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assistant: * Crossposted from: (FidoNet) RECIPES
MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.02
      Title: GRILLED EMU FILLET WITH RIBERRY SAUCE
 Categories: Ostrich/emu, Main dish
      Yield: 4 servings
MMMMM----------------SOURCE: AUSTRALIAN GOURMET T---------------------
    600    Emu fillets
      2 ts Cardamom pods
      1 tb Ground coriander
    1/2 ts Five-berry mixture or mixed
           -pink and green peppercorns,
           Ground
      3    Cloves of garlic
     80    (1/3 cup) raspberry vinegar
    750    (3 cups) good beef stock
    1/2 ts Mustard seed oil
    150    Riberries (available frozen
           -from specialty food stores
           -stocking Bush
           Tucker products)
  Trim any sinew or "silver" skin from fillets.  Using a mortar and
  pestle, pound cardamom pods to release seeds; discard pods.  Add
  coriander, berry mixture, garlic and vinegar and pound to a paste.
  Spread over fillets, cover and stand at room temperature for 1-2
  hours. Reduce beef stock by boiling to about 375ml (1 1/2 cups). Keep
  warm. Brush a cast-iron grill pan (with removable or ovenproof
  handle) with mustard seed oil and heat on top of the stove until very
  hot. Cook fillets for 1 minute on each side. Transfer pan to a 220C
  oven and bake for 5 minutes - no longer. Remove pan from oven,
  transfer fillets to a warm plate and stand for 5 minutes, Add the
  thawed riberries to reduced stock and bring to the boil. Serve meat
  sliced thinly on the diagonal, with sauce spooned over. Note 1:
  Five-berry mixture is black, white, pink, Jamaica and green
  peppercorns, with coriander seeds, and is sold as such.  Note 2: A
  range of products is available by mail order from Bush Tucker Supply
  Australia, PO Box B103, Boronia Park, NSW 2111, (02) 817 1060, fax
  (02) 817 3587.
  Submitted By SHERREE JOHANSSON   On   09-01-94
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assistant: * Crossposted from: (FidoNet) RECIPES
MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.02
      Title: FIESTA EMU BURGERS
 Categories: Poultry, Ostrich/emu
      Yield: 4 servings
      1 lb Ground Emu
           Taco seasoning mix
      4    Hamburger buns
           Sour cream
           Cheddar cheese
           Tomatoes
           Lettuce
  1. Mix ground emu with taco seasoning. Form into 4 patties.
  2. Cook over very hot grill or in skillet over high heat 4 to 5
  minutes per side.
  3. Spread buns with sour cream, if using.  Add emu patties, cheese,
  lettuce and tomatoes, if desired.
  Nutritional Information: per serving: 244 calories, 4g fat, 26g
  protein, 22g carbohydrates, 1g dietary fiber, 43mg cholesterol, 479mg
  sodium Percentage of calories from fat  33%
  **  Chicago Sun Times - Food section - 29 November 1995  **
  Scanned and formatted for you by  The WEE Scot  --  paul macGregor
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assistant: * Crossposted from: (FidoNet) RECIPES
MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.02
      Title: EMU STEAK AU POIVRE
 Categories: Poultry, Ostrich/emu
      Yield: 4 servings
    1/2 c  Black peppercorns
      4    Emu steaks; 4oz each
    1/4 c  Oil
    1/3 c  Cognac
      1 c  Heavy cream
      2 tb Cognac
           Salt to taste
  1. Place peppercorns in press-closure baggie. Crush with a hammer.
  Lightly coat both sides of steaks with peppercorns.
  2. Heat oil in large skillet. Saute steaks over medium-high heat
  until rare or medium rare (3-4 minutes per side). Remove from pan and
  discard oil.
  3. Return steaks to pan, add 1/3 cup cognac. Cook over high heat until
  cognac is reduced to about 3 tablespoons. Remove steaks to serving
  platter and keep warm. Add cream to pan; cook and stir over high heat
  until cream boils and thickens. Add 2 teaspoons cognac and salt.
  Spoon sauce over steaks and serve.
  Nutritional Information: per serving: 362 calories, 27g fat, 26g
  protein, 2g carbohydrates, 0g dietary fiber, 109mg cholesterol, 154mg
  sodium calories from fat  239
  **  Chicago Sun Times - Food section - 29 November 1995  **
  Scanned and formatted for you by  The WEE Scot  --  paul macGregor
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assistant: * Crossposted from: (FidoNet) RECIPES
MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.02
      Title: OSTRICH STEAK
 Categories: Poultry, Ostrich/emu
      Yield: 4 servings
      4    Ostrich steaks;  4oz
    1/4 ts Lemon pepper
    1/4 ts Garlic salt
      2 tb Worcestershire sauce
  1. Sprinkle spices and Worcestershire over steaks.
  2 After high temperature has been reached on indoor or outdoor grill,
  place steaks on rack long enough to sear rack marks on the steaks.
  Turn steaks a quarter-turn to create diamond shapes. Continue cooking
  on each side until the juices run clear or internal temperature
  reaches 150 degrees (medium done).
  From Ostrich, Premier Red Meat of the Next Century, from the
       American Ostrich Association.
  Nutritional Information: per serving: 124 calories, 1g fat, 26g
  protein, 1g carbohydrates, 0g dietary fiber, 43mg cholesterol, 224mg
  sodium Percentage of calories from fat  12% ** Chicago Sun Times -
  Food section - 29 November 1995  **
  Scanned and formatted for you by  The WEE Scot  --  paul macGregor
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system: You are Gabi Shahar, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Inter. Cooking message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Christine Kasupski about "Re: spices".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Christine Kasupski to Heather Tucker <=-
CK> RE: Worcestershire sauce
CK> BY: Heather Tucker to All on Sun May 05 1996 10:47:10
> I got this powder from a mail-order spice company named Spices, etc. which
CK> Umm... not to cause any offense whatsoever... but in NY there's
CK> "International" stores where we can pick up things like powdered
CK> Worcestershire sauce, I am going to call and get a catalog..
CK> But have you checked on prices? <Cost is important to me>...
CK> They put out a spice called Beau Monde <another favorite> Which
CK> is EXCELLENT with poultry, I've found that if I sprinkle some on my
CK> Turkey... If crisps the skin without drying out the meat...

