On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:20:10 -0600 "Kestrel"
 writes:
> > > > Kathy wrote, eyeing Barb's dog....
> > >
> > > well if it's *dogs* we're talking... oh yeah, Barb's is (will 
> be
> > > anyway)
> > > bigger than mine :)
> >
> > She's likely 35 lbs now, at 14 weeks.
> > Taller than the BIG (umpety-ump quart) Colman Ice Chest....
> 
> Wow, she's growing fast :) Probably like Inyuk -- upwards faster 
> than outwards. 

yup, she's not even doing the plump sausage thing Nim & Honu did, just
GROWING.

> I couldn't keep enough food in him... he was eating almost 
> 7 cups
> of high quality (usually higher in calories than cheaper brands) of 
> dogfood
> a day, and rattling the bowl for more without getting too heavy. 
> (Well,
> Martha did say he was about 5 pounds too heavy at one point). He 
> only gets 2
> now and maintains nicely.

Gotta keep pace the metabolism....

> > > Still... imagine the fashion statement! What say you, Russ? A
> > > smattering of
> > > rose quartz across the toe, cute little beryl tassles on the
> > > RedWings?
> >
> > =splurt!!!=
> 
> sequins?

=SPLURT!!!=

> > > :) I can't recall ever looking at a single issue of MSL. I just 
> have
> > > a  problem with baking a pie in 37 easy steps. I like her cable 
> bits
> >
> > tsk!
> > sure, some of the recipes are complicated -- some dishes are 
> complicated;
> > but even you could cook many.
> 
> Shoot, I'm a fairly decent cook, but I do tend to avoid task 
> intensive  cooking.

me, too...
but now and again --- if only to prive I can do it

> It was Indian food which did me in. A set of friends and I had a
> dinner/movie club, and we'd go to each others houses for a potluck 
> -
> choosing a different cuisine each time. We settled on Indian, and I 
> spent
> the next few weeks testing recipes etc. I tried one out on Kevin -- 
> can't
> remember what it was called. I spent ages dicing things up, stiring
> pepercorns in the wok until they popped, adding the next spice to 
> toast it,
> setting aside and cooking A, then B, then combining marinated C, 
> then
> recombining with all the spices, stirring, stirring, cooking 
> cooking, and
> when it was all said and done? Kevin took a bite and said "Mmmm, 
> sloppy
> joes" I swear to God. And he was right! I'd spent literally half the 
> day  making sloppy joes. I was so pissed.

Indian food is That Way.
There are some cuisines that are just worth eating Out.

> However -- I picked up a chicken recipe I *still* make, which is 
> just
> wonderful. I'll have to dig the recipe up, but it's basically onion 
> and
> chunk of ginger through the food processor until it's really fine, a 
> few
> other spices, I think it may have had a teaspoon or so of vinegar... 
> then  it's patted onto skinless chicken and baked. 

Oooh, type it up and post it, I pritheee....

> Gets toasty on the 
> outside, the
> chicken is very moist, spicy -- and you don't taste the vinegar, 
> it's used just to push the "marinade" into the chicken.

(well, I kinda like a vinegary bite)

> > Be careful, I might slip you a Martha Recipe when you're not 
> looking.
> > [There's a WONDERFUL chicken dish ... though that was a TAD on 
> the
> > complicated side, results were worth it.]
> 
> I'll read through it :)
> Some French dishes can be sort of complicated - or appear so at 
> first -- but
> the only thing I've really never been able to do well is pastries.
> Considering there are high powered chefs who don't either, I'm not 
> too  worried. 

=g=

> > If you want THE BEST cooking 'zine out there -- get Sunset. [And 
> then
> > admire the purty gardens and floorplans.]
> > Their cookbooks (the yearly annuals of recipes) are the first I 
> reach
> > for.
> > If still in print, get a copy of their Best Of.... seriously.
> 
> I do like those :)
> But my favorite magazine for cooking is Cooks magazine -- no 
> advertisements,
> field tested recipes, thorough descriptions, instructions, usually a 
> few
> variations, real world product testing, a wine recommendation 
> section,
> tips... and one of the things I like most -- they tell you *why* a 
> certain
> this should be done, and sometimes even the chemistry of the how. 
> Lovely
> magazine. I sometimes wish the illustrations were photographic 
> instead of
> drawings, but everything is described so well you don't notice the 
> lack.

Used to get Cooks....
But pretty much have sworn off all dedicated Cooking Zines -- just
amassed pounds of them without actually TRYING anything....

> > My company dish, that folks from the Progressive Supper are still
> > drooling at memory of (you wouldn't like it, Kathy, gamehens with
> > mustard-rosemary crust) came from the pages of Sunset....
> 
> I rmember you talking about it before -- and I bet it *looked* 
> gorgeous, but  you're right... I don't do mustard 

ah well, for you, we try, maybe, the picata? Or the Marsala.

> I didn't want to try tandoori at first because of the yoghurt, but I 
> did,
> and loved it... but can't do mustard, or mayonaise (which is odd 
> considering
> I like all the individual ingredients that make it) and a number of 
> other
> condiment type things. And to think I thought myself "not picky" at 
> one  time....

=g=

> HOLY COW I have a scanner now!! I forgot! I can find some of the 
> recipes and  scan them in and send them to you :)))

=tsk!=

> the main thing holding me back from sending more recipes is that I 
> have to  type them up all the time...

me, too....
though I'm getting more and more into the system.

> > cookin' with gas, tygress....
> 
> isn't it nice? Controlling heat quickly is the key to so many styles 
> of
> cooking... I really like cooking on my mom's stove.

The new electrics are really not noticably different -- except for the
cooling DOWN time.
Easier to keep clean, too.

However, we have what we have, and I like it fine.

BTW and OMG -- bought the MOST delicious things I've et in a forever:

Taylor Gold Pears -- they're brown like boscs, a bit smaller.
And, MY GOD, they're good.

Could be a regional thing, but, if you can find 'em (and like pears)....

HEAVEN, I'm in HEAVEN.... tygress


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