"hob" > wrote in message
...
> It's bad if its overcooked by 30 seconds (overcooked turns to jello and
> starts to smell like hell), and it's laughed at until you've had
> reconstituted dried cod that hasn't been "luded"; that stuff makes
lutefisk
> quite pleasant by comparison.

I'm sure it wuite definately possibly does mate, depending heavily on what
one likes, is used to, and can tolerate ',;~}~

I've been aware of the stuff for a reasonable amount of time, long enough to
at least have a slight understanding...

> Think three months of living off dried codfish and barley and barley beer
> and maybe turnips and water and butter with the house always smelling like
> dead fish, stale beer, flatulence, and unwashed humans - without lutefisk
to
> break the monotony -
>
> (oh, wait - that was our college-bachelor house.)

LOL! I can imagine.

> Here,

Where is that?

> lutefisk is properly cooked, covered, by simmering gently in water
> with a bit of white-wine and a couple peppercorns, on a rack in the pan,
> under a 750 cfm hood on high of course just in case you aren't quick
enough
> to stop the cooking, simmered until the lutefisk JUST flakes with a fork
and
> before it turns soft - immediately drained, drained well on the rack, and
> served with melted butter.
>
> No white sauce, nutmeg white sauce, or other wimpy coverings.
>
> A slice of gammelost with a beer after the lutefisk finishes off a gourmet
> delight.
>
> Beats the hell out of haggis,

Love haggis.

> blood kishka,

Love black pudding - anything like that?

> peppered lard on rye,

No thanks - lard is for cooking things in only-only.

> chitterlings and sour greens, kim-chee,

Not had kim-chee, know I would love it though (like sourkraut, adore
chiles).

> that Vietnamese fish sauce,

Good stuff.

> deep-fried duck, raw liver,

Not a raw liver fan LOL! Deep fried duck is good, done right.

> or seal stuffed with birds stuffed with eggs and
> buried for two months.

Indeed... You've /eaten/ that?

> Hmmm.. thinking about all that other stuff I had, I suppose I do owe my
> stomach an apology for some of what it's been given thru the years. Maybe
> I'll make it up to it with a cold big mac and warm beer.
> Or was that a warm big mac and a cold beer........

You still have a stomach left to accept an apology?!?!?

',;~}~


Shaun aRe