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Tea & pomegranate! Great idea. If you don't want caffeine you could sub and decaf tea I suppose. I wonder if grape would work instead of pomegranate? Newman's grape juice is very good.

This looks delicious. Can't wait to try.

We milk our own goats and drink the milk raw. Personally I think there are health benefits to drinking it raw, and it tastes great. It's true that raw milk can harbor pathogens, but so can many other foods. Sprouts, for example, and lettuces, have been implicated in outbreaks a number of times.

Careful milk handling is essential. I'm not sure I would drink raw milk that came from an outside source unless I knew the farmer personally and saw how they handled it. Who knows what protocol the farm in Oregon followed?

I do like placemats, but I can't do plastic. Call me a snob. But I did recently get rid of numerous sets of placemats of various types that came out of the wash wrinkled every time. Who needs that? What I have left are some tapestry ones, some quilted ones, and one set that I picked up at TJ Maxx that is made out of little pieces of wood all linked together. All of those are pretty easy to keep clean. Actually, I find these are easier for me to keep clean than plastic. I hate how you wipe those down and then they never get dry and then you put them in the drawer but they stick together because they're still kind of damp. LOL

I have stainless steel and I don't know why it's popular. I always had cast iron porcelain until now and my old sinks were MUCH easier to keep clean. The SS always looks nasty, scratched and stained. Maybe just an old sink or something, I don't know (the kitchen was remodeled 20 years ago so probably it is), but I long for a nice new Kohler sink. They have so many pretty finishes now. Sigh. Someday soon, I hope.

I'm not a big music person in general but I always try to have some background music playing. It boosts the energy at a party. Otherwise, every pause in the conversation seems like a deadly silence that must be filled. :D

I like soft rock, jazz, blues, "latin/world" music (Cesaria Evora, Pink Martini, Ottmar Liebert), stuff like that. If you don't know what's popular or hip, you can always see what's playing at someplace like Starbucks or a cool store that sells music CDs. And if your taste is different than other people's, isn't that a good thing?

I can think of few vegetables, that would be best cooked by boiling. I'm old enough that I have no bias against boiling - except that it generally results in less flavorful vegetables. Possibly you would want to boil lima beans, and, occasionally, potatoes.

I keep misreading the headline as "POTABLE Lunch Recipes"....

It must be the St. Patrick's Day influence.

I finally got rid of the awful Dansk enameled pot I had for years. Bought in in C&B or PB years ago. It got nasty in pretty short order. Give me some nice All Clad any day.