From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #679 Reply-To: ammf@smoe.org Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Monday, September 28 1998 Volume 01 : Number 679 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: What would you make....? ["Aye, who's asking whom?" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 02:55:39 GMT From: "Aye, who's asking whom?" Subject: Re: What would you make....? There's only one dish I make that really stands out as "something I'd offer people I respect and I know they wouldn't dump": pasta ghi sard (Sicilian for "pasta con sardi", or pasta in sardine sauce). I hear you saying "ewwwww, sardines? I thought you said you respect them?" You're thinking of the little tins of oil-packed sardines wrapped in paper with depictions of Norwegian sea captains from 1930. I have bigger fish to fry here -- large sardines, the kind you get in the Spanish foods section of a supermarket. They come with bones, but the spine and notochord (I love that word) come out in a single piece when you cut the segments lengthwise with a spatula. Pasta is the easy part (spaghettini are best for the job, as vermicelli and angel hair tedn to be too fine for the fish to cling properly). Second-easiest is the sardine (heat skillet, heat some olive oil to coat skillet, toss in large tin of sardines or three small tins after deboning, and lay into them with the spatula until they... well, until you think they go into the sauce). The tomato sauce is only hard if you've never done one before. I suppose I could just give out my family recipe, but I've changed the recipe from what my mom wrote down from her mother-in-law so that I could whip up a sauce in less than 10 minutes. It's not only a good sauce, but it's cheap to make and it's probably even vegan for all I know. If I get a few requests, I'll type up a proper recipe. Last is that you don't sprinkle cheese on this dish! You make modega, or toasted breadcrumbs. Heat up a dry, dry skillet and pout in a 1/4 cup of bread crumbs. Stir constantly. Bread crumbs cook geometrically: one minute, they look the same as in the can, and two minutes later they're soot. So keep some uncooked ones nearby as a visual reference, and take the crumbs out of the pan when they reach a Mediterranean or Jian-esque skin tone. You'll have to change the post-skillet bowl about twice, as the crumbs are HOT and need to be cool; bowls will absorb the heat. Okay, enough Julia Child for me, but that's what I'd cook. I'd serve a dry red wine and hope I wouldn't have to teach anyone proper pasta twirling technique. - --tied to my apron string, Dante ------------------------------ Date: 28 Sep 1998 03:17:00 GMT From: dot0926@aol.com (Dot0926) Subject: Re: What would you make....? >JSmooth69 wrote: >> >> So I was wondering, if you had the guys over for dinner one night, what >would >> you cook for them? > > well, being a poor, unfed and sleep deprived college freshman, all i really could provide is what is currently in my cabinet and refrigerator: half a box of peanut butter cap'n crunch, lots and lots of black coffee, kraft macaroni and cheeze, jelly (no bread), and v8 juice.....oh, and i would also donate the pieces of my still life, a peach, an apple, a pear and 4 cherry tomatoes (and cloth and some coins, but i doubt that anyone would want to eat that.) all of this, of course is a moot point, as my dorm is so small, the frulads never could fit inside to have dinner :) - -nora ********************* "the story you are about to see is a fib, but it's short." - - mathnet (square one) nora cohen (CoheN112@newschool.edu) or (dot0926@aol.com.....at least for a while) snafru on irc **************** ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 22:34:48 -0000 From: "pam :)" Subject: Re: What would you make....? Well, since I can't cook (and I wouldn't even WANT to try to make something fancy the guys in fear I'd burn down my dorm) I'd just take them across the street to Mother Bear's. (Sit-down Italian eatery.) I have not found one person yet that I haven't converted to loving Mother Bear's! :) - -- pam :) Live life for today before tomorrow is gone... JSmooth69 wrote in message <19980927162939.13640.00002406@ng-fc2.aol.com>... > >I was just looking through a webpage for my other favorite musical artist, Tori >Amos, and I saw a little poll question of what would you make for Tori if you >had her over for dinner? > >So I was wondering, if you had the guys over for dinner one night, what would >you cook for them? > >I'm not a very good cook, so I'd make the only think I know how to make, >spaghetti, ravioli, or lasagna. > >just curious, >Jason >Superintelligent shade of the color blue >Lover of Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters >"Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the >bridge. Call the job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't." -Marvin, The Paranoid >Android ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #679 ********************************************