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Skriven 2012-02-04 09:11:36 av Dave Drum (1:261/38)
  Kommentar till text 20755 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Slang
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-=> Ruth Haffly wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> empty. Google is of little help on a cursory search for "jungle prince
 DD> colonel recipe"

 RH> So I guess some sort of wild story will have to be concocted to have
 RH> some sort of backstory. Test in creative writing?

 DD> Nanook managed to locate some information that the dish was invented
 DD> by a Thai cook in a Thai restaurant in Hawaii. Just from the name I

 RH> There was one who was big while we were there but I think he had
 RH> residency problems. Chai Chawaseria (not sure on last name but was long
 RH> and started with Ch). Don't know if he's still as popular as he was;
 RH> for that matter, don't hear much about the Pacific Rim chefs/cooking as
 RH> we did 10 years ago.

I was only in Hawaii one time -- in 1962 we landed at NAS Barber's Point to
refuel and stretch our legs and eat some non-box lunch food before flying off
to Midway. And truthfully, while I managed to circumnavigate the globe I didn't
see/experience much of it. One military airfield looks much like any other. And
one military chow hall .... I saw a lot of ocean pass below our plane and some
land. But, we were high enough that details were lacking.

 DD> would have assumed that it was one of those fruity umbrella drinks
 DD> from some Tiki bar like Trader Schtick's (Trader Vic's).

 RH> Can't prove it by me; I never went there.

Me neither. I knew, even in my younger and more gullible days, that Vic
Bergeron was just using the South Pacific Tiki bar thing as a marketing schtick
and upcharging accordingly.

 DD>       Title: Woodchuck Pie
 DD>  Categories: Game, Pastry, Vegetables
 DD>       Yield: 7 Servings

 RH> Keep it; I've seen enough of the critters. John Burroughs is famous for
 RH> saying "shoot one and seven come to its funeral"; not too far off the
 RH> truth there. He named one of the buildings on his property "Woodchuck
 RH> Lodge".  He was born and raised about 15 miles from where I was.

I've killed in the neighbourhood of a thousand of them. They are a fact of life
for Midwest farm families. Haven't eaten many of them, though.

 RH> BTW, we talked with my parents the other night; the town is still
 RH> without a grocery store since the remnants of Irene took the only one
 RH> out in late August. They were going gung ho on getting up & running
 RH> again but the latest is that the interest has fallen off. The town
 RH> really took a beating from that and flooding a couple of weeks later.
 RH> Dad said they had 2 "hundred year" floods in 15 years; one in 1996
 RH> knocked out the store that was on the location before. They rebuilt,
 RH> then sold out to the current folks several years ago. There's not
 RH> really any good place on higher ground to rebuild in the town itself so
 RH> folks are really hurting for getting food, especially the elderly and
 RH> those who can't drive the 25 miles or so to the nearest town with a
 RH> supermarket.

That's pretty sucky. Were I younger I might look into opening a neighbourhood
style grocery store there. Sounds like an opportunity to fill a need and make
some money doing so. One of the towns on one of my delivery routes lost its
family-owned stupormarkup when the third generation heir discovered white
powdered nose candy and high stakes poker. Citizens have had to shop in an even
smaller town (which has a well-run IGA store) or the Sav-A-Lot which took over
the closed store of the same mini-chain in the next town north.

I noticed yesterday that the FOR SALE sign on the property has been changed to
SOLD and that contractor trucks were dotting the parking lot. So, there is hope
that the citizens of Virden can quit figuring gasoline costs into their grocery
shopping.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

      Title: Trader Vic's Chicken Salad
 Categories: Poultry, Fruits, Nuts, Vegetables, Salads
      Yield: 7 servings

MMMMM--------------------------SALAD--------------------------------
  1 1/2 c  Pineapple tidbits
      5 c  Diced cooked chicken
      1 c  Sliced water chestnuts
      1 c  Sliced celery
    1/2 c  Sliced green onions
    1/2 c  Slivered almonds

MMMMM-------------------------DRESSING------------------------------
    3/4 c  Dairy sour cream
    3/4 c  Mayonnaise
    1/4 c  Major Grey's chutney
      1 ts Curry powder
    3/4 ts (to 1 ts) salt; approx
  1 1/2 c  Chinese noodles *
           Lettuce leaves; opt

  To prepare salad: Drain pineapple and reserve a couple
  tablespoons juice. Combine pineapple with chicken, water
  chestnuts, celery, green onions and almonds.

  To prepare dressing: Stir together sour cream, mayonnaise,
  chutney, curry powder and salt. (Add a little pineapple
  juice to loosen dressing just a bit.)

  Stir dressing into salad at least 1 hour before serving
  and refrigerate. Add noodles just before serving. Serve on
  a bed of lettuce.

  Serves 6 to 8

  * Having never eaten this at Trader Vic's or anywhere
  else I cannot say what sort of Chinese Noodles to use.
  Adding the noodles just before serving implies Chow Mein
  noodles. But, Shanghai-style noodles could work, also.
  -- UDD

  From: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

MMMMM

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