Subj : Gardens [1]
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sat Aug 09 2025 01:26 pm
Hi Dave,
DD> And thus is born "fusion" cuisine. Some of which is very nice. But
DD> some dishes should be "left as found". I have things in every cuisine
RH> I think most things are better in their original than in a fusion.
RH> Fusion doesn't always take the best of all contributions and make
RH> something better; sometimes it ends up much worse than any of its
RH> components.
DD> As I said above "Some of which is very nice." And, of course, there
DD> are some dishes which could gag a maggot out of a garbage can.
Steve would count anything made with bittermelon in that category.
Others would include durian. I like them both, in small amounts--can
enjoy more melon than durian tho. (G)
DD> 8<----- ||||| ----->8
RH> found out others in the same line had died young). We needed a cat for
RH> the mousekeeping chores so kept Dog and kept her name.
DD> I'll bet that got some raised eyebrows. I got adopted by a cat that
DD> had been mutilated (de-clawed) who lowwlowed me around like a dog. So
RH> It sure did! And then she had kittens. (G) They were born the day the
RH> Apollo 11 astronauts took off so we designated them Neil, Buzz, Michael
RH> and Diana (Roman goddess of the moon--I was taking Latin in high
RH> school). They all found homes so we kept Dog for some time longer.
DD> And King Chuck's first wife (Ms.Spencer) was not yet Princess Dianna.
DD> Bv)=
RH> Yes, but this Diana was born when the future princess was only 8 years
RH> old and hardly anybody knew her. Besides, the kitten was cuter. (G)
DD> I thought Ms. Spencer was quite attractive despite her blonde hair.
That's your opinion. Besides, what's wrong with being blonde? I was for
my childhood/early adulthood. It turned more brown over the years tho.
DD> I named hor "Spot" not knowing, since I never watched Star Dreck thar
DD> one of the characters in the space opera had a cat named Spot. After
RH> IIRC, that was Data, a robot in "ST; The Next Generation". Steve
RH> enjoyed that show and since the tv was in the living room, I heard it.
DD> An "android". Robots are all electromechanical. Androids have meat on
DD> their framework.
OK, I just knew he wasn't human.
DD> Spot is the cat who slurped the sauce off of the pasta and meat,
DD> leaving iton the saucer when I shared my supper with her one evening.
DD> She was a might hunter - used to bring me bunnies ad birds she had
DD> nailed - and her with no claws on her front end.
RH> Our cats brought home mice, shrews, and the occaisional bird, even
RH> fewer rabbits. More often than not, we would see a few remains and know
RH> that the hunter had found prey.
DD> We had a shop cat at the satellite store. Callie was brought in when
DD> one of the installers got her, barely weaned, from a clinet. Her
DD> mother cat hadn't had time to teach her to hunt and eat her prey. She
DD> would nab a mouse and play with it until its little heart gave out.
DD> Then ignore the thing. Once I put one of her victims in her food dish
DD> hoping she'd get the idea that it was food. Ms. Calico scooped the
DD> mouse onto the floor and started crunching her kibble.
All depends on how they're raised in the first couple of months. I can't
recall our momma cats teaching their young how to hunt; kittens
generally found homes around 8-10 weeks old. By then they knew how to
eat & drink from dishes.
DD> 8<----- CUT ----->8
RH> We get some wierd voice mail translations sometimes. (G)
DD> Usually on words not in its lexicon. So, it makes a "best guess". And
DD> things begin to get weird.
RH> I'll stick with the chicken but if I need to do a vegetarian one, I'll
RH> use tofu.
DD> I likes me cauliflower. I have yet to discover a way that I don't
DD> like.
RH> I like it too, but just thinking about what other alternatives to meat
RH> might work. I'd press the tofu to get most of the water out, then treat
RH> it like the chicken cutlets.
DD> Only place i get tofu on purpose is in hot & sour soup.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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