Quoting Michael Loo to Jim Weller <=-

file powder

I have never encountered it either commercially or in the wild,
living where I do.

http://penderys.com/gumbo-file.html

I keep forgetting about shopping on-line!

Title: Fried Peppers, Onions and Sausages

A classic east coast street food. Delicious when
you're in the mood. I'd of course avoid anyone in
the sinense clan but would go for one of the
triangular annuum cultivars, especially the ones
known as Italian frying peppers.

Almost any sausage with any not too hot pepper is pretty tasty. And
any allium too for that matter.

Roslind just returned yesterday from her monthly trip to Cambridge
Bay. She took a few dozen of those home made Vietnamese spring rolls
I've described to share with everyone at the Wellness Centre there
and also with the family who gave her muskox and so much fish in
the past. The weather was either +2 with light showers or -2 and
snow flurries. The last sunset was on May 21 and the next one will
be on July 21. She missed celebrating the Solstice there by one day.

Now that National Aboriginal Day, which is on June 21, is a real
thing and popular, Yellowknife's Raven Mad Day's Midnight Madness
has been moved to June 20 and renamed Festival on Franklin. Five
blocks downtown are barricaded off at 5 PM to allow for pop up
food stands, sound stages, a classic car show etc. Coldwell Banker
grilled and gave away several hundred hot dogs (nice, fat, well
spiced, all meat ones from a wholesale restaurant supply place) and
collected a few hundred bucks in donations for the food bank. We
were set up in our parking lot and had live music (the newest
members of the team has two teenage daughters who are quite talented
fiddlers.)

Roslind made it downtown eventually after landing and going home to
freshen up. She came across a new food vendor who was serving up
Ugandan food. She brought me a to go box with fragrant spiced rice
topped with some sort of tasty stew and a couple of chapati like
flatbreads. Also a bag of fried dough balls called Mandazi. She
figured I probably wouldn't feel like hot dogs. She took over for me
in the food line while I went inside to have my African meal and a
cold beer.

Today The Yellowknife Dene Band and the Metis Association put on a
huge fish fry in a downtown lake front park and their live music
included drum dancers and jiggers, so more fiddle music.

You would have enjoyed June 15th here and the re-enactment of the
first beer barge of the year right after breakup. It was once the
biggest event in town: the annual docking of the beer barge!
Until 1960 when the highway was completed, heavy freight was handled
by barge traffic across Great Slave Lake from Hay River. Spring
breakup and the arrival of the first barge was a big deal as the
town would have been dry for weeks. Barges carried all the
construction material, fuel, vehicles, and mining equipment for the
town's needs. But perhaps most importantly, the very first barge
typically carried a year's stock of alcohol. The gold mines would
shut down for two days: one for drinking and another for recovering.

The Yellowknife Historical Society puts it on at Max Ward's original
Wardair dock across the road from the log Wildcat Cafe. There's
all you can eat barbecue and live music and of course lots of
beer... on a barge.


Cheers

Jim


... I wonder how many mosquitoes will get addicted to meth this summer?

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