Until I did some reading last night I didn't realize it was illegal
to not use a ticket. That seems ridiculous.

Not exactly illegal, but civilly
actionable as breach of contract; but
practically speaking, what the airlines
do is confiscate your airline miles.

All of your miles, or just those which would have been earned on the
unused leg of the flight? For someone like you, that could be a very serious penalty if the former.

All of them. A pretty draconian confiscation
and effective to dissuade people from doing
much of this and also selling or trading
miles and stuff like that that diminishes
the airlines' bottom line.

BTW, we happened to score a couple of briskets on sale from Giant today.
I plan on smoking them in the next week. Just saying, in case you
and/or Lili might have some free time to head east :-}}

Sounds good, but Lilli will be in China
and then Europe, and I have stuff to do in
Boston and then look into the possible sale
of the house.

In keeping with my theme of supplying at least a little pork for you
with my monthly theme, I give you the following.

Pork is definitely not the star of the dish!

Title: CLASSIC PAELLA

Classic paella is supposed to have rabbit in
with various legumes (not just peas). Also no
lobster, which fancies things up considerably.
I'd omit the chicken (which is in fact classic)
or at least substitute dark meat.

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Title: Stuffed Frogs
Categories: Ethnic, Fish/sea
Yield: 6 servings

6 lg Edible frogs, skinned, whole 1/4 Vinegar
1 c Finely chopped pork 1 Heaping teaspoon
brown sugar
1/2 Head garlic, chopped fine Salt and pepper to
taste

Mix pork with garlic, vinegar and seasonings. Stuff body cavities of well
cleaned frogs. Rub with seasoning and hang in the sun to dry. Fry in
deep,
hot fat until frogs are a golden brown.

From "Recipes of the Philippines" compiled and edited by Enriqueta
David-Perez, 1962. Capitol Publishing House, Quezon City.

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