1. I made burritos in my daughter's apartment in southern France last
week. They were good.

2. On New Year's Eve, I drank champagne and played dominoes in a cheap
hotel in Biarritz.

You can take the boy outta Texas, but...


modom

"modom" > wrote

> 1. I made burritos in my daughter's apartment in southern France last
> week. They were good.
>
> 2. On New Year's Eve, I drank champagne and played dominoes in a cheap
> hotel in Biarritz.
>
> You can take the boy outta Texas, but...

That's really funny. Welcome home?

nancy

One time on Usenet, somebody said:

> 1. I made burritos in my daughter's apartment in southern France last
> week. They were good.
>
> 2. On New Year's Eve, I drank champagne and played dominoes in a cheap
> hotel in Biarritz.
>
> You can take the boy outta Texas, but...

Ohhh, Michael -- I envy you. The most exciting trip I'll be
taking anytime soon is to Disneyland in March. Sound like you
had a good time... :-)


--
Jani in WA (S'mee)
~ mom, Trollop, novice cook ~

"modom" > wrote in message
...
> 1. I made burritos in my daughter's apartment in southern France last
> week. They were good.
>
> 2. On New Year's Eve, I drank champagne and played dominoes in a cheap
> hotel in Biarritz.
>
> You can take the boy outta Texas, but...

but, but, but, you didn't come to Scotland

One time on Usenet, "Ophelia" > said:
> "modom" > wrote in message
> ...

> > 1. I made burritos in my daughter's apartment in southern France last
> > week. They were good.
> >
> > 2. On New Year's Eve, I drank champagne and played dominoes in a cheap
> > hotel in Biarritz.
> >
> > You can take the boy outta Texas, but...
>
> but, but, but, you didn't come to Scotland

That's somewhere else that I'd like to visit. Then again, I was a huge
B.C. Rollers fan in the late '70's too... ;-)


--
Jani in WA (S'mee)
~ mom, Trollop, novice cook ~

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:15:08 -0500, "Nancy Young" >
wrote:

>
>"modom" > wrote
>
>> 1. I made burritos in my daughter's apartment in southern France last
>> week. They were good.
>>
>> 2. On New Year's Eve, I drank champagne and played dominoes in a cheap
>> hotel in Biarritz.
>>
>> You can take the boy outta Texas, but...
>
>That's really funny. Welcome home?
>
And what a welcome we got! The sewers backed up last night. First
flush. We'd been up for over 20 hours by then and travelling about 18
of those. We've got one smelly shower right now, but the plumbers
(bless 'em) just pulled up with a big ass power snake.

Wish us luck.


modom

"S'mee" > wrote in message
...
> One time on Usenet, "Ophelia" > said:
>> "modom" > wrote in message
>> ...
>
>> > 1. I made burritos in my daughter's apartment in southern France
>> > last
>> > week. They were good.
>> >
>> > 2. On New Year's Eve, I drank champagne and played dominoes in a
>> > cheap
>> > hotel in Biarritz.
>> >
>> > You can take the boy outta Texas, but...
>>
>> but, but, but, you didn't come to Scotland
>
> That's somewhere else that I'd like to visit. Then again, I was a huge
> B.C. Rollers fan in the late '70's too... ;-)

ahhh they have disappeared into the mist of time.................

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:51:49 GMT, "Ophelia" > wrote:

>
>"modom" > wrote in message
.. .
>> 1. I made burritos in my daughter's apartment in southern France last
>> week. They were good.
>>
>> 2. On New Year's Eve, I drank champagne and played dominoes in a cheap
>> hotel in Biarritz.
>>
>> You can take the boy outta Texas, but...
>
>but, but, but, you didn't come to Scotland
>
Nope, and I didn't eat any haggis either. But I did have fois gras.
And some lovely wine. Anybody know if there's a source for Gaillac
vin rouge here in the USA?


modom

modom wrote:

> Nope, and I didn't eat any haggis either. But I did have fois gras.
> And some lovely wine. Anybody know if there's a source for Gaillac
> vin rouge here in the USA?

If they ship to your state...

http://www.kermitlynch.com/pgshipping.html

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On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:38:09 GMT, Reg > wrote:

>modom wrote:
>
>> Nope, and I didn't eat any haggis either. But I did have fois gras.
>> And some lovely wine. Anybody know if there's a source for Gaillac
>> vin rouge here in the USA?
>
>If they ship to your state...
>
>http://www.kermitlynch.com/pgshipping.html

Not to Texas, and I didn't see Gaillac on their list of offerings.
Did I just miss it? Somebody in France told me wines from that area
aren't exported from France at all. More's the pity.


modom

modom > wrote:
> 1. I made burritos in my daughter's apartment in southern France last
> week. They were good.

Where did you get tortillas in southern France? I've lived
there, and can't remember ever seeing them.

Did you make them from scratch? Or use crepes?

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================================================== ======================
"All of my mistakes are giving me ideas." - Natalie Lileks

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 05:37:43 +0000 (UTC), Mark Shaw
> wrote:

>modom > wrote:
>> 1. I made burritos in my daughter's apartment in southern France last
>> week. They were good.
>
>Where did you get tortillas in southern France? I've lived
>there, and can't remember ever seeing them.
>
>Did you make them from scratch? Or use crepes?

Crepes would've been funny. Really funny. But we found a burrito
"kit" in a Champion grocery store. Old El Paso, in fact.
Globalization is scary. We tossed the spice mix and used garlic,
oregano, cumin and some chiles we brought with us to season the meat.


modom

modom > wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 05:37:43 +0000 (UTC), Mark Shaw
> > wrote:

> >modom > wrote:
> >> 1. I made burritos in my daughter's apartment in southern France last
> >> week. They were good.
> >
> >Where did you get tortillas in southern France? I've lived
> >there, and can't remember ever seeing them.
> >
> >Did you make them from scratch? Or use crepes?

