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     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Soupy weather                                            [2]
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HOwdy Ruth!
-> 
->  HN> It can be a chore finding time to do it all.....
->  HN> but it's easier if Anne is having a late day
->  HN> at school and I don't have to be home to fix
->  HN> an early dinner!
-> 
-> True.  We're eating a bit earlier than usual tonight by choice. We want
-> to visit a friend of ours but can only do so until 8 pm.
-> 

Our schedule is pretty "open" but we usually eat
around 6pm every day. The morning is much more
regimented with getting ready for work, breakfast and all.

-> ->  HN> sub service at that time had the
-> ->  HN> very best of everything and food was
-> ->  HN> always supberb! Our chief cook was a
-> 
-> -> I have heard that the sub branch of the Navy eats the best--not
always
-> -> sub sandwiches either. (G)
-> 
->  HN> Let's just say when I got out of the navy
->  HN> I was more used to eating steak and lobster
->  HN> than I have been since!
-> 
-> Sure not like that in the Army. (G)
-> 

Precisely! That's why I joined the Navy! (grin)

-> ->  HN> chef who had been assigned to the
-> ->  HN> White House staff at one point in
-> 
-> -> Before or after Robert Irvine's tenure there? (G)
-> 
->  HN> Dunno who he is, but our chief was there in the mid
->  HN> 60's.
-> 
-> He's the "Dinner Impossible" guy; was teamed up with Tyler Florence
-> against Cat Cora and Paula Deen last night on "Iron Chef". The guys
-> lost, but by only 2 points; I was expecting a larger margin between, but
-> still expected the guys to lose.
-> 

(grin) Then it'd be LONG before Robert Irvine! 


-> ->  HN> his career...and boy did he have good
-> ->  HN> ideas on food! Of course he had a
-> ->  HN> fixation on aluminum foil too....ever
-> ->  HN> had oysters on tinfoil "half shells"? (grin)
-> 
-> -> Got to give him points for creativity.  If they were canned, it made
a
-> -> cute presentation since he didn't have the shells to put them on.
-> -> Probably a lot of guy who didn't know the difference anyway. (G)
-> 
->  HN> They did make a cute presentation...
->  HN> and there were very few who didn't
->  HN> know what an oyster was. We were
->  HN> sailors after all! He made great
-> 
-> Did they know before they went into the Navy?
-> 

I can't say....they were all in the navy when I knew em! (grin)

->  HN> oyster stew as well and his SOS
->  HN> was to die for! He was so good that
->  HN> the admirals kept trying to woo
->  HN> him away from us for shore duty..
->  HN> but he LIKED cooking for a crew and
->  HN> had had enough of the high life at
->  HN> the white house....so he stayed
->  HN> with us...and we were GLAD!!
-> 
-> 
-> Sounds like he was a keeper. (G)
-> 
-> 
He was,  but he was a tough taskmaster as well, he's cooks 
knew to jump when he started yelling orders! 
But every one of them that worked under him became 
really good navy cooks themselves!
chat with you soon
ha
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