Text 4774, 97 rader
Skriven 2008-04-02 10:35:58 av Carol Shenkenberger (10799.cooks)
   Kommentar till text 4753 av JOAN MACDIARMID (1:123/140)
Ärende: Sweets and guilt
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 >  >I cannot eat one before much of it goes bad,
 > 
 >  CS> Same here even with 3 of us.
 > 
 >  That surprises me, but I know you are not as fond
 >  of sweet things. Don, either, though? And your
 >  earlier "flock attacks" could have polished off
 >  multiple pies, from your tales of them.

Oh sure!  But no flocks here.  Scaling down my cookery. ike just made a red-co
oked pork roast, but used a smaller 1.25 lb portion (bone in).

Recipe not worth MM'ing as too simple:  6oz hosin sauce, 3 TB brown sweet
datu puti vinegar (apple vinegar would sub nicely), 1 TB mirin, 1 TS added 5
spice to this one but ginger would also work well or aniseed.  Throw in
crockpot on low about 8 hours turning when you think of it.  The mirin is to
tenderize (along with the vinegar).  Once meat is falling off the bones, it's
ready.  If any want it in MM, quote it back to me and will do!

 >  CS> Too bad, nice folks i am sure but not willing to eat with ones of the
 >  CS> not same tradition.
 > 
 >  Some are quite nice, some not. But that's the same
 >  with all populations. When there were just 1 or

True!  Our one muslim fellow in the Sasebo apartment complex didnt eat with
us often, but he did at times.  Same for the jewish folks.  In a flip you'd
see mostly in a military complex, _they_ often ate together!  The moind
boggles til you relaize the food traditions were often the same and they
shopped at the same butchers.

 >  >  You have to let your baby birds out of the nest when
 >  >  they are ready to fly, though. I suspect you will have
 >  >  more success in liberating Charlotte when it's time,
 > 
 >  CS> Charlotte will have more problems detaching from Don I suspect due to
 >  CS> the ages when I was away (sad smile).
 > 
 >  Emotional detachment isn't the problem. The idea that
 >  you have to run a child's life forever is. I still
 >  love my Mom, but I don't want her trying to run my
 >  life any more. In your case, sounds like you trained
 >  Charlotte to assert advice to Don in the shopping
 >  trips, so maybe he will be relieved to be free to
 >  shop without her controls (just yours!) even while
 >  he misses her.

Hehehe He does occasionally do an escape artist trick to the store.

 >  >  at Christmas. This year it was the Campbell's ready-to-eat
 >  >  soups, because I'd mentioned an interest in them, as an
 >  >  occasional "take-to-work" option when I had nothing else.
 > 
 >  CS> I get those too for work and have a few.
 > 
 >  >  So she got to shop sales and use coupons and saved up
 >  >  several sacks of them! I don't want my Mom choosing my
 > 
 >  CS> hehehe food kitchen donation.
 > 
 >  No, I will use them, eventually. Those are
 >  luxury goods to me, not to be discarded, but
 >  I don't need them very often. One came in handy

Ah, understood!  Too bad you don't have more storage room.  I recall in one
apartment, my extra pantry was cans under the bed <g>.  I didnt have any
other place for them.

 >  >  CS> Check the local asian place where you are.
 >  >  I am afraid I would buy stuff! I should make a tour
 > 
 >  CS> Thats ok, most of what you will 'buy' will be fresh green stuff i bet.
 >  CS> Nopt much cost and do the trip when your larder is LOW then price
 >  CS> check.  Figure in a secondary trip on the way home to another place you
 >  CS> are used to for the stuff you do not find there (or can get cheaper at
 >  CS> regular place).  Flour for example isnt a good bet there.  Nor is cheap
 >  CS> american rice types.
 > 
 >  My first stop for fresh stuff is the Farmers Market,
 >  where I am most likely to be benefiting local
 >  producers. Even if they participate in buying
 >  a few crates of non-local stuff to hawk alongside
 >  their own stuff. I know the grapefruits I get from
 >  Sanger Farms aren't local, but the apples they
 >  sell are, and are always good. And they can sell
 >  grapefruits in the market way cheaper (2/$1 vs
 >  4/$5 at Wegmans). The apples are fair, too at $1.50
 >  for, hmm, about 6 med-lg Jonagolds.

Oh works for me!  The local asian grocery is locally grown mostly too, and
closer than our farmers market.  I'll be checking the farmers market before
long though to see what's starting to show up there.
              xxcarol
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