Quoting Michael Loo to Jim Weller <=-

Still not that charming, unless the watermelons
you get are less like cucumber than the ones I've
had lately.

plant growth hormone forchlorfenuron and its uses and abuses.

Odd, because watermelons grow big enough on
their own, plus in pretty much every place
I've been, they're sold by the piece rather
than by weight. So what would be the point
of unnaturally boosting growth?

You can sell them faster and start another crop sooner. That's also
one way to get large "seedless" melons. They actually contain some
small soft white seeds; the melons are large but immature. They are
sold by the farmers by the tonne and in some places retailed by the
kilo.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

Title: Watermelon Agua Fresca 2
Categories: Mexican, Beverages, Fruit
Yield: 6 servings

7 lb Watermelon
1/3 c Lime Juice
3 tb Sugar
1 1/4 c Cold Water
Ice Cubes
Lime Wedge, For Garnish

Cut rind off melon; discard. Cut flesh into about 1" cubes. Puree
melon, a portion at a time, in a blender or food processor. Pour
through a strainer into a 2 - 3 qt pitcher or bowl to remove
seeds. If making ahead, cover and chill up to 1 day.

Mix melon puree with lime juice, sugar to taste, and water. Pour
into glasses over ice cubes. Garnish with lime wedges.

Makes: About 2 qts

Recipe By: Quick, Light & Healthy, Sunset

I didn't dilute it with the water...it was wonderful!! This is
extremely refreshing.

Reggie Dwork

Re-posted by: Lyn Belisle To: Foodwine List

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Jim


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On 08-11-18 22:44, Jim Weller <=-
spoke to Michael Loo about watermelons <=-

You can sell them faster and start another crop sooner. That's also
one way to get large "seedless" melons. They actually contain some
small soft white seeds; the melons are large but immature. They are
sold by the farmers by the tonne and in some places retailed by the
kilo.

As a young child growing up in Florida, I can recall folks selling large watermelons for US$0.10 each. These days, we might buy one pre cut
quarter melon to eat during the entire summer. I was never very good at "thumping" watermelon to test their ripeness -- and with the cut melon I
can see what it looks like.


MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05

Title: GARDEN ROW SALAD
Categories: Salads, Cheese/eggs
Yield: 12 Servings

3 md Carrots; Sliced
1 lg Cucumber
1 pt Cherry Tomatoes; Halved
4 Stalks Celery; Sliced
1 1/2 c Croutons
4 oz Sharp Natural Cheddar Cheese
-;Cut Into Cubes, 1 Cup
1/2 sl Bread; Torn Into Pieces
2 lg Hard Cooked Eggs; Sliced
6 sl Bacon; Crisp-Cooked And
-Crumbled

MMMMM-----------------------SALAD DRESSING----------------------------
Your Choice Of Salad
-Dressings

Put the carrots into a blender container; cover with cold water. Blend
until coarsely chopped. Drain. Layer the carrots in the bottom of a
large glass salad bowl. Halve the cucumber lengthwise; remove the
seeds. Cut the cucumber in pieces; put in the blender container.
Cover with cold water. Blend until coarsely chopped. Drain and layer
the cucumber on top the carrots. Put the halved cherry tomatoes on
top of the cucumber.Put the celery in the blender container, cover
with cold water and blend until coarsely chopped. Drain and layer the
celery atop the tomatoes. Place the croutons atop the celery layer in
the bowl. Wipe the blender container dry. Put the cheese and bread
into the blender container, blend until coarsely chopped. Arrange
the cheese, egg slices, and bacon atop the salad. Before serving,
toss with your choice of salad dressings.

Posted by Rich Harper From The Better Homes And Gardens Blender
Cookbook Copyright 1971

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Quoting Dale Shipp to Jim Weller <=-

As a young child growing up in Florida, I can recall folks selling
large watermelons for US$0.10 each.

I'm a bit younger than you but I can certainly recall 25 cent
melons. The most recent one I bought was $6.99 though.

These days, we might buy one pre cut quarter melon to eat
during the entire summer.

I like them a lot and can easily handle two a summer all by myself.
Summer meaning June 21 to Aug 21 around here.

