blake murphy wrote:

No kidding? Out here N(eye)na is considered unusual.

i don't think i've ever heard 'n(eye)na' either. (maryland)

your pal,
blake

I've known many who pronounced it "Neena" but only one who pronounced it
"N(eye)na"

blake murphy wrote:
On Mon, 26 May 2008 11:13:34 -0700, sf . wrote:

On Mon, 26 May 2008 14:20:14 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
wrote:

BTW, not a foolish question, but do you pronounce your name N(eye)na or
N(ee)na? I ask because the name is the same as one of my co-workers and
she pronounces it N(ee)na. I have rarely heard it pronounced that way
before.
No kidding? Out here N(eye)na is considered unusual.

i don't think i've ever heard 'n(eye)na' either. (maryland)

your pal,
blake

I haven't either. (Massachusetts)

--
Jean B.

"Melba's Jammin'" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Dimitri" wrote:

Interesting question that is impossible for me to answer since I have
already given such and more to the girls. :-)

Dimitri

I know about the book; I'm suggesting something in your own hand. :-P
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Check my new ride: http://www.jamlady.eboard.com

Hmmmm. 5 recipes

1. Spaghetti Carbonara. (Pancetta, egg, cheese & spaghetti)
2. Enchiladas Suisas ( chicken, salsa Verde, cheese, sour cream)
3. Stroganoff (sirloin, mushrooms, sour cream)
4. Golubtsy (Russian Cabbage Rolls)
5. Tiny's cabbage (German red sweet/sour cabbage)


Dimitri

Dimitri wrote:

Hmmmm. 5 recipes

1. Spaghetti Carbonara. (Pancetta, egg, cheese & spaghetti)
2. Enchiladas Suisas ( chicken, salsa Verde, cheese, sour cream)
3. Stroganoff (sirloin, mushrooms, sour cream)
4. Golubtsy (Russian Cabbage Rolls)
5. Tiny's cabbage (German red sweet/sour cabbage)

Start cooking, Dimitri. I'll be over at 6:00. :-)
--
Dave www.davebbq.com

What is best in life? "To crush your enemies, see them driven before
you, and to hear the lamentation of the women." -- Conan

"Goomba" wrote in message
...
Wayne Boatwright wrote:

Oh, I couldn't agree more about vegetable cooking. Probably most here on rfc
would agree. Sometimes I think the overcooking was a "generational" thing.

My own hypothesis is that it might perhaps have been more a convenience issue? Hard
farm workers (which the majority of the south was long ago) often put things on to
cook while working and they let them simmer long and slow and they got so over
cooked. Yet that was "home cooking" so it became much loved and passed down as the
desired outcome? Or because they had been first dried and required re-hydrating, or
canned which makes them softer..... ?
I just think cooking so long takes so much of the flavor away that the addition of
pork helped season and flavor it up again.

Interesting thoughts :-)

My grandparents were hard farm workers. She never overcooked any veggies, except for
green beans. They were simmered with a piece of pig belly until they had little
resemblance, color-wise, to the originals. Sometimes they would get a quick stir in a
hot skillet with some bacon grease.

She canned most of their vegetables, except for things like lettuce. She made
pickles, not just with cukes, but with watermelon rind, beets, and green tomatoes.
She prepared all of her food on a wood-burning stove, which amazes me to this day,
because it never seemed like anything was over or under cooked! No temperature gauge,
just good old fashioned experience :-)

Now me, I never ever prepare green beans that way. I like mine to bite back a little
bit when I bite into one ;-) But all of the family in my mom's generation and before
still like them that way.

kimberly

"Melba's Jammin'" wrote in message
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In article ,
Nina wrote:

I don't think that these are my *best* recipes, but they are the
things that my son asks for again and again, and that's what family
recipes are all about.

Exactly.

Nina
new here! hello

Welcome, Nina. Hi back. Have you been lurking?

