Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Digest for rec.food.cooking@googlegroups.com - 25 updates in 11 topics

Cindy Hamilton <angelicapaganelli@yahoo.com>: Jul 28 06:11AM -0700

On Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 6:33:03 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> wind. uggghh. Local news say this is the hottest July on
> record ever (about 150 years). I believe it.
 
> Even the early mornings are stuffy.
 
It's a nice day here. We had a low around 65 F, the high will be around
85 F, and the humidity should bottom out under 50%.
 
It has overall been a hot July here, too. Luckily, storm systems
have kept the hottest weather at bay, but we've had long stretches
at 90 F.
 
Cindy Hamilton
jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: Jul 28 10:17AM -0400

On 7/28/2020 6:33 AM, Gary wrote:
> wind. uggghh. Local news say this is the hottest July on
> record ever (about 150 years). I believe it.
 
> Even the early mornings are stuffy.
 
It's very hot here, too. It's 90F but the humidity is only 63% which is
pretty low for July. You know it's bad when you wake up and the
exterior windows are soaking wet but it hasn't been raining. You know
the humidity/dew point is bad when you step outside and it's like
someone wrapped a hot wet towel over your face. Today is not so bad but
it's still too hot to be comfortable outside.
 
Jill
Gary <g.majors@att.net>: Jul 28 10:22AM -0400

jmcquown wrote:
> someone wrapped a hot wet towel over your face. Today is not so bad but
> it's still too hot to be comfortable outside.
 
> Jill
 
10:20am now and it's HOT outside. I'll stay in with ac for the
rest of the day. Evil summers here.
"Ophelia" <ophelia@elsinore.me.uk>: Jul 28 01:55PM +0100

"Bruce" wrote in message news:qbuvhfd7h36m35n22irsqa93q1h24h5pvb@4ax.com...
 
On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 11:06:57 +0100, S Viemeister
 
>> Nasi goreng and bami goreng were staples as I was growing up. They're
>> very nice.
 
>Yes, they are.
 
They were at least a weekly recurrence in my family.
 
===
 
Share recipes please?
"Ophelia" <ophelia@elsinore.me.uk>: Jul 28 03:16PM +0100

"dsi1" wrote in message
news:79d17e8e-54ef-4e54-8c35-f647fee1de9co@googlegroups.com...
 
On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 6:12:53 PM UTC-10, Leo wrote:
> that tell us which way the wind is blowing. The cognoscenti leave a glass
> of
> water outside to see if it̢۪s freezing.
 
Alternatively, we'll roll down our car windows and stick our heads out to
see if a hurricane is a-blowing. Of course, we'll stop the car first. I
mean, we ain't dumb.
 
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<g>
lenona321@yahoo.com: Jul 28 05:43AM -0700

Maybe what I should have said was, the cookbook doesn't seem to make ANY real effort to reflect the novel, per se.
 
60 reader reviews of the 1961 cookbook - yes, I know it says 1991:
 
https://www.amazon.com/Gone-Wind-Cook-Book-Southern/dp/1558593705
 
 
But, from the novel, in chapter 48 (the honeymoon chapter):
 
"Best of all things in New Orleans was the food. Remembering the bitter hungry days at Tara and her more recent penury, Scarlett felt that she could never eat enough of these rich dishes. Gumboes and shrimp Creole, doves in wine and oysters in crumbly patties full of creamy sauce, mushrooms and sweetbreads and turkey livers, fish baked cunningly in oiled paper and limes. Her appetite never dulled, for whenever she remembered the everlasting goobers and dried peas and sweet potatoes at Tara, she felt an urge to gorge herself anew of Creole dishes."
 
From 2010, some recipes for those dishes:
 
http://gwtwscrapbook.blogspot.com/2010/08/gorging-on-creole-dishes-honeymoon.html#.XyAaYuv3aK0
 
More recipes:
 
http://gwtwscrapbook.blogspot.com/search?q=Recipes#.XyAcAOv3aK0
 
 
Lenona.
jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: Jul 28 08:44AM -0400

> There's a GWTW cookbook, too, but when I looked through it, it didn't seem to have the more expensive New Orleans dishes, like doves in wine.
 
> Lenona.
 
Awww, I'm sorry to hear about Olivia. They really downplayed her looks
in GWTW. She was a pretty woman and a very accomplished actress.
 
