close on half the paintings had been donated
by classmates of mine or their families.

You do have a more exalted status than one remembers... in more than
just travel... ;)

I've traveled in circles beyond my achievements
and pocketbook for most of my life.

We do our best to make sure she's fed right.
Her happiness depends on it, and by
extension, mine as well.

Yup. :)

I try to do well by those who have some
importance to me.

True. :)

I forget where it was, but I saw a review
of another place where the custard buns
looked pretty much exactly like these pork
buns. Where's the point in that? Shouldn't
custard buns look like eggs?

The custard buns at Cantonese House have swirls of sugar baked into the tops of the buns... they look different from the pork buns... :)

As well they might.

Taste different too... but that should go without saying... ;)

There've been several custard buns on this trip,
with modest differences among them, some with
a bit more vanilla, some cooked longer. The
oddest was a salted egg yolk custard bun,
which wobbled the line between moreish and
disgusting, a phenomenon very few foods can
claim, durian being one. No durians on this
trip, though. Jackfruit ice cream came close
but was totally disgusting.

But if you ask me about a dish I've had, if
you give the title or the description of
the food, the experience will still leap
back into my mind in most cases.

That's a gift... especially when the dish was good.... ;)

Though there have been equally memorable
disgusting experiences.

Yes... then it might be more like a curse...

The way memory files off the sharp edges,
not necessarily.

It was that soupcon of high-school dropoutism
that she got right (she actually didn't drop
out until William & Mary, where she "majored"
in contract bridge before running off to get
married or something).

Hmmmm... :)

Well, she married well, her kids didn't
starve, and now she's (perhaps under my
influence) started cooking real food.
It's very, very plain.

Nothing at all wrong with plain... :)

Ideally, there ought to be a mix.

Mixed Vegetables (Sajur menir)
cat: Indonesian, United Airlines
servings: 4

1 c cut corn
1 lb spinach
1 sm onion sliced
1 clove garlic sliced
salt to taste

Brown the onion and garlic. Boil the water
and add the ingredients. Reduce heat and let
simmer for 20 min, serve with sauce.

[What sauce?]

Text and recipes by Frank Rugebregt - frankrug at jps.net
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
* Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140)

Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 01-25-19 05:54 <=-

close on half the paintings had been donated
by classmates of mine or their families.

You do have a more exalted status than one remembers... in more than
just travel... ;)

I've traveled in circles beyond my achievements
and pocketbook for most of my life.

Indeed. Envy is too strong a word for it, but I must admit an
attraction for that sort of an existence... dunno as I'd really have
been all that comfortable with it in reality, but it does attract... :)

I forget where it was, but I saw a review
of another place where the custard buns
looked pretty much exactly like these pork
buns. Where's the point in that? Shouldn't
custard buns look like eggs?

The custard buns at Cantonese House have swirls of sugar baked into
the tops of the buns... they look different from the pork buns... :)

As well they might.

Taste different too... but that should go without saying... ;)

There've been several custard buns on this trip,
with modest differences among them, some with
a bit more vanilla, some cooked longer. The
oddest was a salted egg yolk custard bun,
which wobbled the line between moreish and
disgusting, a phenomenon very few foods can
claim, durian being one. No durians on this
trip, though. Jackfruit ice cream came close
but was totally disgusting.

Too bad on the jackfruit.. ;) The different custard buns seem a nice
contrast, though... :) Even the salted eggyolk one.... :)

But if you ask me about a dish I've had, if
you give the title or the description of
the food, the experience will still leap
back into my mind in most cases.

That's a gift... especially when the dish was good.... ;)

Though there have been equally memorable
disgusting experiences.

Yes... then it might be more like a curse...

The way memory files off the sharp edges,
not necessarily.

Maybe... ;) If enough of the sharp edges get filed off.... ;)

It was that soupcon of high-school dropoutism
that she got right (she actually didn't drop
out until William & Mary, where she "majored"
in contract bridge before running off to get
married or something).

Hmmmm... :)

Well, she married well, her kids didn't
starve, and now she's (perhaps under my
influence) started cooking real food.
It's very, very plain.

Nothing at all wrong with plain... :)

Ideally, there ought to be a mix.

One can start with plain, and progress from there... :)

Mixed Vegetables (Sajur menir)
cat: Indonesian, United Airlines
servings: 4
1 c cut corn
1 lb spinach
1 sm onion sliced
1 clove garlic sliced
salt to taste
Brown the onion and garlic. Boil the water
and add the ingredients. Reduce heat and let
simmer for 20 min, serve with sauce.
Text and recipes by Frank Rugebregt - frankrug at jps.net

[What sauce?]

For that matter, where did the water come from... ;) I'd figure the
sauce may have been generated from the onion and garlic (and whatever
they were browned in).... along with the cooking of the corn and
spinach..... :)

ttyl neb

... Flavoured yogurt is highly processed milk with jam in it.

___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
* Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140)