Lobster wrote:

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>It is a deep red root vegetable 
>- you might call it beet or something else . . .
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Hi :-)

Oh, beets! LOL
You said they were hard to come by, so I thought they were some kind of 
oriental speciality, like the Indian ginseng: ashwaghanda that i never 
found anywhere here in its fresh form.
What is this ashwaghanda  anyway? A herb, a root, seeds or nuts or beans?
Whatever it is, it appears to be not imported here.
Beets are however one of the most common veggies in this country.
I have some fresh ones in the fridge, newly harvested ones with the 
leaves still on them, waiting to be turned into a traditional Dutch beet 
salad  next Monday :-)
 Boiled beets sliced up and mixed with boiled potatoes. Traditionally 
there is haring in it. Most people use harings in viniger, but I prefer 
pickled harings; less additives in them. And raw onions and a slecep up 
apple. And salt of course.
With pickled haring, some vinigar or lemonjuice has to be added.
And mayonaise. I use organic mayonaise with no sugar added.
There is also a variaty possible with hard boiled eggs in stead of haring.
It makes a good takealong dinner to the lake.

>Never come across Laos - will look out for it . . .
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:-)

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>>cooked in coconut milk. :-) It has to be well done but not cooked too 
>>long and the veggies should also remain a bit crispy.
>>And one should have it with pandan rice of course.
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>That sound great :-)
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I often make pandan rice myself. I use ordinary brown rice from the 
organic store and cook it with some pandan leaves, which I buy at the 
Asian supermarket. (together with the laos, lemon grass lime leaves, 
bamboo etc.)

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>>>I use 'course' powdered dry chillies (bigger bits than powdered).
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>>I use those too sometimes: cayenne peppers.
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>Cayenne peeper is usually powdered - quite mild
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I have dried cayenne peppers from the organic store.
I figured out the main spices for Mexican dishes.( I LOVE kidney beans) 
but don't know the English names.

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>these are hot red dried chillies - you can get them whole as well
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I usually buy them fresh. The small rawit peppers.

>They are very convenient and the taste loss is not too much
>between fresh (unless you are a chilli officinado)
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LOL!
I'm not but find fresh peppers practical to work with. They stay fresh 
in the fridge quite long.

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>Yes the Japanese and I have come acroos 100% buckwheat ones . . .
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Oh great!
Well I haven't... I've been reading the labels of all Japanese noodles 
at the organic store as well as at the Asian market.
So... no ramen for me :(

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>Never had heard of Kamut - we use spirelli quite a lot . . .
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I looked at the pack; it is called *kamut* in English too.
It is really good.

>I eat two day old rice cold with immunity.
>It is the alcohol that gives me a headache
>- had some yesterday.
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>Is alcohol still 'doing you good'?
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Yup!
Not when I overdo it though. I should not drink more than 2 or 3 glasses 
a day; preferably stick to red wine.
On most days I don't exceed that, but it happens sometimes that suddenly 
a whole bottle is gone. LOL.
And though that does not make me sick, I cannot believe it is good for me.
People are different that way.
When you get nothing positive out of a drug, then you usually have one 
thing less to be concerned about.
I have that with cannabis.
I did not like myself when I was stoned and it gave me a hell of a 
hangover. So that was a short experiment.
I tried it 4 or 5 times in my life, I think. and decided that I really 
DON'T like it.

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>It is likely that language will be linked with XML
>For now it is worth familiarising with HTML
>(that is web diesign)
>which links in with tmxxine FreeFlow
>or FreeFlow tmmxxine . . .
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I'm sometimes reading a bit here:
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/index.html
But cannot concentrate on it for long and i miss a link in picturing 
what I'm reading about....

Love,
Desi


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