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Skriven 2006-12-20 12:23:00 av Hap Newsom
     Kommentar till en text av Carol Shenkenberger
Ärende: Re: Fishing, Okinawa!
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Hey Carol!
-> 
-> hn> After I picked up Amanda at the Airport, we went and had 
breakfast...a
-> hn> from where we were sitting we could see a Comp USA store....so we 
-> hn> wandered over and bought a nice little HP Notebook for Anne, $599, 
got
-> hn> Microsoft Office with it and a few goodies for me and was out the door
-> hn> less than a grand! 
-> 
-> Not bad!  If you like the machine then it's a good deal.  MS BTW now has 
a deal
-> for the military.  I can get the full Office suite for 59$ at the exchange. 

-> Apparently that deal isnt open to others and there's lots of warnings to 
not 
-> 'buy it for your friends'.

We picked up a "student's and teachers" version for about $150 Anne will 
certainly need it and use it.
-> 
-> I did snag a copy.  I really need it for work and need it only my home 
systems.
-> 
-> Been getting by with a really older version (1998?) for some time now. 
-> 
I have it on both desktops and laptops...but you can only use it on two 
systems without paying for it again, as in photoshop.

-> hn> Happily I have several stores near by and can go and get milk if I nee
-> hn> badly! Right now I think all we have in the house is a pint of fat fre
-> hn> half and 
-> hn> half...and that's only because Anne likes it in her tea! 
-> 
-> I buy half and half every 2 years <G>.  Some oddball recipe has me get 
some.
-> 
Like I said, Anne likes it in her tea...otherwise we'd probably have no milk 
products in the house at all (girn)

-> -> -> 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 
-> hn> with a
-> -> 
-> -> hab possibly though would be more apt to use several less hot ones in 
-> hn> larger 
-> -> amounts.
-> -> 
-> hn> You're headed down that long road (grin) ...but you'll have lots of co
-> hn> along the way! 
-> 
-> Probably (eyes the jalapeno jar with a murderous gleam).
-> 
Habbies are certainly hot enough...but I don't like the slightly overripe 
apricoty flavor of them as much...so I'd alos use several less hot but better 
tasting ones as well!

-> hn> are thick 
-> -> unlike Kikkoman).
-> -> 
-> hn> Yeppers! Your taste is what dictates! Me I love teriaki...but not the
-> hn> salty stuff you get commercially...so I make my own with extra ginger
-> hn> (freshhhhhh) and it comes out just the way I like it!
-> 
-> I've also never gotten that much into ginger although those pink curs of it 
as 
-> the side of a proper sashimi plate are good.
-> 
-> How in the world do you make teriyaki sauce?


Well I DO like the ginger flavor so my recipe has quite a goodly bit in it
(grin)

Hap's Teriaki Sauce
1/2 cup low sodium soy sauce
1/2 cup aji Mirin sweet rice cooking wine
2 TBS brown sugar ( or more to suit your tastes )
1 cup stock (chicken, fish, or even dashi if you wish)
2 cloves garlic minced very fine or paste
about a 2" bit of fresh ginger diced as fine as you can get it
(I run mine through  a mini food processor after I dice it)
Combine all ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a boil, lower to a simmer 
and simmer for about 10 minutes. cool and put into jars will last a good week 
or more easliy in the fridge....it never lasts that long here! 
The nice thing is that you can add a bit of heat to it if you wish, or more or 
less sugar according to your tastes, or more or less garlic! Like you, I tend
to 
be a "tweaker" so I usually adjust the recipe to how I am feeling that 
particular day as to sweetness, and garlic....I never add the heat because 
Anne is a TRUE pepper wuss and in almost 35 years of marriage I have not 
been able to budge her in the direction of any spiceyness...sigh though I do 
keep trying (grin).

As you can see it's a rather simple recipe and much better than storebought 
(in my opinion) and less salty as well!
-> 
-> -> (these were shimenji, oyster, and shiitake) and 1 cove garlic slivered 
up 
-> hn> fine 
-> -> with a butter knife.  Place in microwave for 1 minute.  Take about 30 
-> hn> niboshi 
-> -> (1/4 cup?) (small guppy sized whole dried fish) and panfry on a dry pan 
-> hn> with 
-> -> salt and just til toasty (heat pan first, about 30 seconds to toasty).  
-> hn> Letting
-> -> 
-> -> shrooms sit in the butter, toss then add another minute microwave.  
Turn 
-> hn> out 
-> -> into a bowl and sprinkle with niboshi.
-> -> 
-> -> Please excuse while I salivate <g>.  (Hey Jim, Tadashi would have fun 
-> hn> withthat 
-> -> one!)
-> -> 
-> hn> Yummy! I love those lil fisshies! May have to take Amanda to Pal Do 
wo
-> hn> and get some goodies! Amanda loves fishhys too so I have some one 
to s
-> hn> with! 
-> 
-> Good!  They take some getting used to on the eye appeal but they 
certainly hit 
-> the spot at the right time in a dish.  Sprinkled over butter-sauted 
mushroom 
-> bits, they are killer perfect.
-> 
-> Have you tried pan frying them fast in a hot cast iron skillet?  You can add

a 
-> little drizze of oil if you like or just salt and pepper to a well cured pan

-> then shake as if they were popcorn kernals for a minute.
-> 
Or seasoned salt, and a bit of chili powder, cumin and garlic powder...Hmmmm!

-> -> 
-> -> It also I might add, is 'spicy' but not 'hot'. Jufran for example i
-> -> mild stuff though JW  seems to have found it 'hot a bit' (as mystifying 
to 
-> hn> me 
-> -> as another post where someone said kiwi's taste like strawberries).
-> -> 
-> hn> And what do you think they taste like?
-> 
-> Umm, Kiwi?  They taste like Kiwi.  A tart but quite strong taste that has 
-> little to do with a strawberry except the strawberry can be 'tart'.
-> 
To me they have a decidedly strawberry like taste, more tart however and 
with almost watermelon undertones as well.
chat with you soon
hap 
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