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Skriven 2008-12-29 11:47:48 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Nancy Backus
Ärende: DO I HEAR AN ECHO 81229
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 -=> Quoting Nancy Backus to Glen Jamieson <=-

 GJ>> I have a New Year resolution - start the year with an empty freezer!

 GJ> The crab stock, otoh, tasted quite evil, so was consigned to the sink,
 GJ> while I used the orange juice to get rid of its taste.  Next item I
 NB> Good riddance to that...

I won't try keeping that kind of stock that long again!
 
 GJ> found was a roo tail.  In fact as I found 2 of them, one will do for a
 GJ> meaty soup for Christmas dinner or Boxing Day lunch.

 NB> Sounds good.  :)

In fact I cooked both together, to last 2 meals as my daughter and
family arrived fairly late Christmas Eve and there was little time for
extra cooking.  Reheating for the second meal allowed the flavours to
meld and improve.
 
 GJ> and parks, etc are normally written in the local language it helps if
 GJ> the map shows them that way.  Fortunately, since the Olympic Games were

 NB> That's part of what I was thinking, too.  What good is it to you if
 NB> the map shows the name in English, and all you see on the signs is the
 NB> other language... ?

Best of all are bilingual maps - and a magnifying glass so elderly
travellers can read the necessary small print.
 
 GJ> held there a few years ago, the street signs and Metro station names
 GJ> in Athens have been sub-titled in English.  I haven't been to mainland
 GJ> China yet, but I might have trouble with map reading there.
 NB> China... well, they just had the Olympics, too... maybe they'd have
 NB> some polyglot signs up yet?  Otherwise, it probably depends on how good
 NB> your pattern matching skills are.  ;) 

The Olympics were in Beijing, so I would expect English signs around
there, but I have an invitation from a friend who is teaching in an
English school at Suzhou, inland from Shanghai, quite a distance from
Beijing.  I would not be so optimistic about street and railway station
signs there, but if she managed, I suppose I could...
 
 GJ> It is remarkable how such gesticulations and facial expressions can
 GJ> enable 2 people to communicate if both cooperate.
 NB> 
 NB> We had an Hispanic component to our church for a while, and many of
 NB> them were freshly from Cuba and spoke little or no English, while I
 NB> speak essentially no Spanish...  It was amazing how well we managed to
 NB> communicate nonetheless.  A few of them, being older, never did pick
 NB> up much English... we still communicate mostly in gesture and
 NB> expression. 

When I was courting my late wife, in the Philippines, she took me to
meet some of her relatives back in the "barrios", who spoke practically
no English - only Filipino and the local language.  Fortunately someone
had a flagon of tuba - the coconut wine common in rural areas around SE
Asia - and by the end of the evening everyone was communicating well.
As was usual there when having drinks, spicy nibbles of "pulutan" were
provided, which I found I liked.

 GJ> of suburbia.  As you say, sometimes the turn instructions came a bit
 GJ> late or at an inconvenient road position, in which case it was
 GJ> necessary to take a later turn. Then the machine would request our
 GJ> patience while it feverishly re-calculated our route.  Although we
 GJ> expected some exasperation after a few of those episodes the machine
 GJ> kept its cool far longer than a human navigator would have.  :)

 NB> It's the human recipient of those instructions that loses the cool..
 NB> :)  I'm not much of a gadget freak anyway... I can see maybe someday
 NB> having one to use in conjunction with my usual maps and direction
 NB> sense.. but I'm in no hurry to get one yet.  :)

I have tried one in a local area I know well, and found I could easily
beat it, using my own knowledge of short cuts.  The machine prefers
main roads to side streets.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: Adobong Mani for Pulutan
 Categories: Sides, Vegetables, Filipino
      Yield: 4 servings
 
      1 kg Peanuts; raw
      1    Garlic heads; or less
    1/2 tb Salt; very fine
      1 ts Vetsin;
      5 c  Cooking oil
 
  Heat the oil. fry the garlic in the oil until brown. Take the garlic
  out of the oil. and set aside. Put the peanuts in the oil carefully.
  
  Fry the nuts for 10- 15 minutes in medium heat. Keep on stirring.
  
  To check if cooked, take one nut out and look at it closely, if
  cooked, you will notice that the nut has small white spot on it, but
  if still not sure, taste it. it should be a bit crunchy. When cooked
  take out the nuts from the oil into a large platter lined with paper
  towel to absorb the oil from the nuts. Spinkle the salt and vetsin on
  the nuts and stir them.
  
  Put the garlic on top to decorate it.
  
  You could also store it in a glass jar with air tight cover to keep it
  fresh.
  
  This is lovely with cold beer or coke. Whatever you fancy. Don't
  throw the used oil, Keep it in a jar. You could use it over and over
  again.
  
  Contributed by Miriam Loder from:
  http://www.duyan.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=1&It
  mid= 9 Snagged by Kevin JCJD Symons, 28 January 2007
 
MMMMM
 

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