Text 5491, 140 rader
Skriven 2011-01-03 07:19:00 av Dave Drum (49166.cooking)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson (49152.cooking)
Ärende: COOKING CHEAP
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-=> Glen Jamieson wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 GJ> to have a go themselves.   BTW, how did you get to know about that
 GJ> Malaysian born South Australian Poh?  She lives not far from Kevin's

 DD> I learned about Poh from one of my favourite resources - Usenet News
 DD> Groups. Specifically alt.binaries.multimedia and
 DD> alt.binaries.multimedia.cooking ... It's also my source for Nigella
 DD> Lawson programmes and Luke Nguyen's Vietnamese shows.

 GJ> My old, DOS browser, NetTamer, has a listing of Usenet News Groups,
 GJ> which I haven't yet used.  I will give it a try.

Most e-mail clients also have a facility for reading NNTP messages. But, as a
matter of practicality, one needs a dedicated newsreader program. I imagine
that your NetTamer sox is not set-up to handle videos, etc. 

You'll probably want something like MicroPlanet Gravity 2.9.15 Beta (A
fully-featured Usenet newsreader for 32/64 bit Windows used for reading and
decoding binaries.), GrabIt 1.7.2 Beta 4 (GrabIt is one of the easiest binary
Usenet downloaders in the world.) available from www.freewarefiles.com 

There is also the old standby Free Agent which is no longer supported but is
still a nice program. It is available from http://free-agent.en.softonic.com/
or
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Network_and_Internet/Newsreader_Tools/Free_Agent.html


I have used Free Agent in past from W98 thru W2K ... but there is so much on
Usenet and it requires (as do all the freeware readers I have looked at) hand
sorting ... pretty much. So, I invested U$40 in the shareware program NewsBin
-- which is constantly under development and is designed for snagging binaries
- like the shows we have been discussing or the 4 disc set of Julia & Jaques -
Cooking at Home which is currently downloading in the background.

Be aware, too, that most ISPs do *NOT* repeat **NOT** offer an NNTP news
service. And if they do it is so stripped down as to be next to useless. The
facts of life are that the Usenet has gotten so huge as to require several
dedicated servers downloading and sending out information 24/7. And multiple
terabytes of stable storage. And no ISP is going to invest in that and offer it
as a part of a basic subscription. Not and remain financially viable. So, I
subscribe (at U$15/mo) to a news server which carries the entire Usenet
backbone. 
 
It's a whole different world out there - and one which will demand that you be
dragged, kicking and screaming into the 21st century if you wish to
articipate.

OTOH, you might ask Keving. He may have some advice/ideas how you can do this
on the cheap with not a lot of effort. IIRC, Kevin is good at cheap and easy.  
Bv)=

 GJ> If you can get hold of it, a young Sydney chef has an interesting
 GJ> program, "Luke Nguyen's Vietnam", which is worth looking at.  He was

 DD> See above ...  Bv)=

 GJ> You have beaten me to it!  I think his present series is his second.

All I have seen so far is the first series. I will watch for further episodes. 
 
 GJ> These people that the chefs were teaching to cook were poor, jobless,
 GJ> mature folk who should have had plenty of motivation to learn how to
 GJ> cook, but had never done so.

 DD> Did you ever consider mental (and possibly physical) laziness? As well
 DD> as the basic conservatism of most people ... "It wasn't invented here,
 DD> I've never done it, don't know anything about it, it's different and
 DD> I don't want to do anything new!!!" People is funny ducks, old son.

 GJ> With that sort of defeatist attitude towards life, it is not really
 GJ> surprising that they were poor and jobless!  One of the mature age
 GJ> students shown expressed her amazement that cooking could be so easy,
 GJ> and that the food tasted so good.  She had got to the age of 30 or so,
 GJ> and apparently never tried cooking anything.   Incredible!

I don't think it's so much a defeatist attitude as they have never been given
reason for optimism or to try new adventures. As I said, people stick with what
they know - usually. I'd bet that now that she knows how easy it is that her
culinary horizons will expand. 
 
 GJ> My 6 yo g'daughter is starting to show an interest in cooking, which I
 GJ> always thought was natural.  After using Play-dough to make pretend

 DD> Start her out on making pasta or egg noodles. It's fun, it's messy
 DD> (you get to make messes and get flour to the elbones) and it's tasty. I
 DD> got this recipe from the 1918 Fanny Farmer Cookbook, downloaded as a
 DD> part of the Gutenberg Project in .PDF format from
 DD> a.b.multimedia.cooking

 DD> Title: Noodles
 DD> Categories: Five, Pasta

 GJ> That is simple enough.  Young Jemiah loves pasta, and strangely, is
 GJ> addicted to Parmesan cheese, so perhaps something like this:

Pasta is one of the simplest (and complex) things one can make. Try her on this
one ...

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Pesto Genovese
 Categories: Pasta, Herbs, Sauces, Cheese
      Yield: 6 servings
 
      2 c  (to 3) fresh basil leaves
      3 tb Pine nuts
      2 cl Garlic
    1/4 ts Salt
    1/2 c  Olive oil
    1/2 c  Parmesan cheese; grated
           Cherry tomatoes; garnish
  
  Place all ingredients except oil in a food processor or
  blender. Process, quickly, to a puree.

  With machine running, gradually add oil until absorbed.

  Toss with 1 pound fresh, hot pasta (vermicelli, linguine,
  etc).

  Serve hot, garnished with cherry tomatoes.
 
  From: http://www.recipesource.com

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

MMMMM
 
ENJOY!!!

From Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
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