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Skriven 2015-09-03 13:50:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: add'ns/correx 170
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 08-30-15  14:50 <=-

 ML>> there have been snappers here in Boyd Pond, validating my
 ML>> decision to forgo the swimming on this trip (it was mostly
 ML>> not terribly hot).
 NB>> Haven't seen any of those in the Pond for years, though...  possibly
 NB>> even decades... ;)   The hottest days of our stay were mostly at the
 NB>> beginning of the week, Tuesday being the hottest...  
 ML> They were brought up in conversation, no? Or is that another
 ML> product of my fevered imagination?

I believe that Linda might have mentioned it in conversation at some
point... or I might have... in passing conversation along with bears and
moose, and beavers and raccoons...  ;)  

 ML>> Seyidoglu dried fig jam
 ML>> Tamek rose petal jam
 NB>> These two gifts to me from my son upon his return from Turkey, and
 NB>> bought there... I'm going to have to figure out some way to use the
 NB>> rose petal jam... he suggested with sharp cheeses, which we never got
 NB>> around really to trying...
 ML> In much of the Mediterranean they pair strong-flavored
 ML> confections with milder cheeses. I'm not sure about Cheddarlike
 ML> things, as they don't occur frequently there. Might be good,
 ML> but I doubt.
 
At some point in the week, I think I did dip a couple of little pieces
of cheese into the rose jam, and found the flavors at least somewhat
complementary...  I did note a recipe in one of UDD's 10-sets that
called for a rose-petal glaze for a pistachio bundt cake... but as I
commented on that, not really all that likely to take the effort to bake
the cake in the first place...  :)

 ML>> Our field trip was to the Potsdam Co-Op about half an hour or
 ML>> three-quarters from the camp. 
 NB>> I note that you left out our lunch before going on the field trip... 
 NB>> I had brought a couple flavors of Wegmans chicken sausages to try,
 NB>> along with a package of Wegmans uncured hots (aka white hots)... The
 NB>> sun-dried tomatoes sausages seemed to be prefered over the spinach-feta
 NB>> sausages.  The white hots were noted to be quite like a German
 NB>> brockwurst
 ML> Or like. The white hots (I've had these before) were kind of
 ML> neutral; I had half a sun-dried tomato one, which was okay but
 ML> didn't apparently register enough for me to want to say anything
 ML> about it; and about the feta one the less said the better.

I figured as much...  ;)

 ML> I actually thought I'd said something about this meal, but during
 ML> the last couple weeks I did lose some stuff (usual trick - cut
 ML> some text from my notes, then closed all the documents forgetting
 ML> to paste it anywhere - not a serious computer malfunction or
 ML> anything, just a me malfunction)..

Gotta watch those me malfunctions...  ;0
 
 NB>> bring back for tastes... interestinly, both are billed as aged
 NB>> cheddar...
 ML> There is a large number of variables in cheese aging - time,
 ML> temperature, airflow, container, and so on.

Thus making for differences in taste afterwards... 
 
 NB>> and I saw them both on offer at Wegmans when I went shopping after
 NB>> returning from the picnic...  I prefered the White Oak myself...
 NB>> both are much better than Cabot's Seriously Sharp, which certainly
 NB>> isn't... :) 
 ML> Seriously Sharp is as I recall a perfectly good melting cheese,
 ML> not much of an eating cheese, and definitely not worth my pills.
 ML> Here's what I wrote about the stuff some months ago:
    (snip)
 ML> Apparently it had made so little impression on me that I'd
 ML> forgotten it and had bothered to retaste it this year, with
 ML> similar results.

I remember commenting on your review earlier this year... I suppose it
might make a slightly more sharpish melted cheese than your usual
milds... :)

 ML>> There were a couple other things as well, but I forget.
 NB>> I didn't see any mention of your halvah... was that Thursday that you
 NB>> made that...?  Carrot halvah, plain and covered with dark chocolate...
 NB>> and you didn't get around to making the coconut version for Ruth to
 NB>> try...  ;)  But the carrot was a great success...  :)
 ML> Oh, yeah. I actually did write something, including a small
 ML> dig at Ruth saying she's lucky I forgot to do a coconut
 ML> version so that must have gone the way of all electrons.

Another cut and paste that didn't get pasted, I guess... :)

 ML> Anyhow, it was pretty good, very much like what you get in
 ML> the Indian restaurant, not substantially improved by being
 ML> coated in chocolate. End of story.

I quite enjoyed it, both sorts... and agree that it didn't need the
chocolate... but that didn't detract, either..  :)  Another year, maybe
you should make the coconut version... ;)

 ML>> dried sweetened mango - good fruit flavor, a tad too sweet,
 ML>> Nancy got a bite of fiber (in the bad sense), otherwise
 ML>> generally admired;
 NB>> Quite liked, actually...  that bit of fibrous stuff only showed that
 NB>> they really were real mango slices...  ;) 
 ML> Unlike the gummi peaches of two varieties, which had no actual
 ML> fruit content.

But were quite tasty, for all that..  ;)

ttyl     neb

... Tomato paste: what you use to fix broken tomatoes.

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