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Skriven 2015-12-19 12:48:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: cooking or not 676
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-17-15  09:19 <=-

 >  ML> charity things are sort of cute, as Annie the provider
 >  ML> gets to deduct her part, and the purchaser gets to
 >  ML> deduct as well.
 > Win-win, so to speak...  ;)  And hopefully the charity does get needed
 > funds to do their thing thereby, as well... :)
 ML> I hope so: I am against cruelty to animals (though not
 ML> against eating them, of course).

Of course...  ;)
 
 >  ML> I'll have been at Annie's for Christmas through
 >  ML> New Year's, and the event will be at her house.
 > Ah, ok...  :)
 ML> Could be worse. Though she wrote me a note venting about
 ML> Robbie again, and I told her to get over it, which I guess
 ML> was the wrong answer, so there may be a little friction.

Hmmm....  Hopefully it won't be too upsetting... and/or easily
resolved...  That's her brother...?  Nobody wants to be told to just get
over it, though, you know... one is supposed to at least commiserate a
little first... ;)

 >  ML> He is also the creator of the Maggie Moo's (another
 >  ML> Kansas City company) logo.
 > Does he hail from Kansas City, then...?
 ML> Charlie Podrebarac has strong KC ties, though I'm not
 ML> sure he lives there.
 
Maybe grew up there...?

 >  ML> They're actually quite into veggies, but that's their norm,
 >  ML> and the intensity of the flavor (dark meat chicken after
 >  ML> all) and the primal nature of chowing down on flesh were
 >  ML> perhaps not so familiar to them.
 > Ah.... so the vegetarian dish, no matter how tasty, was more familiar,
 > and thus more run-of-the-mill for them... 
 ML> I suppose. I made 3 meat meals (2 chicken, 1 pork) during
 ML> the time I was there, 9 or 10 days I think. I made 6 to 8
 ML> serving size dishes for each of the meals, and they devoured
 ML> them (4 people total).

A tasty chance of pace... with you to cook it for them...  :)

 >  ML> The day after, or was it two days after, they served me a
 >  ML> butternut squash black bean vegan chili, the squash somewhat
 >  ML> undercooked to give the jawa something to chew on in a
 >  ML> meatlike way (remind me never to do this).
 > I rather think I might not have to do any reminding... ;)  Chewy black
 > beans might have done better... ;)
 ML> But after a week, they were just getting around to finishing
 ML> the butternut squash vegan chili, putting bits of it in their
 ML> lunch bags for today. To be fair, they used a whole squash,
 ML> so there was a bunch of the stuff.

Sounds to me like something that one would freeze up a large portion of
(in smaller, individual or meal, portions) from the outset... ;)  I have
a hard time thinking of having to eat it continuously for a week... ;/

 >  ML> They try to balance their meat meals
 >  ML> (preferably not beef, uses too many planetary resources)
 >  ML> with vegetarian/vegan ones.
 > Back when I was cooking more vegetarian(-ish) meals, we tried to balance
 > them with meat meals... ;) 
 ML> Responsible, but I've given up on being responsible.

We can let them be the responsible ones... ;)  Our meatless or mostly
meatless meals were more an economic necessity, especially when we were
regularly feeding a bunch of people on a couple-people budget... :)

 >  ML> chicken wing, Vered won't eat meat off the bone, a same
 >  ML> neurosis shared by Lilli and actually several other of
 >  ML> my friends. She sees the silliness and irrationality of
 >  ML> that prejudice, though, which some others do not.
 > Perhaps it feels too primal...?  Or childish...? (Maybe not that much
 > difference between them, actually... ;) )  Richard will eat meat off a
 > bone, but he prefers not to have to hassle with it... :)
 ML> Too primal. A sort of unwritten prohibition against placing
 ML> calcium against calcium I guess. Similar to those who won't
 ML> eat rare meat because it reminds them of vampirism.

Oh, well... they miss out on some of the pleasures of eating... ;)
 
 >  >  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...?
 >  ML> Marjoram was unavailable. Oregano is similar, but I thought
 >  ML> thyme would add something, but I ended up using too much.
 > Never know the potency of someone else's herbs, I suppose... :)
 ML> Indeed. I should perhaps have borne in mind that they
 ML> live about 2 miles from a Penzey's.

Yes, that might well have been a factor to consider...  ;)

 ML> Title: Heavenly Dessert Cheesecake
 ML> Categories: Desserts, Cakes, Low-cal (doesn't look either all that
 ML> low-cal nor all that heavenly)
 ML> Yield: 10 servings
 ML> 1 tb Graham Cracker Crumbs               1 c  Low Fat Cottage
 ML> Cheese 16 oz Nufchatel Cheese*                 2/3 c  Sugar
 ML> 2 tb Unbleached All-purpose Flour        2 tb Skim Milk
 ML> 1/4 c  Almond Extract

Low-cal maybe in comparison to full-fat versions...?  ;)  I'll agree on
it doesn't look all that heavenly, though... ;)

ttyl       neb

... Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

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