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     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: the party food 478
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Hi Ho There Michael!

->  -> This was filet, very lean and tender and suitable for an
->  -> upscale party that had been publicized by the yuppie newspaper
->  -> of the millennium. It constituted the bulk of my meal.
->  HN> Not surprising!
-> 
-> I had about 6 oz of it; might have preferred it totally raw,
-> the way I taught Burt and Shirley to eat it, but this was fine.
-> 
Was the quality of the meat up to the 
level of hype for the party?

->  -> kind of comically overdone,
->  -> the wings shiny ebony black, the white meat shreddy like
->  -> excelsior
->  HN> Sounds like Annie would have loved that
->  HN> bird! (grin)
-> 
-> What's wrong with that girl? I should have taken the wings
-> and sent them to her.
->
I've been trying to figure that out
for 37 years! (grin) She likes only 
the white meat and she likes it cooked
to within and inch of dust. Yet when I
make her something like chicken stew with
no white meat in it and the thighs I use 
are done to just decently cooked...she raves
about the dish. And while wings are "whitemeat"
she'd probably turn them away...they're not
breast meat....I dunno about that girl!
 
->  -> one canned jellied with the circumferential can marks still visible.
->  HN> YICK!
-> 
-> There have been days in my life when I felt the need to
-> consume a fruit or vegetable with nothing in the pantry
-> closer than canned jellied, and I made do without much pain.
->
If I felt the need to have a fruit that
badly I'd do without the fruit if that 
was the only choice!
 
->  -> Three Brussels sprout dishes, of which I had none.
->  HN> Shame on you for that! 
-> 
-> I don't trust sprouts unless I've cooked them - although
-> my friend Ellen tosses them in butter and bakes them until
-> the outsides are caramelized and crunchy, and those are okay.
->
Blanched and then sauteed is good, blanched and
then roasted is good...cooked with bacon is great!
 
->  HN> Which Getty? The one in L.A.?
-> 
-> Yep.
->
I really want to get to that one...only
(and it's a big) disadvantage is one has
to go to LA to see it. That's an awful high
hurdle for me! 
 
->  HN> A laudable effort, and I'm sure 
->  HN> it will mark well on your Karma 
->  HN> chart (grin)!
-> 
-> I've been on fluid restriction (no MORE than 6 glasses
-> of fluid, all kinds, a day) and a natural diuretic, and
-> I've lost 5 lb of water weight in a week. Managed to
-> sleep last night without choking, too. As far as karma
-> goes, I don't believe in it. I think you should do good
-> stuff just for the sake of doing good stuff. And some of
-> the best people I know have had really, really hard
-> lives, anyway.
->
Which Diuretic? I dunno, I choose to believe in
karma...doing good for the sake of doing good seems
to me to be the proper way...and karma doesn't always
have to show in a material way.  To me, doing good is
good karma.
 
->  -> it is a reflection of my age and debilitated
->  -> state that I didn't look twice at them but confined my attentions
->  -> to great-grannies and such.
->  HN> It's more a sign of your age when they
->  HN> completely ignore you and call you "cute".
->  HN> It's sort of like not even being there.
-> 
-> Yeah, poop. And for me, it's even the 40-year-olds who
-> are starting to do so. I am beginning to find true the
-> demographic cliche about the shortage of suitable middle-
-> aged men, and a bunch of women in the 55-65 range have
-> appeared interested of late.
->
Yep, I'm glad that I'm "out of circulation".
One of my friends (widower) has ladies calling
his house all the time...his biggest complaint
is that they simply won't leave him alone!!
 
-> Parsnip mash with green garlic
-> cat: side
-> servings: 4 to 6
-> 
-> 1 1/2 lb parsnips, preferably overwintered
-> - peeled, sliced 1"
-> 1/2 lb Yukon Gold potatoes
-> - peeled, sliced 1"
-> 2 Tb butter
-> 1/2 c green garlic, sliced thin
-> 1 ts salt
-> cracked pepper
-> 
Not sure what "green garlic" is...scapes?

chat with you soon!
ha
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