[Sca-cooks] oddities of stuff, was canned gravy??????

[Kirsten Houseknecht]

my mom occasionally strings celery.
i understand that many of the relatives on both sides and back string
celery... i never understood it myslef except for the most tough and
"stringy" bits..... and usually those get chopped into stock, so it doesnt
matter.
it seems to be an "issue" with some of my family.

likewise the norwegian side peels all radishes! they looked at me eating a
whole radish like i ate peanut shells or something.....

and the absolute insistance on "peeling" a cucumber is . odd to say the
least.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christine Seelye-King"
> Stephan pined:
> >For Thanksgiving we did have a good giblet gravy, but my
> >mother-in-law doesn't put hard boiled eggs in hers, ehich I like.
> >And there really wasn't that much and it ran out long before the
> >leftover turkey did.
>
> added chopped hard boiled eggs.  I was appalled.  I ate some to be nice,
but
> never liked it, although I don't have anything against h.b. eggs.  They
just
> don't belong in my gravy.
.  It was also the first time I'd ever
> seen anyone stringing celery stalks.  (Using a knife to cut away a small
> section at one end, then pulling along the back to remove the fibers
running
> lenghthwise.