Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]We had a delicious gumbo yesterday made from a roux and the holy trinity, plus collards, dandelion greens, kale and ham hocks with andouille sausage added at the end. It was almost vegetarian! Cornbread from our ground corn was cooked with bacon fat and our eggs ;-) There is enough left for lunch today. Tina On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: > The vegetable variety available here in the states is safe and fairly > interesting. One can eat vegetarian meals all the time, but it takes > ingenuity to understand how to cook them, and often it takes a long time to > coax the elusive flavor from them. > > My Sister in Law is a Vegan, and has attempted to get me to make a > Vegetarian Gumbo, and I fear I would be thrown out of Louisiana if I > complied. > > I'm afraid I will continue to take the risk as statistically you could eat > several thousand oysters in Louisiana without running into a bad one, which > is more than I can say for broccoli. ;-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at > gmail.com > >wrote: > > > I said less health risk, not no health risk - any way, over here it is > > all slow food as far as veggies are concerned (-: > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Depends entirely upon what veggies you eat, how they are grown, cleaned > > and prepared. > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > > Sonny Carter > > > http://www.SonC.com/look > > > > > > > > >> On Feb 16, 2014, at 9:12 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at > > >> gmail.com> > > wrote: > > >> > > >> Simplest to turn vegetarian, far less health risk, on the whole...(-: > > >> Cheers > > >> Jayanand > > >> > > >>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:44 PM, <lrzeitlin at aol.com> wrote: > > >>> Tina, > > >>> This is why oysters were so cheap. Keep your medical insurance paid > > up. The following is an extract from "PUFFIN: An Intracoastal Waterway > Log > > or 28 Days Before the Mast." I do hope conditions have changed since I > > published this a couple of decades ago. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> "We passed many fishing boats along the waterway in South > > Carolina and a couple of oyster dredges. The oyster boats scoured the > > bottom with a conveyer belt system that scooped up everything on the > river > > bed and brought it to the surface on its moving belt. Crewmen picked out > > the desirable oysters and clams from amidst the old tires and shoes > before > > the belt rotated downward toward the bottom again. The residue was dumped > > back in the water. These boats appeared to pay not the slightest > attention > > to the signs?posted every few hundred yards?prohibiting oyster dredging > in > > polluted areas. Raw oysters and clams suddenly dropped several places on > my > > seafood appetizer list.? > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> Several small boats were loaded so heavily with oysters that > > the gunwales were only an inch or two above the water. A slight wave > would > > have swamped them and liberated the oysters. We stopped for the night at > > Cedar Creek, the last potential anchorage before crossing Pamlico Sound." > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> Larry Z > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> _______________________________________________ > > >>> Leica Users Group. > > >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Leica Users Group. > > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > -- > Regards, > > Sonny > http://sonc.com/look/ > Natchitoches, Louisiana > 1714 > Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase > > USA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com