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 ML> My comments are prefaced with "M's note."
 ML> By the way, I've had all but the macaroni and spam
 ML> perversion and the last two. Of course, I'm Chinese.
 NB> I've had at least half of them, probably more... of course, I'm
 NB> honorary Chinese...  ;)   IS that macaroni and spam perversion truly
 NB> Chinese...? 

Hong Kong nouveau riche cuisine. Same as the famous half
Coca-Cola and half Chateau Margaux, though that's more
Shanghai.

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 ML> Don't know. Traveling to the Florida panhandle to hang
 ML> out with people whom I like fine but have little in
 ML> common with except beer is a dubious proposition,
 ML> especially given that Annie is the connection between
 ML> us and doesn't care for the area now she's seen it.
 NB> Doesn't sound very promising, true... ;)  One never knows, some other
 NB> connection might send you there again... :)

Who knows. Once Shenk did this little aside when she was
down that way on a Navy job saying, if you happen to be
near Pensacola maybe we can get together, and if she'd
been single maybe I would have.

 ML> My hosts like a beverage or ten but are by no means
 ML> night owls; if there are late-night hot spots out there
 ML> we wouldn't have been taken to them.
 NB> Gotcha...

Actually Bill and Linda are that strange combo of social
and antisocial that so many musician families are. Life
revolved so long around practicing that normal relations
got learned late if at all. So they are uncomfortable,
even more than I, in party situations, and hot spots are
not their thing (nor mine, more for the noise though).
And late, well, I don't do it so well any more either,
though the other night I was out with that bottle of
Scotch until almost 4.

 ML> Annie is a good cook in the all-American style but not
 ML> particularly adventurous.
 NB> A pity... think what she's missing... :)  

Eh, she eats well enough.

I am feeling slightly put out by both her and Lilli,
because, either as they have become comfortable being my
dining partners or because they are retreating into
comfortable elderliness, they are becoming less amused
by my forays into interesting food. It was all I could do
to shame Lilli into eating one (1) pork satay stick the
other evening. She had her mind set on KFC, having seen
one a couple blocks from our hotel and having already
dragged me twice to McDonalds in the last two days.

 ML> 5 cloves garlic, minced
 NB> Dumb question... but, is there a "standard" size garlic clove...?

Sort of. I interpret a clove of garlic to mean
something that produces maybe a teaspoon when
crunched up, but then I like garlic.

---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v7.05

      Title: Coffee Cake (Kaffee Kuchen)
 Categories: Penndutch, Breads
   Servings:  1

    1/2 c  Butter                              1    Egg, separated
      1 c  Sugar                               2 c  Milk
  6 1/2 c  Flour                               1 c  Yeast
           *dissolved in:                    1/3 c  Water, lukewarm
           Butter, melted                           Brown sugar

  Scald the milk and set aside to cool. Cream the sugar, butter and egg yolk.
  Add to this the lukewarm milk, alternately with the flour and the dissolved
  yeast cake. Beat lightly and add the stiffly beaten egg white. Allow this
  mixture to rise over night. Flour a bake-board and take out large spoonfuls
  of the dough to which just enough flour has been added to permit it to be
  rolled into flat cakes. Spread on well-greased pie tins and when light
  (about 1-1/2 hours) brush melted butter over the top and strew thickly with
  brown sugar. If preferred, spread "rivels" on top by combining 1/2 cup
  sugar, 1/2 cup flour, and 2 Tbsp butter. Crumble together and sprinkle on
  top of cakes. Bake at 400-F about 20 minutes. Source: Pennsylvania Dutch
  Cook Book - Fine Old Recipes, Culinary Arts Press, 1936.

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