Text 15064, 98 rader
Skriven 2007-05-06 01:51:53 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
  Kommentar till text 15033 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Re: The bastids!
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*** Quoting Ruth Haffly from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 CS> No I hadnt heard about Don Ho!  Long run he's had but he'll be missed
 CS> anyways.

RH> Yes, the show will go on however with other family members and folks
RH> filling in.  According to the Advertiser (I read it on line) they don'
RH> even plan to move his organ to the rear part of the stage--yet.  A big
RH> memorial service is planned for tomorrow in Waikiki.

Ah.  Makes Hawaii sense there <g>. You never really grow old or die there, you
just become an ancestor.

 CS> match fusion item I think. What you knew as 'portugese' I was told was
 CS> 'dime' at the local market store possibly?

RH> Most likely; the nickname "dime" for Portugese sounds familiar.

Should be, and i bet you've seen this same thing but may not have liked it as
well as we did.  There was one also called 'portugese' that I recall and I
think it was a fattier variation than the one my local store made.  Yes, home
made was best.  Very close item though to the one they called 'portugese' but
that was more fatty with a hint of something almost like maple syrup to it.

RH> including a set of 3 square bowls with a lacquer finish inside a
RH> carrying tower.

 CS> Gosh, I'm gonna love getting those food-TV stations again! Got Emeril
 CS> on right now (one of the very few we get in english).  He's making
 CS> pizza.


RH> The "standard" or something wierd? We don't watch him very much any
RH> more; Alton brown is still our favorite.  He had a neat way to peel
RH> mangoes last night--slice a thin layer of peel from the top and botom,
RH> set it on a cutting board and push a corn on the cob holder into the
RH> top.  The slice off the bottom makes it sit flat & the corn on the cob
RH> holder helps you peel the rest of it & slice it without it getting awa
RH> from you.

Humm!  Sounds interesting.  I've taken to the asian way, cut 2 thick slices off
along the 'bone' (center stone) and then crosscut that to squares and eat off
the rind.  The part along the 'bone' you just knarf down as is.

On Food TV, Emeril is about the only one we get out here in english, so we
watch it.  I've not seen any of the others folks here mention.  *sigh* 6 years
and counting....  It's been lovely but I wanna go home and see the things
others do again. There's this series called 'Angel' that we can only buy in
DVD but have never seen.  I'm not sure if it's still on.  Whole slew of things
ike that which we've not seen.

In fact, post 9/11 USA culture, we havent seen.  Yes, been out here that long.
I watched you move to Hawaii from Sasebo and have seen you move back. When I
left, we had Vans and fancy ones were SUV's.  What the heck is a Hummer? 
Fancy SUV it sounds like?


 CS> Presentation is very important in Japanese cookery so yes, pretty
 CS> bowls. If they matched, he was playing to a USA audience <g>.

RH> He was playing to a USA audience but still, it was pretty.

I'm sure!  True Japan mix would come over as a bit odd there.  In USA, you'd at
least have a basic color schema (mostly green orsomething like that). Not so
here.


 CS> As the ingredients in each dish are unique, so should be the dish it
 CS> is displayed in (or such is what I am taught here). Hence 'square
 CS> bowls' and such to contrast with the round ones and patterns will
 CS> complement in color or design but not be the 'same' even at a fast
 CS> glance except in a restraunt.  High grade restaunts (which I cant

RH> I can see that.  Still, the dish (plate, bowl, etc) might be the only
RH> unifier to a meal.

Naw, they arent intended to 'unify' but to complement a varigated color table.
It's sort of like having a wild flower garden that makes a total picture but
each is distinctly unique.  The flavors of the foods though are made to
complement.  I dont know the background enough better than to say what i see.

 CS> afford so have little experience with) will not match just like at
 CS> home, they dont.

RH> Sounds like fun. (G)

It is! It's a minor fun but we like to drag out all sorts of things to set a
table here.  Charlotte's favorite rice bowl has a sort of pink version of
Dutch delft with a laughing fellow that is a bit mixed between budda and a
clown. Mine is the one with green flowers and yellow leaves. Don likes the one
with blue delft-looking bamboo shoots. Our chopsticks are also varied as are
our mugs for whatever we are drinking.  Under it all, is one of the many silk
tablecloths we've gotten out here.  Bright ones with many patterns and colors.

                                       xxcarol

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