"Shaun aRe" > wrote in message
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>
> "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?
>
Mpls

PS - Ingebretsons on Lake St has gammelost, which when eaten after lutefisk
makes you wonder about the larder-cleaning habits of norsemen.
(BTW, gammelost actually is very good with beer - but alone or with
bread or crackers - uh, wow. Only real men get over a quarter-pound. Think
strong bleu made from low-fat milk taken from really p_o_ed goats from them
living off lutefisk, aged to the consistency of brown parmesan.
Wait - don't think of that in a cooking NG. )

> > 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.
>

pervert

> > blood kishka,
>
> Love black pudding - anything like that?
>

barley and blood, if memory serves me

> > peppered lard on rye,
>
> No thanks - lard is for cooking things in only-only.
>

danish "treat" - hard thin "danish rye", 1/4" lard, a solid layer of ground
pepper on top.

> > chitterlings and sour greens, kim-chee,
>
> Not had kim-chee, know I would love it though (like sourkraut, adore
> chiles).

think old socks not changed for weeks and filled with mashed garlic -
cabbage, garlic, onions, and some secret ingredient (a skunk, I think) left
in an earthen pot on the stoop or buried for a couple months. The odor
permeates anything, including I swear porcelain and glass.
The last time I got some mild from the Korean store, I kept it in the
garage in a glass jar in aluminum foil in a plastic bag inside a paper bag -
and you still could smell it.

It's as near sauerkraut as lutefisk is to cod.

>
> > that Vietnamese fish sauce,
>
> Good stuff.

Once you get past the background odor - however, I'm talking about the
buried fish head and whatever else left in the jar in the ground in the
tropics kind of fish sauce, so the bones and whatever turned to liquid gel,
not the stuff in the bottle.

>
> > 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?
>

A high arctic delicacy - I spent some time up there. Eggs in the shell in
gutted birds, birds (with feathers on) inside a gutted seal, all buried -
cooks/ages/whatever happens in the ground. Very tender -You spit the
feathers out and they split a gut 'cause they think its funny as hell.
Tastes like chicken.
(well. not the seal or the eggs)

> > 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?!?!?
>

Yes - I avoid foods that are bad for it, like trans-fatty acids and refined
sugars (sarcasm symbol inserted here) .

;-)

> ',;~}~
>
>
> Shaun aRe
>
>