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tony, ya that was our "taxi" runs, from all over saudi and other parts of the world to "bahrain" then back after a couple a days, sometimes ya kinda scare me with what ya know! ah keoke must be on vacation or sumtin. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
As you cross onto Bahrain, off the left side of the bridge, way out on the sandy beach was an abandoned Riva...I even hiked out to it one day...wasn't on a trailer but was intact....couldn't convince anybody to go back with me to grab it.
 
keoke, your right, they say that what separates man from monkey is the ability for man to manufacture "tools" i.e (rear axle nut wrench) perhaps thats why i was able to build mine and you bought yours? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lol.gif
 
Strangest thing I've ever eaten? Probably octopus sushi. It was actually pretty good though. Never got around to trying escargot though.

Nastiest stuff I've ever eaten? That's easy. Spam. I can't stand it.
 
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My wife's cooking.

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Maybe we should have another series- with the worst things inflicted on us by our better halves....

My British wife made the weirdest Hamburgers once: used some left over Minestroni SOUP to mix in with the beef. "Just using up the left overs...." she said. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/pukeface.gif

I've not let her make burgers since.

AND I'm real careful about what gets left-over too....


I've offered her services to MacDonalds as a culinary consultant but they've lost my number I think..... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif
 
heh... I saw your name as th' latest poster and imagined: "Road-kill 'dillo" as a topic would somehow come into play. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

SWMBO (English by birth, Ukranian-German by heritage/genetics) has FINALLY learned how to assemble a respectable lasagne... only took me THIRTY years of UN-training her. The DiCarlo family ravioli recipe is next onna list. I'm hoping THAT won't take quite as long. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif
 
tony, dont ya just hate it when your buds dont have the enthusiasme as you! i tried to herd three camels up the stairs of a g-4 one night, woke up in a chair,uhm, ya wasnt drinkin any of that "sediki" stuff that night was ya? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
doce, ravioli, ravioli, i live souly for ravioli, my third and last wife is filipino, her menu is greatly influanced by the chinese,japanese, and several hundred years a spains occupancy, cooks "eye-ty" like my great grand mom (dads side sicilian) like they say "she may be ugly but she sure can cook" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Ravi's were a "family affair" in my youth: an "assembly line" to make 'em and prep 'em for Sunday dinner at grandma's house. The other thing I miss is a Christmas eve tradition (Roman, not the "Siziliano") is a vermicelli with anchovie sauce. Most "visiting" folk would try not to retch as they passed the bowl... I'd eat a pound of thin pasta with that sauce on it right now, no question.

That has been a puzzlement for me for a while: I'll voraciously devour that spaghetti-fish concoction yet nook-mam has me running the other way. We are the products of our environs after all, apparently. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
doce, my great grand mama, was born xmass day and 101 years later died on xmass day to the hour, she was so meen the brooklyn garbage men were afraid of her, but man could she cook never saw a box of posta in her house she made everything fresh and by hand, at easter she would make a pastry that looked like a twisted pretsel with an egg in the middle, sweet and the egg was always cooked just right, ive been to italy several times at diff. times of year but could not find anything like it,over the years ive spoken to people that know about this treat but dont know its name or recipe, does this ring a bell in your youthfull memory?
 
"KNOCKS!" Honey was poured over 'em!!! Li'l cuts on the outer edges.
 
doce, thats right! honey was poured over them! knocks! ya just knoked me out, im gunna search that, see if i can find a recipe, ill search the round chubby "eye-ty" with the blond hair and pony tail on t.v . whats his name,wow glad i asked ya , wow it think we got sumtin here! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lol.gif
 
On holiday in Borneo our local guide said they eat anything with two or more legs and the sun on its back (which only seems to rule out slugs and snails as far as I can see). Can't quite see how sea cucumber has the sun on its back but it was on the menu. Couldn't quite bring myself to try it after seeing them scavenging the sea bottom a few hours before.

Sea Cucumbers
 
anthony....one day my sergeant major & I were stoppeed at a checkpoint waiting for traffic to move forward when an old Saudi man hopped in the back seat...I called the Saudi guard over & he told me the old man needed a ride...what am I to do?

Well, we're riding along when suddenly the old man points out across the desert - no landmarks, nothing but he wanted us to turn off the road...quickly I flipped on our GPS & we headed out across the desert...after a while, we came to a tent village & the old man had us stop...kids, women, young men all came out to meet us & were happy we had brought the old man home...a young fellow who spoke some English invited us to the camel races....now, lemme tell you that's something to watch...you sit in the sand under a "gentlemen's tent", drinking tea while everyone is smoking from water pipes (yep, you can guess)...suddenly all these camels come racing by - everybody jumps up yelling as they race by over the horizon...then we sit downand have tea & lunch (turned out to be roasted pigeon & desert grass) while we're waiting for the camels to come back by....but by then the smoke from the water pipes had me so high I didn't care what I ate...

After the races as we were leaving, I had to ask my SGM which vehicle was ours - but there was only 1 vehicle there - he said he thought he had driven there in the left vehicle...hehehehehe...

GPS took us back to where we had left the road hours before but the tracks in the sand looked like a snake had made them...interesting afternoon, thank goodness there were no random drug tests for either of us.....but, ya gotta do things like that to "feel" a country!
 
..eggplant!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Nothing can top that /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/pukeface.gif
 
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Naw your folks just don't know how to cook it.You slice it into pieces ~ 1/2" thick, remove the skin then make a batter out of egg yolk and bread crumbs smother the eggplant in it then fry.--GREAT!--Keoke- /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yesnod.gif-- /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/patriot.gif
 
Fried eggplant - great stuff! Goes super with fried okra!
 
Yep yep, and it is very appropiate to give a lift to whom ever.
 
keoke, thats a great recipe simple fast and delish! use it all the time but as per great granny i first soak the sliced egg plant in a salt and water solution to take out any bitterness, see we almost agree on somthin! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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