minus twenty, perhaps?
Currently plus 4C!
Woo hoo, so Obla-Da, life goes on
Actually this premature warm weather is a bad thing. We have had
Yeh, I did pick probably the most offensive Beatles
song and the SECOND stupidest Broadway musical,
didn't I. [Edited to add second: the first meanest,
ugliest, and most evil musical is Oklahoma, which
extols cheating and bullying outasts to death.]
You'll be growing your own pina colada fixings
before long. The rest of us will have waterfront
property.
temps as high as +8 for a week, which is May weather not March's and
20 degrees above average. All the ice roads that normally operate
until late April had to shut down and a lot of remote villages don't
have all their annual re-supply of gasoline, home heating oil,
diesel for the electric power generators, construction materials,
other heavy freight and non perishable groceries. With air freight
at a buck a pound their already nasty cost of living will become
And solar might reach the breakeven point.
People have to step back and adjust periodically.
unbearable. And our diamond mines who employ 1500 people directly
and support another 1500 jobs indirectly are short 500 B-trains of
fuel and other bulky supplies including several tons of ammonium
nitrate explosives. If they don't get it in they may have to shut
down and lay off everyone for several weeks this year.
And figure out various Plans B for eventualities if
you and all those vule scientists are right.
It was weird driving through the industrial park and seeing dozens
of tractor trailers with loads of ammonium nitrate parked for a week
along side of dozens of tankers carrying diesel fuel and no drivers
or security guards in sight).
A little scary, but to be fair, if anyone were to want
to use it to their advantage, they'd have to take it
pretty far southward and probably be pretty easily
tracked and caught up with. Of course, there's the
possibility of someone doing something just out of
sheer meanness.
Luckily the warm spell (it's the same weather pattern causing
massive flooding in the American mid-west) finally broke on Friday and
its down to the -1 to -17 range with fairly cold weather predicted
for at least 5 more days. The ice roads opened up again Friday at
midnight. with nighttime traffic only and half loads.
Here come the truckers. Who determines the safe loads,
and how - sonar? Or some more boring method.
Ungava [gin]
Someday I'll taste that.
You might not have to come to Canada to taste it. I believe that
they do export to the US now.
I'll be on the lookout but won't buy if the sticker
price exceeds that of a ticket to Yellowknife.
Hung liu spice mix [...] a very similar Vietnamese blend.
Figured, but that actually looks like a Chinese sort of name.
I played around with Google Translate and with different accents and inflections it means a lot of different things in both languages,
from "sweet basil" to "flood" to "sloppy".
It could be "red green" too. Speaking of Toronto.
Since you dislike zucchini, here's a different kind of ratatouille:
I've made ratatouille without zucchini. It's better.
Title: Ratatouille - Ratjetoe
Categories: Dutch, Groundmeat, Beef, Cheese
Servings: 4
300 g lean hamburger
nutmeg, salt and pepper
30 g margarine
2 chopped onions
2 cloves garlic
150 ml sour cream
150 ml stock or bouillon
750 g new (small) potatoes
300 g grated cheese
In a skillet heat the butter and fry the beef, adding salt, pepper
and nutmeg, the chopped onion and the pressed garlic clove, and
separate with a fork. Grease a baking dish. Mix the sour cream and
bouillon. Put a layer of potatoes in the dish, add a layer of meat,
a layer of cheese and keep adding layers, finishing with a layer of
potatoes. Pour the sour cream and bouillon mix over it and bake in a preheated over at 200C/390F for about 20-25 minutes.
Ratatouille originally comes from the Provence region of France;
"touiller" is the regional verb for "stir." The local stew often
contained vegetables only, such as eggplant, courgette, tomatoes,
onions and bell peppers. In Dutch parlance, the word was
bastardized to "ratjetoe", often used to describe a hodgepodge, or
worse: a mess. Of course, Dutch children did not like hearing that
they would have "ratjetoe for supper", as they could think it was
to be a small rat as desert.
From: Www.Godutch.Com
I've had stuff like that. Made it. too, sans potatoes.
... Stuff like that is why the Aliens fly right past us.
I always wondered why people were so into SETI -
it strikes me that we're counting on their being
substantially more benevolent and moral than us.
------------Recipe for Meal-Master (tm) v7.00 plus
Title: MOU SOU PORK B1
Categories: PORK, WOK, CHINESE, MEAT, MAIN, mu shu
Yield: 6 servings
CHINESE PANCAKES
1/4 lb LEAN PORK,SHREDDED
1 ts CORNSTARCH
SALT & PEPPER TO TASTE
1 tb DRY SHERRY
1 EGG,BEATEN
2 EGGS,SLIGHTLY BEATEN
2 c OIL
1 CLOVE GARLIC,CHOPPED
1/4 sm CABBAGE,FINE SHREDDED
2 SCALLIONS,CUT IN 1-IN.PIECES
1/2 c SHREDDED BAMBOO SHOOTS
1/2 c SLICED FRESH MUSHROOMS
5 TO 10 TREE EARS,SOAKED IN
-LUKEWARM WATER 20 MIN.,
-DRAINED & LEFT WHOLE
1/4 c TIGER LILLY BUDS,SOAKED
-IN LUKEWARM WATER 20 MIN.,
-DRAINED & CUT INTO 1-IN.
-PIECES
1 c HOISIN SAUCE
2 ts SOY SAUCE
1 ts DRY SHERRY
1/2 ts SUGAR
MSG-OPTIONAL
Prepare Chinese Pancakes. Marinate pork 30
min. in cornstarch,salt,pepper,sherry & enough
beaten egg to moisten it. Heat wok hot & dry.
Add oil. When it's just beginning to smoke,
add pork & slightly beaten eggs,stirring so
pieces separate. Once eggs form themselves
into curds,drain through a colander, reserving
2-3 tbs. oil. Return reserved oil to wok &
lightly brown the garlic. Add all vegetables.
stir-frying or flipping until just cooked,
about 3-4 min. Return meat & eggs to
vegetables in wok. Add 2 tsp. hoisin sauce,soy
sauce,sherry,sugar,salt,pepper & MSG. Combine
well. Remove from heat. Spread each Chinese
Pancake w/ hoisin sauce. Add a good 2 tbs. of
filling to bottom 1/2 of each pancake & roll
up, like crepes. Serve.
Temperature(s): HOT
Effort: AVERAGE
Time: 01:00
Source: MING'S
Comments: YORK ROAD;
Comments: WINE: WAN-FU M's note: 1 c is a lot
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