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Skriven 2007-11-30 17:30:10 av Carol Shenkenberger (1:261/1466.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
Ärende: Kroger Store, Good 71129
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 -=> Quoting Glen Jamieson to Carol Shenkenberger <=-

 CS> I wonder if this could be a route to a 'congee' like thing?  If so,
 CS> add twice the water then adjust the coconut powder to taste.  You do
 CS> not after all 'have'
 CS> to make such with chicken stock or dashi.  You could perhaps match
 CS> your more  normal to you indonesian style seasonings with it and the
 CS> coconut and get a  winner new thing?
 
 GJ> I suppose doubling the water in the rice cooker would keep it boiling
 GJ> a lot longer, and maybe soften the hearts of the long grains.
 
 CS> But not enough to make them love one another, just make them friendly.
 CS> 
 CS> Still, seems a path worth exploring. I might try it here.

 GJ> I tried that.  It took twice as long to cook, and some was baked onto
 GJ> the bottom of the rice cooker, but It definitely improved the texture
 GJ> of the long-grain, almost to the point of proper glugginess.  It
 GJ> didn't do anything for the inferior flavour of the rice though.


Naw, congee.  Double or more the water/coconut to regular ways to make a
slurry.
Add other stuff to it.

 GJ> I leave in a couple of hours, going west, but this time I have left
 GJ> Jason with a 10kg bag of Calrose, which should keep him fed for a
 GJ> while, until I return.

3 weeks and only 10kg?  Oh wait, thats 20 lbs or a bit more.  Ok.  Should be
some left when you get back.

 
 CS> (on kids versions of South Africa posting)
 
 CS> Humm, how to explain that.  Most 'African Americans' (many prefer the
 CS> term  black and thats polite in USA) are actually 'mixed' so are seldom
 CS> even close  to true African skin color.  They culturally are proud of
 CS> their heritage and this is a good thing.  When they go to Africa

 GJ> Same as Australian aborigines.  Most are mixed race, but if tribal
 GJ> elders consider them aboriginal, that is good enough.

Yes, works.
 
 CS> however, they are considered 'white' by the native africans, yet not
 CS> white by the Africaans (dutch etc white)
 CS> so fit no where.

 GJ> That would not make for relaxed, comfortable living.

No and that seems the root of why that posting isnt considered a 'good one' by
the kids here.
 
 GJ> Certainly the US folks I have met and socialised with appear to have
 GJ> no such prejudices.
 
 CS> If they have them, they know they are wrong so stay quiet.  Most seem
 CS> like me, 
 CS> and have no problems and at worst just the stray confusion on how to
 CS> ask a  question and be polite at the same time.

 GJ> Understood.
 
 CS> It can be wierd.  I was talking to a neighor who was talking to a
 CS> prospective renter and she described our area as a 'white neighborhood'
 CS> (she's black) and handing off some loaned tools to her BIL who is I
 CS> *think* hispanic.  What she  meant was clear though and not bad.  It's
 CS> a sort of quiet place with lots of kids and parents watching out for
 CS> kids.  I'm not saying a predominatly 'black' area doesnt watch for the
 CS> kids, but the terms seem to have shifted? 

 GJ> In South Australia (unlike parts of Sydney) there is little ethnic
 GJ> grouping.  Where I live the accent of population has changed from all
 GJ> white, to some aborigine, to Vietnamese/Chinese, to Middle East to
 GJ> Somali and Sudanese.  Each wave has left some representatives here, so
 GJ> now there is a great mixture of cultures, and this is reflected in the
 GJ> food I can buy locally.

Same in my neighborhood.  Ghiselle (not sure of the spelling) 3 houses over 
from me is german.  Across and over one house is American Indian.  Next to her
is African American, other side of her rented by mixed bag of Navy guys, one
 side of me is caucasian (look it at least) and other side used to be African
American again but rented to a causacian couple.  Corner lot on our side is 
hispanic and corner lot other side is too (mixed, hispanic and American Indian
cousin of one nextdoor to her).  There's a fellow from Italy down the street 
and next to him is a filipena (they both like to cook and turn out some of the
wildest stuff for our occasional block party potlucks).

BTW the Italian fellow and the Filipena lady are a trip.  Both widowed, they 
dont want to give up their homes but basically we treat'em like a married 
couple.  Been quietly 'pitter pattering' back and forth late at night or early
in the morning for the past 10 years.  Since they are in their late 70's, we 
ALL wanna be like them when we hit that age!  She will publically bemoan him as
he's 'not safe for a lady' then he just grins and winks and off they go!

 CS> (Ok,took a break and asked Charlotte.  She said 'homestly Mom, never
 CS> asked.  It's not obvious which she wants to be but her brother is
 CS> pretty dark and her other sister pretty light.  She's middlin' and it
 CS> never came up).  I asked if  they seemed african or hispanic and she
 CS> cant tell.  That is very common here. 
 
 GJ> That sounds like Darwin, where a large proportion of the locals are
 GJ> the product of 100 years of mixing between Anglos, Chinese, Aborigines,
 GJ> Filipinos, Timorese, Indonesian and Indians.  You just can't tell!
 
 CS> USA:  250 years mixing.  No can tell really <g>.

 GJ> Where there are smaller ethnic groups there is more inter-marrying.
 GJ> That happened in Darwin a lot.

Well, big melting pot here.  Some areas, more obvious than others.
                      xxcarol

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