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Skriven 2014-08-23 16:36:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
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Ärende: Re: relish  was: kitchen
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 08-21-14  21:36 <=-

 NB>>> He'll eat some of the pickled ones...?   :)
 RH>> Maybe, but not many. I'll probably bring a jar in next time we cook
 RH>> for Life Group.
 NB>> See how many decide they like okra that way...?

 RH> I suspect not too many will. It's a love or hate vegetable that
 RH> probably has more haters than lovers.

Sounds like you might have a jar or two left for bringing to next year's
picnic, then...  ;)

 RH>> We had several inches of rain over Friday and Saturday. For the year,
 RH>> we're almost 10" above the average for this point in the year. Good
 RH>> for the crops, to a certain extent, but hard harvesting when it's so
 RH>> wet.
 NB>> Yeah, only good to a certain extent.. at least they wouldn't dry up...
 NB>> But, yup, harvesting isn't easy when the fields are too soggy.

 RH> Hard getting the heavy equipment thru the fields and slogging thru on
 RH> foot is rather difficult.

Exactly.   :)
 
 RH>> Could be. Also makes for good timing for the "just got off work, now
 RH>> what will I make for supper?" folks. Start with some fresh veggies,
 RH>> put some meat on the grill and have a quick & easy meal.
 NB>> If they aren't fried so bad from the day to not even think of the
 NB>> market...  ;)  Of course, being Tuesday evening, maybe they'd not be
 NB>> TOO bad yet...  :)

 RH> No, they should be relatively fresh still. OTOH, if the market were on
 RH> Thursday nights, the folks would be thinking "Do I have to cook or can
 RH> I just nuke a frozen dinner?" and ignore the market. (G)

Point.. :)

 RH>> Talked to the one vendor yesterday--she said to take the stem off
 RH>> patty pans, split them in half along the equator, hollow out a small
 RH>> cavity. Fill it with a mix of bread crumbs, egg, seasonings, cheese
 RH>> (whatever strikes your fancy), put it in a pan with a bit of water and
 RH>> bake until tender. I'm going to give it a try this week.
 NB>> Sounds tasty.  :)   Many of the demos at Wegmans are showing off
 NB>> possible recipes or cooking techniques for various foods, particularly
 NB>> the ones in produce and in the meat/fish departments...  Sometimes
 NB>> it's just demo-ing a product elsewhere in the store, but often it's
 NB>> still putting things together..  :)  One can often get other ideas
 NB>> from talking with the demonstrators, too, especially the knowledgeable
 NB>> ones; we've been known to exchange ideas with them, too...

 RH> We trade recipies, hints, etc with several vendors. Sometimes we've
 RH> even brought samples of what we've made up with what we've bought from
 RH> them. Gives each of us ideas. OTOH, the demo folks at places like
 RH> Wal-Mart are more interested in pushing the product.

Well, yeah, places like Wal-Mart generally are just pushing the product,
not the overall concept...  They also discourage their demonstrators
from interacting too much with the customers...  Mrs. Yang (of the
restaurant fame) was, for a while, working at Sam's Club as a
demonstrator, and she hated it... now she's doing a similar job at a
TOPS market (another local grocery chain), and happier, since she's a
friendly sort and likes to chat with the customers...  She started doing
that after the restaurant closed down and her business of supplying the
colleges with sushi (with Fu's assistance in making it) got to be too
much for her to do... she found she couldn't just stay home...  (G)

ttyl         neb

... Old immortals never die.  They just..........don't.

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