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Skriven 2006-04-21 14:35:45 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
    Kommentar till text 607 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
Ärende: Home againis the Sailor
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Hi Carol,


 CS> will like edame beans if you find them.  (Shell them, the pods arent

RH> We have a bag in our freezer right now. (G)  Steve likes them bettr th
RH> I do; they're OK but not chocolate. (G)

 CS> Ah, nothing is like Chocolate!  Anyways, I use them by the handful in
 CS> all sorts of stuff.

They're basically a snack type munchie for Steve. Something to occupy
his fingers when the brain is zoned out on the tv, most likely. OTOH,
the chocolate is medicne for me. (G)

RH> where you have to seek; it just says that  ye will find.

 CS> True.  Either way, there are still lots of food items i havent tried
 CS> yet.  What I sincerely hope is that others will just 'try something
 CS> new' now and again as i do.

I do now and then but not on every shopping trip.  Looks like Steve will
be doing more of those; I've got orders to stay off the foot as much as
possible.  It was re-aggrevated (no break but the "old" one is acting up
with a bit of tendonitis) somehow this week; "ran" into Tripler for a
quick check this morning.  Found out my PCM had been hanging on to my
records since I saw him last week but they are now back at the records
room.

 CS> panko is *rice* so try that on him?  Panko isnt made from wheat at

 CS> If you see 'rice flour' you pretty much have panko.  The brand name
 CS> type in Hawaii is in flake shape, not ground down yet finer to a
 CS> powder, but same thing.  Here, you buy it out of sealed bins (sealed

 CS> I have to backtrack on this.  Seems from 'google' that Panko is a
 CS> wheat based product from flaked bread.  What does that mean?  It means
 CS> I'm getting
 CS> something we locally call 'panko' and cant tell the difference of at
 CS> all in looks or flavor but is made of rice.  Sasebo-ism?  Maybe it
 CS> comes in rice format too?

 CS> has 5 types.  One is a brown rice with a fat flake that tastes
 CS> slightly nutty.  There's a fine brown rice too and 3 'sizes' of white
 CS> type (fine flour to big flake).  Once I saw them dip out of the 'big

RH> I've only seen the white rice variety; Steve would go for the brown ri
RH> one if I could find it.

 CS> Now what the heck is the right name for the rice type?  Google says
 CS> I'm all wrong that it's rice based but it is I assure you here.  No
 CS> doubt at all.

So maybe panko is a generic name and you would have to specify what kind
you want if you want to be picky.


 CS> Here's the funny part about Japan.  No 'Asia grocery' who can
 CS> translate.  Just folks selling things with 'engrish' names and I've
 CS> mentioned before that this can be a trial when I try to post a recipe.
 CS>  I didnt know there was a wheat based bread version until I checked
 CS> Google.

The old "learn something new evry day" policy at work again.

 CS> I really hope I'm not using the wrong name!  Panko is what I am told
 CS> this is bt if i am wrong, then Panko comes from potatoes and still not
 CS> 'wheat' while I am getting something so close to it, we all cal it
 CS> 'panko' because it *looks* and *cooks* indentical.  The local thing I
 CS> get is definately from rice, not potato.

So get a native Japanese speaker to clarify.  I know several I could
ask.

RH> The common name over here is "Japanese bread crumbs"; that's why I
RH> thought it was a wheat product.

 CS> Grin, seems you have the name right and I have another product but you
 CS> cant tell the difference.

Lord only knows----and He ain't a-tellin'!

RH> train to Misawa.  She told me that their luggage had to go on a separa
RH> freight train & was hoping it wouldn't get lost; I assured her that it
RH> probably down to a science over there.  We pick them up next Tuesday;
RH> it'll be interesting to hear their tales.

 CS> Tell us how it goes when the time comes!

Will do; it's actually Wed.; I looked at the calendar wrong.

 CS> Don oaded up some in a little baggie for our next trip to Tonoo.  I
 CS> plan to show it to the 'panko lady' and see what she can show me.
 CS> She's got some 40 bins of 'stuff' there, much of which I havent tried

RH> Better hurry up; time's getting short!

 CS> ;-)  Definatley

But you've got longer over there than we do here since you did a COT/PCS
& we just did 2 FSTE's. Our time is up in August.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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