"Omelet" > wrote in message
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>
> I'm suffering enough right now and having to use diuretics because I
> bought a ham 3 days ago and have been living off of it. <sigh> My
> fingers feel like sausages from the water retention.
>
> I'm VERY sensitive to both the flavor and the effects of salt!
>
> But I do love Smithfield ham... It was a bit expensive tho' at $1.39 per
> lb.
> --
> Peace, Om

I try to keep my ham/pork at a minimum. On one of my grandmother's farms,
they preferred pork for meat, and to sell the milk from cows instead of
butchering. I'm just not that fond of pork, although I do like pulled pork
and char-su.

This was my last morning of eating out for the past -- how long has it
been -- weeks. The evening of the 23rd we went to a somewhat "local"
restaurant that was new to us.

As an appetizer, I had something that looked like a gordito, but she said
it was a homemade tortilla filled with their cheese. I've never seen a
tortilla or a gordito that looked like this, but I googled-images and found
one. Very greasy looking and thickish. With my enchiladas (1 green, 1 red
sauce) she warned me that the green tomatillo was hot/spicy. It was normal
and didn't taste much different than what is normal. The red sauce actually
hotter, tasting like Hatch chili was used.

But what was different that I'd not had before was what the man who came out
from the kitchen and described the cabbage slaw with a dab of tortilla-type
salsa on top as a 'repollo.' From looking it up, I see that it was probably
a cortida de repollo. But no recipe I saw reflected the color of this
particular cabbage slaw which looked to me like it was soaked also in an
annato. Quite tasty, as I love cabbage in all forms. DH had an open-faced
soft taco with cabbage/lettuce and steak as an aside with his regular meal.

The beans were very dark red - I'd never seen them that dark. Darker than
red kidney beans, not spicy, so I was wondering what they put in them to
make them so dark.

The rice seemed to be a type of Uncle Ben's, but yellow with some tiny-tiny
vegs in it. Very slippery with oil. Perhaps a boxed type.

All this explanation to say that later that night my ankles and feet were so
swollen -- they tend to swell slightly when riding distances in a car --
that it was a little frightening -- nothing like this before. On the back
of my leg above the ankle, it was puffed out.

So glad that I have on hand for my daily dose of HCTZ for high blood
pressure. For those who care to know how much it costs me to control my
blood pressure? 67 cents a month (using insurance).

Dee Dee