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!

I seldom do, but it's so commonplace that I was
wondering if you were being sarcastic. On the other
hand, the shipping and customs fees might make it a
less attractive proposition to you.

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.

A good generalization - the salt that preserves the
sausages is well tamed by the sweetness of the capsicums
and (especially) onions. Speaking of onions, I wonder what
has become of Dan Ceppa?

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

What an interesting life. I'd be envious if it didn't deal
so much in suicidal alcoholics.

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.

She's seen solstices before.

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.)

Sounds like a bunch of fun. Maybe Lilli or someone should pencil
it into the calendar for 2020, if American has a partner airline
that goes there (WestJet I believe once had an agreement with it
but no longer does).

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.

How much Indian figures in the spicing?

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.

I'm booking a ticket, too!

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.

Rather practical, that.

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.

I remember there. How deep is the water, in case
one gets completely snockered and falls off?

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

For me the concern is when HIV or one of its successors
in the horribleness department decides to survive in a
wider range of temperatures so it can live through human-
insect-human transfers. People say, oh, that's impossible,
but I go, gee, how dumb and unimaginative can you be?

Cola Cake With Strawberries And Cream
Categories: dessert
Serves: 15

2 c flour
1 3/4 c sugar
1 ts baking soda
12 oz cola
1/2 c butter, chopped
1/2 c canola oil
1/4 c unsweetened baking cocoa
1 1/2 c miniature marshmallows
2 lg eggs
1/2 c buttermilk
1 ts vanilla extract
1 recipe topping

Preheat oven to 350F. Grease a 13x9" pan.

In a large bowl, whisk flour, sugar and baking soda.

In a large saucepan, bring cola to a boil, then cook
until liquid is reduced to 1 c, about 8 min. Stir in
butter, oil, and cocoa. Return to a boil, stirring
occasionally then remove from heat. Stir in
marshmallows until melted.

Add cola mixture to flour mixture, stirring just
until moistened.

In a small bowl, whisk eggs, buttermilk, and vanilla
until blended. Add to flour mixture, whisking
constantly. Transfer to prepared dish.

Bake until a tester inserted in center comes out
clean, 30 to 35 min. Cool completely in baking pan
on a wire rack.

Serve cake with topping and strawberries. Keep
leftover cake in the refrigerator.

Taste Of Home via Elliah Heifetz, singinthekitchen.com
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