It's already autumn further north. A friend of mine in Ulukhaktok
(Holman) on Victoria Island reported snow flurries last week, a bit
earlier than usual but not unheard of there. She's happy though
because there's no more mosquitoes or flies.

--MM

Ursummursimajut
Cat: doughnuts, Canadian, Native

Dry Ingredients
2 Cups Flour
2 Teaspoon Baking powder
1/3 cup sugar
Wet ingredients:
3/4 Cup milk or water
1 egg
2 teaspoon crisco oil
To finish:
1 tb cinnamon mixed with
1/4 c sugar

Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl. Mix the wet ingredients in a
measuring cup. Then add it to the dry ingredients
Mix well.

It will be a bit sticky. Oil your hands and make them into donuts
and then deep fry. When golden brown take them out and place on a
plate covered with paper towels to drain. Sprinkle them with the
cinnamon sugar mixture while still hot.

They taste best eaten still warm.

Emily Kudlak, Ulukhaktok

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On 08-16-18 21:56, Jim Weller <=-
spoke to Dale Shipp about watermelons <=-

As a young child growing up in Florida, I can recall folks selling
large watermelons for US$0.10 each.

I'm a bit younger than you but I can certainly recall 25 cent
melons. The most recent one I bought was $6.99 though.

I think that everyone here now is younger than me. Burt is older, but
not here often. Was your $6.99 a full size (oval) or one of the smaller spherical "personal" sizes.

It's already autumn further north. A friend of mine in Ulukhaktok
(Holman) on Victoria Island reported snow flurries last week, a bit earlier than usual but not unheard of there. She's happy though
because there's no more mosquitoes or flies.

High of 90F+ today, 73F now in the wee hours of the morning.


MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05

Title: FRIJOLES BORRACHOS (Drunken Beans)
Categories: Beans, Mexican
Yield: 12 Cups

3/4 lb Bacon; chopped
3 lg Onion; chopped
3 qt Pinto beans, cooked; drained
36 fl Beer, dark
3 c Beef stock
3 lg Tomato; chopped
1 1/2 c Cilantro, fresh; chopped
3 Jalape¤os; deveined & finely
-chopped
1 tb Sugar

Cook bacon in heavy large pot over medium-high heat until crisp.
Transfer to bowl using slotted spoon. Add onions to pot and cook
until tender, stirring frequently, about 15 minutes. Add bacon,
beans, beer, stock, tomatoes, cilantro, chiles and sugar. Season to
taste with salt and pepper. Bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer
until slightly thickened, stirring occasionally, about 1-1/2 hours.
(Should be pre- pared one day ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Bring
to simmer before serving.) Ladle beans into bowls and serve.

Note: This dish is really more like a soup and should be served in
small bowls.

From "Fajita Party for 24".

Recipe from Bon Appetit, July, 1991

From: Carl Berger Date: 05-15-96
Cooking

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Dale Shipp wrote to Jim Weller <=-

I'm a bit younger than you but I can certainly recall 25 cent
melons. The most recent one I bought was $6.99 though.

I think that everyone here now is younger than me. Burt is older, but
not here often. Was your $6.99 a full size (oval) or one of the
smaller spherical "personal" sizes.

I bought a full sized example at Spears Family Market (roadside stand)
when I last went to visit Gerogia in Pork-chop GFlats (Beardstown).
I got the 20+ lb watermelon and a Cranshaw muskmelon for U$2.50.

The watermelon went for my motorcycle club (Vintage Iron Riders - old
folks on old bikes) picnic. The mushmelon went for one of my favourite summertime suppers - chicken salad stuffed melon (using the natural
cavity of the melon to hold the chicken salad).

