[Sca-cooks] Winter comfort food...
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Tue Dec 6 23:53:53 PST 2005
Capt Elias commented:
> > There's a difficult-to-quantify-but-impossible-to-ignore
> lusciousness
> > factor at work here.
>
> Yes...
> Luscious is exactly the word.
> the feeling is not exactly in the mouth though, it is more
> like a warm hearth has been set just behind the top of
> your sternum.
Uh, heartburn? :-)
> I dunno...
> Here's how I am seeing them:
>
> Bechamel Sauce
> Comforting, easy, nurturing - the "June Cleaver" mother sauce
>
> Veloute Sauce
> Healing, nursing, wholesome, filling - the "Jewish Grandmother"
> mother sauce
>
> Espagnole Sauce
> moody, imperative, can make you popular (or completely embarass
> you in front of your friends) - The "Soccer Mom" mother sauce
>
> Hollandaise Sauce
> Rich, Fragile, flighty, but will always impress your friends -
> The "new Stepmother you did not want to like but your friends
> thought was cool, and you do too" mother sauce
>
> Tomato Sauce
> Tart, snappish, but resourceful and throughly reliable - the "Den
> Mother" mother sauce
You guys are... weird.
> > No, I have never seen a shrink in my life...
>
> (Who needs a shrink when you can cook?)
Hmmmm.
Stefan
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