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assistant: I
That sounds rather odd.  I'd expect Worcestershire sauce to include
a balance of ingredients in a liquid solution, and suspect that a
dry mix of the ingredients would include mainly salt.
A friend brought me GOYA Adobo Seasoning from the US, and I found
it great on all poultry and vegetables.  During my last trip to the
states I found they have several variations: with or without pepper,
and with added cumin, lemon peel, or bitter orange.  I bought all of
them (they're really cheap!) and use them sparingly--no doubt a bang
for the buck!
Gabi (in Tel-Aviv, Israel).
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user: You are replying to Karl Lembke about "Re: Pupusas".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Karl Lembke to Jostein Mork <=-
KL> Pupusas are a dish from south of the border.  I know that
KL> several places that make and serve them are specifically
KL> labelled "Salvadorean" or "Salvadoreno", depending on the
KL> language in which the sign is painted.
KL>
KL> Pupusas seem to be made by mixing a batch of dough as for
KL> corn tortillas, and filling a pocket of the dough with cheese
KL> and other optional ingredients.  (I hear carnitas is quite
KL> popular.)

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assistant: That sounds strange... Have you read "Love and Rockets"?
It's a superb comics book, written by the Hernandez brothers,
about living in Mexican neighbourhoods, presumably in the US.
In some sort of village (in one of the stories) I recall seeing a
young women selling babosas (maybe that's something different
than popusas), and it looked like a cross between shrimps and
snails.  They were fresh, dangling from the basket on her head,
and frankly, they didn't look that good.
Oh, sorry, I had to look it up BEFORE I typed that paragraph...
I found Diana collecting those BABOSAS (not popusas) in the
Tears From Heaven book (L&R #4), p. 55-58.  They're a sort
of giant snails, obviously nothing like you described.
Gabi.
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user: You are replying to Perry Lowell about "Closing Down".

They wrote:
PL> We'll miss you, Fred.

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assistant: Hi Perry...
31 May 96, Perry Lowell wrote to Fred Towner:
 Thanks Perry.  Closing The Messhall is a step taken most
 reluctantly.
          Fred, VE6XX
          townerf@cadvision.com
system: You are Ian Hoare, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Inter. Cooking message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Christine Kasupski about "Help!".

They wrote:
>>  CK> Ok... I have that recipe,
>> How odd, 'cos I only just typed it in myself!
CK> By saying this... it is something the same with maybe 1 or 2 different
CK> ingredients... sorry about that...
CK> I am the kind of cook who will look at a recipe, and then sort of go
CK> my own way... trading, or adding spices etc... to suit my tastes, or
CK> someone elses...
CK> pepper dishes, and ate LOTS of potatoes and homemade Kraut... Which is
CK> the one thing I'm sorry to say I never got a chance to learn how to
CK> make...
CK>  She had a stroke, and now cannot show me how to do
CK> these things anymore...
CK>  But my grandfather showed me how to make a mean Stolen... =+}

