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Old 11-08-2007, 01:23 PM   #7
Andrea Barnett Budin
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Wink Cranberry Relish To Relish...

Hey Butch! Sorry, Brenda, I saw someone post calling you Butch -- from Bhutch I guess. You are so not Butch Babe! Any way just accidentally caught your request for CRANBERRY RELISH. My pleasure...

Buy fresh cranberries -- 4 12-oz packages in November, at their sweetest. You can freeze for future.

3 darkest red apples you can find -- cut up, slice and core -- THEN chop
1 yellow/slightly pink apple -- cut up, slice and core -- THEN chop
2L navel oranges -- remove pits -- THEN chop (reserve 1/8 peel for chopping)
4 dark tangerines -- remove pits -- THEN chop
4 12-oz pkgs cranberries -- wash and rinse in colander -- remove stems -- THEN chop
Add 3 cups of sugar

STIR ALL TOGETHER and REFRIGERATE.
I pour in to plastic containers w/tight lids.
Best made in advance -- allowing favors to comingle.

Every year at least one dghtr and niece calls me for recipe. Lost last yr's...
BIG FAVORITE. Good for over a wk...
Serves 20+.

As every good *cook* knows -- always had love!
Andi
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'95 post-meno dx Invasive LOBULAR w/9cm tumor! YIKES + 2/21 nodes. Clear mammo 10 mnths earlier. Mastec/tram flap reconst/PORT/8 mnths chemo (4Adria/8CMF). Borderline ER/PR. Tamoxifen 2 yrs. Felt BLESSED. I could walk and talk, feed and bathe myself! I KNEW I would survive...

'98 -- multiple mets to liver. HER2+ 80%. ER/PR- Raging, highly aggressive tumors spreading fast. New PORT. 9 mnths Taxotere Fought fire w/fire! Pronounced in cautious remission 5/99. Taxotere weekly for 6 wks, 2 wks off -- for 9 mnths. TALK ABOUT GRUELING! (I believe they've altered that protocol since those days -- sure hope so!!)
+ good old Vit H wkly for 1st 3 yrs, then triple dosage ev 3 wks for 7 yrs more... The "easy" chemo, right?! Not a walk in the park, but not a freight train coming at 'ya either...

Added Herceptin Nov '98 (6 wks after FDA fast-tracked it for met bc). Stayed w/Vit H till July '08! Now I AM FREE! Humbly and eternally grateful for this life-saving drug! NED since '99 and planning on keeping it that way. To hell w/poor prognosis and nasty stats! STOPPED VIT H JULY '08...! REMAIN STABLE... Eternally grateful...Yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds ... (e e cummings) EVERY DAY I BEAT MY PREVIOUS RECORD FOR # OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS I'VE STAYED ALIVE. Smile KNOWING you too can be a miracle. Up to me and God now...
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