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Skriven 2007-08-20 11:41:04 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE SACERDOTE
Ärende: Saturday 948
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Hi Dave,


JM>  Messed up Glen's idea of making an adobo as an
JM>  automatic rice go-with, though. The 2 rices presented
JM>  on Saturday were stand-alone rices, both your risotto
JM>  and the Haffley multi-rice. Both were good, but neither
JM>  asked "What goes with" as the adobo was meant to. I
JM>  should have packed up my Canilla rice just as an
JM>  acceptable base for the adobo!

RH> I wish I'd realised it then. I had a couple of cups of
RH> "regular" long grain brown rice with me that I didn't
RH> cook up. It would have gone well with the adobo.  Oh

 DS> And we brought our rice cooker and several varieties of Japanese
 DS> short- and medium-grain rice as well, and could have cooked some
 DS> up to go with the adobo if anyone had said, "Hey, how come there's
 DS> no rice for the adobo?"

I guess we all sort of zoned out on that. (G) There was rice available,
just not the kind expected to go with adobo.


 DS> But early on, while your multi-grain yummies were cooking, and
 DS> Michael was starting to prep for his risotti, we decided that
 DS> there was enough rice as it was and we weren't going to cook up
 DS> any more.


It made sense; there was a lot of food anyway.  Wonder if Gail's fridge
has gotten down to "normal" yet? (G)


 DS> For the record, though, your multi-grain rice was quite good
 DS> under the adobo - because I had some that way - and I imagine
 DS> that the adobo would have been quite excellent with the mushroom
 DS> risotto as well, since the meaty King Oyster mushrooms could
 DS> easily have stood up to the adobo's spiciness.

So it wasn't a major disaster that there was no rice specifically for
the adobo.  I got my rice cooking to be done about the time Dale set for
the initial eating to start (about 2pm) but we were all noshing off of
this and that well before that time.  I got the cobbler done earlier so
it would have time to cool and free up the kitchen for others use.
Having the rice cooker outside worked well in that regard too. All in
all, Dale and Gail have a great set up for handling a group like that;
the kitchen work area was roomy but not so big we felt like we were lost
in it.  There was also a nice "spectator" area for gathering round at
breakfast time or kibbitzing other times and other areas in/around the
house where smaller groups could chat.  Steve and I had a nice talk with
Helen in the living room at one point.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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