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assistant: Hello Christine!
Monday May 27 1996 12:40, Christine Kasupski wrote to Ian Hoare:
AHA!!! I hope you don't think I was flaming or anything. I see what you mean.
What I tend to do, (because I used to be a professional), is to try a recipe
EXACTLY as written. Once to start with, to see what the person writing the
recipe meant it to taste like. It is an old habit, as I said, because when a
client used to ask me to do a recipe for her/him, s/he usually wanted it to
taste the way they knew it, which means that for my purposes, consistency was
very important, and to be consistent, I used to have to have precise recipes
and to follow them precisely.
Coming back to new recipes, then, if I like it as written, I tend to use it
like that, because I'm not in the least creative as a cook. If, however, I
like it, more-or-less, but think it could do with improvement, then I play
with it until I'm happy, but then again I use it exactly as is.
I have never made sauerkraut, but I don't think it's terribly hard to do.
After all, it was a staple dish for millions of ordinary people - still is,
for that matter. I remember reading something about all this in George Lang's
book on Hungarian cooking. When I have a moment, if you like, I'll see if I
can copy it in for you.
That's a real shame. So many of the old skills are being lost nowadays. It is
one of the really sad things I've noticed in recent years in France, where I
live. With both members of the family working, and children going to school
(instead of staying at home to help on the farm) many old skills are being
forgotten. I'm not wanting to turn the clock back, one really can't have
whole classes of illiterate children and housebound mothers, but the
consequences of changing economic circumstances are sometimes unexpected.
Not ALL is lost then. :-))
All the Best
Ian
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user: You are replying to All about "DUCK!!!".

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assistant: * Crossposted from: Home Cooking
As I settle in from my move, and examine boxes and notebooks
whose insides haven't seen the light of day in years, I find
things.
This is one of them...
We all look on with anxious eyes
When father carves the duck,
And mother almost always sighs
When father carves the duck.
Then all of us prepare to rise
And hold our bibs before our eyes
And be prepared for some surprise
When father carves the duck.
He braces up and grabs a fork
Whene'er he carves a duck,
And won't allow a soul to talk
Until he's carved the duck.
The fork is jabbed into the sides,
Across the breast the knife he slides,
And every careful person hides,
From flying chips of duck.
The platter always seems to slip
When father carves a duck,
And how it makes the dishes skip.
Potatoes fly amock --
The squash and cabbage leap in space,
We get some gravy on our face,
And father mutters Hindu grace
Whene'er he carves a duck.
We thus have learned to walk around
The dining room and pluck
From off the window sills and walls
Our share of father's duck:
While father growls and blows and jaws,
And swears the knife was full of flaws,
And mother jaws at him because
He couldn't carve a duck.
By an anonymous bard, requote from
"The Pleasures of the Table" by
George H. Ellwanger.
Enjoy!
... >>>   <humorous but DISRESPECTFUL tagline deleted>   <<<
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user: You are replying to All about "Echo Picnic Cookbook".

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assistant: Hello, everyone!
Work on the Echo Picnic Cookbook is coming along nicely, thanks to all the
wonderful recipes in response to my earlier message.  Special thanks go
out to Pat Stockett, for sending me a zipfile of Stephen C.'s creations
and to Jean Ramsay, for sending a copy of Wes' Christmas story.
If you'd like to participate, but haven't yet, there is still time;  I
will be accepting recipes until June 30 for inclusion into the book.
Miscellaneous info:  The cookbook is intended for limited distribution,
to participants in the Fido culinary echos.  Initial distribution will be
at the Northeast Picnic, then to anyone in the echos who sends their
snail address and sufficient postage.
Thanks again,
Dave
... I et & et for two hours & dint recognize a thing I et except an olive.
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12
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user: You are replying to Gabi Shahar about "spices".

They wrote:
> That sounds rather odd.  I'd expect Worcestershire sauce to include
> a balance of ingredients in a liquid solution, and suspect that a
> dry mix of the ingredients would include mainly salt.

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assistant: *** Quoting Gabi Shahar to Christine Kasupski dated 05-30-96 ***
Worcestershire sauce has a lot of added water.  The powder tastes just like
the liquid form.  I'm not sure how they make it, but the consistency is not
like spice mixes with obvious separate elements.  It looks like they
dehydrate and grind it incredibly fine.
system: You are Christine Kasupski, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Inter. Cooking message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Gabi Shahar about "Re: spices".

They wrote:
> A friend brought me GOYA Adobo Seasoning from the US, and I found
> it great on all poultry and vegetables.  During my last trip to the

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assistant: RE: Re: spices
BY: Gabi Shahar to Christine Kasupski on Thu May 30 1996 20:53:28
I get so sick of chicken sometimes.. You've got to find a way to give it some
zest or it's like eating cardboard sometimes! =+}
Chris
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user: You are replying to Ian Hoare about "Help!".

