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Skriven 2015-10-26 13:05:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: plans 370
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 10-24-15  09:38 <=-

 >  ML> So we have only a couple days more in France, which may
 >  ML> be good, as my money is running out (as usual).
 > Isn't that how one figures out that it's time to be heading home...? 
 > the money running out....?  (G)
 ML> Malaysia is potentially cheap enough for one to think of living
 ML> there. I'm here in a suite in the Hilton, where I get two squares
 ML> a day and a giant very comfy bed for $95 a night. If I stayed at
 ML> a slightly less prestigious place, I could get by for half that.

What sort of food is Malaysian food...?  We just had a Malaysian
restaurant open up, it's on the list to try...  :)

 > Saturday night, we were at a friend from church's house
 > for a hot dog roast in their back (way back) yard... 
 ML> A good hot dog can be a lovesome thing, god wot.

Made quite lovely by the addition of their homemade pickled hot
peppers (grown in their garden)... Our host, Rich, said that that's what
makes hot dogs edible... ;)  They did buy decent hot dogs for the roast,
too...  My second dog, I took Richard's example, and further topped the
hot dog in the bun with a stuffed banana pepper... Barb had made two
batches of them, one with the peppers wrapped with turkey bacon and the
other wrapped with real bacon... I of course used one of the real bacon
ones... ;)  Those were quite good, too...  :)

 > They have an orchard, with mostly apple trees but also a couple of pear
 > varieties... Among other things, they served freshly pressed (by them,
 > from their own apples) apple cider...  And people were encouraged to
 > fill bags with apples and/or pears to take home with them, and to sample
 > the wares there...  I had a Bosc pear, and (I think it was) a Seckle...
 > and brought home some Bosc pears...  :)
 ML> My own favorites were Seckel and Comice. Bosc are nothing
 ML> to sneer at, either, but there is a fairly small window
 ML> between unripe and overripe.
 
Possible that what I thought was Seckel was Comice... it was a little
larger than the Seckels I remembered from childhood, which were drops
from an uncultivated tree in the middle of a field between our backyard
and the parking lot of a church (where we got our bus to go to
school)... Couldn't think of the Comice name... ;)  The pears we ate at
the roast were somewhat on the unripe side, the pears we brought home
were nicely ripe on Saturday... there's one left, I should eat it
soon... ;)

 >  ML> another circuitous route to Malaysia, where it remains
 >  ML> cheaper to park myself than in the US.
 > How long do you stay there...?
 ML> Just a couple days, and I'm leaving tomorrow. Good thing
 ML> because the smog from the Indonesian forest fires make it
 ML> hard to breathe (read - burning lungs) when you're out in
 ML> it for more than an hour at a time. The authorities recommend
 ML> not going out without a face mask, but research indicates that
 ML> ordinary OTC fase masks are completely useless, and even
 ML> surgical ones filter out only half the yuckies.

Yuck... and ouch...  Not a good place to be for long, then, at all... 
 
 >  ML> Title: La Tarte Tatin (Caramalized Apples on Puff Pastry)
 > There was a similar recipe for a caramelized pear custard in the current
 > AARP Magazine...  :)   I noted it for possible future use...  :)
 ML> I've seen "tatin de poires" on menus. Could be a good idea, but
 ML> Ian would perhaps bust a gut thinking about the heresy.

Needs a better name then...?    :)   I'm sure it would taste quite
nice... :)

ttyl       neb

... I'm at a loss for words.. Someone keeps deleting them.

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