Subj: 487 another adventure

 ML> I had to reassure Lilli that the Pinoys in the US are mostly a
 ML> peaceable bunch.

What a strange group to be afraid of!

Filipinos are now Yellowknife's largest visible minority. Our total
population is 20,000, with 3000 Asians, 1000 of whom are Filipino.
     
 ML> she would have been okay with my looking for Filipino food but
 ML> would not partake herself

We can support three Chinese restaurants, two each Japanese and
Vietnamese ones and even one Korean place. Also a Somalian and
Ethiopian but Filipino restaurants always fail. They will have a
very strong opening week with everyone coming out, complimenting
them and wishing them success but they never go back again. Every
wife and mother says she can cook better and the husbands and sons
are afraid to disagree!

And Filipina women are the worst to try to pry a recipe out of.
They will always be vague on quantities and leave out one key
ingredient so that your version won't be as good as hers.

 ML> Meat coma is a powerful thing.

We are eating less meat and less hot food in general these days.
Also buying large trays of cold fried chicken from the deli section
of the supermarket.

  Subj: 488 shrawns

 ML> I love fried crawfish tails.

I've only had crayfish once and they were delicious. But they were
either Chinese or Thai in origin so I didn't want to make them a
regular thing. There are crayfish in our waters here but they are
tiny and because of the inverse cube rule, not worth catching. When
they are 1/3 the length, they have 1/9th the thickness and 1/27 the
mass over all. I enjoy them indirectly as they are part of the
reason lake trout have red flesh not white.

  Subj: 492 names

 ML> look up Chief Wahoo

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

 JW> "Klik and fried bannock eggs Benedict"

 ML> (I) wonder what facsimile of Hollandaise or Bearnaise got
 ML> blopped on top.

The poster actually made a proper Hollandaise from scratch.

 ML> I don't generally drink Bonterra but gladly buy it for Lilli,
 ML> who often goes for a brighter fruitier wine than I do ... it
 ML> can be got for $10-12 at ... Costco ... per bottle
 ML> There are advantages to being in California.

Not surprisingly it's $22 here.


 ML>  Hy Abernathy's Georgia Chain-Gang Chili
 ML>  Other question: why does a chain gang cook use two kinds of
 ML>  wine

And beer. It also contains beef and pork and chicken, three kinds of
tomato products and six kinds of chilies. It seems like somebody
combined the ingredient list of three different dishes.

  Subj: 495 laying the groundwork

 ML> Sharp Care Center seems to be a general outpatient clinic
 ML> This office now handles all sorts of nonemergency things,
 ML> including virus testing (half the people in there with me
 ML> were).

That's just wrong. Even in tiny little Yellowknife the virus
testing centres are segregated from other services. We have a drive
thru testing centre set up with a trailer in a parking lot behind
the downtown clinic.

 ML> people all over (all patients) chorused, don't slip! I was told
 ML> (never saw of course) that some previous victim had bled all
 ML> over the floor, and the hazmat team hadn't shown up yet. That's
 ML> kind of an ugh right there.

That's third world nasty!

Cheers

Jim


... BP buys out Darden's seafood chain, rename it "Brown Lobster."

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