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[barbara465 2]

I'll give it a try. Dick loves thai food. I don't know what's good, but you can guide us. Do you want to try it for our next meeting in 2 weeks?

I went for an emergency unfill on Monday. They had to take .5 out before the barium would go down. I was a mess, but its over now. I just can't believe I was so restricted that they had to take that much out.

Hope everyone is on the mend now.

[Betsyjane 2]

Wow! Glad you're getting better. Do you have any warning so you can go on liquids and get the swelling down, or does it just happen?

Let's get some more votes in, but I'd love to go next time to the Thai place.

[lanajane 0]

Thanks for missing me Suzanne. I wasn't sick, I had a little emergency with my granddaughter--just needed a ride--no one else available for the poor little thing. You know how that goes, when Grammy is called we go! Anyway, I missed the support from you girls and I really need it.

Hey Betsy, I'm game for the Thai restaurant, if you'll tell me what to order--I have no idea. But I'd like to try something new.

[barbara465 2]

I was fine on Saturday. I was on liquids going to mushies. On Sunday I had a bite of eggbeaters. That's all she wrote. I PB for hours. I thought I was stable and went to get my nails done. On the way I popped a breath mint in my mouth. Big mistake. I PB 4 times in the nail salon. When I got home still more. I took a sip of warm Water at 7 and it started all over again. This was the worse. Monday same thing so off I went to surgicenter.

[Betsyjane 2]

Amazing. When you swell up, you really swell!

Suzanne...you OK with Thai?

Nara Thai

18455 West Lake Houston Parkway

281-812-0291

Here's the kind of stuff they have....

I used to love Pad Thai (Pad=stir fry)...I'm guessing rice noodles won't work anymore, though. Panang is my favorite....meat in hot red curry. Curry in Thai is not like Indian curry. It's a Thai version of creamy hot sauce with your choice of meat. It is so unbelievably good. They also have a wonderful shrimp lemongrass Soup, if you can eat shrimp and Tom Kha Kai Soup, which is chicken, coconut milk, kaffir lime leaves, mushroom soup. Then they have lettuce wraps, salads. We might do well ordering Panang to share, and Soups...

Oh wait a minute...Never mind. They are closed Mondays!.

[Betsyjane 2]

I'm a nut for Thai cooking, so here's more than you'd ever want to know. Thai is about fresh fresh food. It's mostly light and breezy... and doesn't include the weird foods or uncooked fish that Japanese and Chinese cooking does. Mostly fresh fruits, veges, and meats. And layers! Southeast Asian (both Thai and Vietnamese) cooking is about layers of flavors. You'll often taste sweet, sour, savory, and spicy hot in the same dish, but they stay distinct flavors.

The Thai people never ate with chopsticks in their history: They've always used spoons, just using a fork to push stuff onto a spoon. In traditional Thai eating, putting a fork in your mouth is like us putting our knives in our mouths. It's impolite. Thai people eat little bites of lots of things for a meal...just one or two bites of each. Eating a bite of a lot of things, you feel full from the amazing little bursts of flavor and the variety. There is no set time for Breakfast lunch or dinner (except to cater to Westerners). It's more about taking a bite from a street vendor whenever you feel like something...or having a meal because it's a chance to get together with friends and family. The street vendors line all the shopping streets and so do the massage therapists. So you shop, snack, and get a massage as you go through your shopping day.

You might have a tiny bite of fresh fruit with fresh mint and herbs on it...walk a bit and then have a delicate bite size puff pastry with a quarter of a teaspoon of homemade lychee nut ice cream in it....and then a single bite of BBQ pork wrapped in kaffir lime...and later an asparagus spear sprinkled with lemongrass and ginger.

The two best known Thai dishes in this country are Pad Thai (Pad mean stir fry), mostly rice noodles covered in a sweetish sauce made from tamarind and garlic, with some meat and veges thrown in, and Panang, a coconut curry (red or green) meat dish that is hot spicy and creamy, with Thai curry that doesn't taste like Indian curry, but more like Mexican hot sauce made creamy.

Ok. I'll quit now.

[lanajane 0]

Betsy,You are making my mouth water...in a good way:) Maybe we could change the nite we meet for the next meeting.

Barb, so sorry you've had that kind of trouble. Hopefully you are over the PBing by now. Did they take everything out, like you were saying Dr Spigle required?

[lanajane 0]

Barb, ignore my question. I just looked back and found your previous message where you explained how much they had to take out.

[Betsyjane 2]

Yeah. Did Dr. Speigel give you a hard time, or have you educated him well enough by now?

I'm game for whatever..... If we don't change our day, I'd sure recommend going over there to eat sometime individually.....as I sit here eating my bland tuna and...oops....working at the computer at the same time.

[Betsyjane 2]

Why did my signature lines just become partly black and partly teal?

There are 7 Golden Retrievers, a 100 pound lab, and 2 standard poodles asleep around my feet. Life is good.

[barbara465 2]

Looks like they made some changes to the site. I'm OK with going a different night to get some thai food. Maybe the guys will go with us and we can just talk and visit. Of course, we don't have to take the guys. It seems like we are the main 4 so if someone wants to join us they can join us at the Thai place. I also want to try the new barbeque place.

I'm feeling much better today. My energy is back and I went back to curves. I'm still full from lunch and I didn't eat that much. I'm probably a tad swollen, but we'll see. Dr. Spiegel doesn't know what happened because I didn't even bother with him. I knew the surgiccenter would help me and his hours wouldn't allow me to go as an emergency. I'm just going to use the surgicenter from now on. If they give me a problem I'll switch to their doctor there. I'm not sure I'll go for anymore fills for a while.

[lanajane 0]

Sounds like fun to me--can't guarantee the hubby, but he might if he is sure yall's will show up. What happened to Cyndee? Are you out there? Anybody heard?

[Betsyjane 2]

My hubby works too late to join us. I usually don't we him before 8:30!

Anybody up for Tues the 24th?

[bikergrammy 0]

Thai sounds good, but I cannot make it on Tuesday nights. That is my TOPS night.

[Betsyjane 2]

Wednesday 25th?