Slim Jim

Yeah, gas station jerky. I bought one once. Just once. I am
considering suing them for slandering my good name.

Did you have the jerky or the equally objectional
meat sticks? In either case, I'm ashamed on behalf
of my country and the world of meat in general.

I often use Asian spices in Western dishes, sometimes with good
results. Yesterday I did just the opposite; I cooked bok choy the
way an Irishman would kale or a southerner collards.

The French often use Asian spices, though
they would be loath to admit it.

I started off by chopping the leaves into ribbons and dicing the
white stalks, melting 2 tb bacon fat in a sauce pan, frying the choy
briefly, then seasoning the mess with seasoned salt, a pinch of
sugar, vinegar and a little hot sauce. And it was good.

Fair enough. Napa stewed in butter until
melted is also good.

On another tack, in local news, Buffalo Joe's son Mikey is going to
restore a famous DC-3 which flew on D-Day.
The aircraft's logbooks suggest the plane carried paratroopers and
dropped bombs on June 6, 1944. A squadron member had scribbled an
entry at the time reading: "A small surprise for the troops
defending the coast in France."
On the night before D-Day, on June 5, the plane took off at 11:20 PM
The logbook shows 17 paratroopers jumped from the plane shortly
after midnight, landing near Touffreville to destroy bridges over
the Dive River.

That's a piece of history for sure. I've been
in a couple of those aircraft only, neither
with that interesting provenance.

That DC-3 has not flown in nearly 30 years but Buffalo owns a damaged
sister plane which can be gutted for parts.
"I contacted the current owner and he was over the moon that someone
like Buffalo Airways would be interested in the airplane, because
they spent so much time and effort on the airplane and they want to
see it fly again."

That's kind of sweet.

... Racial profiling! A waiter in a Chinese restaurant gave me a fork.

So it is. Or giving my brother chopsticks,
for that matter.

Quatres epices (quatr'epices, quatre epices)
categories: spice, ingredient
yield: 4 Tb

2 Tb ground white pepper
1 Tb ground nutmeg
2 ts ground ginger
1 ts ground allspice or 1/2 ts ground cloves

Mix well.

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