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Skriven 2015-02-05 12:37:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: Duck.. oh no... 131
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 01-31-15  15:42 <=-

 ML>> Good luck with that. We're in for a bit of winter, it
 ML>> looks like. I'll be okay (canceling a flight or three)
 ML>> if the power doesn't go out.
 NB>> And where did this East Coast storm strand you...?  We only got the
 NB>> merest edge of it here, only a few inches, maybe 4, total...
 ML> Washington had about what you got, but I had been planning to
 ML> spend the time in New England; that didn't happen, of course.

Best laid plans, and all that...  ;0   And then we got over a foot on
Monday and bits more every day since... There's a threat of up to 8
inches today and tonight, but so far the lake effect snow doesn't seem
to be too bad...
 
 ML>> Reminds me of when Dave Sac got a pack of Canyon Creek
 ML>> duck tenders - they were the little muscle that has
 ML>> the tendon in it, brined in a sweet-salt brine and then
 ML>> jerkified. They were pretty good. They were also in the
 ML>> pet food department.
 NB>> Sometimes things get mis-classified...  (G)
 ML> Sometimes they don't. This product was meant as dog food. The
 ML> people yumminess was a side effect. And it was only moderately
 ML> yummy anyway. And even that was tempered by a nagging anxiety
 ML> about what the Chinese put in it!

Ah...  especially the Made in China bit...  except that you did survive
it, so I guess it wasn't too terribly bad for you... ;)  Of course,
there's also the stories of old folks eating the canned cat food for
their various reasons...  :)
 
 ML>> I can offer no input at the moment; in Singapore and Manila
 ML>> you can buy ducks in any form from quacking to whole (with
 ML>> head and feet but drawn) to pieces to whole roasted or
 ML>> soy-braised.
 NB>> Now that's a nice selection...  ;)   Probably at much better prices
 NB>> than we have to pay, too...  :)
 ML> Somewhat better. As I noted to Ruth, the Singapore economy,
 ML> always strong, has eclipsed ours, and not only does the average
 ML> Singaporean make more than the average American, the money goes
 ML> farther (if you don't count cars and gas, which most Asians
 ML> don't deal with anyway). But the prices are quite high - many
 ML> things are dollar for dollar, and in the sector I am most curious
 ML> about, fine but not splurge dining, I can't afford it much of
 ML> the time. The solution is to eat occasionally in fancy places and
 ML> more regularly at stalls, hawker centers, and (if one is with
 ML> Lilli) McDonald's. 

And since the Singapore trip is a Do, there's lots of people to share
the experience with, so it makes the splurge a little more defensible...
the stalls and hawker centers sound appealing to me, too...  :)

 ML> Or to go to Manila, where airfare, hotel, and
 ML> food cost no more than just hotel in Singapore.

Ah, so at least in Manila, the prices might be closer to much better... 

 ML> Aujourd'hui's rack of lamb
 ML> categories: unnecessarily fussy, main
 ML> Organic rack of lamb with fresh cranberry bean
 ML> ragout, eggplant fondue and lamb reduction

I'll go along with the unnecessarily fussy, for sure...  :)   But I
suppose that if someone else does the fussy, it could make for an
interesting presentation... hopefully tasty as well...  ;)

ttyl       neb

... Only the rich can be eccentric, the poor must do with being nuts.

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