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Skriven 2013-09-30 13:17:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: trip lunches 234
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 09-28-13  01:09 <=-

 ML>> Beef curry was the weak sister, undercooked chunks of rather
 ML>> tough round roast in a blandish sauce; but few buffets these
 ML>> days offer red meat at all.
 NB>> When they've had goat curry, it's had a somewhat spicier sauce, and
 NB>> the meat has been less tough, although there are always lots of bones
 NB>> to deal with there...

 ML> Bones being something I associate with goat curry, partially
 ML> because goats are skinny bony things; though they taste like
 ML> lamb, they have much less meat.

We were just there at Tandoor yesterday, for Sunday lunch buffet, with
friends of ours... Edith (who you at least saw at church), the Walthalls
(who are now going to another church), and Xian (the young nurse) with
her 13-month-old Gracie...  This time there was the goat curry... much
spicier than the beef curry had been.  And I got to the pan before it
had been picked over too badly, so I found pieces that were mostly Not
bone... :)  While I expect it to have bones, I'm happier to find more
meat than bone... ;)  Thought of you while enjoying it.  :)

The vegetarian entrees were mostly different from when you were there
with me, too... no saag, for one... there were a couple ones I've never
seen before, one was fresh cut green beans in a light yellow sauce,
surprisingly rather spicy...  There was one I didn't try, but Richard
did (and said I should have), that looked like spaghetti noodles in a
tomato-y sauce.. if I'd had room, I might have gone back for a bit of
it... should have grabbed a taste from his... :)

When we cashed out, I proffered one of the coupons you snagged me, she
took off the dollar, and handed me back the coupon with a smile, saying
I can use it again... :)  She knows we'll be back... (G)
 
 ML>> The desserts (there may have been one more that I don't remember) -
 NB>> The other one was a sweet yogurt with their homemade cheese in it...
 ML> Ah, yes, ras malai. Not something that I would hold enshrined
 ML> in revered memory.

Didn't expect you to.  (G)  It took me a minute to recall the third
"pudding"... as I didn't have any of it either... :)

 ML>> Blue Ocean up in one of the quaintly named suburbs, Greece or
 ML>> something; actually, it's her go-to place for affordable sushi.
 NB>> Yup, Greece... :)
 ML> Other interestingly named places include Macedon, Egypt,
 ML> Palmyra, which you took me to, and Riga and North Chili (?!),
 ML> which you didn't.

I don't know of any reason to go to Riga, off-hand... if we did museums,
there's a Doll Hospital and Museum in North Chili (to which I did take
my English friend Fanny), which is also home to Roberts Wesleyan
College.  Chili Ave is so named since it goes down to Chili Center,
where the town offices etc are for the Town of Chili...  North Chili is
one of the town's villages... :)

 ML>> it could just as easily be a laundromat; it's run by a young
 ML>> couple, she the hostess/waitress/cashier, he the sushi cutter.
 NB>> I believe she may be cook as well... 
 ML> Whoever made the tempura did a good job.
 
I think that would have been her.. and yes, it is consistently that
good.  :)

 ML>> Also tasted: Luigi's Italian ices - blue raspberry and watermelon.
 ML>> Nancy bought these for a treat, not realizing that they contain
 ML>> apple juice. She had been lulled into a sense of false security
 ML>> because the cherry flavor, of which she is fond, doesn't.
 NB>> Also because the lemon ice, which I've bought as part of a procedure
 NB>> prep, also doesn't have apple... only two flavors I'd bought
 NB>> heretofore... 

 ML> Lemon ice with apple in it would be a terrible perversion.

I wholeheartedly agree.  On our most recent grocery excursion, I had to
check the other flavors...  Mango is thankfully apple-free (only mango
concentrate there).  And there was a variety box of apple and something
else, that I didn't check, knowing there'd be apple in the one, and
figuring from whatever the other one was that it would be like the blue
ras and the watermelen...  Didn't bother with the sugar-free versions
either, as I'm unlikely to be tempted by them in any case... :)

ttyl           neb

... Hesitate to attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.

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