In article >,
"Default User" > wrote:

> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
>
>
> > I, for one, could not imagine living without tomatoes...
>
>
> The unseasonably warm weather we had here (St. Louis) led to my
> brother's garden producing tomatoes well into fall. I'm nursing the
> last of the home-growns he gave me a couple of weeks ago. More acid
> than high-summer ones but infinitely better than anything available in
> the stores.
>
>
>
> Brian

Any home grown tomato is better than anything available at the
stores..... ;-) I'm fixin' to set up pots in the greenhouse for
container tomotoes over the winter. I get tomatoes in late February that
way.
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You folk's every lucky enough to see Babette's Feast?

Hold the Lutefish, suck the quail heads!

Wonder full movie.

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"William Wagner" > wrote in message
news
> You folk's every lucky enough to see Babette's Feast?
>
> Hold the Lutefish, suck the quail heads!
>
> Wonder full movie.
>

I agree 100% - terrific movie.


--
Peter Aitken

"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
...
> On Wed 02 Nov 2005 08:35:00a, Shaun aRe wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> > I will be serving this at xmas lunch you know.
>
> Aw gee, Shaun, it's a shame I've accepted a previous invitation for xmas
> lunch.

Indeed Sir it is a SHAME!

> They're serving a joint of beef. :-)

Ah, I see - one to make you hungry for the other!!!

',;~}~



Shaun aRe <Chortle!>

"OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote in message
...
> In article ws.net>,
> "Shaun aRe" > wrote:
>
> > "OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > In article ws.net>,
> > > "Shaun aRe" > wrote:
> > >
> > > > http://netnet.net/~pineaire/Lutefisk.html
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > And it's all true too.
> > > >
> > > > Here is some more truth about caustic cod:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/ic/lutefisk.html
> > > >
> > > > Ya wanna know a way to do this dish from scratch? Well heretisthen:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/...es/luteing.htm
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Have fun and please all - let me know *how yours came out?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Shaun aRe - *I said 'how' not 'where'.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Mom used to make it.
> > > It was delicious. :-)
> > >
> > > Time consuming but good.
> >
> > Really? All I ever get to hear/find are mixed reports, even from those
that
> > make and eat it reg. 'Yes, we like it. No it tastes so I don't want to
eat
> > it often.' etc.
> >
> > Shaun aRe
> >
> >
>
> Mom made it from the salted cod, the stuff that comes in a wooden box.
> She would soak the salt out of it first. It's been years since I've had
> it but I do remember it being VERY delicious served over sliced potatoes
> in a white sauce.
>
> Made properly, it really is very good. I know it might not sound like
> it.....
>
> Cheers!

That sounds like it may be a little different? The lutefisk in the links, is
made from cod that has rotted slightly(?) while drying by the sounds of it,
and then is reconstituted with water and caustic soda, rather than the salt
cod most are familiar with?


Shaun aRe

"Default User" > wrote in message
...
> Shaun aRe wrote:
>
> >
> > "Default User" > wrote in message
> > ...
>
> > > Lutefisk is a practical joke played on unwary vistors, I think.
>
> > Did you read any of that stuff?
>
>
> What do you think?

You more or less repeated the joke that the guy in the first article wrote
of. I'm supposed to think?




Shaun aRe

"hob" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Shaun aRe" > wrote in message
> eenews.net...

> > > Here,
> >
> > Where is that?
> >
> Mpls

? - Sorry, can't figure it from those 4 letters!

> 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. )

Sounds delicious to me mate! Never met a strong cheese of any type I didn't
get along with...

> > > 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

You wanna see my love haggis?

> > > blood kishka,
> >
> > Love black pudding - anything like that?
> >
>
> barley and blood, if memory serves me

Sounds like our black pudding - pigs blood, pigs fat, and barley are the
main ingts.

> > > 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.

That would have me retching at the first bite LOL.

> > > 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.

Oh, I know how it's made! Read up plenty about it, since a lot of the folks
on the Chile-Heads E-list like it.

> 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.

Fair enough. Would still love to try it though.

> > > 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.

Yum? Heheheheheh...

> > > 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)

I've heard about this, only in passing though!

> > > 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) .
>
> ;-)
>
> > ',;~}~

LOL!

Cheers mate! Have a good weekend.


Shaun aRe

"Cindy Fuller" > wrote in message
...
> In article ws.net>,
> "Shaun aRe" > wrote:
>
> > "Cindy Fuller" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > In article ws.net>,
> > > "Shaun aRe" > wrote:
> > >
> > > > http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/...es/luteing.htm
> > >
> > > Alan Zelt has the best lutefisk recipe I've seen. It's in the (now
> > > out-of-print) RFC cookbook. It involves lutefisk, a roaring fire,
> > > gasoline, and Finlandia vodka.
> > >
> > > Cindy
> >
> > LOL! C'mon - elucidate gal!
> >
> >
> A synopsis:
>
> Build fire in pit in backyard. Open bottle of Finlandia and have a
> drink.
>
> Put lutefisk on fire and douse with gasoline. Let lutefisk incinerate
> to ashes.
>
> Finish bottle of Finlandia.
>
> Cindy

Ahh, had many a session like that - seen sheds burn down LOL!

Thanks Cindy.


Shaun aRe

In article ws.net>,
"Shaun aRe" > wrote:

> "OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote in message
> ...
> > In article ws.net>,
> > "Shaun aRe" > wrote:
> >
> > > "OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote in message
> > > ...
> > > > In article ws.net>,
> > > > "Shaun aRe" > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > http://netnet.net/~pineaire/Lutefisk.html
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > And it's all true too.
> > > > >
> > > > > Here is some more truth about caustic cod:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/ic/lutefisk.html
> > > > >
> > > > > Ya wanna know a way to do this dish from scratch? Well heretisthen:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/...es/luteing.htm
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Have fun and please all - let me know *how yours came out?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Shaun aRe - *I said 'how' not 'where'.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Mom used to make it.
> > > > It was delicious. :-)
> > > >
> > > > Time consuming but good.
> > >
> > > Really? All I ever get to hear/find are mixed reports, even from those
> that
> > > make and eat it reg. 'Yes, we like it. No it tastes so I don't want to
> eat
> > > it often.' etc.
> > >
> > > Shaun aRe
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Mom made it from the salted cod, the stuff that comes in a wooden box.
> > She would soak the salt out of it first. It's been years since I've had
> > it but I do remember it being VERY delicious served over sliced potatoes
> > in a white sauce.
> >
> > Made properly, it really is very good. I know it might not sound like
> > it.....
> >
> > Cheers!
>
> That sounds like it may be a little different? The lutefisk in the links, is
> made from cod that has rotted slightly(?) while drying by the sounds of it,
> and then is reconstituted with water and caustic soda, rather than the salt
> cod most are familiar with?
>
>
> Shaun aRe
>
>

Might be... but do try it with salt cod. Mom bought that stuff
specifically to make lutefisk. :-)
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson