Text 19530, 49 rader
Skriven 2005-12-21 12:20:49 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
  Kommentar till text 19477 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
Ärende: Re: Copyright
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*** Quoting Roy Witt from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

RW> 20 Dec 05 12:28, Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Bj*rn Felten:

 CS> I dont know all the rules by a long shot, but know enough of them to
 CS> be able to select things they can both eat without being made
 CS> uncomfortable and neither of them are of the 'strictest sort' (where
 CS> I couldnt make them a meal because i'm not of the same faith).

RW> You don't need to be of their faith to figure out their dietary needs.
RW> it has hooves and chews a cud, it's edible. If seafood has fins and
RW> scales, it's edible. If a bird has talons and a hooked bill, it's not
RW> edible. If the bird has a gizzard, it's edible. Of course, anything in
RW> way of vegatable, fruit and nuts are also welcome. Ask them if this is
RW> their guideline and you'll find that it's closer than guess work.

Thats a little too simplistic though for real use in the kitchen ;-)  I
certainly like most folks knew that level already.

It's the finer points of the 'go with' that can be confusing.  Just adding
geletin to something can be a problem (gotta know what it came from).  Look,
they are neither of them *that* strict because they have to eat Navy food on a
ship, but at home they keep as close as reasonable so it's alot stricter than
just having chow together when underway in the CPO mess.

You can get 'kosher/halal' beef here.  Pricey but out in town, yes, it can be
done and they both agree that it's 'good enough' for their purposes. Squid is
out though <g>.

By using almost completely 'scratch cooking' it's easy to make them both
something even though I chicken out and normally just do a vegetarian dish
without using anything but dried/fresh spices (no pre-mixes like gravies etc).
 Since i tend to cook pretty close to that anyways, it's no trial for me.

The one thing I dont fix them is Pancit.  The reason is the seasonings are 'not
allowed' as they use fish types that arent acceptable rendered into patis or
shoyu (soy sauce) unless you can find the 'kosher' type to be sure of it.  I
do it that way or with a pre-mix that has a beef based gelatin as a portion of
the ingredient list.  It's something the muslim fellow will eat on the ship
(he travels with us sometimes as he's an inspector/trainer) but then he cant
be as careful there or he'd starve!  I just have no reasonable way to adapt it
so I dont bother and warned'em both of that ;-).  It's not a big problem since
i'll add something else to the fairly frequent potlucks that they both can
eat.

                                       xxcarol

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