Monday, June 22, 2020

Digest for rec.food.cooking@googlegroups.com - 25 updates in 8 topics

Lucretia Borgia <lucretiaborgia@fl.it>: Jun 22 10:38AM -0300


>OK, if they can't sell internationally right now, prices should
>be
>very cheap here now. No cheap prices here.
 
Remember over two years ago Trump called on Canada to arrest Meng
Wanzho under a treaty agreement? We did as bid, then he has done
nothing more, which makes us unpopular with China and receiving
boycotts. They also arrested two Canadian citizens in China and
unlike Meng who has been under house arrest in her million dollar home
with merely an anklet to restrict her, they have been in solitary
cells with lights on 24/24. (One of my uncles was a POW in Korea back
when and he always said that was the worst punishment, it really gets
through to you) so it is yet another reason I hate and detest Trump.
 
So moving forward, the other day the Chinese claimed our fishermen had
sent lobsters to them with Covid 19????
Sheldon Martin <penmart01@aol.com>: Jun 22 11:50AM -0400


>Again, have you opened one and tasted it yet?
>I've had much better.
 
>Even those old tiny bottles of Pompeian EVOO had more flavor.
 
I've been buying EVOO at Walmart for several years, 101 oz. jugs,
their own Great Value brand, very inexpensive, I remember under $10.
It's the only oil I keep anymore other than toasted sesame seed oil
which is really a flavoring.
jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: Jun 22 01:28PM -0400

On 6/22/2020 8:54 AM, Gary wrote:
> probably true to the area.
 
> Jill uses canned crabmeat though...no telling where that
> came from.
 
I've been holding my breath waiting for you to mention canned crab meat.
You really have no idea what I used to make those crab cakes.
 
Jill
Sheldon Martin <penmart01@aol.com>: Jun 22 11:26AM -0400

On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 22:39:40 -0400, jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>
wrote:
 
>have to put up with the nutty live-in landlord who wants to be their
>best friend, too.
 
>Jill
 
In 1962 I rented a very nice 2 br house in San Diego for $65/mo... a
very posh neigbohood just north of the zoo. It was actually $60/mo
but in CA one paid $5 extra for a stove, or buy your own, I didn't
want to buy a stove I'd likely have to move in about a year. Living
in CA was dirt cheap in the '60s. I was working for Hugh's Aircraft
then, making tooling for helicopters, and was paid almost four times
what I could earn in NY. Gasolene was 9в-11в a gallon depending on
which gasateria. Eating at restaurants was very cheap for excellent
food... and was real Mexican food, not the crappy Tex Mex they push at
Taco Bell. At that time San Diego was literally a slum, a navy town
with lots of bars and tattoo parlors.
jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: Jun 22 01:16PM -0400

On 6/22/2020 6:00 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
 
> A better comparison would be to google for rooms for rent near
> UMSL. A tiny sampling indicates a rent of about $600-$800.
 
> Cindy Hamilton
 
Yep, students are willing to pay that much to be near the campus,
sharing apartments with other students, not a 60 year old man. I notice
none of his renters seem to stick around very long.
 
Jill
Hank Rogers <Nospam@invalid.com>: Jun 22 12:26PM -0500

Sheldon Martin wrote:
> In 1962 I rented a very nice 2 br house in San Diego for $65/mo... a
> very posh neigbohood just north of the zoo.
 
Popeye, I bet that was the neighborhood where all the homosexual
navy officers lived. And there yoose were, right in the middle of
the action.
Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca>: Jun 22 09:44AM -0400

On 2020-06-22 8:55 a.m., Gary wrote:
> The North was treating the South unfairly with economics.
> They chose to leave the union. That's what the civil war
> was all about.
 
Yeah. Right. Some claim it was about states' rights, but the only right
they really cared about was the right to have slaves.
 
 
> I suspect Lincoln abolished slavery later just as pay backs
> to the South for trying to divide us into two countries.
 
 
The Emancipation Proclamation was a pretty hollow gesture. It granted
freedom to slaves in the Confederate state, but the Union didn't really
have the jurisdiction to do that.
Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca>: Jun 22 09:52AM -0400

On 2020-06-22 8:56 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
 
> Birth control is cheap. Perhaps those uneducated people should pay
> for education rather than childcare.
 
> And I don't mean a four-year bachelor's degree.
 
It can get pretty frustrating. A lot of people speak out about the need
for education and informing people on issues like sex, drugs, disease
and other public health topics, but even the best attempts are ignored.
Most of us know about the dangerous of hard drugs, but we still have
addiction problems. We have taught people about the birds and the bees
but young girls are still getting pregnant and unable to care for their
children on their own. We know that AIDS is transmitted primarily
through unprotected sex but there are still people running around having
unprotected sex with strangers.
Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca>: Jun 22 09:53AM -0400

On 2020-06-22 8:57 a.m., Gary wrote:
> cook excellent home cooked food.
 
