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Skriven 2015-07-30 20:49:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: lots things 35
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 07-28-15  12:53 <=-

 ML>> There was a period when I'd scoop out the inside and let
 ML>> someone else eat it, butter up the skin, and chow on that.
 ML>> Maximal flavor, maximal fiber, maximal minerals.
 NB>> I like that approach...  :)  And one could always use the inside for
 NB>> other projects...  :)
 ML> See below.

I did see... ;)  Nice one... :)

 ML>> I've hit a plateau, or maybe my eyes are changing again.
 ML>> Mildly discouraging, but I haven't backslid much in the last
 ML>> few days.
 NB>> As long as the general direction is for the better...
 ML> One hopes, but one is not sure - as of today, I can't read
 ML> well any more, and I will be e-mailing the eye doc to complain
 ML> about the persistent multiple vision.

And perhaps having some checkings on, when one is back in the vicinity
of the eye doc...?
 
 ML>> I was watching Dale grill some kebabs around sundown and
 ML>> congratulated myself that I hadn't been chewn on; I just
 ML>> discovered that I was wrong, but just once.
 NB>> Only one bite...?  That's pretty amazing... guess something worked...
 NB>> or there just weren't any of the buggies around...
 ML> I promised I'd go back inside at the first chomp, and so I
 ML> did. The presence of grill smoke might have been a bit of a
 ML> deterrent as well.

Possibility... My son avers that that the smoke from the wood fire he
cooks on at the Pond protects him from the critters...
 
 ML>> Nobody is perfectly consistent, and nothing is black or white,
 ML>> and furthermore external circumstances can color an experience,
 ML>> turning it from good to bad (or one hopes vice versa) in the
 ML>> twinkling of an eye.
 NB>> We had some so-called friends that took pleasure in turning someone
 NB>> else's trip bad... those were harder to turn back to good, or even
 NB>> neutral...   And yes, externals did sometimes factor in, too...
 ML> I hope you got rid of those friends. I find deliberate cruelty
 ML> unforgivable (except in the sense of "I am cruel only to be
 ML> kind). Schadenfreude is a sneakily nasty version of the same
 ML> thing, but almost everyone experiences that now and then.
 
They weren't close friends to begin with... and we found plenty of other
people to hang around with...

 ML>> This recipe, from 2011, is almost exactly what Dave
 ML>> the Sac published in 2010, but the blogger claims
 ML>> that she got it from her mother. 
 ML>> http://nami-nami.blogspot.com
 NB>> So she might well have gotten it from her mother, and not from
 NB>> wherever Clean Dave published it...  :)
 ML> Who knows who got what from where. Her mother might have
 ML> got it from Dave or from wherever he got it. Or, it being
 ML> as you say pretty basic, might be from the east European
 ML> version of Betty Crocker, or anon., or trad., or maybe from
 ML> the side of the can.

That too...  :)

 DS>> I just got a new phone for Tracfone.  My old one was not picking up a
 DS>> signal at several places in town, where it should not have had a
 DS>> problem.  In a chat with the Tracfone people, I was told that the old
 DS>> phone was "2G compatible", which may even mean it was analog. 
 NB>> Not analog (that was 1G, or first generation)
 ML> My phone, such as it is, with its 1-call-worth battery and
 ML> worn-off keys, is analog but "2G compatible"; back when, it
 ML> usually used analog (what became of analogue?) networks but
 ML> could, if none was available, switch over at double the cost
 ML> to digital.

That sounds a lot like my first phone... it never seemed to work on the
digital networks, though...

 ML> Of course, all networks are some kind of digital now, so any
 ML> phone has to be "2G compatible" to be at all usable.

And from the sound of it, even that isn't necessarily enough any more...
there always seems to be the issue of not being fully backwards
compatible... :)

 ML> Title: Potato Macaire (Henri Soule, via Vincent Price)
 ML> Categories: Potatoes
 ML> Yield: 1 pancake
  (snip)
 ML> Mr. Price emphasizes that the potato must be broken open, not cut,
 ML> and that no improvisation is called for. So I tried this 4 ways -

 ML> 1. as written. This produced an unbelievably lush and savory
 ML> pancake, with crisp (almost hard) exterior and rich, melting soft,
 ML> light yellow inside. Flavor was an essence of potato, very delicious.

Proving him correct... ;)

 ML> 2. thinner than normal. This was also good - more latke-like,
 ML> though, not as delicate inside or out.
 ML> 3. with the potato cut out rather than forked out. This too was not
 ML> as delicate as the canonic version, although it too was quite fine.
 ML> 4. using a Maine potato. I liked the outside of this one, which was
 ML> craggy and crusty as Katahdin, but the inside was gray and pasty,
 ML> although it tasted pretty good. Definitely peasant material.
 ML> Michael Loo.  U/L to NCE by Burt Ford 10/96.

And again...  ;)  But I couldn't imagine you not trying out some other
ways, just because...  ;)

ttyl       neb

... I am of the generation that is not scared of saturated fat.

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