Beardstown is one of the seven claimants of "Watermelon Capital of the
World".

https://roadtrippers.com/stories/the-watermelon-capital-of-the-world

I think we're all ageing out. I'm currently on my 37th Jack Benny (1942
model). But, as I tell myself, age is only important if you're a cheese
or a bottle of wine.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

Title: Dave's Chicken Salad
Categories: Poultry, Herbs, Dairy, Citrus, Chilies
Yield: 4 Servings

3 c Cooked chicken; cut up
1/4 c + 2 tb dairy sour cream
1/4 c + 2 tb mayonnaise
1/4 c Carrot; fine chopped
2 tb Cilantro; fine snipped
2 tb Capers (opt)
2 tb Canned pimentos; chopped
4 oz Can chopped green chilies
2 tb Lime juice
1/2 ts Cumin; ground
1/2 ts Oregano leaves; dried
1/2 c Onion; chopped
1/2 c Diced celery
1 Avocado; peeled, in wedges
- (opt)

Toss all ingredients except avocado and paprika.

Use to stuff melons, tomatoes or make sandwiches.

If making sandwiches lettuce leaves are recommended.
And coarse toasted bread or croissants.

Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen

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On 08-18-18 11:38, Dave Drum <=-
spoke to Dale Shipp about watermelons <=-

I bought a full sized example at Spears Family Market (roadside stand) when I last went to visit Gerogia in Pork-chop GFlats (Beardstown).
I got the 20+ lb watermelon and a Cranshaw muskmelon for U$2.50.

Getting both of those for US$2.50 sounds like a really good deal.
Around here, the watermelon would be two or three times that amount by
itself. I am not that familar with Cranshaw, nor would we probably buy
them, but I suspect it might cost more that 2.50 also.

Getting a price like that reminds me of an IKEA TV ad. In it a woman
comes out after checking out during a sale, looks at her sales slip and
then starts running to her husband in the parked car yelling "Start the
engine" as if she had to get out of there before they figured out how
bad she had ripped them off.


MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05

Title: Corn Creole
Categories: Cajun
Yield: 1 Servings

1 sm Green Pepper -- ground
1 lg Onion -- ground
3 tb Bacon Drippings, Or Butter
1 lb Lean Ground Beef, Sliced
-Wiener Or Link Sausage
2 1/2 c Canned Corn
1 lg Egg -- beaten
2 c Milk
1/2 c Corn Meal
2 ts Salt And Pepper -- mixed
1/2 c Bread Crumbs
2 tb Butter

Grind the pepper and onion. Simmer in drippings or butter until
brown. Add meat, corn, beaten egg and milk. Mix well and cook 5
minutes. Add corn meal and seasonings. Cook until the consistency of
mush. Pour int a buttered baking dish and sprinkle with bread crumbs
and dot with butter. Bake in 350 degrees oven for 1 hour.

NOTES : This recipe is highly nutritious but economical to make and
especially so in furnishing a way to use up leftover meat in place of
fresh meat. It can also be used with tuna, crab meat or shrimp
substituted for the meat.

From: Fred Ball Date: 04-13-96
Cooking

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Quoting Dale Shipp to Jim Weller <=-

Was your $6.99 a full size (oval) or one of the
smaller spherical "personal" sizes.

It was the mid-sized seedless type. Cut half melons were $5.49.
The old fashioned, large, oval, seeded ones (the best tasting IMO)
were $8.99 but out of stock the day I was shopping and the little
mini's were $5.99 which is pretty darned expensive by the pound.

It's already autumn further north ...
Victoria Island reported snow flurries last week

High of 90F+ today, 73F now in the wee hours of the morning.

I'm not comfortable with anything over 80 F these days; I have
become acclimatized.

We have had the coolest, wettest summer since we started keeping
weather records here in 1942. Not a single day over 75 F. And rain
about 5 days out of 7. As a result, mosquitoes were far worse than
usual but there were no forest fires in the region.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

Title: Nutty Brownie Pie
Categories: Pies, Nuts, Chocolate Alcohol
Yield: 8 Servings

1/2 c Unsalted butter
3 oz Semi-sweet chocolate
1 c Sugar
1/2 c All-purpose flour
3 lg Eggs; beaten
1 ts Vanilla extract
1 pn Salt
1/4 c Chopped almonds
Whipped cream
2 oz Frangelico

Place butter and chocolate in 2-quart measure. Microwave on high
heat until melted. Stir. Add sugar, flour, eggs, vanilla, salt and
almonds. Stir until smooth. Pour into oiled 9 inch pie plate.
Microwave on high heat until pie tests done with a toothpick.
While pie is baking, in a small bowl, combine whipped cream and 2
ounces Frangelico. Stir until well mixed. Set aside. Remove pie
from microwave. To serve, cut into wedges, top with Frangelico and
whipped cream mixture. Approximately 8 minutes.

