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Skriven 2012-01-29 15:38:00 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Jim Weller
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 GJ> The dear little things!  I used to eat those little ones in Manila.

 JW> Small is the best!

My sister-in-law there does them adobo fashion, in their own ink.
Lovely!  (The baby squid, that is...)
 
 JW> I am a firm believer in under 90 seconds (if fried) OR over 90 minutes
 JW> (stewed).
 GJ> I have tried the former, but not the latter, yet.

 JW> I have made them stuffed with rice and casseroled for a long time in
 JW> olive oil and tomatoes and lemon, a Greek concept and very good.

Also a method popular in Filipino cooking.
 
 GJ> Greeks / with octopus - leave them with a few large stones
 GJ> running in a concrete mixer for an hour or so.

 JW> That idea fascinates me.

It works.  There is a connection with the Greeks in Darwin running
construction businesses, and having nice clean mixers available.
 
 GJ> For some time I used the service provided by the Dental School.
 GJ> there were so many pensioners and poverty-stricken queued up
 GJ> waiting that the period between checkups increased to 2 years

 JW> I did that during and right after college and it only took a week or
 JW> so to get in. Perhaps we have fewer poor people here? [g]

Very likely.  Too many poor old codgers here in Adelaide.
 
 GJ> Did you know why most dentists wear face-masks?  It is nothing to do
 GJ> with infection.  On one occasion a dentist didn't wear one, and in the
 GJ> reflected light from my face I could see right up her nose, to bits of
 GJ> snot that needed to be blown out.  Most dentists are self-conscious
 GJ> about patients looking at that.

I told that to my present dentist.  Her assistant was more amused than
she was.

 JW> As well many patients and some dentists smoke and eat garlic. I
 JW> suspect it's mostly for show, as in "see how sterile we all are".

Conversely I try not to eat anything too aromatic for breakfast before
fronting up to my dentist.

 JW> The staff at my clinic wear them but when my dentist did emergency
 JW> work on me (I cracked a tooth biting down on a shotgun pellet in a
 JW> game bird breast) on a weekend at night, with no assistant present,
 JW> he didn't bother putting one on.

Did he fix the tooth satisfactorily?
 
 GJ> Today is Robbie Burns day.
 JW> And also part of the 15 day week of Chinese New Year.  A Vancouver
 JW> chef has invented haggis wontons for the occasion!

Probably offending all the local Scots - and Chinese!

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: Baby Squid Seated on Their Own Ink
 Categories: Squid
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
      2    Kilos Squid
      1    Kilo Tomatoes
      4    Onions
      1    Leek
      5    Green Peppers
           Olive Oil and Salt
 
  Clean the squid and keep the bags of ink separately. Cut off the fins
  and the legs and add into the squid. Saute for 2-3 minutes and place
  in a clay casserole. Prepare the vegetables by chopping finely. In
  the same oil fry the onions, garlic, leeks and the peppers. When the
  vegetables are well sauteed, add in the peeled and deseeded chopped
  tomatoes. Season to taste. Leave to cook until the sauce has
  thickened. Add in the ink and mix well. Pour the mixture into a
  blender and blend until smooth. Add to the Squid. Leave to cook for a
  further 5 minutes under a low heat. Serve with fried bread or white
  rice. Serve hot.
  
  www.expoforms.com/usuarios/recetario/recetas/otros-idiomas/english.htm
  :           Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:19:25 +0000
 
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