[Sca-cooks] Fwd: Lunar New Year food photos...

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Sue Clemenger:
>Worked just fine for me! (dang, but I'd love to have the opportunity 
>to eat your cooking!)
>What's with the parrot in the first picture, though? <g>

That was the chicken we used for the drunken chicken... "He tasked 
me, Joaquin. He tasked me, and I swore I would have him!" [Ricardo 
Montalban voice and accent off/]. He won't be shredding the Rolodex 
cards any more, I can tell you... okay, so Countess Brekke saw him 
alive and well the following day, but one of these days, Stosh, one 
of these days... Pow, right in the beak! And yes, he's just taken a 
bath in that photo, so is at his scrawny, grouchy-old-lovebird best. 
He's normally rather attractive, and labors under the distinct 
impression, one of which I have been unable to disabuse him, that he 
is cute. Obviously, simmering him with ginger, scallion and ng ga pei 
liqueur is the way to go...

>--maire, in amazingly snowy artemisia, who will be stuck having 
>nasty, old taco casserole leftovers for dinner....*sigh*

I'm not quite at the point where I dream of a good bowl of chili, but 
give me maybe another 48 hours... the eye is beginning to twitch 
involuntarily at the sight of white rice... I will say, though, that 
the striped bass held up surprisingly well after being reheated 
_twice_; we finally finished them tonight.

Adamantius