In article >,
"just joe" > wrote:

> not instead of lettuce, shredded cabbage has always been the traditional
> leafy green for tacos del mare. i live in the provinces and it was funny
> listening to some of the locals whine that the cheap ******* running the the
> taco stand was using cabbage on the tacos.

OK. He made is sound like it was a substitution for shredded lettuce.
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In article >,
"Default User" > wrote:

> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>
> > In article >,
> > Tara > wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:12:38 -0600, Melba's Jammin'
> > > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I went to a cooking demo on Saturday, Charlotte. Chef John made
> > > > fish tacos and used shredded cabbage instead of lettuce.
> > >
> > > I'd love the recipe for the fish tacos if you would care to share.
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Tara
> >
> > Recipe! HAH! Chef John don't offer no steenkin' recipes -- much to
> > the chagrin of more than five of us who were watching the demo. Been
> > through that before with him and it's one reason I bring my camera
> > and take pictures.
> >
> > He marinated tilapia fillets in lime juice and chopped cilantro for
> > about an hour.
>
> Holey moley. I'd have been tired of chopping cilantro after like 10
> minutes or so.
>
> Brian

<Barb slaps Brian upside the head and then rubs cut lime halves in his
face ‹ for about an hour.>
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> Laissez les bons temps rouler!

always.

try to get to new orleans for the french quarter festival. it's not a mess
like mardi gras and the jazz fest is out at the fair grounds where you know
it's going to rain. quarter fest has multiple stages throughout the quarter
with an incredible wide range of music...............and jackson square?
some of the best know restaurants have booths set up where you can get
samples of their signature dishes for just a couple of
bucks................plus the free music.

oh, and there's this place call donna's on the north side of the quarter,
sheeeeeeeee'it. ribs and music. but also is a voodoooooooooooo center on the
same street where you can sit outside and listen to the drumming.

joe

"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
3.184...
> On Mon 21 Jan 2008 02:25:38p, chefhelen told us...
>
>>
>> "Charlotte L. Blackmer" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> In article >, chefhelen
>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>"Sheldon" > wrote in message
...
>>>
>>> Re the snipped part about raisins in slaw - I love them but only in
>>> Asian-style slaw (red cabbage, rice-vinegar based dressing, some
>>> shredded carrots, plus raisins, sometimes nuts ... pecans are especially
>>> good ... but NO MAYO.) I would probably regard them as deeply strange
> in
>>> standard yankee doodle coleslaw.
>>>
>>>>> Cabbage is a cold weather crop, there is no cabbage in Mexican
>>>>> dishes...
>>>
>>> This is not true; Ensenada-style deep-fried fish tacos have a shredded
>>> cabbage garnish.
>>>
>>>>>there is probably not a
>>>>>head of cabbage to be found from south of the Rio Grande all the way
>>>>>to mid South America. The concept of Mexican cole slaw is laughable,
> but
>>>>>in a grotesque farcical sort of way.
>>>
>>> Some of those recipes no doubt are, and would be better called
>>> "southwestern slaw".
>>>
>>> But my experience is that Mexicans like eating what's fresh, local, and
>>> inexpensive. Cabbage often qualifies and has the benefit of feeding a
>>> crowd. (It's usually shredded raw in something salady.)
>>>
>>>>Kool - (pronounced like the "cole" in cole slaw) = cabbage in Dutch
>>>>
>>>>Sla - (pronounced like the "slaw" in cole slaw) = salad in Dutch
>>>>
>>>>Koolsla = cabbage salad
>>>>
>>>>I'm certain that almost every other country in the world has a cabbage
>>>>salad too. I'm just fascinated by the fact that it's a literal
>>>>translation from the Dutch.
>>>
>>> No doubt one of the many gifts they gave at least the US language .
>>>
>>> Charlotte (with cookies. What's not to like?)
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>
>> It's like the expression "to strike while the iron is hot"....I never
>> understood it until I learned that when you iron (the verb) in Dutch it's
>> called striking. Now it makes sense because of COURSE you "strike" while
>> the iron (noun) is hot!
>>
>>
>> helen
>>
>>
>>
>
> I thought it was a blacksmith's phrase meaning to strike the hot iron with
> the hammer or mallet.
>
> --
> Wayne Boatwright
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Wellllll, it *was* a Dutch man who told me this soooooooo........

As usual, YMMV,
helen