They wrote:
> That's a real shame. So many of the old skills are being lost nowadays. It
> one of the really sad things I've noticed in recent years in France, where
> live. With both members of the family working, and children going to
> (instead of staying at home to help on the farm) many old skills are being

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assistant: RE: Help!
BY: Ian Hoare to Christine Kasupski on Sat Jun 01 1996 19:00:15
i
I
chool
Fortunately for myself, I was taught alot by my grandparents, and some things
that just came naturally, for example, I cut my kids <and husbands> hair, I
can
sew their clothes <when fabric is on sale> I can take care of game that has
been killed <from warm to freezer> I plan on passing this knowledge down to
y
kids. When my husband shot a deer this year, we let them see it in the
basement, before I dressed/skinned it and they ate it. I don't want my kids
o
be the typical "American teenagers" I hope that I am instilling
values/knowledge that they can pass on to their offspring. We are starting
to teach my eldest child <8> some basic survival skills and some basic
knowledge on what can be found in nature. I hope she pays attention! =+}
Take care, and all the best!
Chris
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user: You are replying to Christine Kasupski about "Help!".

They wrote:
CK> > The first thing my grandfather asked my grandmother when he came home
CK> > "Blanche, where the hell is my saurkraut?"!! :)  Ooops!
CK>Hehehe, Yeah it does get that smell and look to it doesn't it! But
CK>Kraut is alot better than storebought. It's not as "mushy" and it tastes
CK>when ya make it yourself! =+}

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assistant: Christine Kasupski was saying something about saurkraut......
omemade
bet
I can probably count the times I have eaten sauerkraut on two hands.  I
certainly don't like it well enough to stink up my kitchen making it! :)
***
 � SLMR 2.1a � ..I stress quality, but will settle for quality stress...
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user: You are replying to Ed Karsten about "Ostrich/Emu 1/3".

They wrote:
-=> Ed Karsten mumbled something to All <=-
-=> on 27 May 96  08:37:56 about "Ostrich/Emu 1/3" <=-
EK> Recently I requested recipes for Ostrich/Emu meat. Here are three that
EK> came right away. I'm still looking for more, so dig through you

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assistant: I believe that Emu meat has ZERO fat in it, the same as
Kangaroo, and both are highly recommended for people on low-fat
or no-fat diets.
I don't know about Ostrich meat, but if it contains fat (as I
suspect it does), then using the same recipe for each meat
should give very different results. Anyone know the answer to
this?
Greg
... A bird in the hand .... ooh yuk... where are the tissues?
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assistant: I want to bake a cake. Where would I get the icing and when would I add it to
the cake?
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user: You are replying to Dave Sacerdote about "Echo Picnic Cookbook".

They wrote:
-> Hello, everyone!
->
-> Work on the Echo Picnic Cookbook is coming along nicely, thanks to al
-> wonderful recipes in response to my earlier message.  Special thanks
-> out to Pat Stockett, for sending me a zipfile of Stephen C.'s creatio
-> and to Jean Ramsay, for sending a copy of Wes' Christmas story.
->
-> If you'd like to participate, but haven't yet, there is still time;
-> will be accepting recipes until June 30 for inclusion into the book.
->
-> Miscellaneous info:  The cookbook is intended for limited distributio
-> to participants in the Fido culinary echos.  Initial distribution wil
-> at the Northeast Picnic, then to anyone in the echos who sends their
-> snail address and sufficient postage.
->
-> Thanks again,
->
-> Dave
->
-> ... I et & et for two hours & dint recognize a thing I et except an o
-> ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12
-> --- Platinum Xpress/Wildcat! v1.1
->  * Origin: The Looking Glass : (860) 741-6736 (1:142/736)

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assistant: Dave,
    I would love to get one of the books. At this point I am not sure if
if my car will be fixed so who knows if I will be at the picnic. I am
planning on it but one never knows if the car will make the trip.
                       Anna
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assistant: Does anyone have the martha stewart blueberry - raspberry that was on
the tv show on sunday. would appreciate other recipes also. thank you.
Norm D.
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user: You are replying to Dave Sacerdote about "Toad in the Hole".

They wrote:
DS> what a toad in the hole really is, feel free to pipe up.  (I think
DS> this discussion came up about 6 months ago.  Wish I remembered the
DS> results! <g>)

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assistant: *** Answering a msg posted in area COOKING (Fido Cooking).
Hello DAVE!
Friday June 07 1996 00:27, DAVE SACERDOTE wrote to RUTH HAFFLY:
Nothing easier.
Toad in the hole is a British main course dish. It originally consisted of
small lamb chops or small pieces of steak browned lightly then placed in a
roasting tin and covered with a standard yorkshire pudding batter, and baked
in a very hot oven until the batter had risen and set.
 Nowadays, this is only ever done with sausages, and if the sausages are of
good quality, is excellent. When made with the average british shop bought
"banger" which contains up to 50% or even more of bread "filler", it is a
starchy old dish.
Yorkshire pudding batter is a slightly thin pancake batter.
1/2 milk 1/2 water beaten with egg, flour, salt, pepper and a little oil,
then allowed to rest 1 hour before cooking.
All the Best
Ian