Recipe by: FOOD IN A FLASH

From: Patty

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Cheers

Jim


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Dale Shipp wrote to Dave Drum <=-

I bought a full sized example at Spears Family Market (roadside stand) when I last went to visit Gerogia in Pork-chop GFlats (Beardstown).
I got the 20+ lb watermelon and a Cranshaw muskmelon for U$2.50.

Getting both of those for US$2.50 sounds like a really good deal.
Around here, the watermelon would be two or three times that amount
by itself. I am not that familar with Cranshaw, nor would we probably
buy them, but I suspect it might cost more that 2.50 also.

IIRC Gail does not care for muskmelon. The Cranshaw (also Crenshaw) is
the most common "smooth skin" variety. But, the class is huge with all
manner of variants -- including, as I learned at the University of
Illinois' Extension Service site - the smooth skinned, green fleshed
honeydew ..... which has no "musk" at all that I have ever noticed.

Common in this area are the Cren/Cranshaw, the netted varieties, a kind
with deep ridges, green stripes and smooth skin, a smooth skinned with
no ridges variety, also with with green stripes, called the Charentais,
and once in a while a green, striped version with pale green flesh known
as a "Santa Claus" melon. But, far and away the most common is the netted "Persian" melon ..... from whence the whole thing sprang.

According to the U of I page the large number of cultivars in this
species approaches that found in wild cabbage.

Getting a price like that reminds me of an IKEA TV ad. In it a woman comes out after checking out during a sale, looks at her sales slip and then starts running to her husband in the parked car yelling "Start the engine" as if she had to get out of there before they figured out how
bad she had ripped them off.

Well, you have to consider it's a family run roadside stand - so it's
low overhead, no lights or refrigeration to maintain, product grown just
a few hundred yards from the "store" so transport is nil .... as long
as I don't factor in the cost of making a special trip to Beardstown
(2 hours of time and 4 to 5 gallons of gasoline) the prices are quite reasonable. I am seeing stupormarkup adverts for cantaloupe ranging
from U$1.99 to U$3.99 currently .... many claiming "locally grown".

BTW - the IKEA advertising agency has a good sense of humour. Something
I like when someone is trying to sell me something.

I recently discovered Mango I scream at one of my local Indian buffet
places. I think I'd quite like this - after I work out the sketchy
directions.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

Title: Musk Melon Mango Ice Cream
Categories: Five, I scream, Fruits, Desserts
Yield: 4 Servings

1 Muskmelon/cantaloupe
750 ml Full cream milk
1 Ripe mango
3 tb Sugar
1 c Cream

Boil milk with sugar until reduced by half. Set aside
to cool down.

Peel and cut mango, grind to make a puree.

Beat cream to make whipped cream, mix well with
mango.

Cut the top of melon, scoop flesh with a melon baller
or round bowl spoon.

Set in freezer.

After three hours cut in slices and enjoy 2-in-One
flavour ice-cream.

By Kavita Kapoormehrotra

RECIPE FROM: http://www.betterbutter.in

Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

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Quoting Jim Weller to Dale Shipp on 08-18-18 22:07 <=-

It's already autumn further north ...
Victoria Island reported snow flurries last week

High of 90F+ today, 73F now in the wee hours of the morning.

I'm not comfortable with anything over 80 F these days; I have
become acclimatized.
We have had the coolest, wettest summer since we started keeping
weather records here in 1942. Not a single day over 75 F. And rain
about 5 days out of 7. As a result, mosquitoes were far worse than
usual but there were no forest fires in the region.

The temps sound heavenly... the rain and mosquitoes not so much.... ;)
And no forest fires is a very good thing, especially as they've been
worse than ever some places this year....

... People my age are so much older than me.

Funny, I've had similar observations... ;)

ttyl neb

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