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Skriven 2015-12-12 20:43:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: cooking or not 646
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-11-15  05:51 <=-

 >  >  ML> it doesn't get any bids at all. English triffle indeed!
 >  > Indeed!  ;)
 >  ML> Gyeuch.
 > When does the auction actually happen, or has it already...?
 ML> Happened, and Annie is already setting me up (in her
 ML> head) with one of the winners of the auction, a 
 ML> successful forty-something. I of course won't 
 ML> actually encounter the people until the event itself.

I trust the entry raised lots of funds for the puppies/kitties/etc... ;)
Hopefully the people will be nice to interact with... set-ups or no. (G)
You only arrive there just before the event...?
 
 >  > (Frittata)
 >  >  ML> M will make this only under protest.
 >  > Perhaps Annie will make it instead....?  (G)
 >  ML> I hope so, though she tends to overcook stuff like that.
 > Hmmm.... maybe you'd have to make it after all...  ;)
 ML> I'd rather make omelet, myself. Perhaps the menu
 ML> will be subject to on-the-spot negotiation.

That could be helpful... of course one would have to have the
ingredients on hand for either, in that case... :)

 >  ML> One of the cartoonists once came up with a strip titled
 >  ML> "Stepford diners," which featured zombie-faced people
 >  ML> eating strange things, the captions being "tastes... like...
 >  ML> chicken, "just... like... mom... made," stuff like that.
 > [snicker]
 ML> I now recall the cartoon name - Cowtown - but not
 ML> the cartoonist.
 
I vaguely remember that...

 >  > honey... it was a bit of a disappointment to me, too...
 >  ML> The question nags, though, where else are they
 >  ML> going to start cutting corners?
 > That is a point... one wonders, though, if it's company-wide or just
 > here... except that the packets did have their name on it, I think I
 > remember... maybe they didn't, though...
 ML> Seems as though it'd be easier to do these things
 ML> companywide - better for inventory management.

Guess it might depend on how closely they did keep tabs on that sort of
thing... or if they left it more to the individual stores... 
 
 >  ML> The rest of them chowed down without comment, as though
 >  ML> they found nothing unusual about it. On the other hand,
 >  ML> they come from an oligocarnivorous background, so maybe
 >  ML> they don't know what real meat tastes like, or else they
 >  ML> gravitate toward meat that doesn't look like meat. Maybe
 >  ML> they were slightly embarrassed by their meat actually
 >  ML> tasting good for a change.
 > Or maybe they didn't care for it all that much but were too polite to
 > say anything.... ;)
 ML> So the couple days before yesterday I cooked for some 
 ML> of the same crowd but on the other coast: made chicken
 ML> paprikash (using thighs), with thick egg noodles, of 
 ML> which they ate heartily, and the next day I made tofu 
 ML> in garlic and ginger sauce and eggplant stewed in butter
 ML> with (ugh) brown rice, which they ate with somewhat less
 ML> enthusiasm. A big old whatever to that.

Apparently this part of that crowd weren't into veggies that much... 
Both meals sound quite appealing to me... chicken thighs, paprika,
garlic & ginger sauce, eggplant... yummmmm...  ;)

 ML> Title: Kuritsa S Paprikoy (Chicken Paprikash)
 ML> M omitted the green pepper and tomato, substituted thyme
 ML> and oregano for marjoram, and used much more dried paprika.

I'd approve of those changes... :)  Was the thyme/oregano substitution
because of lack of marjoram, or for taste reasons...?

ttyl      neb

... Shake a family tree, and some nuts are sure to fall out!

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