Text 8273, 90 rader
Skriven 2013-12-27 13:22:43 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 8207 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: fu 641
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 25 Dec 13  19:47:00 <=-

 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.
 NB>> Sometimes it's better not to know all the details... (G)
 ML> I'm not squeamish.

I'm mostly not squeamish... (G)  How squeamish was your dining companion
that day...?
 
 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.
 NB>> Hope for her yet... ;)  Should have been perfectly fine, anyway... 
 ML> It was, and after all that there remained a half of a CFS, which
 ML> I stuck in the fridge and ate today (a couple days later still).

I'm sure it was still quite fine.  :)

 ML> Lola is an equal opportunity thief - sometimes I think she's
 ML> deliberately stealing my food, but in fact she steals
 ML> shamelessly from the other cats and screams at them when they
 ML> complain. Annie of course is inconsistent in her guidance,
 ML> sometimes shooing Lola from the table but also occasionally
 ML> letting her eat off her plate or even the serving plates.
 
See, it's nothing personal... ;)  Just as with other children/teenagers,
one needs to be consistent with one's discipline... they still may not
always obey, but they know when they aren't...

 ML>> those arcane flours that periodically trendify and that I
 ML>> try to avoid learning about.
 NB>> Like quinoa...?   (G)
 ML> Ugh. That would be an example, but the stuff of which that
 ML> stuffing was made was much darker.
 
I don't really keep track of them, either... but that was one that I've
been hearing a lot about lately from various people...

 NB>> Doesn't sound bad at all... even the shrimp and grits... :) 
 ML> Annie has decided that grits are a pain to make, and combined
 ML> with my pfui attitude towards them, she's decided to make
 ML> shrimp creole instead, intending to serve it over the dirty
 ML> rice that I proposed to make. I pointed out that shrimp creole
 ML> doesn't really go with dirty rice, which had the effect of
 ML> making more work for me - I will make regular as well as dirty.

Don't tell Annie, but grits are pretty painless if one does them in the
microwave...  ;)  Question... doesn't dirty rice start as regular
rice...?  Or do all the extra ingredients go in while the rice is
cooking...?

 ML> For dessert, Anne down the street is making a cheesecake, and
 ML> Annie proposed to make a pound cake (I will pair this with
 ML> vanilla ice cream and crushed peppermint candy, perhaps with
 ML> whipped cream as well), but when the RSVPs approached 35 people,
 ML> she decided that she needed more desserts. I said just make two
 ML> pound cakes, economies of scale and all that, but now we're
 ML> planning on chocolate chip blondies and a pecan pie as well.
 ML> One is not ill-fed when visiting Annie's house.

I guess not..  :)  More people coming, more variety needed, it would
appear... :)  Desserts sound pretty good, though... :)

 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.
 NB>> Maybe she sees you as a brother/father figure... (G)  And/or just
 NB>> a comrade in arms, so to speak, in the kitchen...
 ML> As it turns out, we went to the restaurant's Christmas party,
 ML> and the chef wasn't particularly friendly to me;

Probably a safe indicator...

 ML> but one of her waitresses was, as Annie puts it, all over me
 ML> like a cheap suit. The waitress, actually quite attractive,
 ML> is not invited to our party.

One less potential complication, at least...  :)

ttyl       neb

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