> Crepes would've been funny. Really funny.

Well, you should have seen the "tacos" I got at a "Tex-Mex"
restaurant on the Bord de Mer in Villaneuve-Loubet. They were
pretty funny, too. They were grilled.

Not bad, though.

> But we found a burrito
> "kit" in a Champion grocery store. Old El Paso, in fact.
> Globalization is scary. We tossed the spice mix and used garlic,
> oregano, cumin and some chiles we brought with us to season the meat.

Ah.

Me, I miss being able to buy canned cassoulet. And decent
bread, of course.

--
Mark Shaw
================================================== ======================
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny....'" - Isaac Asimov

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:28:17 +0000 (UTC), Mark Shaw
> wrote:

>Well, you should have seen the "tacos" I got at a "Tex-Mex"
>restaurant on the Bord de Mer in Villaneuve-Loubet. They were
>pretty funny, too. They were grilled.
>
>Not bad, though.

I saw a Tex-Mex joint in Biarritz (I think it was there, not in
Montauban), but passed it by. The duck confit and the terrines de
pays (sp?) and the cured duck breast on chevre were more the point
where we were. I live in Texas when I'm not on vacation. Tex-Mex I
can get. Can't get away from it, actually.
>
>> But we found a burrito
>> "kit" in a Champion grocery store. Old El Paso, in fact.
>> Globalization is scary. We tossed the spice mix and used garlic,
>> oregano, cumin and some chiles we brought with us to season the meat.
>
>Ah.

I forgot to mention that we put lots of garlic in the meat, too.
>
>Me, I miss being able to buy canned cassoulet. And decent
>bread, of course.

Love that bread, too. I also got a lot of pleasure from visiting the
bucherie near my daughter's apartment. The guy really wanted to show
me what good meat tastes like -- to the extent that he sold me
something I didn't ask for on a couple of occasions. I took to
calling him the meat Nazi. But he was right. He knew stuff about
meat that I didn't. He was the reason I bought onglets one evening.
Yum.


modom

modom wrote:
> [snip] I also got a lot of pleasure from visiting the
> bucherie near my daughter's apartment. The guy really wanted to show
> me what good meat tastes like -- to the extent that he sold me
> something I didn't ask for on a couple of occasions. I took to
> calling him the meat Nazi. But he was right. He knew stuff about
> meat that I didn't. He was the reason I bought onglets one evening.
> Yum.

Picture and description of onglet here. I'm going to print it out and
take it to my butcher. -aem

http://www.switcheroo.com/MeatBeefB&F.html

aem > wrote:

> modom wrote:
> > [snip] I also got a lot of pleasure from visiting the
> > bucherie near my daughter's apartment. The guy really wanted to show
> > me what good meat tastes like -- to the extent that he sold me
> > something I didn't ask for on a couple of occasions. I took to
> > calling him the meat Nazi. But he was right. He knew stuff about
> > meat that I didn't. He was the reason I bought onglets one evening.
> > Yum.
>
> Picture and description of onglet here. I'm going to print it out and
> take it to my butcher. -aem
>
> http://www.switcheroo.com/MeatBeefB&F.html

Why not just ask for a hanger steak?

Victor

Victor Sack wrote:
>
> Why not just ask for a hanger steak?
>
1. I didn't know that's what 'onglet' meant when Odom wrote it.

2. I've never seen hangar steak at my butcher's. [Then again, I've
never known to look for it.]

3. I thought the pictures and descriptions on that page were pretty
good. -aem

On 22 Jan 2006 16:50:04 -0800, "aem" > wrote:

>Victor Sack wrote:
>>
>> Why not just ask for a hanger steak?
>>
>1. I didn't know that's what 'onglet' meant when Odom wrote it.
>
I learned it from Bourdain's Les Halles cookbook. I think that's
where it came up first, anyway.

>2. I've never seen hangar steak at my butcher's. [Then again, I've
>never known to look for it.]

Bourdain says (as the Web site you visited also does) that it's also
called a butcher's steak because they take them home for themselves,
the rascals. I've never seen it in an American butcher shop either,
>
>3. I thought the pictures and descriptions on that page were pretty
>good. -aem

I loved the steaks we got in France. But the butcher split the cut
pictured in the Web site. I didn't cook anything that thick. I read
somewhere that there's a natural division in the cut between two
muscles. You need to separate them and remove some connective tissue
before cooking.


modom

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:54:02 +0100, (Victor Sack)
wrote:

>aem > wrote:
>
>> modom wrote:
>> > [snip] I also got a lot of pleasure from visiting the
>> > bucherie near my daughter's apartment. The guy really wanted to show
>> > me what good meat tastes like -- to the extent that he sold me
>> > something I didn't ask for on a couple of occasions. I took to
>> > calling him the meat Nazi. But he was right. He knew stuff about
>> > meat that I didn't. He was the reason I bought onglets one evening.
>> > Yum.
>>
>> Picture and description of onglet here. I'm going to print it out and
>> take it to my butcher. -aem
>>
>> http://www.switcheroo.com/MeatBeefB&F.html
>
>Why not just ask for a hanger steak?
>
That probably wouldn't help much in many American markets. I very
rarely go to a butcher shop since the one over in Caddo Mills closed
last summer, and the local market is just about hopeless.

I must say it's better than Wal Mart, though. I ran over there last
night late because I was going to start a stock and wanted to augment
my bone supply. The only bones I saw in their meat dept. were in
T-bone steaks. Nary a bone to be had.


modom