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Skriven 2007-04-18 11:41:51 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Michael Loo
Ärende: DISASTROUS RESULTS 70418
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 -=> Quoting Michael Loo to Glen Jamieson <=-

 GJ> Nothing is wasted.  It is aboriginal custom for the tenderest meat to
 GJ> be given to the tribal elders, who tell the young ones that they have
 GJ> to eat the tough bits ("...or you will get weak and feeble like me").
 ML> Ah. Clever. So the old guys have learned to scam their youths. I
 ML> wonder whether senior citizens have evolved such self-preservatory
 ML> techniques in all societies where they manage to survive to
 ML> toothlessness (which is how old? in the bush).

In a nomadic society, arthritis probably limits survival.  I doubt if
I would have survived to my present age.  (No red wine.)
 
 GJ> less prep work for me to do on a tail than what would be necessary for
 GJ> ox tail.   The tail has best flavour of all.

 ML> See, you've been indoctrinated well.

I am not as successful in indoctrinating my young...
 
 GJ> It might be worthwhile phoning the croc farm and asking how much a

 ML> Let me know what the result is. Question regarding the things as
 ML> pets. Why do they sell (or lease, or whatever) animals that have
 ML> grown to a size where they can be difficult to manage instead of
 ML> selling the eggs for incubation or at least hatchlings?

I did phone the Darwin Crocodile Farm, and asked if they sold eggs and
was told that it was illegal, as crocs and their eggs are still
considered to be an "endangered species".  Apparently once they hatch
in an incubator this status changes.  Bush aborigines could eat the
eggs, as they were part of a "traditional diet", but not more
civilised gentry. While I waited on the phone, the woman at the farm
asked around if anyone knew what croc eggs tasted like, but if they
did, no one admitted it.  Then I tried another place - "Crocodylus
Park" - and spoke to Charlie, who had been an egg collector.  He
hadn't eaten any, as he said he had found too many rotten ones, but
some of his associates had.  When boiled, only the yolk hardens - like
a turtle egg - with the white remaining transparent and mucous-like.
The PNG natives in the Sepik river like the croc eggs very much.
 
 GJ> seafood including 2 or 3 kinds of fish, scallops, mussels, cockles,
 GJ> baby octopus, squid, and the meat ranged from chicken, to duck, lamb,
 GJ> veal, beef, buffalo, crocodile, camel, emu and horse.

 ML> I'd pay 10.90 for 300 g of scallops (if good), squid, duck, camel,
 ML> or emu. Not sure about horse, which I've tasted only a few times.

The scallops were good, even though that form of stir frying caused
them to shrink more than I would have preferred.  The horse was
surprisingly tender.  The Darwin Cup races had been held the previous
week.  I suspect that the restaurant had put in a bid for the horse
which came last.  Cooking the croc to slightly brown, as requested,
did improve the flavour, even though the meat was somewhat toughened.
 
 GJ> of good ice cream.  It was excellent, with a nice rum bite, and a soft
 GJ> chocolate overtone.  The only improvement would have been if I had had
 GJ> two glasses of it over the ice cream.
 ML> What you might have done was to point out that there was but 20%
 ML> in that formulation, and you were used to 40 to 54%, so it would
 ML> be only fair to give you two glasses.

She might have taken that reasoning the other way, and removed one of
the scoops of ice cream
 
 ML> afterward Ella Lou said that she might never go to a piano
 ML> recital again.
 GJ> And would you?
 ML> No problem. I could do that every week. That level of stamina
 ML> and the fact that I can readily cleanse my mind and forget
 ML> everything in a few days might explain why I periodically do
 ML> this sort of thing professionally.

Advantage Loo.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: PRAWN, MANGO and GINGER STIR-FRY     [FOA]
 Categories: Seafood, Tropical, Africa, Madagascar
      Yield: 2 Servings
 
           Groundnut oil
      4    Carrots, cut in matchsticks
      1 sm Spring onions, a bunch of...
      2    Green chilli, seeded/chopped
      2    Red chilli, seeded/chopped
     40 g  Ginger, fresh, julienned
      3    Garlic cloves, finely sliced
     10    Plum tomatoes, skinned,
           -seeded and diced
           Salt
     12 lg Prawns [the biggest that can
           -be found, with the heads
           -taken off & shelled except
           -for the tail, deveined and
           -butterflied
      2    Mangoes, skinned & cut into
           -wedges
      4 tb Rum
 
  Heat a little oil in a wok. Add the carrots and stir-fry for 30
  seconds, then add the spring onions and stir-fry for a minute. Add
  the chillies, half the ginger and the garlic and stir-fry for 30
  seconds. Add the tomato dice and stir-fry for another minute. Season.
  Remove and place in a warm serving dish.
  
  Wipe out the pan, add a little more oil, and when it is very hot
  quickly seal the prawns on both sides [they will open out like
  butterflies]. Add the remaining ginger and the mangoes. Splash in the
  rum and flambe.
  
  Arrange the prawns, ginger and mangoes with their pan juices on the
  bed of stir-fried vegetables.
  
  from FLOYD ON AFRICA by Keith Floyd A 641.596
 
MMMMM
 

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