[Sca-cooks] Winter comfort food...

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Dec 5, 2005, at 11:31 AM, Jeff Gedney wrote:

> Chilled Cornmeal Polenta, sliced 3/8 inch thick,
> dredged in flour, and fried in sweet butter till
> crispy and deep brown.
> Served on a plate with whipped butter and real
> maple syrup.
> Add a fresh cup of real good home roasted coffee.
> Makes my day every time.

Question: If you put maple syrup on it, are you allowed by  
International Law to call it polenta and not mush?

Hey, I'm up for it in concept; don't get me wrong. My question is  
purely one of nomenclature.

>
> Real Pea soup with lots of ham.
>
> Also freshly hashed real chunked Corned beef with
> potatoes, Sweet peppers and onions, an fresh egg,
> over easy, and an English muffin with butter and
> REAL orange marmelade...
>
> Mmmmm
>
> There is a little lunch and breakfast place in Essex
> Connecticut called "the Whistle Stop" that hashes
> Corned beef per order on the grill from chunks, the
> best I have had.
> Nothing like that cat food looking stuff you get in
> the can.
> I am perfectly willing to drive the hour and a half
> to get breakfast there for that stuff.
> I try to get my fix at least once a month.
>
> mmmmmm....
>
> Damn, Now I am jonesing for it again.
> So much for getting anything done today
>
> My Ex mother-in-law, bless her soul, used to make me
> yankee Red Flannel Hash that laways said "home" to me,
> too.

I was talking to my mother about this yesterday, and she said that  
_her_ mother (she who had singlehandedly defeated a group of KKK  
riders -- well, walkers, maybe, with a broom and invective at twenty  
paces) used to make a thick macaroni soup from only milk, flour,  
butter, onion, nutmeg, salt and pepper, and a cooked macaroni product  
that resembled soda straws, like perciatelli, but with a larger  
diameter opening.

Ah, the healing power of bechamel... ;-)

Adamantius


"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la  
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
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