Lola at the Coffee House

Well, that was new to me - sounds good, actually:

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Cabbage-Sandwiches

I think this might work as a watercress sammich. Just lose the mustard and ketchup

lol well that backfired, i was trying to think of a completely disgusting combination. still is to me though...i hate cabbage.

i hate anything that's good for me. i'm a good scot like that....gimme sugar!

well, I gotta get two hotchocs to go. Were gonna watch TAKEN 2 , got the CD at a red box

No watercress in my market here (naturally enough). I useta make watercress soup, good. A friend of ours used to bring it from the creek by his house. Also like sorrel soup..

Will have to see if I could somehow grow watercress in a pail.

I guess it's an indian thing, a cabbage sandwich. Well, I'm a cabbage liker, and also like bitter greens that a lot of people avoid like the plague.

Haven't managed to like sauerkraut, though. I've only tried it once and it was at a rather forlorn restaurant. So that's another item on my list to see if I like the real thing.

Yes there is. What's a coffee house without a pool table? Walk up these three steps, there it is. Enjoy

Tad arrives:
Cabbage sandwich with milk and 2 sugars for Berty and chocolate milk with malt, no sugar for fm.

Anything you want........it's all for you.

(Did you hear that Wassau? I told em they can have anything they want. We're versatile, aren't we?)

Hello Lola, did you know today was valentine's day? I'm on the my-boyfriend-forgot-it-was-valentine's day group for now? Trust me, it's a bad group to be in.
I'll have an circle shaped ice creamed cake with a cherry on top to expunge my guilt of forgetting Valentine's day.

There there Bennet. Here's the cake, you better eat it all. Guilt is obdurate. Some people can get just crazy about Valentine's Day.

I'm off for bed now. See you tomorrow. And remember, tomorrow isn't Valentine's Day. That's a sunny thought.

West of Glasgow and south of Paisley, the bonnie wee toun of Barrhead.

That's Glasgow pronounced Glesca.

Well, thats because I always had trouble understanding what was being said. One of our guys made it sound like Glezzgow to me and that (i guess incorrectly) became my standard.

Most of the guys were proud of their city and my geologist colleagues were quick to remind me that it was here where Evrything we know about rock structures and rock makeup (petrology) was developed by discovery.

I just noticed that James Barrie was a Scott. That alters my perception of Peter Pan's speech.

Made some Pot Stickers this week. Didn't go through making the dough myself...way too labor intensive; and the small circles from the Asian market are great.

Made two kinds...shrimp and Chinese cabbage...and pork and Chinese cabbage. They were delicious, but found out afterwards that I really didn't use enough cabbage. I cut the recipe amount down from what suggested because I thought it too much. I was wrong.

NOTHING in the world as delicious as fresh made Pot Stickers.

I need cafe, please. Light and sweet. Bun. Glass of water, if you don't mind.

Pure? Ah didne ken 'at. Ah thooght it was th' sane fowks fa hated anythin' 'at was guid fur them.

(After listening to too much Craig Ferguson)

Scotch airman lecturing at a girl’s school in America: “So…dis fokker cooms down at me out of the sun…

The teachers seeing the girls a bit unsettled--and interrupts with, “Ahhh, ladies, you should understand that a Fokker is a Dutch aircraft used by the Germans.”

“Aye, Lass,” says the Scotsman, “but dis partigular fokker was a Messerschmitt.”

What I thought was the container of portobello mushrooms that I was going to slice into an omelet turned out to be the remainders of last night's Chicken Marsala.

Hmmm. it's got mushrooms, onions and some lovely chicken pieces.

Joe(Is there any cheese back there in the kitchen>)Nation

I agree, probably my favorite food.

Can't stand the square won ton wrappers (for pot sticker wrapping) at my market, which has spare to no selections of non american or mexican cuisine foods. Do make my own dough with my Marcatto pasta macchina, the dough doubtful in its very own way, but not slimy.
Besides the circular pot sticker wrappers, I'd like to get my hands on gyoza wrappers.

I like any kind of foldable stuffed 'pies', from lots of countries.

Do you steam? fry? fry and gently boil? Tell all!


Oh, Tadman, this morning I'd like a caffe latte doppio, whole milk, hold most of the foam.

Actually, this week I tried an idea I got from the Internet.

Previously, I use to boil the pot stickers for 5 - 6 minutes...and then brown the bottoms in a wok using peanut or olive oil.

This time I put them into a frying pan with a half inch or so of water...covered them with a loose cover...and left them to simmer (not boil)...and brown a bit when the water was all gone. They were spectacular.

I tried steaming dumplings a while back...and it was a disaster. I've meant to try again, but haven't. Have you had any luck with steaming...and if so, did you use a Chinese steamer or did you improvize?