The Sunday Afternoon Poll of Boredom.

[wesleysgirl]

[Poll #1707337]

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[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

1 I have Portmeirion Holly and Ivy and I love it!

2 My option here is My friend has one and I used to get some bread once a week and I loved it, but then I retired and I don't get it any more. I don't eat enough bread to make it worthwhile to get my own. That's a pretty individual answer LOL

[kimberly-a.livejournal.com]

I *live* with cats and love them tremendously, but I also like to go to the dog park and enjoy hanging out with *other people's* dogs. Then I don't have to walk them when it's raining, or pick up their poo, or bathe them, or whatever. It's much less effort.

As for carbonated beverages, I drink a lot of juice mixed 50/50 with carbonated water, but I don't drink Coke/Pepsi/soda.

Onion Dill Bread for Bread Machine

[maggie-conagher.livejournal.com]

Here is the bread machine version. I found a somewhat comparable one that requires kneading. Emailed both to you but if anyone else sees this thread, it's typed in and I can email or post to you.

ONION DILL BREAD w/bread machine
1 package(1/4 oz.) active dry yeast
3 and ½ c. bread flour
¼ tsp salt
1 unbeaten egg, rm temp
¼ c. water
¾ c. cream style cottage cheese
¾ c. sour cream
3 T sugar
3 T minced dried onion
2 T dill seed
1and ½ T butter or margarine
In bread machine pan, place first four ingredients in order given. In a saucepan, combine remaining ingredients and heat just until warm (do not boil, will kill yeast). Pour into bread pan. Select “white bread” setting. Bake according to bread machine directions. Yield: 1 loaf (1.5 lbs)

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

I have a sadly discontinued Sango pattern called Radius. Here's a link to someone selling a partial set on etsy. I love it!

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

I've seen those in Kmart and thought they were so pretty! And it's Corelle, so you never lose pieces to breakage!

Re: Onion Dill Bread for Bread Machine

[mendenbar01.livejournal.com]

Oh boy, oh boy, can't wait to make this! You are a darling for sending it. All I usually need are the ingredients but the directions are great.

D

[carose59.livejournal.com]

Most of my dishes are ones my mother gave me food in that I never never returned.

Also, on the Coke or Pepsi, my real answer would be: I only drink ginger ale, and only on very special occasions, or if I'm sick.

[tabaqui]

Ack, i can only do part of your poll! I like both Coke *and* Pepsi, though i prefer neither.

And i am a cat person with cats who is *allergic* to cats. I love *some* of my daily dishware - i love the soup plate my grandmother got at the A&P or somewhere for stamps or something in the thirties. I only have the one piece, which is sad, but i use it all the time and luff it muchly. I also do luff how my dinner ware looks - black with the eating surfaces red - but the plates are *huge* so i don't use them often.

I use often and *love* the little square plates my mom got with matching tea cups for her wedding in the late fifties. They're a clear smokey-pink with little squiggles of pale pink 'thread' all over the underside. Very very cool and different. We do *not* microwave them. :)

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

I have some white with pale blue 'mosaic' print that I got to go to university with, and a set of white with black print around the edges that say 'dinner place' 'side plate' etc, and then the set of white with black floral patterns around the edge that I treated myself to after the divorce, but bowl-wise I have some *awesome* black earthenware and silver glazed Japanese bowls, as well as the blue glass that always make me smile.

[byrne.livejournal.com]

My dishes are square and black and I bought 8 place settings at the grocery store.

My bread maker is used almost daily and we haven't bought bread in over a dozen years.

Dog! Dog person!

I drink soda water, a couple liters a day, but not Coke or Pepsi.

[justhuman.livejournal.com]

My plates are a stoneware in mixed autumn colors that I got from Linens 'N Things. I've seen the same set or similar sets at a variety of places.

Here's one of my dinner plates...ignore that it's on top of vase with a mouse ;-)

http://pics.livejournal.com/justhuman/pic/00c2p2h2/g304

The pieces that sold me were the luncheon sized leaf plate. They're the ones with the single, thick vine. The bowls and smaller plates with the fine lines are from another dish set completely. I still find them, but they are mostly in small plates or serving bowls.

