Dutch Farmer Bill's dad, who had suffered badly in a Dutch
concentration camp from 1941 until the Canadian liberation

Sometimes it's the ones who have actually
suffered who have the will to forgive

He did have a very rough time. He was some kind of Marxist/Socialist political society/club in university like so many students in that
era and so was rounded up right after the invasion. Political

Was it Churchill who said that anyone who isn't a
leftist as a youth has no heart and anyone who
isn't a rightist in old age has no brain?

prisoners didn't receive the basic neccessities of life under the
Geneva Convention that prisoners of war did. He almost starved to

Toward the end of WWII, prisoners of war who
ought have deserved such protections weren't given
them by the Axis. Never would have gotten them
from the Japanese anyway, who had their own sets
of honor codes and beliefs.

death while performing extremely strenuous forced labour and had
life long amnesia afterwards about that period from the winter of
1942 to his liberation in 1945.

I think there are now international laws that
protect all prisoners; whether these would be
enforceable in wartime - or perhaps at all - is
a question.

Renfrew County German immigrants mostly arrived between 1829 and
1914

He never hated Germans, just Nazis, collaborators and their fellow travellers. After the war he developed a strong hatred for
totalitarian regimes of all stripes and was certainly no Marxist by
the time I got to know him.

Thing of course with collaborators and fellow travelers
is that's a matter of degree. Your ordinary citizen had
to be complicit with the regime in some measure - how
much they knew and how eager they were to be "my country
right or wrong" is impossible to determine.

Bubble and squeak
olive oil
chestnuts
venison
Sea salt
balsamic vinegar

Pretty dam fancy!

I knew you'd say that and had a snappy retort,
but being muzzy and well-fed at the echo picnic
have forgotten what it might have been.

Hey, what did the chemist say when someone
bumped into him on the street? He made a
rude retort.

Title: Bresaola

Yummy stuff if a little gamy.

Biang Biang Noodles in Ginger Scallion Sauce
categories: celebrity, pasta, fusion
yield: 1 batch

4 c high-gluten bread flour
1 pn coarse salt
1 1/4 c water
h - Ginger Scallion Sauce
1 c ginger, peeled and minced
2 c scallions, sliced thin
4 Tb soybean oil
1/2 ts salt
h - To Finish
1 ts soybean oil
shrimp (2 or 3 per serving or your preference)
scallops (2 or 3 per serving or your preference)
1/2 ts ginger scallion sauce
1/2 ts white soy sauce
peanuts
cilantro
pickled onions (if you have them!)

Place flour in a large bowl with salt; whisk to combine.
Make a well in the center and pour 1 1/4 c water into
well. Using your hands, incorporate flour into water
and mix until a rough dough forms. Cover bowl with
plastic wrap and let stand 15 min.

Turn dough out onto a clean work surface. Knead dough
by working into a log shape, about an arm's length.
Bring ends together and roll back into a log shape.
Repeat process until dough is smooth.

Cut dough into 7 equal-sized pieces about 6 oz each.
Using your fingers, coat dough with oil; cover with
plastic wrap and let stand 30 min.

Halve each piece of dough lengthwise. Working with
one piece of dough at a time, place dough cut-side
up on work surface. Using your fingers, coat with
oil and press down to flatten; let stand 5 min.

Using your thumbs and forefingers, pull noodles until
they are shoulder length. Slap noodles down on work
surface two times to stretch even further. Tear
noodles lengthwise at the center seam almost, but
not entirely, in half to create one very long noodle.
Immediately transfer to boiling water and repeat
process with remaining pieces of dough.

Cook noodles until they float , 2 to 3 min.

Sauce - In a saucepan, heat on high flame. When very
hot, add soybean oil. Add scallions and 1/2 ts salt.
Stir-fry 1 min. Add ginger and continue to stir-fry.

To Finish

Get a pan very hot. Add soy bean oil. Sear shrimp,
and scallops for 1 min. Season with ginger scallion
sauce and white soy sauce. Add noodles that have
been blanched for 1 min to the pan and toss to coat
evenly. Garnish with peanuts, cilantro, and pickled
onions, and more ginger scallion sauce if desired.

Danny Bowien
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