LL-L "Delectables" 2005.04.28 (06) [E]

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From: Dave Singleton <davidsin at pt.lu>
Subject: LL-L "Delectables" 2005.04.27 () [E]

Hello Roger,

Could this be the same sort of thing as Onion Bhaji from Indian
restaurants in UK/Europe ?

Dave Singleton

> From: Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc. <roger.thijs at euro-support.be>
> Subject: LL-L "Delectables" 2005.04.27 (03) [E]
>
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone have a recipe for "onion brick".
> (I do not mean onion rings, but a hard cube about 2" x 2" x 4" of brown
> crispy onion, tightely baked together.)
>
> I once got it as (voluminous) apetizer in a restaurant in Evanston (North
> of
> Chiocago) when participating at an exchange program with the Northwestern,
> but I never found it somewhere else afterwards.
>
> Thanks ahead for all leads,
>
> Regards,
>
> Roger

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From: Larry Granberg <nibwit at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Delectables" 2005.04.28 (01) [E]

Hey,
Well you don't have to go to the Oriental market anymore, there is an
American grower,who according to an old Wall Street Journal article, used to
export most of his product TO Japan.
Great, fantastic, four Kleenex stuff.

Don't mean to plug anyone but it IS that good.

http://www.freshwasabi.com/

Wasabi smashed potatoes, wasabi infused greens that you just have to mop up
the pot likker with cornbread (come to think of it wasabi and chili
cornbread is pretty good too), green corn and wasabi tamales. Yum.

§Ron§ yup had poke, and the like, don't forget W.PA. cooking is just like
W.VA. and VA. cooking. Just under a different flag s'all.  After having
hoofed around Europe here for a while,  it seems to me that most blue collar
peoples of whatever nationality share pretty much the same way about doing
things. Not a true vegetarian, still eat meat Ron. However, being Orthodox
Christian and follow the different fasts, you do learn to eat and be
creative about cooking vegetarian/vegan. Might be a little baaaaaaaaa-d of
me, getting a little wooly and going out on a lamb, but really looking
forward to Easter this weekend.
Larry,
Sometimes Vegan, but always a Chili-horseradish-wasabi head.

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From: Brooks, Mark <mark.brooks at twc.state.tx.us>
Subject: LL-L "Delectables" 2005.04.27 (10) [E]

Ron:  "Do you know it, dear Americans of the Southern persuation?"

Yes, I've heard of it, but gratefully never had to eat it.  Both of my
parents come from Tennessee and were familiar with it as poke salad.  In
fact there was a popular song from the late 60's early 70's called "Poke
Salad Annie."  I'm not a fan of turnip greens or any of that stuff.  I like
spinach, but the greens are just too bitter.  It probably comes from
traumatic experiences in my childhood as a preacher's kid.  The members of
the church paid the pastor so little that they often felt obligated to give
us food from their garden.  One man grew enough turnip greens each year to
make the Jesus and the loaves stories look like nothing but chips and salsa.
I mean this guy could grow some turnip greens!  So, every few days he would
bring us grocery bags full of them.  That's the old brown paper sacks that
would hold nigh on a bushel!  Well, maybe a little exaggeration there, but
it was way too much for this Southern boy.  I have come to despise turnip
greens.  The only time I found them good at all was a few years ago when an
African-American woman cooked some for a lunch party at the office.  She
told me that I would like them if I had them cooked right.  Well, they WERE
good, but truthfully little squares of cardboard would have tasted good the
way she cooked them.  Butter, and salt, and butter, and salt, and who knows
what else.  They had to have an ambulance on stand-by for any sudden heart
attacks.  No, not really, but they couldn't have been good for the heart.
Maybe someone else will have fonder memories of poke salad and turnip
greens.

Mark Brooks

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Delectables

Hey, guys!

Larry:

> Not a true vegetarian, still eat meat Ron. However, being Orthodox
> Christian and follow the different fasts, you do learn to eat and be
> creative about cooking vegetarian/vegan.

Yeah, I should have made that connection.  In fact, some of my favorite
vegetarian recipes came from Orthodox friends.

> Sometimes Vegan, but always a Chili-horseradish-wasabi head.

Deal.  I'll visit you during lent then.  ;-)

Anyway, happy Easter to you and all other Eastern Orthodox Lowlanders!

Mark:

> Well, they WERE
> good, but truthfully little squares of cardboard would have tasted good
> the
> way she cooked them.  Butter, and salt, and butter, and salt, and who
> knows
> what else.

Hamhocks, no doubt, if not also pigs' snouts ...

> I like
> spinach, but the greens are just too bitter.

The more bitter the better for me, which is why my favorite greens are
mustard greens, all kinds, also the Chinese kinds.  And one of my favorites
is bitter squash (or bitter melon or balsam pear, _Momordica charantia_,
Tagalog _ampalaya_, Chinese 苦瓜 _kugua_, _fugua_, Japanese 二が瓜 _nigauri_,
_karela_ in parts of India,
http://www.agric.nsw.gov.au/Hort/Fmrs/Asian_veg/bitter.htm) used widely
throughout Asia, reputedly a real wonder drug as well, especially for people
with heart ailments, for diabetics and for sufferers of HIV/AIDS
(http://www.raintree-health.co.uk/cgi-bin/getpage.pl?/plants/bitmelon.html).
If you think greens are bitter, I wonder what you'd say about these.  They
grow on you, especially cooked up with tomato.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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