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    From MICHAEL LOO@1:123/140 to NANCY BACKUS on Tuesday, March 26, 2019 07:03:44
    The waitress also brought some shrimp chips
    "from the house." These were appropriately crunchy
    and appropriately shrimpy. Bonnie was disappointed
    because the green and pink ones tasted the same as
    the white ones.
    I've not had those in ages.... ;) I can sympathize with Bonnie, I'd
    expected some possible change in taste between the colors and white
    ones, but they do all taste the same.... :)

    Not shrimpy enough for Bonnie or me, too fishy
    for Lilli or Swisher.

    Could be worse, the green ones could taste like
    pond scum.

    I got a special of pork belly with green beans (we
    didn't know that green beans were going to dominate
    the other dish). I guess few people order this, so we
    got a good 12 oz of very fatty meat, including several
    chunks of just plain fat, and an even larger pile of
    beans not quite as underdone. The brownish sauce was
    sweet but not as sweet, fishy saucy but not too much
    so. I was in as much pig heaven as the meat donor.
    Sounds lovely.... :)

    It was pretty darn good.

    I'd ordered the pork extra spicy. What came: the tofu
    curry extra spicy, the pork medium. Not a big problem.
    Slightly confused kitchen, there... ;) Perhaps when you ordered yours
    dish with the string beans, they figured they could use up more of the
    in Bonnie's dish.... and then figured that the tofu needed extra spicing
    more than the pork.... (G)

    Who knows. I don't go often enough to track the
    dishes, During the '80s and '90s I went regularly,
    because it was on the way to the HMA concerts.

    ... Life is a Ferrari - costs too much and goes too fast

    Unlike my life, a Ferrari looks slick going down
    the road.

    +

    If our eyeballs were predictable, the disease
    would be predictable, but they don't seem to be -
    at least, mine aren't.
    I don't think mine are either... :)

    But in your case, squirting liquid in
    helps. My ophthalmologist's prescription
    and suggestions, they didn't work.

    We're in uncharted territory (well, that's too
    dramatic, "scarce enough so there's no funding to
    do a study" is more like it), but doing any kind
    of surgery on someone who is in the happy bottom
    quarter of the population in heart function is
    not an appealing proposition for those under the
    thrall of malpractice insurers. Plus there's the
    extra-sweetness issue, which is semi-under-control
    but still would make healing problematic and of
    longer duration. In all, the quick answer to your
    question is no, then yes with additional caveats.
    About what I figured.... I hope that it will be able to be done, and be helpful.....

    You're not the only one.

    Punchline: that's Tonto-logical.
    I suppose... ;)
    I'd have thought you saw that coming.
    I should have.... (G)

    See, use more of those eye drops.

    ... We have enough youth, how about a fountain of Common Sense?
    Then commerce as we know it would come to a screeching halt.
    Perhaps.... not so sure that would be that bad a thing.... but commerce
    can rest, knowing that there wouldn't be any such thing as a Fountain of Common Sense.....

    But there is a fountain of wine in Vienna!

    Mulled wine gugelhupf
    categories: desserts, Austrian
    yield: 1

    250 g butter
    100 g confectioners' sugar
    5 egg yolks
    5 egg whites
    200 g baking chocolate (melted)
    125 ml mulled wine (cold)
    100 g granulated sugar
    250 g cake flour
    1 pn salt
    1 pk vanilla sugar
    1/2 pk baking powder
    1 pn allspice
    1 pn cinnamon (ground)
    1 ts ginger (finely grated)
    butter (for the pan)
    confectioner's sugar (for sprinkling)

    Whisk the butter with the confectioners' sugar
    and egg yolks into a foam. After melting it in
    a water bath, stir in the chocolate along with
    the cold mulled wine. Season with allspice,
    cinnamon and ginger. Beat the egg whites and
    granulated sugar until stiff, then fold into
    the butter mixture. Finish by carefully
    stirring in the flour and baking powder. Coat
    a gugelhupf pan with butter and fill with the
    dough. In a preheated 180C/350F oven, bake
    50 min. After baking, flip onto a baking
    sheet, let cool and sprinkle with
    confectioners' sugar.

    wien.info
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  • From NANCY BACKUS@1:123/140 to MICHAEL LOO on Thursday, March 28, 2019 21:53:00
    Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 03-26-19 06:03 <=-

    The waitress also brought some shrimp chips
    "from the house." These were appropriately crunchy
    and appropriately shrimpy. Bonnie was disappointed
    because the green and pink ones tasted the same as
    the white ones.
    I've not had those in ages.... ;) I can sympathize with Bonnie, I'd expected some possible change in taste between the colors and white
    ones, but they do all taste the same.... :)
    Not shrimpy enough for Bonnie or me, too fishy
    for Lilli or Swisher.

    About what I remember.... :)

    Could be worse, the green ones could taste like
    pond scum.

    Indeed... :)

    I'd ordered the pork extra spicy. What came: the tofu
    curry extra spicy, the pork medium. Not a big problem.
    Slightly confused kitchen, there... ;) Perhaps when you ordered yours
    dish with the string beans, they figured they could use up more of the
    in Bonnie's dish.... and then figured that the tofu needed extra spicing more than the pork.... (G)
    Who knows. I don't go often enough to track the
    dishes, During the '80s and '90s I went regularly,
    because it was on the way to the HMA concerts.

    And things could well have changed a lot since those days... :)

    ... Life is a Ferrari - costs too much and goes too fast
    Unlike my life, a Ferrari looks slick going down
    the road.

    Some people might think your life looks slick enough.... ;)

    If our eyeballs were predictable, the disease
    would be predictable, but they don't seem to be -
    at least, mine aren't.
    I don't think mine are either... :)
    But in your case, squirting liquid in
    helps. My ophthalmologist's prescription
    and suggestions, they didn't work.

    Did he have you try Alrex...? It's a mild steroidal (prescription) eye
    drop usually used for allergies... of all the things I've tried, it
    seems to help the most.... still doesn't totally take care of things,
    but it makes things hurt less when the eyes get bad.... and helps the
    vision some....

    Punchline: that's Tonto-logical.
    I suppose... ;)
    I'd have thought you saw that coming.
    I should have.... (G)
    See, use more of those eye drops.

    They don't do much for the brain... ;)

    ... We have enough youth, how about a fountain of Common Sense?
    Then commerce as we know it would come to a screeching halt.
    Perhaps.... not so sure that would be that bad a thing.... but commerce
    can rest, knowing that there wouldn't be any such thing as a Fountain of Common Sense.....
    But there is a fountain of wine in Vienna!

    Inside or outside....? :)

    ttyl neb

    ... DO NOT ADJUST YOUR MIND - the fault is with reality

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