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Skriven 2013-05-16 23:31:58 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av NANCY BACKUS
Ärende: Re: Dominican food
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-> -=> Quoting Ruth Hanschka to Nancy Backus on 05-15-13  18:26 <=-
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->  ->  RH> This weekend was my church's missions conference.  Part of it
->  ->  RH> was a dinner featuring Dominican food.  I was looking forward
->  ->  RH> to some good eats, but was left hoping the real stuff is
better.
->  ->  RH> First, it was all over-salted for my tastes.  This may be a
->  ->  RH> function of the hot climate, like Sichuan food.  Or it could be
->  ->  RH> that I like less salt than the average American. Everyone else
->  ->  RH> thought it was fine.
->  -> Perhaps they added more salt than usual to make it more to American
->  -> taste...?  Or they've gotten used to more salt..?  I know that the
-> 
->  RH> The cooks were all church members, so you've got me.
->  
-> Then, they probably salted to taste, and as you've intimated, that's
-> generally saltier than your taste... ;)
-> 
Hard to say at this point.  I'll have to dig out some Spanish language 
recipes for the same dishes and see if there's a difference.

->  -> Japanese have a "candy" that is VERY salty, but their normal dishes
->  -> aren't usually overly salty...
-> 
->  RH> Those plum things?  I've seen olive "candy" too but never tried it.
-> 
-> I don't remember if it was plum... but it was a very salty dense gelatin
-> chunk.  I got a taste of it, from some missionary kids on furlough that
-> were going to the same school.

That sounds familiar, but it's not the dried plum thing I was thinking of. 
  
->  RH> My dad was on a low salt diet, so the rest of us ate that way too. 
-> 
-> We cut back on salt back when Richard's grandma had fluid retention
-> issues, before my dad had to cut back on his intake because of high
-> blood pressure...  We still eat salty things, but intentionally, and not
-> as a major part of our diet.   :)

We opened a real bag of potato chips tonight.  First time I've done that in 
a while.  I did open some sweet potato chips last week, but they were
pretty 
low salt.  
 
->  RH> These days they're saying it may not help, but the government
->  RH> sources are still touting low salt.  
-> 
-> Eventually they'll catch up...  maybe...  ;)   After Daddy got Parkinson
-> disease, or something similar, he started to get dizzy, so he was given
-> back his salt... or at least didn't have to be so very miserly with
-> it... of course by then, he was used to low-salt, and the new change
-> wasn't easy either... ;)

It wouldn't have been.  Time to eat the popcorn?
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