Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 
From: Sibyl Smirl 
To: Anglican List 
Subject: baaaaaaaaaaack--_again!_  ;^)

Howdy, all y'all,

<snip>
When I come back I should have a whole stomachfull of steak, grilled onions, 
potatoes (haven't decided on fries, Qs, or baked yet, and good Kansas salad 
with blue cheese dressing, including homegrown cherry tomatoes, grown and 
ripened about 30' from where I'll be eating them, in soil including some of 
my own homemade compost.  <snip>

Seeya later.
Love in Christ,
Sibyl Smirl, singing her name to the tune of "It Ain't Necessarily So"
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From: "Gaynor McCartney" 

Yum Yum..
I do wish I lived next door to you Sibyl.
BTW what are Qs  ?

We are having liver and bacon with boiled tatoes, carrots and steamed
cabbage and the inevitable boiled onions.

Your steak, grilled onions, and tomatoes make my mouth water.

Enjoy your feast.
Blessings,
Gaynor
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From: Sibyl Smirl

> BTW what are Qs  ?

It's short for "Suzie-Q", a kind of curly, thin French Fry (do they call
those the same thing in NZ?  I understand they call them "English Fries" in
France) that are cut by clamping the potato in a thing like a hand lathe
that turns it, and comes out with very long and curly, and a little bit
thinner French Fry when they're deep fried.  Some of my posts I call it the
BBQ place, name at this time is 400 Grill--used to be Crestline Barbecue,
but they changed the name when they stopped specializing in BBQ.  The
father is a master cook at meat, either BBQ or the standard ways of cooking
it, and he's teaching his son.

This evening, though, they hadn't had enough cherry tomatoes in their
garden ripening for all the customers today, and my salad had large
tomatoes cut up, from somebody else's garden (lots of people bring salad
stuff in there), still good.  I had a baked potato with sour cream, butter,
and fresh-ground pepper from the hand mill.  The baked were "normal"
tonight, in a foil wrapper which I don't care so much for, but quite edible
(I'm not crazy about the "steamed" effect on the skin when done that way.) 
When he feels like it, he brushes the baking potatoes with olive oil and
rolls them in kosher salt, bakes them on a pan without foil, which _really_
comes out delicious.

They hadn't made a pie tonight, but I wouldn't have had room for it anyway.
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From: Ann Markle 

> It's short for "Suzie-Q", a kind of curly, thin French Fry  . . . .

We call 'em curly-cue fries.  And there's a bowling alley here in Buffalo 
that cuts them on that little hand-crank thing, too.  Yum!  There's nothing 
I hate more than going to a restaurant and getting those frozen, spiced ones, 
when I expected fresh.

Your dinner sounds Yum -- especially all that high fat, artery-clogging 
stuff on the potato -- which I LOVE.
Ann
The Rev. Ann Markle
Williamsville, NY
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From: "Hagen, Susan" 
Subject: Taters/RE: baaaaaaaaaaack--_again!_  ;^)

> The baked were "normal" tonight, in a foil wrapper . . . . 

Now here's a thread I can sink my teeth in!  

Sibyl, 
I agree with you wholeheartedly.  The point of baking a potato is to dry it
a little and make it crusty on the outside and fluffy on the inside.  You
defeat the whole purpose if you wrap it in foil.  You might as well just
boil it.

How about some favorite potato recipes here today?  My daddy was a
mid-western German farm boy and as far as he was concerned, if there weren't
potatoes it wasn't really dinner.  He could also detect instant mashed
potatoes from fifty paces.

I've got to try this olive oil and kosher salt way.  Maybe tonight even.

Susan
Who likes them baked, mashed, scalloped, roasted or just about any other way
you can name.
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From: Andrew Auld 

Sweet bodadoes.  Yams, actually - cheaper n' better.

SEE RECIPE: Baked Sweet Bodadoes

Goes with EVERYTHING.  Much better for you that those white contraptions.

- pax -
Andrew's $0.02
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From: "J. Weigel" 

> Sweet bodadoes.  Yams, actually - cheaper n' better.
> Scraped & baked.  Oiled if done on the upper rack of the grill.

    Oh yeah! Butter and cinnamon, definitely. Frequently lunch
for me in the winter. Or you can make sweet potato fries . . . .

SEE RECIPE: Sweet Potato Fries

Jay, who thinks candied yams are an abomination