I think one of the strangest films I ever saw her in was 'Lady in a
Cage' (1964). She played a wealthy woman with a broken hip who gets
stuck in an elevator (the "cage") she had installed. There's a power
failure and three "hoodlums" show up to rob her after she sets off the
alarm and terrorize her. What a very odd movie!
 
Also in 1964, she portrayed a charming, not really very nice relative
opposite Bette Davis in 'Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte'.
 
Jill
jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: Jul 28 08:55AM -0400

On 7/28/2020 5:45 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 5:27:52 PM UTC-4, leno...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> There's a GWTW cookbook, too, but when I looked through it, it didn't seem to have the more expensive New Orleans dishes, like doves in wine.
 
> Why would it? GWTW mainly takes place in Georgia.
 
It was an OB: food reference. Scarlett went on her honeymoon in New
Orleans. Of course, Scarlett wasn't portrayed by Olivia de Havilland.
 
> mourning doves in my yard, but they're basically garbage cans
> on wings. I suppose cornish game hens could be substituted.
 
> Cindy Hamilton
 
Well... when I lived in west TN I worked with some guys who would get
all worked up about going dove hunting. I don't know specifically what
kind of doves but dove hunting was definitely a thing. Seems to me
there'd hardly be enough meat on doves to make it worthwhile. Just
another excuse for guys to run around in the woods with guns. <shrug>
 
Jill
lenona321@yahoo.com: Jul 28 06:06AM -0700

Not as much as they downplayed her looks in "The Heiress."
 
*I* thought she was quite pretty in GWTW. In fact, one could argue that both she and Vivien Leigh were TOO attractive. As the novel begins: "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it..." (But then, almost whenever Leigh wasn't smiling in the movie, she looked practically hostile, so I suppose that was enough to make her not beautiful.)
 
And, later on, about Melanie:
 
"She was a tiny, frailly built girl, who gave the appearance of a child masquerading in her mother's enormous hoop skirts--an illusion that was heightened by shy, almost frightened look in her too large brown eyes. She had a cloud of curly black hair which was so sternly repressed beneath its net that no vagrant tendrils escaped, and this dark mass with its long widow's peak, accentuated the heart shape of her face. Too wide across the cheek bones, too pointed at the chin, it was a sweet, timid face but a plain face, and she had no feminine tricks of allure to make observers forget its plainness. She looked--and was--as simple as earth, as good as bread, as transparent as spring water. But for all her plainness of feature and smallness small of stature, there was a dedate dignity about her movements that was oddly touching and far older than her seventeen years."
 
 
Lenona.
Cindy Hamilton <angelicapaganelli@yahoo.com>: Jul 28 07:03AM -0700

> Maybe what I should have said was, the cookbook doesn't seem to make ANY real effort to reflect the novel, per se.
 
We're talking about the movie. Olivia de Havilland ?
 
Cindy Hamilton
lenona321@yahoo.com: Jul 28 07:14AM -0700

The cookbook doesn't reflect the movie either, IIRC.
Janet <nobody@home.org>: Jul 28 01:38PM +0100

In article <9c77fd6d-0bfa-4893-b261-2e0fd867b6efo@googlegroups.com>,
johnkuthern@gmail.com says...
 
> > Do you live alone in that house during this covid crisis or do you
> > still have tenants?
 
> NONE of YOUR BUSINESS!
 
Yell the truth, John. Your house failed its latest inspection and
lost your letting permit.
 

Janet UK
Gary <g.majors@att.net>: Jul 28 08:55AM -0400

Janet wrote:
 
> Yell the truth, John. Your house failed its latest inspection and
> lost your letting permit.
 
> Janet UK
 
In my opinion, John should just skip all that legal nonsense
and rent to anyone like his old Chinese landlord did.
 
No more "tenants" and going by regulations. He can just let
his "friends" live there and help out with costs.
 
Same situation without all these legal restrictions and
nonsense from the city.
 
Are you listening, John?
jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: Jul 28 09:04AM -0400

On 7/28/2020 8:38 AM, Janet wrote:
 
> Yell the truth, John. Your house failed its latest inspection and
> lost your letting permit.
 
> Janet UK
 
I love it, Janet. "Yell the truth"! He's already said he has to finish
repainting the pink and purple paint (he can't decide if it's "Shit
Brown" or "Nice Brown") before he can get his "occupancy permit"
renewed. In the middle of a global pandemic I can't think who would
want to live in a boarding house.
 
