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Skriven 2016-01-18 15:35:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: easy 799
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 01-12-16  05:13 <=-

 >  ML> the edification). It appears that Popeye's is going in
 >  ML> that marketing direction, and the big P with no pop
 >  ML> is in our future.
 > Ah, welll.... maybe it's humor......? ;/
 ML> The joke, I suspect, will be on the stockholders.

I suppose we'll find out eventually...  With any luck, the quality of
the food won't slip as a consequence....
 
 >  ML> he's now a famous rabbi, among whose first utterances at
 >  ML> age nought and change were Muh! and Sh! - meaning McDonald's
 >  ML> and Shakey's Pizza respectively.
 > Were they frequently frequented places by his family...?
 ML> For sure. On the other hand, my first word was "Jell-O,"
 ML> pronounced in the Spanish style, and I hadn't been given
 ML> that regularly.

Well, hi there... ;)

 >  ML> Well. We looked in vain - Annie looked in vain - for a
 >  ML> cut up fryer. So I said I'd cut up a chicken and chose a
 >  ML> nice fat 4-or-5-pounder, but she put it back and got this
 >  ML> 7 lb behemoth.
 > Uh-oh... 
 ML> Other than it requiring extra cooking, which I'd not have 
 ML> done if it were me, it was almost as tender as a fryer.

That was fortunate...  :)
 
 >  ML> two hearts. Annie was flummoxed by this, as she is used
 >  ML> to 8 pieces and 8 only.
 > And, apparently, no offal dainties, either... ;)
 ML> Apparently not. Though she eats pate and such (same
 ML> with Lilli, who has acquired a taste for foie gras).

I guess some things have such a cachet to them that one forgets what
their reality is... ;) 

 >  ML> This coating didn't take well to sitting around, and in
 >  ML> due time it got soggy soggy, worse in the fridge.
 > What happened..?  Did it just absorb moisture from the air...?
 ML> Most fried chicken suffers - I think it was the Sterns who
 ML> crowed about a place in KC (maybe Stroud's) where the
 ML> cbicken didn't degrade on getting cold, that characteristic
 ML> being quite a rarity. And it is mostly moisture absorption.

OK.  Makes sense.   :)
 
 >  ML> there. My first meal was the fat, some skin that had
 >  ML> fallen off one of the breast halves, all the offal, and
 >  ML> the lower back. This was the best of it.
 > I take it that you cooked up that bit of the chicken... :)  I can
 > imagine some thinking that somewhat gross, but I think it sounds quite
 > lovely, actually...  :)
 ML> She actually sucked it up and cooked the pieces that
 ML> she'd normally have thrown out.

Including the fat and skin...?  
 
 >  ML> The red beans and rice mix, it turns out, was the
 >  ML> reduced-sodium version, which problem was solved by
 >  ML> the addition of a bit of salt! It tasted pretty decent,
 >  ML> but as has been suggested, a bit of additional onion
 >  ML> helped a lot. Texture - it needed less liquid and more
 >  ML> cooking than the package indicated; but at the end, it
 >  ML> was okay. On reheating it was almost real. 
 > That's not too bad then...  :)
 ML> Not at all, considering it was reconstituted out of a
 ML> mass-market box. Still I think not so good as Popeye's, 
 ML> or mine, or anyone competent's made from scratch, if it 
 ML> comes to that.
 
And in the right hands, even a mass-market box can turn out not too bad,
so long as it isn't nasty to begin with... ;)

 >  ML> When anyone goes absent, I wonder about the family or the them.
 >  ML> Makes me glad when you're in touch with the Fords.
 > I try... :)   Don't worry too much about me, btw... 
 ML> 'K.

Been slipping further behind... but finally got a day today to try to
remedy some of that...  we'll see how far I get...  ;)

ttyl        neb

... Guacamole looks like zombie brains.

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