--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Check my new ride: http://www.jamlady.eboard.com


Hi from me too! Nice to "meet" you ;-)

kimberly

On Mon, 26 May 2008 19:46:25 -0500, Janet Wilder
fired up random neurons and synapses to
opine:

Thanks. You are so right. She was killed in a car accident in 1996 when
she was 21. She was between her junior and senior years of college. I
remember thinking at the grave site that there must be something wrong
in the universe.

The DH's 19 year old sister was killed in a car accident while in
college and within months of his older brother having committed
suicide. I simply cannot imagine what he and his parents went through
or what you went through.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

To reply, replace "meatloaf" with "cox"

On Mon, 26 May 2008 22:25:41 -0400, "kilikini"
fired up random neurons and synapses to
opine:

Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:
On Mon, 26 May 2008 10:25:34 -0400, Nina
fired up random neurons and synapses to opine:

Second way, like your coworker, and not a silly question at all! The
funny thing is that I've known loads of N(ee)na and no N(eye)nas at
all, so maybe it's regional?

Or generational? My great-aunt (born in 1892) was a Nina, pronounced
with a long "i." Born in Iowa, moved to AZ when AZ was still a
territory, so I doubt it's regional. shrug

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

I just found your great aunt Nina - she was a twin to Neva! I just found
that today. :~)

Jeez, Louise, you're fast! (If anyone wants a crackerjack genealogy
researcher, contact this girl!)

Family story: My grandmother, Neva, loved to play school with some of
the neighborhood children (she actually taught school as an adult, 6
grades in a one room schoolhouse in Rodeo, NM, when NM was still a
territory) and my great-grandfather let them use the "hay mow"
(whatever that is) for their "schoolroom" (this was before they
emigrated from Iowa to NM about 1908). One morning the family arose to
find "CHIT" written on the side of the barn and my grandmother was
determined to find out who did it. When she had her "classroom"
assembled, she gave a spelling test, one of which words was "sh*t"
and my Aunt Nina was the only one who spelled it with a "C."

I really gotta start writing this stuff down.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
--
"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "meatloaf" with "cox"

On Tue, 27 May 2008 14:50:38 -0400, Nina
fired up random neurons and synapses to opine:

On Mon, 26 May 2008 18:39:57 -0700, Terry Pulliam Burd
wrote:

On Mon, 26 May 2008 10:25:34 -0400, Nina
fired up random neurons and synapses to opine:

Second way, like your coworker, and not a silly question at all! The
funny thing is that I've known loads of N(ee)na and no N(eye)nas at
all, so maybe it's regional?

Or generational? My great-aunt (born in 1892) was a Nina, pronounced
with a long "i." Born in Iowa, moved to AZ when AZ was still a
territory, so I doubt it's regional. shrug

Maybe more ethnic than regional. It seems to me that the Neyenas
I've heard of have mostly been of Eastern European descent, whereas
Neena is more English/Western European.

I'm starting to get curious about this. :-)

AFAIK, there's not a drop of Eastern European blood in that branch of
the family. It's about 99% Welsh, Irish, English, Scots and
Scandinavian. I had a DNA test done out of curiosity. As a female, the
trail is solely matrilineal, but that entire trail is northern
European. My grandmother and her sister, Nina's, maiden name was
"Marken," which is of Scandinavian origin. In fact, there's an Isle of
Marken off the Dutch coast, IIRC.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
--
"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "meatloaf" with "cox"

In article 1,
"Michael \"Dog3\"" wrote:

Her grandmother's name was Tippy and her mother's name is Ning but I
don't know know if it's short for something. She is Irish on her
father's side

Maybe that explains Tippy? '-)

--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Check my new ride: http://www.jamlady.eboard.com

"Michael "Dog3"" wrote

Her grandmother's name was Tippy and her mother's name is Ning but I don't
know
know if it's short for something. She is Irish on her father's side and
I'm not sure of her heritage on her mother's side.

