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Skriven 2013-07-03 21:07:38 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 2112 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: fancy that 815
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Hi Michael,

 ML> Actually, in this case, it appears to me to be a rather
 ML> minor change from one end of the thousand miles to the other.
 ML> Further, it doesn't take learning from one's grandma; someone
 ML> from Guangdong can learn to make it Hunan-style, and vice versa.
 RH> OK, I guess I should have read it more closely than I did. long day,
 RH> doing mail in the evening and eyes starting to give out on me.

 ML> There are dishes for which the phenomenon you described
 ML> holds true. Black bean sauce dishes aren't among them.

Just little tweaks here & there to make it a cook's own?

 RH> My parents usually bought cheap stuff--"it's what we can afford"

 ML> Sadly, those economies are often false ones - one of the
 ML> ways in which the economically disadvantaged can really
 ML> get the shaft if they are not careful.

Sadly it was a false economy so many times. They weren't economically
disadvantaged, just economically challenged (or maybe their knowledge
of economics was lacking). Whatever, it made me realise that cheap
doesn't equate good a lot of the time. Eating hot dogs and 4 for a
dollar pot pies for a week isn't good nutrition but they were affordable
after paying the bills. We learned from that, that we have to budget
better so as to be able to eat better, even when we had major bills due.

 ML> That's one of the secrets. You know the master recipe, you
 ML> can vary it with ease.
 RH> Just have to know the master recipe

 ML> Not a problem most times. And when it is unclear, you can
 ML> compare Internet sources and usually come up with something.

I've checked the internet for various things over the years. About 3
years ago I was trying to find a sour cream & spice pound cake recipe;
I'd had a print copy of one years ago & misplaced it (since found).
Couldn't find anything similar but did come across the lemon pound cake
that I've made various times. It's the one that vanishes shortly after
making. (G)

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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