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     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: beefy was fishy 381
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 03-18-15  22:57 <=-

 ML>> As a 12-oz steak, even if it's just 12 oz, satisfies, I doubt
 ML>> I'll be comfortable with more than even just one pound.
 NB>> Possible you might surprise yourself... ;)  I'm not sure how truly
 ML> Someday perhaps soon I will do the obvious and get
 ML> a 2-lb sirloin and see how much of it I can eat at
 ML> a sitting.

And save the leftovers, if any, for another meal or snack later... :)
 
 NB>> ominous the taste for sweets coming back first is, as long as the
 NB>> other tastes follow suit in good measure fairly soon... I understand
 NB>> that sweet is one of the first identitifiable tastes for an infant...
 ML> Well, the doc thought it ominous enough to give me
 ML> a prescription for glyburide or glipizide or something
 ML> and doubling the metformin.

Docs find it their business to be overly cautious, sometimes with good
reason... but sometimes not... 
 
 NB>> and perhaps your system is going back to square one as it were...
 NB>> I know you have the super-sweet issues, but perhaps this is less
 NB>> related to that overall... 
 ML> I had the notion once that my life would follow more or
 ML> less a bell curve; if what you're suggesting fit into that
 ML> scheme of things, that too would be ominous enough, and I
 ML> ought to do more in the way of protein-loading before it's
 ML> too late.

I was thinking more of your recent GI issues having cleared out the
system to the extent that they did...  I suppose the bell curve theory
might have a different bearing on things, too...  I'd tend toward the
protein-loading approach myself, either way... :)
 
 ML>> We'll probably be going back St. Paddy's day just for an
 ML>> experiment. 
 NB>> And did you...?
 ML> To be sure, to be sure.

And I note it was not a particularly good result...  Maybe it had more
to do with the nature of the holiday...

 ML> Bob and Deb wanted to celebrate St. Paddy's with me, but I'd
 ML> made my Tuesday plans several months in advance, so they
 ML> decided it would be okay to have the ritual meal a day early
 ML> Monday instead, so Bob and I went off and bought carrots,
 ML> Yukon golds, a big cabbage, a bag of turnips, two cans of
 ML> beets, and what Wegman's labelled as a flat cut corned beef.
 ML> We'd had some discussion about point and flat cuts, about
 ML> which they were somewhat wrongheaded. The disagreement
 ML> between us was mooted by Weggie's carrying only flat cuts.

What I've seen at Weggie's are flat briskets (marked brisket) and what
is marked as round.  What is the point cut...?

 ML> When I opened the package, the 3 1/2 lb cut turned out to be
 ML> from toward the middle of the brisket, so about 2 1/2 lb was
 ML> actually flat, but there was a pound of fatty. Hallelujah.

I bought the smallest round I could find, about 2 1/2 lbs, IIRC, and it
had a nice fatty cap on it, maybe only a 1/2 lb worth... maybe a bit
more... 

 ML> Oh, a secret: the package had a seasoning packet of I think
 ML> coriander seed, bay leaf, and pepper.

Mine had the same packet... ;)  Also mustard seed, crushed chilies (not
enough to say so), cracked cinnamon, fennel seed and dill seed... seemed
like a pickling mix to me... :)  Once upon a time, it wasn't separated
out into a packet, just part of the juices inside the package...

 ML> I added a stalk of celery and two mashed cloves of
 ML> garlic to the cooking water.
 ML> It was quite good.

I wondered whether or not to add celery and/or garlic... next year maybe
I will..  ;)

 ML> Next day, I went with my friend Link back to Timothy's, the
 ML> bar/restaurant in question, where, as expected, the specials
 ML> of the day were boiled dinner and green beer. I inquired of
 ML> the waitress about the cut and leanness of the meat and was
 ML> assured that it was well trimmed and next to fat free. Link,

Probably what she thought you wanted to hear...  ;)
 
 ML> in deference to custom, ordered it; I asked for something else.
 ML> The waitress came back - I lied, she said. Sunday's had had no
 ML> visible fat (apparently a lot of people take their St. Paddy's
 ML> day meal on Sunday), but today, there was some fat, and would
 ML> I like to change my order? I said okay, but please give me the
 ML> fattiest available. What came: two identical orders, both
 ML> meat portions (adequate but not ample) mostly lean but with a
 ML> few luscious bits; carrots, cabbage wedge, potatoes, all
 ML> properly cooked but held too long and nowhere near so good as
 ML> mine, and beets also properly cooked separately. The plate was
 ML> decent, nothing special, and I should have stuck with something
 ML> else. 

Now you know.  ;)

 ML> We also were sold on Guinness Blonde on tap (for some
 ML> reason they quit offering real Guinness on tap) - I had mine
 ML> greenized, Link au naturel. It is not good at all. Sort of like
 ML> Budweiser with vinegar mixed in and a touch of mothball.

Sounds much nastier than usual, even...  ;)

 ML> I got something else instead, that being the Brooklyn chocolate
 ML> stout, which was a decent brew but as sweet as the other had
 ML> been sour. A substantially less good meal than the previous one.

Sigh.  At least you got a good meal the day before...  :)

ttyl        neb

... Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.

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