Text 11948, 113 rader
Skriven 2008-08-13 07:52:10 av Carol Shenkenberger (18258.cooks)
  Kommentar till text 11926 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: pork in the crock pot
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 >  >  CS> It was!  As we get more used to stateside cookery offerings, I note
 >  >  CS> our diet is shifting a bit.  Still healthy, but not the same
 >  >  CS> selections.
 > 
 >  > I know; we're not eating as much fish as we did in HI.
 > 
 >  CS> Nor us here but still a significant part of the diet.
 
 > We should get it more than we have.  I got some frozen, cooked shrimp at
 > the commissary the other day to use in something.  After eating fresh,
 > local shrimp, these are horrible; I don't think I'll ever buy them
 > again.  I used to think they were pretty good.

Depends on the brand.  Some are better than others.  If you have to get
frozen, look for ones still in the shell.  Those tend to be frozen on the
boat and minimally handled, and come off better.

I cant get quite as good as Sasebo ones either, but then thats a major shrimp
fishing area that supplies a good bit of Japan.  There, you get'em still
moving sometimes <g>.  I had to adjust some recipes here around that but find
them acceptable in what I can get here still.

 >  >  CS> It is!  Charlotte follows my early path.  Waving a poor jalapeno ove
 >  >  CS> the food then putting it back in the jar is quite enough ;-)
 >  CS>  >
 >  > She will settle on her eating preferences in time.

She has quite a few already.  She's not nearly as picky as most girls her age
and her comment about other girls who 'go vegetarian' is 'Great!  More MEAT
for me!'.  Poor thing gets our levels of meat most of the time and isnt used
to 'all you can eat meatballs'.

 >  CS> THat she will.  She's castigating me now.  Gosh, I was so making of
 >  CS> the miso, I forgot to tell her it was ready!  Thats ok, she gets it at
 >  CS> home all the time.  She's mostly just curious since that time it had
 >  CS> enoki and chinese broc'li vice straW mushroom and kelp ties.
 > 
 > OOPS! (G) I guess you will have to make some special for her--and to
 > show Don how you made it for us.

I dont have the darker miso but thats ok.  I need to get that batch of
ingredients here (easy to do) but Don knows in general how to make a miso
soup.  He normally leaves that to me, but he can do it.

 >  CS> And I slept in and got too late to see.  Ah well.
 > 
 > But now you have the recipies as a point of reference.  The cheese mix

Sure do!  At some point if another doesnt beat me to it, I will MM them and
re-post for folks who want it in their database.

 > also be cooked down really thick for pizza sauce.  The meat balls can be
 > baked for about 15 minutes at 350; I do this if I'm making a lot of them

Then cooked in sauce right?

 > & then freeze extras on the cookie sheet.  After they're frozen, they go
 > into a zip lock bag and I'll grab as many as I need, the next time I
 > make sauce.  No need to defrost, just cook them in the sauce for about
 > an hoour, minimum.  BTW, the sauce is good short cooked (1-2 hours) but

Don does most of that sort of dish here.  Meatloaf most often but sometimes
meatballs.  With all the bad ground beef lately, I havent been buying much of
it.

 > sauce.  But, play with it and enjoy some good Italian cooking.

Careful!  If I 'play with it' I tend to fusion it til it's no longer Italian!

 >  CS> If any noted when she glomered the octopus, she got tentacles and
 >  CS> green stems and made a tentacle face at Michael ;-)
 > 
 > I missed that but it doesn't surprise me.  She fit in quite well with
 > the group altho I know she liked the time with the other kids also.

Yes, I'm glad the other kids showed up the next 2 days.  She and Ron seemed
to get along well.

 >  CS> She is doing fine.
 > 
 > Good; she's quite a kid.  Not quite ready to stop being a kid but
 > showing the signs of the young lady that is to come.  

Definately.  Half the time she wants to be a grownup, then some kid stuff
comes by and she's all over it!

 > The teens are a
 > wild roller coaster ride but you will get thru it.  Having 6 years in
 > one place was good preparation for your retirement; she knows what
 > living in one area (vs the consant moving) is like.

A good part of staying there a second tour for true!  Charlotte doesnt
remember California (not suprising, she was less than 2 YO when we left) and
recalls only Virginia Beach and Japan.   She recalls the VB apartment a bit,
then this house, then the cho and later the highrise apartment in Japan, and
now here again.  Not as unstable as most especially since she came *back* to
the house here.

Poor thing was miffed when this past Halloween came about and the local rules
say no trick or treating past age 13 (she was 14) but we ignored it and took
her anyways.  She saw plenty of her friends just over the line doing same and
no one here minded it at all. Personally, I lived in a small housing
neighborhood about that age (40 or so houses?  maybe 50?) and we all
considered it ok for any local kids to go up to age 16 and perfectly
acceptable after that age if you were taking your kid brother or sister.

In Sasebo, it was only celebrated at the base housings, but there was no age
to 'stop at' and sometimes us adults would join in on the fun for a little
bit.
             xxcarol
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