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David
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 Posted: Tue 23 Nov, 2004 10:54 am Post subject: Re: Not for me, thank you. |
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| llizard wrote: | | Yes, I agree that is horrid... but not as horrid as tapioca pudding. |
Shirley you cannot be serious? Tapioca pudding is the food of the gods. |
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| Posted: Tue 23 Nov, 2004 12:36 pm Post subject: Hmm...tapioca.... |
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| OK, I guess this is another food "challange". I don't think I've ever had tapioca pudding. I've just got to make some and try it. I didn't realize that tapioca is the starch from cassava tubers. These guys have to be one of the most unlikely foodstuffs as they contain cyanide (removed before eating, of course). I'll report back.
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llizard (aka ejm)
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| Posted: Tue 23 Nov, 2004 5:11 pm Post subject: Re: Not for me, thank you. |
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| David wrote: | | Tapioca pudding is the food of the gods. |
Doubt it, Ralph....
Nothing that looks like a milky bowl of fish eyes could possibly be ambrosial.
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| Posted: Mon 13 Dec, 2004 4:53 pm Post subject: Horrid breakfast: Another congee post |
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| llizard wrote: | | MEF wrote: | | try boiled okra! |
Yes, I agree that is horrid... but not as horrid as tapioca pudding. |
Hearkening back to the congee discussion on llizard's forum, and recalling that I tend to prefer Asian breakfasts when in Asia, I decided to try the congee for breakfast on the plane back from Asia. Opened the foil cover. Not promising-looking. Looked like pablum. Had chunks of what looked and vaguely tasted like chicken and some kind of beans. Not really dreadful for flavour but not good either. The texture was really horrid.
Not like the delicious and soothing breakfast congee I had have for breakfast in several other countries in Asia.
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MrsBrown, you must be making that up!!
| MrsBrown wrote: | What are they thinking? Could this be further from the idea of salad  |
This reminds me of a disastrous dinner we had in a small town in Northern Ontario. We asked around town where the really GOOD restaurant for dinner was. We were sent by several townsfolk to a beautiful 19th century house that had been turned into a restaurant. They all said it was fantastic and that we should make sure we saved room for dessert because the pastry chef was faboulous.
The house was gorgeous.
The dinner? We asked what we should have and the waitress raved about several dishes but recommended one or two over the others as being truly stellar. We were excited and told her that we would have what she recommended.
Yikes. EVERYTHING, from appetizer on - was syruppy sweet. The snicker apple salad would not have been out of place. I'm afraid we didn't manage to try dessert. Who can have dessert if dessert has been served for dinner? 
    
If I were taking something salad-like to a staff party, I would take julienned carrots, zucchini, celery and broccoli, cauliflower florets along with a dip made from sourcream or yoghurt, dill, chives. Or that fabulous spinach/waterchestnut dip that is put into a hollowed out loaf of rye bread. Even though I love it, I've never actually made it. But this recipe looks about right: http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,171,147178-225205,00.html
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Barbara
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disclaimer - read me . recipes from our kitchen . blog from our kitchen 
Perhaps only green smarties, for more of that salad greenness. 
