-=> JIM WELLER wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

 JW>   Subj: soup from leftovers

 DD> it's unrepeatable

 JW> That's when you takes notes, give it a name and bung it into MM.

 DD> What's the point here?

 JW> So you can repeat it!

But, remember, variety is the spice of life!
 
 DD> I already have more recipes than I can ever cook.

 JW> But not all of them are as good as your own creations; and not all
 JW> of them are worth trying.
 
True enough. But all were interesting in some way or other. And many
have served as inspiration for me haring off down a path I'd not normally
have taken - trying to improve on the "as written" formulae.

 DD> Never mucked about with chard or kale much.

 JW> If you like beet greens you will certainly like chard which is a
 JW> very close reactive. Young, small kale leaves are tasty and so
 JW> tender they don't need more cooking than spinach. Large, mature ones
 JW> are coarse, fibrous and need longer cooking but are no worse than
 JW> the very closely related collard. Collards aren't popular in
 JW> Canada. I have only seen them in a store (it was a specialty fruit
 JW> and vegetable store in Edmonton) once and so have only cooked and
 JW> eaten them once. I don't miss them at all!

I've had beet greens a few times. Don't care if I am never served them
again. Even so, I'd like to try chard as chard - just to see what it's
all about. Then I can make an informed decision.
 
 DD> F. W. Woolworth Company

 JW> I am familiar with them as they came to Canada a long time ago. I
 JW> remember being in one in the town nearest to my little village when
 JW> I was maybe 5 or so,

They were pretty widespread. Their Woolco store in my town was opened
in 1966. It lasted until 1972 when the building was taken over by the
Venture Stores chain. That lived for several years until the late 1980s
when K Mart put a third location in that building. That K Mart became
the first (local) notch in the corporate belt-tightening after K Mart
bought Sears and choked on the result. The property was vacant for a
loooooong time save for annual spring tax-time "Used Car Extravaganza"
sales until HyVee came to town. It seems that HyVee is here to stay.

 JW> In fact Walmart got into Canada by buying Woolco Canada from
 JW> Woolworth's Canada in 1994. Woolco had lunch counters in every store
 JW> and Walmart didn't want to operate them so they entered into an
 JW> arrangement here with McDonald's nationwide. That's why we have two
 JW> McDonald's in Yellowknife despite being small enough to only really
 JW> need one.

 DD> S. S. Kresge Company / Kmart Corporation

 JW> Yeah, They were big in Canada once as well.

They were big everywhere - once. Until they made the fatal business
blunder of buying Sears - which proved an undigestible mass.
 
 JW> MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

 JW>       Title: Braised Vegetables (Woolworth)
 JW>  Categories: Asian, Vegetables, Chilies
 JW>       Yield: 4 Servings

I learned that I was a grandfather at age 31 - at my local Woolworth's
lunch counter.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Didivs'ka Iushka (Grandfather Soup)
 Categories: Soups, Vegetables, Dairy
      Yield: 1 Batch
 
      2 c  Water
      2 ts Salt
    1/4 c  Milk or Half & Half
      3 tb Butter
      2 md Potato; cubed 1/2"
      1 md Onion; chopped
      1    Carrot; julienned
    1/2 c  Flour
 
  Cube the potatoes 1/2" after peeling them. Julienne the
  carrot, and chop the onion. Bring the water to a slow
  boil and add the potatoes & carrot, salt, and cook for
  6 minutes.
  
  Mix the flour, 1 tablespoon of butter, and enough of
  the butter to make a stiff dough. Pinch off pieces of
  the dough and roll into 1/2" ball and drop into the
  slow boiling soup.
  
  Saute the onion in the remaining butter until they
  start to brown. Add the milk & onions to the soup and
  cook for 5 more minutes.
  
  Origin: Oksanna Levshenko, Kyiv-Ukraine, circa 1996
  
  From: Don Houston
  
  From: http://www.recipesource.com
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives
 
MMMMM

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