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  1. a peach, a green tea with vanilla sugar & some wasabi peas.
  2. now: having a miso soup and a green tea. in 1.25 hours: beer and pretzels
  3. i really like this Japanese rice cracker snack called "Goshiki no mai", with 5 flavours in the bag.
  4. oh my, thanks! must try those the first chance i get--!
  5. Rachel--thanks for the watermelon primer--useful, informative! Kristin--seriously, 83$ an "average" price for a Japanese watermelon? i suppose there's reasons, but at that price, i wouldn't eat watermelon either. my roomie and i are growing "sugar baby" melons this year, and they're going like gangbusters so far! it's an "icebox" variety of melon like casaba, but black-skinned--they look like a bowling ball in the seed company catalogue.
  6. i also don't think there's a dumpling i wouldn't eat--such a pleasure. i love the crowd-pleasers: shiu mai, har gau, but i also love another 6-8 ones i don't know names for... question: the "soup dumplings" people so often speak about--what is it about the anglicized name? are they dumplings eaten *with* soup? i have not been lucky enough to try them. description? thanks!
  7. Monica, glad to hear from you-- it seems a shame that this savoury, culturally-entrenched item (mostly herbs/spices), which could be like a Ricola herbal tonic-sorta thing, is so maligned. what is the ingredient that gives people mouth sores? betel nuts? you mentioned lime, and i'm assuming you mean CaOH, not lime the citrus fruit. i'm assuming that overuse or habitual use is the culprit--the google search contained some panicked reports of various sorts.
  8. don't want to over-react, but if you google "paan masala" some fairly alarmist--no, *very* alarmist--health warnings come up. but i still have only a vague idea what it is... as i said, i defer to the experts.
  9. oh my; never mind--this is not food, really. just did more research, and it's actually worse-sounding than chewing tobacco. (eek--is it possible to delete a topic--although it is interesting from a cultural/anthropological standpoint)
  10. hi Indian forum--i completely defer to the experts on this one. but i'm curious, although not sure if it's "food", per se... my friend Maha told me a lovely story of when she was young in Pakistan, all the women of a certain age would sit around and roll paan (like american chewing tobacco, but bundles in leaves held in the mouth for hours). i understand it's a mix of herbs, leaves, etc. she remembers the ladies' sweet breath (cloves? eucalyptus maybe?) and their red-stained gums and teeth (pistachios?). has paan gone out of vogue? is it a demographic thing? i just saw paan masala at a spice store yesterday, and it re-awoke her story for me. thanks in advance for any info gus
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    Dinner! 2003

    gazpacho "salade composee" (i need some some sort of mandoline or micro-plane slicer, sick of chopping...) smoked salmon and cream cheese agnolotti, pesto
  12. i've never made this--just had this idea, thanks to this thread!--but it might be good: --pan-sear 3-4 large scallops per person --deglaze pan with ghee, honey, curry, orange juice --drizzle over plated scallops
  13. (apologies to jonathan demme/silence of the lambs) "It puts the tuna salad in the 2 oz. cup..."
  14. great thread, maggiethecat! interesting, as you said, to find availability/pricing in diff cities... 5.31$ at an asian grocery in montreal = bag of frozen edamame, bag of dried shiitakes, small container of kimchi 5.31$ at my favourite neighbourhood grocery = a kilo of over-ripe tomatoes, a canteloupe, dozen small eggs, bag of "mini-brownies" that are actually really good 5.31$ at butchers' = about a kilo of "roti de pallette a l'europeenne", which i think is blade-steak (?) 5.31$ at "health-food" store = kasha, couscous, adzuki beans dry, oatmeal, sesame seeds, no-salt chicken stock powder (exposing myself to censure here hehe), brown rice, buckwheat flour, small bags of cumin, coriander seed, etc. no agenda, re: health-food store, just noticing i get a _lot_ more food there for the same filthy lucre... gus edited to fix "barbie says math is hard" problems
  15. my parents (mid 70s) had the Time-Life Cooking of the World series--we grew up eating curries in my household. also, using eggroll wrappers, my mom would make samosas and pakoras... mmm... but what i remember more is that almost weekly we'd go to Atwater Market in Montreal, and at this East Indian store we'd go to, there were *millions* of containers of every spice imaginable. that store was the first place i *ever* saw cinnamon stick, cardamom pods, star anise... wow. it was ostensibly a spice & dry goods store, but for me it was a museum of wonderment and joy, as a kid who loved cooking and food... i used to just go into that store and inhale deeply to get the aromas. sorry, i'm being rambling and Proustian about this store hehe... gus
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    wasabi

    thanks! but back to Wasabi-- my sincere apologies for hijacking the thread...
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    Lemonade

    in my area, they sell Pineapple Sage plants, with a grapefruit-y aroma. just occurred to me that'd be awesome with iced tea...
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    wasabi

    Chef Fowke--thanks for the offer (see quote), and i'd like to request the Sauce Charon recipe (just googled and found not much...) my latkes, i'm pretty happy with. although i suppose we should start a latke thread if this continues... congrats also on article on Muskoka inn/Joe Fortes. well-done.
  19. a ryokucha green tea and a miso-soup. i find this combo super-refreshing even in hot weather. Xanthippe: your signature messages and commentary are hysterical! more please... gus
  20. Bette Davis in All About Eve: "remind me to tell you about the time i looked deep into the heart of an artichoke..."
  21. watermelon-flavoured Jolly Ranchers...
  22. great thread! ExCentrix, they also have an *awesome* bbq chicken sandwich at Coco Rico (st-laurent south of napoleon)--ask for extra sauce and "spice". i am partial to the empanadas (fried, not baked) from (name of place?) on rachel, south side, in the 1st block east of st-laurent. any day that chicken noodle is the soup of the day at La Cabane (across from Coco Rico), order two bowls! reaal chicken-y tasting... the tomato-blue cheese soup at Chez Jose (Duluth and Drolet) rocks my world! green-tea and chai ice cream at Ripples (across from Coco Rico) is astonishing. i could go on and on and on... gus
  23. beet greens and swiss chard! steamed in water clinging to the leaves, and a glom of sweet butter at the end. delicious with toasted bread crumbs and parmesan, sesame seeds. i'm wondering if i know "collards" under a different name? outside of the South, do they go by another moniker?
  24. SobaAddict--thanks for links; i'm not a habitual NYT reader, so i appreciate when people "bookmark" stuff. the Ida Mae (southern food, "postmodern") restaurant is one more just-added destination for my near-future NYC foodie trip... gus
  25. what JasonCampbell mentioned, re: names of cuts of meats, is a minor stumbling block i face in quebec. i've had to (and am still) learning which cuts correspond to what in french--> english: i.e., bavette, roti de pallette a l'europeene. there's the fairly obvious, like "jarret" is the osso buco cut, but then there's all the others...
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