Jill
Gary <g.majors@att.net>: Jul 28 09:11AM -0400

jmcquown wrote:
> Brown" or "Nice Brown") before he can get his "occupancy permit"
> renewed. In the middle of a global pandemic I can't think who would
> want to live in a boarding house.
 
Maybe people that didn't inherit enough money to live on the
rest of their miserable lives and need cheap rent to survive.
jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: Jul 28 09:53AM -0400

On 7/28/2020 9:11 AM, Gary wrote:
>> want to live in a boarding house.
 
> Maybe people that didn't inherit enough money to live on the
> rest of their miserable lives and need cheap rent to survive.
 
He *did* inherit money. Have you forgotten how often he used to crow
about how RICH he is? As for it being "NONE of YOUR BUSINESS!" he's
made it everyone's business by talking about his "housemates"... just
not lately because he can't rent rooms right now. At least he did try
to do everything right (legally) when it comes to occupancy permits.
 
Jill
Gary <g.majors@att.net>: Jul 28 10:12AM -0400

jmcquown wrote:
> not lately because he can't rent rooms right now. At least he did try
> to do everything right (legally) when it comes to occupancy permits.
 
> Jill
 
I was talking about his housemates that would want to live in a
boarding house during a pandemic. Cheap rent might be their only
option.
sockmonkeyNH@comcast.net: Jul 28 06:56AM -0700

I love it! It looks like a sewing machine cover I made a while back. Did she use a pattern?
 
Denise in sweltering NH
jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: Jul 28 10:02AM -0400

On 7/27/2020 11:16 PM, Leo wrote:
> it? I should have told her that black or white fabric would be fine.
 
> <https://postimg.cc/r05GzPq4>
 
> leo
 
She did a nice job! At least now you won't forget where the KA mixer is. ;)
 
Jill
Cindy Hamilton <angelicapaganelli@yahoo.com>: Jul 28 07:02AM -0700

On Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 6:07:07 AM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
> >never heard of refrigerator pickles.
 
> OMG, I've never even heard of refrigerator pickles and neither has my
> wife. What on earth have we been eating all these years?
 
It's an American thing. I wouldn't expect you to know about it.
 
For one thing, your goat barn has to have a refrigerator ;)
 
Cindy Hamilton
Janet <nobody@home.org>: Jul 28 02:28PM +0100

In article <fa80f2c9-dc3c-44ec-9670-c629a42bccbdo@googlegroups.com>,
johnkuthern@gmail.com says...
 
> On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 12:41:13 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
 
> > Wow, that copper looks very nice. And expensive.
 
> Hell YES expensive! $113,671 worth of expensive! Copper and Stainless Steel nails, bronze caulking although
I told them since all they had was white that that would be fine too!
Any caulk is better than NO caulk! :-)
 
 
You were suckered, again.
 
Janet UK
Pamela <pamela.poster@gmail.com>: Jul 28 02:14PM +0100

On 23:23 27 Jul 2020, Mike Duffy said:
 
> essentially a cosmetic vanity.
 
> Have you been stalking me there? It seems like a tad of digging into
> posts over two months old.
 
You haven't been here for a while for me to mention it.
 
Reading eternal-september.support is open to everybody. You seemed to be
rather overthinking it in that thread.
Cindy Hamilton <angelicapaganelli@yahoo.com>: Jul 28 06:08AM -0700

On Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 6:32:37 AM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
> >of it and open myself to criticism.
 
> Have you always had a problem with criticism? Will you do anything to
> avoid it?
 
Nobody likes criticism. I will take reasonable steps to avoid it.
 
Cindy Hamilton
Lucretia Borgia <lucretiaborgia@fl.it>: Jul 28 09:49AM -0300

>>batteries present when you no longer drive it.
 
>Are you saying we should all continue to drive gas/petrol cars? Are
>you? Are you?
 
I am not telling anyone what they should drive but I get tired of
Kuthe conveniently forgetting that his electric car has some big
downsides as well. I drive a little Mazda II which at this point is
likely more environmentally friendly. Uses very little gas and when
aged out, is recyclable.
Janet <nobody@home.org>: Jul 28 01:29PM +0100

If you've never seen a fat/obese vegetarian that's because you
haven't been to India.
 
Janet UK
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