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Skriven 2007-05-19 11:38:40 av hap newsom
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: RE: Oh THAT wine! 528
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Hey Michael!

->  HN> I KNEW I could count on you to remember the details, and now that 
you
->  HN> have  refreshed my memory I remember it too! Thanks! It was indeed
->  HN> Puget Park  right down on the waterfront but well hidden from the
->  HN> hustle and bustle of  the "main drag" as it were! 
-> 
-> I have some vivid memories of that party.
-> 
When someone reminds me I can "unfile" my memories as well (grin)...I just 
don't seem to have a very good dewey decimal system in me noggin!
-> =
-> 
->  HN> The parents could be stone bigots...but as
->  HN> soon as the kids were  out of sight they joined all the rest of us and
->  HN> just got along.  
-> 
-> Isn't that grand? Now if we can get people to stay kids,
-> the world will be a better place.
-> 
A LOT better for the most part!

->  HN> I was a voracious reader and devoured almost anything that was in
->  HN> print.
-> 
-> I was when I was in the mood. Went through books obsessively,
-> and when I started a book, it wouldn't be interrupted.
-> 
-> In 5th grade, the teacher, Mrs. Gallegos, had this scheme
-> that both encouraged reading and made grading easy. For your
-> reading grade, you just read books, which she would rate on
-> a scale of 1 to 4, with the likes of Pat the Bunny getting
-> one credit, and anything from A Wrinkle in Time to A Tale
-> of Two Cities getting 4 (I recall Nancy Drew books, of which
-> I read one, being worth 3). Based on this, you made your own
-> grade according to the following scale:
-> 40+ = A
-> 30-39 = B
-> 20-29 = C
-> 10-19 = D
-> under 10 = E.
-> 
-> Okay. I read the one Nancy Drew and then embarked on the
-> Complete Sherlock Holmes; the two books were all I read all
-> semester, and even though I was terrified of getting an E,
-> I persisted. The teacher, at the end of the allotted time,
-> asked me what I'd read, and I said I read two books.
-> Consternation among the class, but the wise Mrs. Gallegos
-> asked what they were. On hearing that the one was along the
-> lines of Nancy Drew meets the Wolf Man, she made a bit of a
-> face, and there were giggles plenty, but when I named the
-> Sherlock Holmes, she got this enigmatic look that said, oh,
-> I can get him out of this one. She actually right then and
-> there told me that I would receive 36 points for it, and
-> my semester total, 39, would be enough for a B+, assuming
-> I didn't want to read the Cat in the Hat really quick to
-> round things up to an A, which I declined. Ronny Gravitz
-> protested that it was unfair and that I should have gotten
-> an E, or at least a D, and Mrs. Gallegos told me to bring
-> the volume the next day to show that it was worth that
-> number of points. It was a heavy haul taking it on the mile
-> walk to school, but it was worth a B+ and the respect of
-> the class. What interests me most in retrospect was that
-> Mrs. Gallegos knew right off that the compilation was in
-> fact of nine books, to wit A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of
-> Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear,
-> and five volumes of short stories.
-> 
-> I wonder what she'd have done if I'd read just
-> Dorland's Medical Dictionary (which I did another time).
-> 
-> The next semester I didn't fool around, and I got something
-> like 150 points.
-> 
I always got good grades in reading, but for the most part don't remember 
any remarkable stories about it...I just read because I really liked reading
and 
the "escape" it gave. I would read poetry, fiction, history, even 
autbiographies, ( and I love to this day Seuss books), and Scientific books. 
And like you I hated to interrupt the process once I started a book. 

->  HN> Thursday flea market in Downtown Chateauroux...a great place for 
stamp
->  HN> collectors (which I was then) bibliogeeks (which I was then and still
->  HN> am) and  all sorts of odds and ends! 
-> 
-> Never been to Chateauroux, though the train to Toulouse
-> goes through it (we get off at Brive, of course).
-> 
Of course, Chateauroux does not hold any special place in your memories, for 
me it would be the main stop! (grin)
-> =
-> 
->  -> Wilt onion and celery thoroughly in butter. Add milk,
->  -> stock, and oyster liquor. Bring to the boil. Add
->  -> oysters. Cook until oysters plump up. Season. Serve.
->  HN> Nice and simple but I'd add a glug of sherry to it as well....adds a
->  HN> bit of depth 
-> 
-> The funny thing is that I in fact did put a glug (maybe
-> an ounce) of Pale Dry in after the vegetables were wilted;
-> and I thought that there was too much flavor action in the
-> finished product, so I omitted it when typing the recipe.
-> 
I don't think of it as "too much" rather as adding a bit of depth to a 
taste that I already enjoy.

-> ---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.01
-> 
->       Title: Frozen Creamed Horseradish
->  Categories: Spices/etc.
->       Yield: 8 servings
-> 
->       1 c  Heavy cream                         2 ts White vinegar
->       4 tb Horseradish                       1/2 ts Black pepper
-> 
Interesting, I'll bet it would go good in the middle of a hamburger!
chat with you soon
hap 
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