> Having a pic of a black person on a box of food was to indicate
> it was a very good product.
 
 
 
On the flip side of that.... French cooking is well known for making
excellent meals out of cheap cuts and offal.
Bruce <bruce@null.null>: Jun 22 11:30AM -0400

Dave Smith wrote :
> On the flip side of that.... French cooking is well known for making
> excellent meals out of cheap cuts and offal.
 
The French are also known to be squat to
piss cowards.
 
'French rifle for sale, never fired and
only dropped twice.'
"Ophelia" <ophelia@elsinore.me.uk>: Jun 22 05:31PM +0100

"dsi1" wrote in message
news:c6a983e4-f13c-4a13-ae80-0a8ec2d5d061o@googlegroups.com...
 
On Sunday, June 21, 2020 at 3:45:49 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> bitching about the past that can't be changed.
 
> And in the black community, clean up your own act then
> the police won't go so hard on you.
 
We visited the International Slavery Museum when we were in Liverpool. It
was interesting and moving. The Brits abolished slavery about 30 years
before the Yanks did. The difference, of course, is that they didn't have a
civil war over the matter, nor have they spent the last 160 years trying to
resolve the conflict.
 
===
 
I expect you knew I didn't post the previous post?
jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: Jun 22 01:23PM -0400

On 6/22/2020 8:10 AM, Janet wrote:
> took place in Scotland, not England.
 
> Janet UK
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bothwell_Bridge
 
Yes, sorry, my bad. They were captured by the English, though.
 
Jill
Mike Duffy <bogus@nosuch.com>: Jun 22 01:11PM

On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 22:18:10 -0500, Sqwertz wrote:
 
> I think Julie is meth tweaker.
 
In a vaingloriously lame attempt on my part to swing the thread subject
onto food, I'm sure Julie judiciously adjusts quantities of fresh
flavourful herbs into her recipes as compared to the dry herbs we had to
use up until now.
 
And why did you use the french word for mint? (Menthe, you spelled it
wrong in two places!)
Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca>: Jun 22 09:59AM -0400

On 2020-06-22 9:00 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Monday, June 22, 2020 at 8:20:16 AM UTC-4, Janet wrote:
front door.
> house. A very common situation for rural (or semi-rural) residents.
> I provide the box, which must adhere to some fairly minimal standards
> set out by the U.S. Post Office.
 
I have rural mail delivery too. The box gets bashed once in a while.
They cost $20-30 to replace, but then there is the cost of those sticky
letters than don't stick as well as they should or hand lettering with
paint.
Canada Post would really like to do away with them. There is still mail
delivery on some old neighbourhoods, but for the last 30 years new
neighbourhoods have been getting communal mail boxes. They keep
threatening to cut our rural service. They have been trying to make it a
safety issue. A few years ago they raised a bullshit safety issue with
my mail box, complaining about a low hanging branch. The mail is
delivered by a car or by a small van. Tractor trailers pass under that
branch.
U.S. Janet B. <JB@nospam.com>: Jun 22 08:21AM -0600

On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 22:18:10 -0500, Sqwertz <sqwertzme@gmail.invalid>
wrote:
 
>figure out.
 
>I think Julie is meth tweaker.
 
>-sw
 
I don't know, I figured it out immediately from her posting. My
husband, (ex architect) says HO should probably pay for replacing it,
but you can order direct from post office. He always ordered direct
from a book the PO has.
He also says people throw a chain around them, attach them to a truck
and tear them out of the ground all the time.
(Crap! Who does that kind of stuff????)
Janet US
Ed Pawlowski <esp@snet.xxx>: Jun 22 10:29AM -0400

On 6/22/2020 8:20 AM, Janet wrote:
 
> Our mail is delivered into the house through the letterbox in our
> front door.
 
> Janet UK
 
Depends on where you live. We had that in our first house and older
places still do. The US is big and diverse so you find many
combinations. We have places with a drive from road to house of 1/4 mile
so they won't put it at your door but a box at the end of your drive.
graham <g.stereo@shaw.ca>: Jun 22 08:40AM -0600

On 2020-06-22 6:20 a.m., Janet wrote:
 
> Our mail is delivered into the house through the letterbox in our
> front door.
 
> Janet UK
 
To save money, Canada Post decided a few years ago to gradually stop
urban home delivery and use community mail boxes - all new suburbs have
them. There was a public outcry and the govt ordered them to stop the
program.
"Ophelia" <ophelia@elsinore.me.uk>: Jun 22 05:21PM +0100

"Julie Bove" wrote in message news:rcq5bo$sor$11@dont-email.me...
 
