[Sca-cooks] Seljuk/Rumi/Sufi Cuisine

[Elaine Koogler]

Well, who said phobias were logical, pray tell?  For whatever reason, I
cannot deal with the texture of raw oysters...the same way I cannot deal
with eggs that are undercooked...they have to be cooked until the white is
solid and that funky slimy part is solid.  So far as oysters are concerned,
they only have to be cooked just enough to solidify them...I have had them
pulled directly from the Bay, put on a grill just long enough to let them
cook a bit in their own juices...dipped in butter, they were to die for.
But for whatever reason...I just can't get a raw one into my mouth without
gagging!

Call me silly, illogical, whatever.  But there it is!  Oh, and by the way, I
grew up unable to eat okra the way my grandmother (south Georgia) fixed
it...she steamed it to the point that even my father referred to it as
"slick willy".  Only when I discovered that it could be sliced, dipped in
cornmeal and fried could I eat it...and am now seriously addicted to it
cooked that way!

Kiri

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius <
adamantius1 at verizon.net> wrote:

>
> On Apr 29, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Elaine Koogler wrote:
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> > So far as oysters are concerned, my favorite way to eat them is fried.
>  It's
> > too bad that the restaurant in Yorktown that used to make such good ones
> is
> > gone (Nick's Seafood Pavilion...my favorite place to eat when I was in
> > school at W&M).  I do not eat them raw though I'm sure Master A is
> > absolutely correct about the flavor.  I have a problem, bordering on a
> > phobia, with slimy things...I can't even watch the movie Alien without
> > leaving the room when "She" comes on the screen and does her "thing."  I
> > have also had a wonderful casserole made with oysters.  And my mother
> used
> > to make wonderful oyster stew.
> I
> A little exercise here: name a slimy food, please. One that actually
> contains or is covered with, slime. Arguably, okra? Zucchini? The last raw
> oyster I touched, it was what was known as wet, what with having been in the
> ocean and all...
>
> Are you sure your issue is not with putrescence?
>
> Adamantius
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> "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."
>                        -- Rabbi Israel Salanter
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