Text 2171, 70 rader
Skriven 2006-06-15 11:46:15 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 2129 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
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Hi Carol,

 CS> Same here on some things.  That peanut-flour stuff is great with soups
 CS> but not all types.  Asiatic cookery lends well to it and I may be
 CS> looking up a few African ideas as well.

RH> Sounds like you're getting ready to go on a cooking "jag".  I suspect

 CS> Um, I be that transparent eh?  *blush*.  I got home and made bread,

Open like a window! (G)

 CS> and did all sorts of things.  Still on 3 section duty for the next 2
 CS> weeks (every 3rd day on the ship for 24 hours for the rest of you).

But, you're still basically home.  Don can relax a bit from being the
24/7 Dad & Mom and you can be Mom again instead of Chief.


 CS> Yeah.  I been caught.  I wanna play in the kitchen!  I suspect it's a
 CS> bit like you might feel if your sewing machine were packed away for 4
 CS> months.  Itching to create?

Very much so!  That's why we're holding a machine out when the packers
come & will mail it to ourselves in Georgia just before we fly.  I've
got a number of shirts and things cut out to work on during the post
pack out/pre fly days.  We're going to hold out a basic kitchen set too
so I can cook somewhat normally for that interim period and after we
find housing on the other end but before we get our HHG.  I will have to
go back to buying store bread; my wrists are too weak to make it by
hand.  Steve is already in a bit of a fuss about that. (G)


 CS> CT Ruth's suprise package of mixed beans are in serious danger of
 CS> demolishment but Don and i are still contemplating ideas.  As you may
 CS> recall, i blew my back out and was not able to fix them so we let one
 CS> of them wait.  Don made the other up while i was away.  He made a
 CS> horseradish-bean soup mix of a thick sort with 1 ham hock then poured
 CS> it over some crusty bread with bits of the
 CS> scrapings from a rice pot.  Me, I'm between 'TNT' and trying
 CS> 'something new'.

TNT is good for the initial re-entry phase, working into something new.
Hopefully your back will behave better than my foot did so you will be
able to try the new things as the creative muse strikes.


 CS> Dinner tonight was simple.  Fresh white-fleshed fish, pan 'fried' with
 CS> a bit of butter, added red asian pepper flakes and slivers of both
 CS> garlic and lotis root then added color with some green pepper and
 CS> pimeintos.  Fresh raw 'melon squash' (its a squash but eaten raw like
 CS> a melon, only a bit sweet but
 CS> onolicious!) and a few simple slices of cucumber.  On the side were
 CS> slices of black olives and a cut up orange.

Sounds good.  I'm going to reheat some of the beef curry I made last
week (froze 2 more meals worth after the initial one) with the rice
blend we like.  I cooked the rice in turkey stock; the curry was made
with beef stock subbed for water.  Lots of flavors going round and round
with each other but no predominant one.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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