>  ML> Did you use a Unix shell?
> Well not to bash it, I tried C shell and moved on.  I didn't like korn either.

Not a bourne-again, are you.

>       Title: Cup Tamales with Vera Cruz Flavors
>  Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 3 May 1995 Typed by
>  Katherine Smith Kook-Net: The Shadow Zone IV - Stinson
>  Beach, CA

Your recipe looks sort of exciting, sapid if you will
(opposite of insipid) - like a picadillo circus.

> ... Don't cry for me I have vi.

That looks familiar.

P.S. I've tried to use VLC periodically for years but
never got it to work on this machine.

Manny's Liver and Bacon
Categories: Massachusetts, offal, main
Serves: 4

2 lb beef liver
2 c milk
1/2 lb bacon, sliced
2 lg onions, sliced
1/4 c mushrooms, sliced
2 Tb oil
2 c flour
salt to taste
1 ts pepper, freshly ground
1/2 c water
1 Tb flour
1 ts beef bouillon granules
1/2 ts basil
1/4 ts thyme

Slice the liver and soak covered in milk overnight 
in the refrigerator. Fry bacon, onions and mushrooms 
in the oil and set aside. Mix 2 c flour with the 
pepper and salt and dredge the liver slices. Fry 
in the bacon drippings until slightly pink in the 
middle. Remove liver and set aside. Mix 1/2 c cold 
water with 1 Tb flour, add beef bouillon granules, 
and stir until lumps are eliminated. Pour into 
skillet on low heat, scraping up the drippings and 
add basil and thyme. Up heat to medium and stir to 
thicken gravy. Add liver, bacon and onions and 
simmer 15 to 20 min.

Jim Hillibish via bourne.wickedlocal.com