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Skriven 2006-12-19 17:20:46 av hap newsom (1:275/311)
     Kommentar till en text av CAROL SHENKENBERGER
Ärende: Re: Fishing, Okinawa!
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Hey Carol!
-> -> -> 
-> -> -> Dont expect the same price.  I gather I got 50% off and then some?
-> -> -> 
-> -> hn> I"m expecting to fork out somewhere in the area of $800-$1000
-> -> 
-> -> 
-> -> I saw one at www.affordablecomputers.com that was in the range 
(sans 
-> hn> OS etc) 
-> -> but was the lower level model and it was used/refurbished at 499$.  
Not a 
-> hn> bad 
-> -> deal actually.
-> 
-> hn> I go down to Portland Oregon tomorrow morning to pick up Amanda 
from h
-> hn> flight up from Sacramento....Oregon has no sales tax so I'll have a lo
-> hn> I'm down there and perhaps I'll save a few bux in the deal!
-> 
-> Ok, expect something like 800$ minimum.  If it costs much more, might 
want to 
-> mail order from a cheaper source?
-> 
-> Go look over the used ones.  I've had good luck with that particular 
company on
-> such.

After I picked up Amanda at the Airport, we went and had breakfast...and 
from where we were sitting we could see a Comp USA store....so we 
wandered over and bought a nice little HP Notebook for Anne, $599, got 
Microsoft Office with it and a few goodies for me and was out the door for 
less than a grand! 
-> 
-> -> It's gotten better since the old days.  I can easily use the powder
-> hn> now for cooking with no fear.
-> -> 
-> hn> Some old fears are left best untested (grin) I'll pass thank you! LOL
-> 
-> Ok!  But i dont always have milk onhand and use the powder now for 
baking and 
-> such.
-> 
Happily I have several stores near by and can go and get milk if I need it that

badly! Right now I think all we have in the house is a pint of fat free half
and 
half...and that's only because Anne likes it in her tea! 

-> -> -> can refried beans becomes a potato with a knife
-> -> -> Potato with a knife now sitting on can of spinach
-> -> -> Spam happy in it's glory
-> -> -> 
-> -> hn> Be careful of that potato with a knife...never can trust 
-> -> hn> that vegetable (grin) all those eyes y'know! 
-> -> 
-> -> Hehe we ended up with a good simple meal.
-> -> 
-> hn> I saw that, looked good! A bit spicier than I'd expect 
-> hn> from a self proclaimed pepper wuss as you...but it looked 
-> hn> good enough to save and try later!
-> 
-> Well, I have to give up the chile wuss label now.  I think now, I'd cook 
with a
-> 
-> hab possibly though would be more apt to use several less hot ones in 
larger 
-> amounts.
-> 
You're headed down that long road (grin) ...but you'll have lots of company 
along the way! 

-> -> Actually I dont take that much to Teriyaki sauce.  Most of the ones i 
see 
-> -> commercially are too salty even for me.
-> -> 
-> hn> You can make your own which is usually much better than any of the 
-> hn> commercial brands and fresh ginger makes a huge difference!
-> 
-> True but it's not the taste I am really all that much into.  I like a 
-> fishy-flavor like squizzles of patis and thick soy sauce (yes, some are
thick 
-> unlike Kikkoman).
-> 
Yeppers! Your taste is what dictates! Me I love teriaki...but not the really 
salty stuff you get commercially...so I make my own with extra ginger 
(freshhhhhh) and it comes out just the way I like it!

-> Just made munchies.  Major yum!
-> 
-> Put 1/3 stick of butter at room temp soft, in with 1 cup sliced mushrooms 
-> (these were shimenji, oyster, and shiitake) and 1 cove garlic slivered up 
fine 
-> with a butter knife.  Place in microwave for 1 minute.  Take about 30 
niboshi 
-> (1/4 cup?) (small guppy sized whole dried fish) and panfry on a dry pan 
with 
-> salt and just til toasty (heat pan first, about 30 seconds to toasty).  
Letting
-> 
-> shrooms sit in the butter, toss then add another minute microwave.  Turn 
out 
-> into a bowl and sprinkle with niboshi.
-> 
-> Please excuse while I salivate <g>.  (Hey Jim, Tadashi would have fun 
withthat 
-> one!)
-> 
Yummy! I love those lil fisshies! May have to take Amanda to Pal Do world 
and get some goodies! Amanda loves fishhys too so I have some one to share 
with! 
-> 
-> -> You'll have seen the earlier post by now probably.  That new recipe for 
-> hn> pot 
-> -> roast (xxcarol's klingon pot beast).  Don's back with 3 asian pears and 
a 
-> -> bottle of white tablewine thats neither sweet nor the sour-dry.  The 
-> hn> coffee 
-> -> table/dining table japan style, is set with pillows for 5.  The bre
-> hn> is 
-> -> in the last 1.5 hours of the run.
-> -> 
-> hn> Saw, snagged, saved! Thanks!
-> 
-> It was more liquid than expected but that is based on how marbled the 
meat is. 
-> 
-> It also I might add, is 'spicy' but not 'hot'. Jufran for example is pretty 
-> mild stuff though JW  seems to have found it 'hot a bit' (as mystifying to 
me 
-> as another post where someone said kiwi's taste like strawberries).
-> 
And what do you think they taste like?

-> I am catching up and the thread on 'super tasters' has some interesting 
-> relevance.  I never thought I was a super taster, but the things sme say 
they 
-> can not distinguish, maybe mean I am one?  Not sure.  Lets say possibly 
upper 
-> end of the normal scale but still in normal range.
-> 
-> -> of Jufran Bannana sauce for the fruit.
-> -> 
-> hn> right now we are graced with the holiday treats of aisian pears  and g
-> hn> tasting satsumas from Japan....yuuuummmm!
-> hn> chat with you soon
-> 
-> Yup!  Good ones aint they!
-> 
-> For here, the first of the winter squashes are hitting in droves.  Autumnal 
-> colored flesh that can be cut to delicate patterns and hold shape as they 
make 
-> a soup.

Yum!
chat with you soon
hap 
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