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Skriven 2007-08-12 19:34:58 av BURTON FORD (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JOAN MACDIARMID
Ärende: Friday cotd. 899
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Hi there Lady               8/12/07 2:15 PM

ML> Kirin blue crab snack - this is the Korean Kirin, which probably
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ML> These dissolve to leave little hard bits
ML> in the mouth - simulated shell?

It tickles me that we have a friend who would think this was a made on
purpose  addition like that!  And it fills me with awe that there may be a
whole culture who would find it reasonable to add crunchy stuff to mimic
bits of crab shell.   [g]

ML> Sauerbraten - good flavor, but not as good as Dimitri's, as the
ML> meat was a little tough and the gravy spiked with caraway;
 
JM->  I liked mine, but it was my first sauerbraten,
JM->  and caraway sounds authentic enough for me! I noted
JM->  Dimitri's sauerbraten involved a huge bowl of gravy,
JM->  which sort of turned me off.

I think Sauerbraten including the gravy was made to be spread over lots of
noodles.  The gravy is a stellar part of the dish to me.  I love to spread
it across mashed potatoes if possible.  Or bread/toast, etc.   Did you get
lots of noodles w/your dish?
 
ml-> The beans were from a can, the dumpling from a glue factory.
jm->  Well, I had the dumpling and liked it, 
jm-> but it was a thing well suited to sauerbraten's gravy, so
lm->  appropriate to the main dish.

Dumplings _are_ well suited to Sauerbraten gravy.   But those were not
dumplings, they were most like tennis balls, as someone already said.
I could only take two bites of mine and then I gave up.  Rare for this Eat. 
I manage to enjoy most foods.    [g]

jm->  Or did I? Maybe I had the Potato Salad instead.

What a delight to find someone else beside me with a photographic mind for
food!  It's a shame Michael can't share our detailed recall of tastes,
textures and ingredients of food as we do, eh?   [chuckle]   [Really I'm
only teasing myself, I have none of those attributes...whereas I have seen
that you do.]

ML> The band - three pieces tonight - was hideously loud. Someone
ML> suggested that I should have brought my violin. I countered that
ML> perhaps I should have brought my M-1 Carbine.

[grin]  

jm-> Kudos to Burt and Shirley for daring to
jm->  participate in the dancing. I have only danced to
jm->  polka music under orders in Physical Education
jm->  classes and I don't remember the moves; I doubt
jm->  Glen was ever plagued by polka music at all!

I think no one noticed that we danced only to two _slow_ oldies.  I dance
to only very slow big band type music, following the riffs and melodies
since I have  very little sense of rhythm, and using a very strong lead. 
The dance I asked all you girls to dance to was the second slow one.  The
_only_ other slow one.  Next time say yes, I'm easy to follow.

No polkas.  Shirley loves to jitterbug, but I have no idea how to move to
the jitterbig, so she jitterbugs and I vibrate a little.  One dance.


Burt


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