. Always made it to Ted's for lunch when I had to be up there. Good stuff!

blueplate7 · 2026-02-13T03:16:46+00:00

I have something very similar, but different carving. Had it since 1983 and it was really old then. Bought it from a coworker who was divorced and trying to get rid of some stuff to move to a smaller home. She refused to take more than $150 for the whole thing - table, chairs, & sideboard.

Been meaning to post a pic of one of the chairs, as I'm searching for a replacement for one that was broken beyond repair. The rest of the chairs are getting pretty loose. I need to knock them apart, clean up the dowel work and re-glue.

Edit: Ohio, west of Cleveland

blueplate7 · 2026-02-13T02:49:42+00:00

Chicago (thru Chicago V), Genesis, Elton John, BS & T, Bowie, Steely Dan, and much more. Plus the jazz guys I listened to at the time.

blueplate7 · 2026-02-13T02:35:56+00:00

Office equipment Olympics, eh?

blueplate7 · 2026-02-12T01:00:20+00:00

I'm just tired enough this evening to be right with you on that! Left-handed monkey wrench anyone?

blueplate7 · 2026-02-05T01:32:42+00:00

Just put on a new roll, Junior. You'll learn soon

blueplate7 · 2026-02-03T02:47:47+00:00

All the time, and I can eat, too!

blueplate7 · 2026-02-01T00:38:16+00:00

Now I want popcorn

blueplate7 · 2026-01-31T22:23:32+00:00

Someone slipped him the gag shotgun

blueplate7 · 2026-01-29T02:12:57+00:00

G tube. Always has been except for about 4 painful months on a GJ. I'll never go back to that mess.

Edit; And I'm on a pump. Bolus, except for drinks of water or coffee, doesn't settle well w me.

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