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Ärende: bloat 304
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  Msg#: 4                                            Date: 14 May 08  15:48:44
  From: Michael Loo                                  
    To: Dale Shipp                                   
  Subj: Bloat 304

 ML> Question. Why doesn't severe bloat kill, for example, me?
 DS> Doesn't kill, but does make wish it would sometimes:-}}

Sometimes I will get a restaurant dish that has unadvertised
dairy product in it, and boy is that torture. Murphy dictates
that this happens before concerts more often than any other time.
How much fun it is sitting on stage for an hour feeling about
to explode. Today it was lamb vindaloo on cumin rice, neither of
which is supposed to be dairy food, but apparently the former was.
I should have been suspicious when the color was way off.

 -=> Joan Macdiarmid said to Dale Shipp re: Old to New computers <=-

 DS> For my new ASUS EeePC (the little 2lb laptop with 7 inch screen)
 DS> that I got for travel, I purchased some SDHC memory cards from places
 DS> like buy.com and newegg.com. An 8Gig card with a USB reader cost me
 DS> just over $40 with shipping. The cheapest 4Gig card I could find in
 DS> Best Buy cost more than that. I'll show it all to you at the
 DS> picnic.

Curious about 2 lb laptops. How big is the HDD, and is there
a docking station for CD/DVD recording and playback?

 JM> OK, but I am not a tech geek fascinated with the
 JM> newest changes aimed at making me marginal and
 JM> unable to continue using technology. I resent
 JM> the older forms don't allow me to continue doing
 JM> what I value, unless I continually upgrade my
 JM> hardware faster than it wears out, or even my
 JM> software, which could probably address the
 JM> disconnects cheaply if they were not trying to
 JM> force intermediate upgrades not really needed.

Other than my always being interested in smaller and lighter
laptops (not PDAs and preferably not CE machines) I'm more like
Joan in this respect. I'm irritated by both hardware and
software "upgrades" whose purpose appears to make me and my
computer setup increasingly redundant. I will use WordPerfect
5.1 and Blue Wave until they pry my DOS emulator from between
my cold dead fingers. Question. One of my WordPerfect files
may run 25K - 10K of text and 15K of formatting and overhead
- but when I convert it into a Word document it becomes 100K
or more. Why does Microsoft think it can get away with this
kind of stuff?

------------- Recipe Extracted from Meal-Master (tm) v6.14 ------------------

     Title: Vindaloo (Goan-style hot and sour pork)
Categories: Indian Ethnic Spicy Main dish
  Servings:  6

      2 t  whole cumin seeds                   2 ea Hot, dried red chilies
      1 t  black pepper corns                  1 t  cardamom seeds
      3 in stick cinnamon                  1 1/2 t  black mustard seeds
      1 t  fenugreek seeds                     5 T  white wine vinegar
  1 1/2 t  salt                                1 t  brown sugar
      5 T  vegetable oil                       2 md onions cut into rings
  1 1/3 c  water                               2 lb pork cut into 1" cubes
      1 in cube ginger chopped                 8 ea Cloves garlic peeled
      1 T  ground coriander seeds            1/2 t  turmeric

  Grind cumin seeds, red chilies, peppercorns, cardamom seeds, cinnamon,
  black mustard seeds and fenugreek seeds in a coffee-grinder or other
  spice grinder. Put the ground spices in a bowl. Add the vinegar, salt
  and sugar. Mix and set aside.

  Heat the oil in a wide, heavy pot over a medium flame. Put in the
  onions. Fry, stirring frequently, until the onions turn brown and
  crisp. Remove the onions with a slotted spoon and put them into the
  container of an electric blender or food processor. (Turn off the
  heat.) Add 2-3 tablespoons of water to the blender and puree the
  onions. Add this puree to the ground spices in the bowl. (This is the
  vindaloo paste. It may be made ahead of time and frozen.)

  Dry off the meat cubes with a paper towel and remove large pieces of
  fat, if any.

  Put the ginger and garlic into the container of an electric blender or
  food processor. Add 2-3 tablespoons of water and blend until you have a
  smooth paste.

  Heat the oil remaining in the pot once again over a medium-high flame.
  When hot, put in the pork cubes, a few at a time, and brown them lightly
  on all sides. Remove each batch with a slotted spoon and keep in a
  bowl. Do all the pork this way. Now put the ginger-garlic paste into
  the same pot. Turn down the heat to medium. Stir the paste for a few
  seconds. Add the coriander and turmeric. Stir for another few seconds.
  Add the meat, any juices that may have accumulated as well as the
  vindaloo paste and the water. Bring to a boil. Cover and simmer gently
  for an hour or until pork is tender. Stir a few times during this
  cooking period. Serve with rice.

  From file MMINDIAN.ZIP

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