Luna,
I have to confess a preference for good Prosseco, no champagne has won to it's dryness. it seems there is a new marketing strategie between French Champagne makers where they are not adding sugar to the 'aging' process, which will make champagne similar to humble Prosseco. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />
BK,
I read an article about the lack of water in the koalas woods and how they are invading the suburbs pools and gardens. It seems they are not very smart or caring of their kids but why do you say they are nasty?
2Much,
I'm sorry things are scalating. You seem so much in control of the situation. You mentioned that you were feeling the repressed anger. The most wise words I have heard, or the most helpful, about anger control came from Dr. Harley on his radio program.
He says that the most effective way to deal with anger is to simple understand that it has no place in your life. He compares anger and angry outburst to insanity and insists that the step from what we called 'justified' anger to an action that could harm others and ourselves, is extremely small.
His approach is NO tolerance to angry reactions.
He says that, while we learn to not to react in anger, we have to have an inmediate inner option to relax: The proverbial breathing, walking away, hearing music, reading, etc.
He says that with time we learn to express our worries and complains in a clear, descriptive, no acusatory and respectful way, simple because we know we no longer have the cop out of the angry outburst.
With time anger outburst dents the emotional security that the SO, significant other, or Spouse found in us.
I know in the case of affairs the justified indignation and hurt flies high and some people think it's better to lash it out on the WW or WS.
I just wanted to share with you those Harley's ideas. I have found them very liberating.
Booka,
finally you have reached the price to buy Todds antiFrenchness.
Obviously living between two rivers and a Frenchised region you would have been bashed by Todd inmediately but it's obvious that you have touched his soft spot for that kind of liquid painkillers.
Kuddos for bringing the very important issue of the electric blanket. I was wondering if Pio was quiet about it because G had used it to keep her beautiful garden warm at night.
Nam,
I know nothing about ceramic but it's 'sweet' for lack of better term, to see your pasion about it and the many tinny details it involves.
Kiwi,
I agree with 2Much, you make your cooking sound so delicious, at the very least you should have been PR of a high flight restaurant.
Estrelinha,
I love moqueca the peixe, specially the ones made in Bahia, ahahaha. Feijoada is slightly similar to something we call in Mx frijoles charros, like Cowboy Beans, lol althout Feijoada has more beef. Estrelinha how would you call aipim frito in English. I could eat it every day with a caipirinha. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Delan,
it's interesting the food comments you have arised because it shows how even if we don't notice it, cultures move, evolve.
The 'arabe' kitchen arrived to Spain during the 800 years they dominanted the, until 1492, unexistant Spain Crown. It came to America during the Conquest and here is mixed with our wounderful array of vegetales and legumes. Potato, tomato, vainilla, avocato, herbs...
Mexican pre Spanish cuisine existes still in a diet of amazing numbers of green leaves plants, cactus, flowers and insects. Since the 90's Mexico has enjoyed a renasance of the ancient cooking in a movement called La Nouvelle Cuisine Mexicaine.
Cactus as nopales are used to combate and control diabetes. Other cactus called bisnaga is used to make a delicius dry fruit, very nutritive because of it's fibre.
Here the use of sheep as been substitute by beef. When sheep is used it is called Barbacoa, cooked underearth, wrapped in cactus 'arms'.
What you call Menudo, is also called Pancita, is made of beef and exists in tree diferent varieties depending of the chile used. Menudo is the lining of the stomach, as BK pointed out, extremelly well cleaned and twice boiled,. You can choose between the muscles of the stomach or a mixture with other soft tissues but never in a Menudo would you find the actual tripe, aka, intestines. The Pancita is presented in a brot or soup, the firm pieces in it, no liquified and no fat added.
It's absolutely magnificent for hangovers because it rehidrats and remineralize the body and the chile acelerates the metabolism giving a sensation of recovery. Lol.
My point is: Mexican cuisine is between the five more sofisticated of the world. it shows our history, our geographical contrasts and our social conditions and a pasion for seeds, flowers like the vainilla flower, leaves and cactus, that seems almost 'poetic' to me.
Dishes as our Pancita is of obvius arabe origin, modified for the Spaniards as well as our Tacos al Pastor, Lebanese Kebap with no fat added, beef meat marinade in another chile and seed mixture called axiote and put to grill. It can have and has it's share of flies around, and other foreing objects and runs the same risks Pio mentions of being served not well cooked. But no fat added, thank you very much. Lol.
Stph,
you are doing great !
Believer,
it's great that you are back, I was afraid that Pio's pink shorts had traumatized for ever.
Pio,
Sorry if you had mentioned it before: Why don't you and G plan your daily activities beforehand more?
Todd,
I know nothing about legalities but Nam strategies sound good.
You said TKO was like a family. Look, I really wouldn't prefer to be orphan to have you all nice people as family, if it were the case but... I'm very concern who's who? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> Kiwi would be taking us to bunch of expensive restaurants. Pio would makes us train since 5 am. Todd would make us a bunch of anti Galians with little botles of scotch under the arm. Nam would sit on us to teach us pottery. Luna would take us to long trips where the car would broke down in the middle of nowhere. Cinderela and all the distant relatives of the Femenine products thread would make us feel in constant abandon and chastitising. BK would be the oficial chaperone and make our dating life a ******. Beliver would make us have cows and grow epazote in the backyard. Poor little me would became a writer to tell the 'Unmistakable Story of TKO and It's Fantastics Adventures Out of Affair Mud'.
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That long tirade about food made me want to prepare a delicious corn's fungus soup with epazote. Don't want to gross y'all out with that 'nasty' blue growing thing that in winter can reach 30 dls the kg.
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Missed y'all
