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Skriven 2006-06-03 10:03:33 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Michael Loo
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 -=> Quoting Michael Loo to Glen Jamieson <=-

 GJ> intestines, though.  They might be more successful with them than the
 GJ> Vietnamese place which I tried some time ago.
 ML> What was wrong at the Viet place - insufficient cooking or
 ML> insufficient cleaning?

Tough, tough, tough!  Flavour was OK, but needed lots more cooking.
 
 ML> Unless carefully flash-frozen, frozen are nowhere so good as fresh,
 ML> and your salty criticism indicates that they may have been brined
 ML> for preservation before freezing, which degrades them further.
 GJ> I was asked if I wanted the crabs "salt and pepper", or just "black
 GJ> pepper", and as I had asked for the latter, I was surprised at the
 GJ> saltiness of some of the crabs.
 ML> Still sounds like salt used as a preservative. But salt-and-pepper
 ML> usually involves a light battered fry as in the shrimp or squid of
 ML> the same name; black pepper usually has a thickened sauce.

There was a little sauce, but also the batter, so I suspect those
soft-shells were the basic salt and pepper preparation, plus a sauce -
which presentation I find slightly dishonest.  Although generally a
good restaurant, that is the second time I have experienced that sort
of treatment there, being served with something different from what
was ordered, and the waiter insisting it was correct.  My daughter
likes the place because Ryan gets treated like royalty, and she was
paying, so I will inevitably go back again.  I accept bribes.
 
 GJ> I don't object in principle, although I am somewhat averse to eating
 ML> Hence the temptation to be a poultrarian, as I believe no
 ML> incidence of kindness or cuteness among chickens or geese
 ML> has been recorded.

I remember a pet bantam from 65 years ago which was friendly... but
bantams are nicer and brighter than the commercial chooks polloi.
 
 ML> That's rather flip. Skin cancers there are encountered quite
 ML> frequently - as, I admit, are lung cancers.

I have a wide-brimmed hat in your size waiting for you...
 
 GJ> I got clots of coconut cream in mine.  Nyah, nyah!
 ML> Pthbthth.

Manners, manners!  You have been associating with the Sac too much.

 ML> =
 
 ML> I wonder what my taste buds would do if I subjected them to
 ML> maltose-roasted squab every day for a week or a month. Foie
 ML> gras would be (and would make me) too monstrous to contemplate.

Perhaps you would then be seriously craving for oatmeal porridge.
 
 GJ> Title: Brain Croquets - MHNCB, 1870

 ML> For some reason this makes me think of someone posing with
 ML> a mallet and a skull.

Ha!  Not my spelling.  A hoop to Yorick!

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: Steamed Bread-Crumb-Coated Pork Intestines
 Categories: Pork, Organs, Chinese
      Yield: 6 Servings
 
     10 oz Pork Intestines
      1 c  Bread Crumbs
      3 oz Sweet Potato, peeled
      1 ts Sesame Oil
           Spring Onion, minced
           Black

MMMMM-------------------------SEASONINGS------------------------------
      1 tb Soy Sauce
    1/2 tb Chili Nam Yuey
      1 tb Wine
    1/2 ts Sugar
    1/2 ts Sweet Flour Paste
    1/2 ts Black
    1/2 ts Ginger, minced
    1/2 ts Spring Onion, minced
 
  Pepper, freshly ground Pepper, freshly ground Rinse pork intestines.
  Cut into 3/4" long sections. Marinate with seasonings for 20 minutes.
  Mix with the bread crumbs. Cut sweet potato into cubes. Mix with the
  remaining juice from marinating the intestine. Spread evenly on the
  bottom of each steamer. Put the intestine sections evenly on top of
  the sweet potato. Steam over a high flame for 1 hour. Drip some hot
  sesame oil on top. Sprinkle some minced spring onion and ground
  pepper on top and serve.
  
  Serves 4 large appetites, 6 regular ones.
  
  From The Chinese Regional Cuisine Series, Szechuan Cooking.
  
  Posted by James Lor.
  
  FROM: Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives
 
MMMMM
 
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