Text 30303, 71 rader
Skriven 2015-08-28 14:46:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: pizzas 120
======================
-=> Quoting Michael Loo to All on 08-24-15  23:58 <=-

 ML> The Hafflys also have a version, and we did a tasteoff
 ML> between the Brooks marinade (bottled at the restaurant) and
 ML> Ruth's homemade. There was another equipment failure as the
 ML> charcoal grill, no doubt haunted by the ghosts of mussels past,
 ML> didn't heat properly, and after a futile hour we transferred

Also hampered by the rain which had started as Steve was trying to do
the grilling.... an interesting sight to see him out there with the
umbrella trying to protect himself and the grill... :)

 ML> the operation to the oven, which, for which one is grateful,
 ML> continued to work. We ended up with a lot of half grilled half
 ML> baked chicken drumsticks, plenty to do a smackdown with. Though
 ML> both were appreciated, Ruth's was judged to have a bit more of
 ML> a kick and a bit more freshness and so won by a nose.
 ML> Alongside we had potato salad (made by Ruth), mashed potatoes
 ML> but really cauliflower (made by me), and sweet-sour red cabbage
 ML> (made by Harry & David of Medford, Oregon).

Ruth's chicken, her potato salad and the cabbage all containing apple, I
had but a tiny taste of the chicken and the salad, and none of the
cabbage, though all looked quite nice...  the mashed "potatoes" were a
tasty substitute, and much appreciated by me... :)

 ML> The 2011 picnic featured a trip to a working dairy; since then
 ML> that dairy has become part of the Cabot Co-op. Before the rest
 ML> of us arrived, Nancy took the Hafflys to see it, as they had
 ML> not been there the previous time, and they came back with
 ML> sample cheeses:
 ML> White Oak - a pleasantly tangy cheese, fairly crumbly, decently
 ML> aged, worth the pills but just barely; and
 ML> Farmhouse Reserve - still resilient and very mild, and I didn't
 ML> care for it.

We didn't actually get to the dairy farm this time... but we sat with
Joel Putney, the young man who had given the tour last time, at the
post-service luncheon at the Lisbon OP Church...  The samples had been
brought to the luncheon, and Joel snagged a couple each for us to bring
back for tastes... interestinly, both are billed as aged cheddar... and
I saw them both on offer at Wegmans when I went shopping after returning
from the picnic...  I prefered the White Oak myself... both are much
better than Cabot's Seriously Sharp, which certainly isn't... :)

 ML> Nancy had found a ring of Croghan bologna, a garlicky rather
 ML> soft coarse-ground Lebanon-like sausage. Very unlike that
 ML> emulsified stuff that many of us associate with the term.

I'd also found some plain cheese curds, which some sampled on from time
to time... :)

 ML> There were a couple other things as well, but I forget.

I didn't see any mention of your halvah... was that Thursday that you
made that...?  Carrot halvah, plain and covered with dark chocolate...
and you didn't get around to making the coconut version for Ruth to
try...  ;)  But the carrot was a great success...  :)

Also, whichever night it was that RJ joined us for dinner (Monday,
maybe?) he brought over a South African afterdinner drink that resembled
Baileys Irish Cream, and the remnants of the pistachio Turkish Delights
he had brought back with him from Turkey, to share with the group...

ttyl         neb

... SHIFT LEFT! SHIFT RIGHT! POP UP,PUSH DOWN, BYTE,BYTE,BYTE!

___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
 * Origin: Check Out Doc's QWK Mail  Via Web BBS > DocsPlace.org  (1:123/140)