Text 8168, 93 rader
Skriven 2013-12-24 14:10:33 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 8116 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: old 626
===================
-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 22 Dec 13  23:34:00 <=-

 NB>> The doro wot obviously had had time to meld together... and
 NB>> wasn't so old as to be losing it
 ML> I suspect that it was considerably old. I don't know if it
 ML> was made fresh in the last few days or if it had been frozen
 ML> in one of those vacuum bags (most likely) or if it had merely
 ML> had the bad bits scraped off before reheating. No matter, it
 ML> was quite good.

Sometimes it's better not to know all the details... (G)

 ML> Funny thing - Annie wanted chicken-fried steak two days ago,
 ML> and I made some up and stashed the leftovers in the oven so the
 ML> cats, specifically Lola, couldn't destroy them before we could
 ML> put them up, only something had happened, and we'd forgot them,
 ML> and Annie's wish for more chicken-fried-steak yesterday noon
 ML> outweighed her germophobia and her leftoverophobia, and she
 ML> actually ate a piece that had been left in the oven overnight
 ML> with gravy that had itself made it into the fridge.

Hope for her yet... ;)  Should have been perfectly fine, anyway...

 ML> The reason for my hiding the leftovers in the first place was
 ML> that Lola a day or two before had stolen my bacon that Annie
 ML> had made just for me, and I was a little sore about that.

Quite understandable...  And I probably would have tucked it into the
oven for safe keeping on general principles... I've often left Richard's
meal (when he doesn't wake up from a nap to eat dinner with me) in the
microwave, just so that it is protected from predations...  no need to
leave temptation out unnecessarily...  ;)

 NB>> Next time you're there (if ever), maybe you can get the cook
 NB>> talking... ;)
 ML> As if I understood Ethiopian [g].

Well... if cook knows ANY English, Gesture might suffice... ;)

 ML> I'm pretty sure that though it was dry it wasn't overbaked,
 ML> and I'm pretty sure if there was corn, it was mixed with
 ML> something, and I suspect rye. Or it could have been one of
 ML> those arcane flours that periodically trendify and that I
 ML> try to avoid learning about.

Like quinoa...?   (G)
 
 ML>> among various stations, where each guest/participant
 ML>> took the task he or she did best and did it, no orders
 ML>> given, no questions asked. As chronicled by or staged
 ML>> for the camera, it was a wondrous thing.
 NB>> If the participants were used to working together as a team, I'd
 NB>> believe chronicled, but otherwise I'd wonder if it wasn't staged
 ML> Hard to tell, as even though the word once was that the camera
 ML> doesn't lie, it in fact can be made to do so pretty easily.
 
Especially nowadays with PhotoShop and the like... and digital
photography... but even back in the days of silver halide, retouching
was done...  ;)

 ML> Hum. We're having a week-after-Christmas party with a
 ML> "southern" theme: brisket, pulled pork, chicken enchiladas
 ML> for the vegetarians (not kidding), bacon mac and cheese,
 ML> mushroom mac and cheese for the vegetarians, shrimp and
 ML> grits (the only dish that I will not make and one of the
 ML> few I will not eat), lima beans or some similar veg with
 ML> bacon, and collards without bacon for the vegetarians.

Doesn't sound bad at all... even the shrimp and grits... :) 

 ML> The head chef at Herdic House is coming; she RSVPed Annie
 ML> that she was looking forward to seeing "our Michael" again.
 ML> That's a modest uh-oh, though as she's about half my age,
 ML> I am probably safe.

Maybe she sees you as a brother/father figure... (G)  And/or just a
comrade in arms, so to speak, in the kitchen...  ;)

 ML> But Syd is also coming (she being one of the vegetarians,
 ML> but this set will eat chicken and seafood in a pinch) as well
 ML> as her sister whose name I forget ... problem is that when I
 ML> met the sister (Joan or Jane or Jean), I reported back to
 ML> Annie that I thought she was gorgeous, and Annie cleverly
 ML> reported that back to Syd, no doubt making Syd feel really
 ML> great. So that situation is likely to be a medium-size uh-oh.

Hmmm....   best of luck... ;) 

ttyl          neb

... Shake a family tree, and some nuts are sure to fall out!
--- Blue Wave/DOS v2.20
 * Origin: The Holodeck BBS  holo.homeip.net (1:261/1381)