[Sca-cooks] Winter comfort food...

[Stefan li Rous]

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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