The Old Folks Home

[vehve]

Bama, here's a recipe for preparing them the traditional Finnish way:

30 crayfish (live)
1 gallon water
10 sugar cubes
½ cup seasalt
loads of crown dill

Boil the water, add sugar, salt and dill. One by one, drop the live crayfish in the water. Once it starts boiling again, boil for 8-12 minutes. After they've been boiled, remove them from the stock, chill the stock, and place the crayfish in another container, add more fresh dill, pour the stock on top. Store in a cool place and enjoy them the next day.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Did MacGyver usually use duct tape? I don't remember that, though it's been a while since I've watched the show. I saw a rerun a couple of months ago, and that show has not aged well.

I don't know. The closest I ever came to watching MacGyver was seeing the Simpson's episode where Marge's twin sisters were trying to get him to leave them alone because he kept coming by wanting to be tied up. Now *that* was hilarious.

 

[vehve]

Yakima, I've tried tofu in Finland maybe a handful of times, never prepared it myself. It was always awful. I went to Beijing for a week last fall, and ate tofu maybe ten times during that time. Mostly it was edible, two or three times even okay, but not something I really like.

 

[ronott1]

Yes!

MaGyver used duct tap!

http://www.macgyveronline.com/misc/mac-tape1.jpg

I can't get a new photo up still.

 

[dsqard]

My dad made a mämmi sorbet once, it was awful. I might like it nowadays though. Mämmi is a traditional Finnish Easter dessert.

I just looked this up and I am curious. What does it taste like?

 

[The Yakima Kid]

snails ate my eggplants. Ive never really had good luck with them. What type of ornamental peppers were they? I have tons of different pepper seeds. U should request a free catalog from pepperjoes. I have been buying seeds from them for a while now.

Chickens eat snails.

 

[subhanalah]

Deep fried sechuan(spelling) style tofu is good. So long as it's sliced thinly.

But I can't really eat the stuff due to the soy. I do think it's scrumptious prepared that way though.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

I don't know the name of the variety. The plant is compact and the peppers are in shades of cream, yellow, purple, orange, and red, on the same plant! They actually change colors as they mature and the different colors represent the various stages of development. I had them when I was a kid and loved them, they are so pretty. I got older and moved from my parent's home and the plants were lost. I finally found some and was thrilled, but I got distracted by life and my starts dried out. I would try to find and post a pic, but alas..................

Hey! It worked!

I also like these!

And these are not my tomatoes, but it is what my tomatoes will look like before long.

Pretty.

 

[subhanalah]

Chickens eat snails.

ducks eat snails and slugs like gangbusters! A lot of people's chickens (mine included) refuse them.

 

[vehve]

Quote: It's a bit difficult to explain. The malt is very present in the taste, I would assume Vegemite or Marmite would have a similar base taste. It's usually eaten with cream and sugar, which makes it richer and sweeter (surprisingly). I didn't like it as a kid, but once I learned to like beer, I slowly developed a taste for mämmi as well. Now I'm a big fan, although I end up eating a pound of the stuff at once, and let me tell you, prune juice ain't got nothing on mämmi.