If the Irish grandmother was my great-grandmother's relative,
she'd be named Tippy Toy!

(laugh) nancy

Nina wrote:

Hm, more Scandinavian version then, perhaps?

The name "Nina" can be found in a lot of places now, but originally it
was (and occasionally still is) a Russian diminutive/hypocoristic of
Anna. As to the (tenuous) Scandinavian connection, remember "Ninotchka"
(a Russian diminutive of Nina) with Greta Garbo?

ObFood: Tea-Fruit Kisel (a fool-like concoction) from a Russian
cookbook.

1 l (1.1 US quarts) water
6 teaspoons tea leaves (black, green, or a mix)
20 pieces of sugar
0.5 l (1.1 pint) fruit (apple, quince, orange, or some other) juice
6-8 teaspoons corn starch
1 cup cold boiled water (to dissolve the starch)
optionally, vanilla or vanilla extract
optionally, cloves or cinnamon

Dissolve corn starch in a cup of cold boiled water. Brew the tea and,
while it's still very hot (put it over the heat), add the dissolved
starch, stirring vigorously. Take from the heat as soon as the starch
is added. Stir until the liquid thickens. Then add the fruit juice and
continue to stir vigorously. If desired, add vanilla or vanilla
extract, or cloves, or cinnamon to taste, and let cool. The result is a
very pleasant cold thickish liquid tasting of tea and fruit.

Victor

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
On Mon 26 May 2008 05:46:25p, Janet Wilder told us...

sf wrote:
On Mon, 26 May 2008 12:12:25 -0500, Janet Wilder
wrote:

Thanks. You are so right. She was killed in a car accident in 1996 when
she was 21. She was between her junior and senior years of college. I
remember thinking at the grave site that there must be something wrong
in the universe.


Good Lord, how awful for you, Janet. I can't even begin to imagine how
much sorrow this brought to your family. I'm so sorry.


Thank you, Wayne. Even though it's almost 12 years, I still cry easily
when I think about her.

I was very lucky in that I was chosen to be her mother for the brief
time she was with us.

There is a perpetual scholarship at Ramapo College of New Jersey in her
name, so people will know about her long after I am dust.

Here is a link to a pdf of the college magazine that talks about Cara.

http://www.ramapo.edu/news/magazine/...neFall2005.pdf





--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

sf wrote:
On Mon, 26 May 2008 19:46:25 -0500, Janet Wilder
wrote:

sf wrote:
On Mon, 26 May 2008 12:12:25 -0500, Janet Wilder
wrote:

3. My late daughter's favorite bean and cheese burrito recipe.
Without knowing details, I'm sorry Janet. My heart breaks for you.
No parent should outlive a child.

Thanks. You are so right. She was killed in a car accident in 1996 when
she was 21. She was between her junior and senior years of college. I
remember thinking at the grave site that there must be something wrong
in the universe.

Absolutely! It's just plain wrong. That type of loss is beyond
sorrow for me, it's absolutely unimaginable heartache.

I remember when a friend's daughter was killed by a drunk driver who
swerved into her lane - it was a head on collision. Her college aged
(and sober) DD was the driver, all the other occupants in the car
survived.


This was an 86 year old man taking his 82 year old sister to the doctor.
He'd been mowing the lawn with a heart condition and passed out from
either a stroke or a heart attack. All 3 died.

--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

Goomba wrote:
blake murphy wrote:

No kidding? Out here N(eye)na is considered unusual.

i don't think i've ever heard 'n(eye)na' either. (maryland)

your pal,
blake

I've known many who pronounced it "Neena" but only one who pronounced it
"N(eye)na"

I only knew Neenas until we began to travel in America. Most of the
N(eye)nas were in the mid-west.

My daughter spelled my granddaughter's name "Deena" because she didn't
want anyone to mispronounce it D(eye)na. Dina gets the same treatment as
Nina. g

--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life