[Sca-cooks] OT OOP What do you call ... leftovers

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Aug 29, 2007, at 3:01 PM, Stefan li Rous wrote:

> <<< For example, the chunk of roast leg of lamb I found the other  
> night
> was shredded, frizzled up on one side in  an iron skillet,
> reseasoned, and eaten as pseudo-schwarma with pitas, tahini, and
> lettuce, cucumber, onion, etc.
>
> Adamantius  >>>
>
> Oh my. Even his leftovers are gourmet.:-)
>
> Stefan
>
> What's a "schwarma"? Sounds like the makings for a Gyro, though...

It's a Turkish near-equivalent, now found all over the Arab-speaking  
Middle East and Israel. I vaguely remember reading about gyros being  
"invented" in Greece as a commercial variant using an electric  
vertical rotisserie called a Gyro. The main difference is that  
schwarma, also spelled shwarma or shawarma, which is apparently  
derived from a Turkish expression meaning "turning spit", is made by  
stacking up sliced or flat slabs of muscle meat, things like flank or  
boneless breast or skirt meat, or chicken breasts, sometimes layered  
with sliced fat, and then mounting the stack on the spit. A gyro is  
seasoned and cooked, and often served, similarly, but the meat is  
generally ground.

When you slice the browned schwarma off the main mass on the spit,  
the layers tend to fuse together somewhat, sometimes giving it a sort  
of streaky-bacon appearance, but the strips tend to fall apart a bit  
while you're eating it, which is why my jerry-rigged leftover  
schwarma seemed appropriate.

Adamantius