Quoting Michael Loo to Jim Weller <=-

The Lutselk'e Native Band on the East Arm of Great Slave Lake
is experimenting with solar powered hydroponic gardens

Is the music any good?

I'm not sure if that's just a play on words or not but for the
record (ouch, I just realized my choice of words when I re-read
this) a band is a self governing community group that's larger then
a single clan but smaller than a whole tribe. It generally refers to
a singe community the size of a hamlet or village or the members of a
reserve. Lutsel'ke is one of six Chipewyan communities in the
area east and south of Yellowknife. And the Chipewyan Tribe is in
turn a member of the Dene Nation which also includes the Tlicho
(Dogrib), Yellowknives, Deh Cho (Slavey), Sahtu (Bear), Hare and
Gwich'in tribes all of whom speak different dialects of the same
language. There are more Dene groups in northern Alberta and B.C. too
as well as in the Yukon and Alaska. And the Navaho and Apache people
(Dine) are southern cousins who had the good sense to leave the
snow behind long ago.

They served me sugar-free bbq sauce the other day. I
was not impressed

I find most commercial sauces way to sweet but certainly some sugar
is needed.

The sauce was too thin (some more vegetable gum would have
helped), the artificial sweetener irritating

Ah, I initially thought you had been served some sort of non-sweet
sauce.

Grilled Chicken Paillarde w/Summer Vegetables & Herbs

There's no such thing as a "paillarde"; adding extra
letters to a perfectly good word doesn't make it more
classy any more than adding extra accent marks.

I hadn't noticed that when I posted it. I wonder if that's a typo
for paillards or an affectation.

To confuse things, in French, paillard is masculine and paillarde is
feminine. And chicken (poulet) is masculine but breast (poitrine) is
feminine. So does one makes paillards or paillardes from poitrines
de poulet? But yeah, in English it should always be paillard and
paillards.

From: Preston Pittman

Who? And why?

A guy who used to post in another area, more famous for being a
hunter and fisherman than as a cook.

Another thing I came across earlier this summer:

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Title: Zubrowka & Raspberry
Categories: alcohol, beverages
Servings: 1

5 raspberries
1 oz lemon juice
2 oz ZU
1/2 oz honey syrup
1 ds orange bitters
ice
soda, optional

Usually, when you see fruit and vodka in a list of cocktail
ingredients, it's going to be overbearingly sweet. Not this drink. A
full dose of ZU gives it all of those interesting herbal-vanilla
notes, while lots of lemon and bitters keep it tart and refreshing.

In a cocktail shaker, muddle 5 raspberries. Add 1 ounce of fresh
lemon juice, 2 ounces of ZU, and 1/2 ounce of honey syrup (equal
parts of honey and hot water stirred together0. Add a dash of orange
bitters. Add ice, shake and train into a glass.

A splash of soda brightens up everything.

From: www.foodandwine.com

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Cheers

Jim


... Designer vodkas flash and fade like hastily assembled boy bands.

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