Text 18044, 152 rader
Skriven 2008-12-17 14:28:20 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 17933 av Carol Shenkenberger (24385.cooks)
Ärende: pie time                                                 [1]
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Hi Carol,

 >  CS> Sasebo commisary was so small that most things which you could get

 > Probably like the Hunter one or the one at Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo,
 > TX.  But, there can be some jewels in the small places.

 CS> Thats the ticket.  Small stores can be delightful.  I love to wander
 CS> in small mom-n-pop type places, especially old 'general stores'.
 CS> Never know what you'll find tucked in a corner there!

Yes, you can find some interesting goodies in places like that. The town
where I went to college had a sort of a general store. It didn't sell
groceries but had quite an assortment of other things, including penny
candy. (G)

 >  CS> things.  They did very well on flour of various types including
 >  CS> buckwheat which I always meant to try.
 CS>  >
 > Not good for bread making but good pan cakes.

 CS> There's an old recipe for buckwheat cakes that's a bit of a 'johnny
 CS> cake' I think you call it.  I'd be interested in trying it once.

Other names I've heard are "journey" cake or hoe cake.  The former one
derives from "a cake that can be eaten on a journey".

 >  CS> then bake in the oven.  Kitchenaide would be just as useful there.

 > Yes, the bread Steve made for the picnic uses a sponge like sourdough.
 > He used Janis's Kitchen Aid mixer; which convinced him that it was the
 > right one for us to get.  We'd tried Rachel's but weren't impressed but
 > the Professional one is so much better.

 CS> I've looked at them but I realize as much fun as they might be, I just
 CS> dont have the counterspace to leave one out so it would get unused
 CS> here in a cabinet.  It's main claim for me is with the right
 CS> attachments, I think it also doubles as a meat grinder and a sausage
 CS> casing stuffer?

We've got a meat grinder attachment.  Don't know if it has a sausage
stuffer with it tho.  When we got the mixer, the deal was that we could
get any attachment at a certain % off.  Steve wanted the grinder so we
went with that.

 >  CS> I got mine at Amazon I think?  Had it for 12 years now or more.

 > Ours was a Sierra Vista Wal Mart buy.  Got it before Steve went to
 > Korea; before, I'd just free hand sliced the bread.

 CS> Some are just too hard to do that with.  Anyways, whites are harder
 CS> than browns to freehand slice.  Oh, got 20 lbs white flour at last.

Well, seeing that I don't make white bread..........(G)

 CS> It's curing in the freezer to kill any buggies just now.  Just about

Good, did you get it at the commissary?

 CS> out of whole wheat but that isnt as much of a problem here.

I just need to pull out a bag of berries and have Steve run the mill.
(G)

 >  > We've usually had the lighter, sweeter stuff.

 >  CS> Ah, another name for that sometimes used.  ?Mochichiko?  It's a fat
 >  CS> pillowy thing often in a round ball with lots of food coloring in gay
 >  CS> colors.  Also shorthanded as mochi.

 > We saw it in all sorts of shapes but round, rectangular and square were
 > the most common.  Sweet & a bit chewy, yes, very often colored were
 > common characteristics of the type we liked the best.

 CS> If I have the name a little off, it's ok.  I know exactly what you
 CS> mean there.  Oddly I just did a scan on google and what I've called
 CS> generically 'mochi' they seem to call senbai?  I always knew it was a

By whatever name it's given, it's still good.


 CS> generic Sasebo-ism for 'rice' or 'good' and comes in sweet or spicy
 CS> and hard or soft.  I saw no reference to the hard there on google.
 CS> Odd that.

Maybe Google has been outsmarted. (G)

 >  CS> I should!  I somehow have less faith in the ground meat lately so
 >  CS> havent been getting any.  I really could use an electric grinder now.
 >  CS> (Oh Santa...)
 CS>  >
 > Oh Don, Carol wants....................... (G)

 CS> Hehehehe taking it trimmer this year though.  If we get anything

I know what you mean; I need to order something for my machine quilting
and have asked for a bathrobe.  Don't need anything other than that.


 CS> expensive, it will be a Wii.

If we go for any of the gaming machines, it would be that.  I could get
some exercise in with less problem to my joints.  Did you know that Sony
is one of Michele Wie's sponsors? I wonder if that's why the console got
that name.

 CS> (on the daikon recipe and Elise)

 >  CS> She said she's passed the recipe back to her sisters and apparently a
 >  CS> few of them (she has quite a few, 6 I think?) have found daikon and
 >  CS> liked it.
 CS>  >
 > That's interesting, I guess mom's cooking found an updated version.

 CS> Sure did!  Now Elise has several recipes for it like I do.

And how does her mom feel about it?


 >  CS> Take 3 Asian families and a store will crop up ;-)  We have quite a
 >  CS> few here but I mention only the ones really close to my house.
 CS>  >
 > IOW, the ones you're most familiar with as you shop them.  Same as my
 > mentioning Brighter Day (natural foods store) as it gets a fair number
 > of our $$.

 CS> More of ours is going to the little Japanese place run by a family
 CS> from Sasebo of all things.  Amazing how that happened!  Daughter was
 CS> there back when we were and we chatted about Tonoo market and the
 CS> changes we'd noted.

Nice to have that kind of connection, especially since you're staying in
the area.  When she goes back, you can always have a special order put
in.

 CS> Gotta score me some pocari sweat powder next summer.  They also sell
 CS> it bottled but at 2$ a bottle, I think I'll try a power blend for 5$
 CS> and get more value ;-)

Sounds logical to me.  You'll be around the area long enough to use it
up.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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