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Skriven 2015-12-16 21:55:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: cooking or not 658
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-13-15  10:03 <=-

 > I trust the entry raised lots of funds for the puppies/kitties/etc... ;)
 ML> Maybe I'll find out, but I haven't asked yet. I hope
 ML> it covers the costs of the groceries, at least. These
 ML> charity things are sort of cute, as Annie the provider
 ML> gets to deduct her part, and the purchaser gets to
 ML> deduct as well.

Win-win, so to speak...  ;)  And hopefully the charity does get needed
funds to do their thing thereby, as well... :)

 > Hopefully the people will be nice to interact with... set-ups or no. (G)
 > You only arrive there just before the event...?
 ML> I'll have been at Annie's for Christmas through
 ML> New Year's, and the event will be at her house.

Ah, ok...  :)
 
 >  ML> I now recall the cartoon name - Cowtown - but not
 >  ML> the cartoonist.
 > I vaguely remember that...
 ML> I recalled the name because of the Cowtown barbecue
 ML> sauce that was sold at Oklahoma Joe's (mow Joe's
 ML> Famous); the label has a cartoon of his on it.
 ML> Charlie Podrebarac, no wonder I forgot.
 ML> http://www.gocomics.com/cowtown/2010/12/20
 ML> He is also the creator of the Maggie Moo's (another
 ML> Kansas City company) logo.

Does he hail from Kansas City, then...?

 >  ML> Seems as though it'd be easier to do these things
 >  ML> companywide - better for inventory management.
 > Guess it might depend on how closely they did keep tabs on that sort of
 > thing... or if they left it more to the individual stores... 
 ML> I'd imagine that Popeye kept a pretty close though
 ML> ugly eye on his minions.

I'm sure he did... but not as sure about the company that took his
name...  :)

 >  ML> So the couple days before yesterday I cooked for some 
 >  ML> of the same crowd but on the other coast: made chicken
 >  ML> paprikash (using thighs), with thick egg noodles, of 
 >  ML> which they ate heartily, and the next day I made tofu 
 >  ML> in garlic and ginger sauce and eggplant stewed in butter
 >  ML> with (ugh) brown rice, which they ate with somewhat less
 >  ML> enthusiasm. A big old whatever to that.
 > Apparently this part of that crowd weren't into veggies that much... 
 ML> They're actually quite into veggies, but that's their norm,
 ML> and the intensity of the flavor (dark meat chicken after
 ML> all) and the primal nature of chowing down on flesh were
 ML> perhaps not so familiar to them.

Ah.... so the vegetarian dish, no matter how tasty, was more familiar,
and thus more run-of-the-mill for them... 

 ML> The day after, or was it two days after, they served me a
 ML> butternut squash black bean vegan chili, the squash somewhat
 ML> undercooked to give the jawa something to chew on in a
 ML> meatlike way (remind me never to do this).

I rather think I might not have to do any reminding... ;)  Chewy black
beans might have done better... ;)

 ML> They try to balance their meat meals
 ML> (preferably not beef, uses too many planetary resources)
 ML> with vegetarian/vegan ones.

Back when I was cooking more vegetarian(-ish) meals, we tried to balance
them with meat meals... ;) 

 ML> Vered and Stephan are among them. Though Stephan had the
 ML> beef short rib thing and gladly accepted the offer of a
 ML> chicken wing, Vered won't eat meat off the bone, a same
 ML> neurosis shared by Lilli and actually several other of
 ML> my friends. She sees the silliness and irrationality of
 ML> that prejudice, though, which some others do not.

Perhaps it feels too primal...?  Or childish...? (Maybe not that much
difference between them, actually... ;) )  Richard will eat meat off a
bone, but he prefers not to have to hassle with it... :)

 > Both meals sound quite appealing to me... chicken thighs, paprika,
 > garlic & ginger sauce, eggplant... yummmmm...  ;)
 ML> I actually liked the vegetarian meal almost as much,
 ML> and had it been served with some other starch than
 ML> brown rice I might have liked it equally.

SOW, I just picked up a Japanese eggplant at Lee's Oriental today... I
think it will become eggplant in garlic/ginger sauce... Maybe serve it
with some shrimp...  :)

 >  ML> Title: Kuritsa S Paprikoy (Chicken Paprikash)
 >  ML> M omitted the green pepper and tomato, substituted thyme
 >  ML> and oregano for marjoram, and used much more dried paprika.
 > I'd approve of those changes... :)  Was the thyme/oregano substitution
 > because of lack of marjoram, or for taste reasons...?
 ML> Marjoram was unavailable. Oregano is similar, but I thought
 ML> thyme would add something, but I ended up using too much.

Never know the potency of someone else's herbs, I suppose... :)

ttyl        neb

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