Here's the leaf plates on the regular plates

http://pics.livejournal.com/justhuman/pic/00c1xgq0/g302

I like that they look good even when they're chipped ;-) My friends bought me a lot of the leaves on clearance, so it will be a while before I have to give it up :-)

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I have a bread machine. I like the bread it makes. I haven't used it in a while, but I'm one person. It always go stale before I can finish half a loaf.

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I tend to like dogs better and I'd probably have one, but I'm not home enough to be a good dog owner. I kind of like cats and I'd probably own them now if I wasn't allergic to them.

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I used to be a soda junkie -- Dr. Pepper was my fave, but I'd trade off for both Coke and Pepsi depending on what taste I was after. I've switched up to a sugar free ice tea and I will get unsweeteneed tea when I'm out --- then I add splenda ;-)

But yeah, the carbonation doesn't do well in my tummy.

[willowgreen.livejournal.com]

Our everyday dishware is Williams Sonoma Brasserie:
http://bit.ly/ij4S4A

Our version -- with a green stripe instead of a blue one -- has sadly been discontinued. But we still love it.

I used to be a cat person, but now I'm a dog-and-cat person. There's nothing cuter than seeing a big dog and a small cat cuddled up together.

[inkandchocolate.livejournal.com]

Yes! And since my old plates were stoneware (OMG what was I thinking when I bought these?!?) these are doubly awesome. :)

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, I REALLY like those dishes, those are so nice. I would prefer the green stripe over the blue, though... not that I'm actively shopping for new dishware, but I've been thinking that ours is boring.

I love cats AND dogs (so I don't know how I forgot to make that an option on the poll) but I am moderately allergic to dogs and Mr WG is not a fan of dogs so I doubt we'll ever have one.

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

Square and black, I like the sound of that! I am so bored with ours and they don't go with our kitchen anymore, so I'm sort of idly thinking about buying some new ones. It does seem like a neutral color would be the way to go.

I am so impressed that you use your bread maker so much. Have you had to replace it along the way? I would think it would burn out after such heavy use!

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

Is stoneware bad? Why is it bad?

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

We used to have a cat that acted like a dog, too. It seems more common in boy cats than girls, and I really prefer boy cats (which is funny because I am very bonded to our current girl cat).

[byrne.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, we're on probably number four at this point, though I only remember three. The middle one was cheap and didn't hold up at all.

[inkandchocolate.livejournal.com]

It's heavy and it chips if you look at it crossways. I was swayed by the pretty finish on my last set - they were lovely to look at when I opened the box, but by the end of the month every plate and bowl was chipped at the edges simply from everyday use. This has been my experience with three sets of stoneware and I will never stray from Corelle again!

:)

[timeofchange.livejournal.com]

I have Villeroy & Boch dinnerware, mixed and matched. The plates are Tipo Blue, which has been, sadly, discontinued. I have Switch 3 decorated rice bowls. The predominant colors of those two patterns are white, blue and green. I also have a set of (discontinued) small Piemont Estivo bowls in a buttery yellow.

I bought them shortly after my ex-husband moved out in 2002, determined for once to have lovely, high quality dinnerware that wasn't chipped or scratched. They have survived repeated trips through the dishwasher in perfect condition. I use them happily every day.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

I have the Snowden Flood Urban Landscapes series plates.

They appear to have been discontinued.

On the upside, that means what's left is on sale.

http://www.snowdenflood.com/shop/sale-items

But there's only 3 designs left. I have 6.

I covet these coordinating side plates from her River series but i can't afford 'em yet.

http://www.snowdenflood.com/shop/river-series-side-plates/set-6-river-series-side-plates

She appears to have been traumatized by a bowl as a child. She is on her 3rd plate series but no bowls have been forthcoming.

[lycomingst.livejournal.com]

I have Fiestaware that makes me happy every time I look at it. 8 ]

[maggie-conagher.livejournal.com]

And stoneware is really heavy which is nice in a serving platter or maybe a breakfast mug but if all the dishes were that, I'd have arms like Popeye just from loading/unloading the dishwasher.

[deaver.livejournal.com]

I don't like my incredibly mis-matched set of dishes, but I can't afford to buy anything else.

Pepsi if it's only a choice between Coke and Pepsi. However, Cherry Coke is always the first choice, when it's available.

[deaver.livejournal.com]

I love the look of Fiestaware, but knowing that the old stuff is radioactive, kinda freaks me out. (The post 1990s stuff isn't radioactive.) Hee.