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Blooie said:
That sounds delicious!! I love the combination of the two, and raspberry/rhubarb is also pretty good! Crumb crust or biscuit-type crust? I make a really good strawberry/rhubarb jam....IF can get the rhubarb into the pot and not into my mouth!
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The recipe uses a crunchy crust that I don't like too much. I am going to use one the is more of a sweet biscuit crust
 
Blooie said:
I prefer the sweet biscuit crust too, but I never seem to get it like my sister Linda's was. So I usually cheat and just do the crumb crust.
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I am going to use a topping from a 1950's peach cobbler recipe:
Topping

1 cup flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup soft butter

Mix all ingredients together and beat until smooth.
Spoon over the fruit mixture.
Sprinkle with a mixture of 2 tbsp sugar and 1/4 tsp cinnamon (optional add 1/4 tsp nutmeg).
Bake at 375°F for 40 to 45 minutes.
 
The only thing I see that's different is the oven temp. Wonder if I wrote that down wrong when Linda gave me the recipe - you know, one of those "baked-goods-almost-automatically-say-350-so-I'll-do-that" things. Maybe that extra 25 degrees would crisp it up a bit more on top than the 350 I've tried using. Hmmmmm
 
drumstick diva said:
Nah Blooie, we just go out for refreshments and come back before the end.:plbb:gig
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X2 Grabbed dinner while away too. Why does it seem that working 11/hrs per day, four days, 9 the fifth, and six on the sixth is soo much harder than 6/12 hr days???

Sorry for the length of this....

In all seriousness, I've been pondering a reply, but am having difficulty framing it into words, so I'll just fumble my way through it and hope I make some measure of sense.

Mechanics:
Therapists of any sort are driven by guidelines. In the instance of a speech therapist, there will be clinical guidelines, but most of her guidelines will be driven by the psychiatry/psychological guidelines and even worse could be tied to sub-sets of particular methods that someone has patented. I have a deep understanding of how the psyc world operates, as in how their drawing board works and what latitude they have in practice. I really have no clue of their science (have opinions, but that might be prejudicial).

Either way, I was hosting a conference of experts and we had to establish ground rules before hand... One of those ground rules was how to judge the validity of a body of evidence. The US had five rules, and the rest of the world had seven. So my toughest challenge ever was to get the authors of both set of rules to agree on a common set of rules. To be perfectly hones, when I read them I didn't see any difference, none! But then again I'm an aeronautics major and not a psyc major... So I hosted a conference call with the two authors.... one in NY the other in Australia (teila, bet you didn't know the international standard of evidence was written by your own Director of Psychiatry, btw Bev is a peach;)) and I was in DC. Took eight painful hours of me repeating, "I hear your answer, but don't see a difference" until finally they agreed upon six rules. We wrote them in marble and published them... DONE! and my brain hurt for hours after.

So in that world there are precepts, the firs is: "Do no harm!" Where the rules and the concept come together is when someone has patented a "technique" and there is a body of valid evidence that it causes harm. There really isn't any policing organization in play here, so people can continue to cause harm in the name of money, until enough people complain and someone takes time to deal with it.

So, if the therapist seems "trapped" rather than ignoring you, then she might very well be. In the end you're the best judge. If failure, shuts her down, she won't learn... .- What might be the easiest way to express this to the therapist is: If you don't give her wins, we all lose and you're fired. "DO NO HARM!" Take the little wins and turn them into big wins, and if you're structured to the point where you can't, just be candid and we'll find another program.

Ok, I know that last part sounded harsh, but understand these folks have more training on how to handle you than they do to handle Kendra. Oops, a little of my "opinion" slipped out there. Ok, to be perfectly honest, there are a ton of really and I mean really good therapists out there and just a few bad eggs at the root level... The problem is you never know how far down the tree yours is...

I hope this made sense. I'd love to have my version of Dugie houser chat with Kendra. Not sure I even know how to find her anymore... PhD in Psychiatry at 14, PhD in Psychology at 16. When DD was having challenges in psyc, I emailed her and she mentored DD. They weren't far apart in age.
 
Blooie said:
The only thing I see that's different is the oven temp. Wonder if I wrote that down wrong when Linda gave me the recipe - you know, one of those "baked-goods-almost-automatically-say-350-so-I'll-do-that" things. Maybe that extra 25 degrees would crisp it up a bit more on top than the 350 I've tried using. Hmmmmm
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Yes!
350 is for more delicate things that have eggs in them. 375 to 400 is for stuff like this.

Ovens often read incorrectly too--like incubators. I have calibrated my oven
 

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