January 28, 2008
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Dear Mom…
i read your recipe book and things are a little different here.
we don´t have pop ´n fresh. how do you make it from scratch?
the meat is not the same. not ground up and in a package…it is hanging from a rack in big slabs
chicken isn´t frozen in nice pieces to put in the George Foreman machine…it is sold live. and they look sick.
how do you make popcorn without a microwave?
how do you make relish? and i am not sure if they have pickles.
there is no celery here. no whip cream. no maple syrup. no Arbys horsey sauce.
how do you make horseradish sauce?
how do you make ranch dressing…or anything to dip carrots into. because eating carrots alone is not fun.
They have things that resemble lettuce, but no dressing.
how do you make granola?
the fish they sell has the whole thing still intact. how do you get the bones out when it is still looking at you? can you eat the skin?
the cheese is squeaky when you chew it. and they have all these weird
kinds. not cheddar. and not nicely grated in a bag. big blocks.
they don´t have crockpots.
salsa doesn´t come in a can. and everything is cut by hand. no slicing/dicing/chopping things.
how important is it to have a beater? can you just whip things by hand…what about meringue?
What can i use in the place of cream cheese? and don´t say cottage cheese, they don´t have that either.
How do you make deviled eggs again?
please send spinach seeds. i shall just grow my own.the cheap stuff here is the fresh stuff…tomatoes, onions, celantro,
carrots, lettuce-ish stuff, cabbage, cucumbers (oh yeah…i like
cucumbers now mum!), lots of different kinds of yams, potatoes, sweet potatoes, macaxeira
(some weird root thingy)…what the heck could i make with those things?and then fruit. what to do with fruit? right now, Mangos are in season
and cheap…bananas (lots of different kinds–long bananas, cooking bananas, apple banana…), limes, pineapples, acerola (little vitamin C
bombs of yummy red goodness), Maracuja (passion fruit), guava…
