SC - period frog recipes?

[harper@idt.net]

Adamantius wrote:
>[Frogs] are pretty easy to find frozen in three-or-five-pound boxes, like
>shrimp, at a good Asian market (a lot of frog's legs are imported from
>Indonesia, apparently), or you may be able to order them in your fish market.

Yeah, Indonesia was my primary experience with frog's legs. A number 
of times we went to the seafood restaurants which are entirely 
open-air and generally run by Chinese. They are very popular with all 
Indonesians who can afford to eat in restaurants.

I don't know the entire process, but the frog's legs were cooked with 
butter (probably margarine) and soy sauce and garlic - i think that 
was it. Ab Fab. It's what i always ordered every time we went there.

I wouldn't go so far as to say the frogs are "domesticated", but, 
given the ecology of Indonesia, i wouldn't be surprised if the frogs 
are intentionally raised in human-made ponds or sawah, the name for 
wet rice fields, not padi - which is the name for raw rice that's 
just been harvested - uncooked rice is beras - cooked rice is nasi. 
And besides white rice (long grain) there are red rice (medium grain) 
and black rice (short grain), and NO nasty brown rice.

There is a whole complex ecology of sawah, which has been ruined in 
areas that use commercial pesticides. The sawah are drained after 
harvest, then while the ground is still moist, with a bit of water 
still sitting on it, the rice seedlings which were sprouted in a 
special sawah, are planted at the proper spacing, some time soon 
after, the sawah are flooded again. Fish breed in them, frogs live in 
them, ducks swim and feed in them (i ate duck eggs by accident, 
tasted rather, uh, fishy; probably wouldn't have been such a surprise 
if i'd known what i was getting), etc.

Anahita al-shazhiyya
who rejected having an Indonesian persona because it's too damn cold here