 
"Sqwertz" <sqwertzme@gmail.invalid> wrote in message
news:11lqxv28c106w.dlg@sqwertz.com...
> confusing on purpose.
 
> They will hold all your mail until the kiosk is replaced. You can
> also go down to the PO and pick it up.
 
That is not what I was told. I was told that it was up to the residents to
replace it. How? We don't know.
 
===
 
Here (well where I live anyway) We have 'letter boxes' on our front
door. If we are not in when a parcel is delivered, they hide it somewhere
in the garden and put a note through the letter box tell us where it is!
Sheldon Martin <penmart01@aol.com>: Jun 22 12:41PM -0400


>In some places they are not allowed. You need a cluster box to meet
>USPS regulations. They will have three to five of them together here
>https://www.mailboxes.com/cluster-box-unit-12-a-size-doors-type-ii-white-usps/
 
You live in a high population density area... here most every house is
1,000' apart, there are country style mailboxes along every road. Here
steel posts at road shoulders are illegal, they must be wooden
breakaway type. Some people here live close together or across the
road from each other so they mount 2-3 mailboxes on one wooden post.
There are some infirm people here who set up a clothesline on pulleys,
they hang their mailbox and pull it to their front door to use their
mailbox, but only if the clothesline doesn't cross the road... the
mail carrier delivers to only one side of the road. On this road the
smallest buildable lot permitted is 5 acres but most are much larger.
Sheldon Martin <penmart01@aol.com>: Jun 22 01:13PM -0400

On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 01:10:51 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> also go down to the PO and pick it up.
 
>That is not what I was told. I was told that it was up to the residents to
>replace it. How? We don't know.
 
In some areas that use those cluster boxes it is up to postmaster to
decide when it needs replacement due to deterioration etc. The
postmaster uses a crew to do the replacement and all those who use the
cluster pay the costs equally... those cluster boxes work the same as
PO Boxes inside the post office. We're thinking of getting rid of our
PO Box as it is becoming too expensive... actually the PO Box should
be free as we need to drive to the post office to get our mail, The
entire postal system is inane, getting our mail delivered to our house
is done for free.
 
We are switching trash pick up to a new local company that is charging
half plus the first three months free, and will probably not miss days
of pickup... lots of neighbors have already switched and are very
happy with the new company.
 
We are also going to be rid of Cable TV at the first of the month, we
already ordered Dish, it's less than half price and gives many more
channels.
KenK <invalid@invalid.com>: Jun 22 04:35PM

I bought an air fryer a yesr or two ago along with two or three books of
air fryer recipes. After going through the books several times I didn't see
any recipes that couldn't be cooked easily by other means. The fryer sits
unused.
 
Those of you who use air fryers, what am I missing? What types of recipes
should I be looking for?
 
TIA
 
 
--
I love a good meal! That's why I don't cook.
John Kuthe <johnkuthern@gmail.com>: Jun 22 08:43AM -0700

Happy?
 
John Kuthe, Climate Anarchist and Poorer By $2991 Now!
U.S. Janet B. <JB@nospam.com>: Jun 22 08:30AM -0600

On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 21:26:50 -0500, Sqwertz <sqwertzme@gmail.invalid>
wrote:
 
 
>New Rule: Any haters want to chime in? Then they need to post
>pictures of what THEY made tonight [dropping microphone]
 
>-sw
I didn't know of the Swedish background. My mother always made
something similar for parties.
We'd go to the bakery and ask for an unsliced loaf of bread and ask
them to cut the sides and bottom/top off and slice the bread
horizontally.
She would fill the different layers with ham salad, egg salad, some
sort of vegetable filling (drained chopped cucumber or a salad mix)
Topping was cream cheese as per Steve. Decorate as you wish. Always
very popular with the ladies.
Janet US
Sheldon Martin <penmart01@aol.com>: Jun 22 10:38AM -0400

On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 21:26:50 -0500, Sqwertz <sqwertzme@gmail.invalid>
wrote:
 
 
>New Rule: Any haters want to chime in? Then they need to post
>pictures of what THEY made tonight [dropping microphone]
 
>-sw
 
Looks good to me, I love sprats. I'd eat the whole thing.
What are those sheets separating the layers... looks like the thin
wafer the priest gives as the body of Christ only much larger.
Sheldon Martin <penmart01@aol.com>: Jun 22 10:08AM -0400

On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 00:49:10 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> hocks. Where have you been hiding, I missed the midnight in Paris
>> scent of your bra. ;)
 
>I don't like smoked foods or ham.
 
Um, bacon is smoked, and ten strips adds a lot of smoke flavor.
 
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