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Skriven 2008-08-14 14:31:04 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Kommentar till text 11948 av Carol Shenkenberger (18258.cooks)
Ärende: pork in the crock pot
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Hi Carol,
> > 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.
CS> Depends on the brand. Some are better than others. If you have to
CS> get frozen, look for ones still in the shell. Those tend to be frozen
CS> on the boat and minimally handled, and come off better.
These were peeled and cooked; I needed them for a recipe I wanted to
try. It was an aggel hair, shallot, seafood, spinach thing with
unspecified amount of Romano cheese, pinch of dill and dash of red
pepper flakes. We added salt & pepper which improved it some but not
enough to make it worth keeping the recipe. I found it in a PIggly
Wiggly flyer; it sounded good in concept but...................the
clipping hit the trash can. You win some, you lose some.
CS> I cant get quite as good as Sasebo ones either, but then thats a major
CS> shrimp fishing area that supplies a good bit of Japan. There, you
CS> get'em still moving sometimes <g>. I had to adjust some recipes here
CS> around that but find them acceptable in what I can get here still.
And we've been spoiled by fresh, local shrimp.
> > 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.
CS> She has quite a few already. She's not nearly as picky as most girls
CS> her age and her comment about other girls who 'go vegetarian' is
CS> 'Great! More MEAT for me!'. Poor thing gets our levels of meat most
CS> of the time and isnt used to 'all you can eat meatballs'.
I don't know how many Michael and I rolled--it was 2 pounds of meat.
I'm glad she enjoyed them; one of my nephews doesn't like meat balls
so she can eat his share. (G)
> 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.
CS> >
> OOPS! (G) I guess you will have to make some special for her--and to
> show Don how you made it for us.
CS> I dont have the darker miso but thats ok. I need to get that batch of
CS> ingredients here (easy to do) but Don knows in general how to make a
CS> miso soup. He normally leaves that to me, but he can do it.
No Surprise, Don is probably about like Steve in the kitchen--can do a
lot of basics and has his own specialties. Good guys to have around.
> CS> And I slept in and got too late to see. Ah well.
CS> >
> But now you have the recipies as a point of reference. The cheese mix
CS> Sure do! At some point if another doesnt beat me to it, I will MM
CS> them and re-post for folks who want it in their database.
Go ahead; we may have done the basic sauce and meat balls but I don't
have MM on this system. The lasagne is layered: sauce, noodles, cheese,
repeat 2 times. Top with noodles and more sauce--don't make it too
soupy or too dry. It's best (in our opinion) assembled, baked, frozen,
thawed, and baked again before serving--seems to "set it up" better.
> 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
CS> Then cooked in sauce right?
Yes; if you're making a lot of sauce, cook them all. If only enough
sauce for one meal, then add the meat balls for one meal & freeze the
rest.
> & 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
CS> Don does most of that sort of dish here. Meatloaf most often but
CS> sometimes meatballs. With all the bad ground beef lately, I havent
CS> been buying much of it.
I understand. We'll probably look for the organic raised meats more now,
> sauce. But, play with it and enjoy some good Italian cooking.
CS> Careful! If I 'play with it' I tend to fusion it til it's no longer
CS> Italian!
Keep it pure for when you want real Italian. Make it fusion for when
you want to play with it. Now that you have the basic recipes, you can
do that.
> 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.
CS> Yes, I'm glad the other kids showed up the next 2 days. She and Ron
CS> seemed to get along well.
I think she got along well with everybody.
> 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.
CS> Definately. Half the time she wants to be a grownup, then some kid
CS> stuff comes by and she's all over it!
It will be like that for a long time if she's lucky. Too many adults
don't let the kid in them come out to play but they need to from time to
time.
> 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.
CS> A good part of staying there a second tour for true! Charlotte doesnt
CS> remember California (not suprising, she was less than 2 YO when we
CS> left) and recalls only Virginia Beach and Japan. She recalls the VB
CS> apartment a bit, then this house, then the cho and later the highrise
CS> apartment in Japan, and now here again. Not as unstable as most
CS> especially since she came *back* to the house here.
That was nice; we never went back to a past assignment. Well, Steve
went to Korea from AZ & came back to AZ but I stayed in AZ so I don't
count that. Our first bit over a year in was very unstable (4 moves in
15 months) but then we settled a bit. Have to ask the girls what places
they remember.
CS> Poor thing was miffed when this past Halloween came about and the
CS> local rules say no trick or treating past age 13 (she was 14) but we
CS> ignored it and took her anyways. She saw plenty of her friends just
CS> over the line doing same and no one here minded it at all. Personally,
CS> I lived in a small housing
CS> neighborhood about that age (40 or so houses? maybe 50?) and we all
CS> considered it ok for any local kids to go up to age 16 and perfectly
CS> acceptable after that age if you were taking your kid brother or
CS> sister.
As long as it was OK in the neighborhood, then I don't see why she
couldn't have done so. OTOH, if folks strongly objected, then I would
have had her toe the line (if she were mine).
CS> In Sasebo, it was only celebrated at the base housings, but there was
CS> no age to 'stop at' and sometimes us adults would join in on the fun
CS> for a little bit.
I don't recall an age limit in Germany but do know that we did it by
stair wells. Each family in the stair well contributed so much candy and
took their turn handing it out at the entrance. Saved having kids and
parents go up and down all the stairs in each building.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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