[Sca-cooks] Cooking steaks was Re: lethal drinks

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Jul 23, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Lady Celia wrote:

> Adamantius said:
>
> <<You want torture???>>
> ...
>
> <<How do I convince people that what I am _actually_ ogling are the
> stone crocks of kim chee that the grandmother keeps out on the balcony
> and turns every day to keep them in the shade?>>
>
> OMG!
>
> When you said "You want torture???" the *first* thing that came to  
> mind was
> the summer that I lived next to a Vietnamese family and learned what  
> kim
> chee was...

Sauerkraut with garlic and chilies, which improve it vastly...

I recall travelling through the Adirondacks and driving through a  
town, whose name  escapes me, but which billed itself as the  
Sauerkraut Capital of the USA. It was surrounded by cabbage farms and  
processing plants large and small. I probably only imagined birds  
dropping spontaneously from the sky overhead...

Adamantius




"Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls,  
when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's  
bellies."
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