Re: [MC74 and Friends] Tasting Pleasure

    

Cheres 2    ba`  chu ? blog  PNEH    ,

     Toutes mes excuses pour ce retard J .        

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-Dear EmCi,

MC noi kheo qua, kie^'n AM trong hang cu~ng pha?i bo` ra :) To comply with your ultra soft and gentle (it  sounds  more like your eyes :)) than  Downy ) reminder, here are my entries , both from my trip last week to Columbus, OH to visit my daughter during her clinical rotation there . 1. " Dinner of a Dutch Merchant" , stolen from the  modest collection of the Columbus Museum of Art . I thought that the abundance of seafood ( the red lobster in all its glory :) was unusual for a European meal in the 18th-19th century but nonetheless the opulence of the meal would be very pleasurable, especially to a glutton like myself :) 2.  "Ahi Tuna Wonton", a  delicious  appetizer at Eddie Morton's restaurant , something unexpected for a Californian like myself to find in a mid-west restaurant, very light and tasty with a taste of wasabi mixed with terriyaki sauce. I am hoping your twin BT will replicate it and post the recipe on her food blog for our enjoyment :) The quality of the pictures has a lot to desire, my camera being from" mot ngan chin tram ca? co^. " :) and I am a terrible photographer, having no understanding on light, nor motion nor speed nor shutter ....etc..   Please feel free to disqualify them, I am just trying to show my goodwill  in response to MC's ultra soft and gentle reminder :) Ai My

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Dear Nhi.-Vi. Ba` Chu?, fellow bloggers, PNEH, multi-talented artists:

I know I have been derelict in my weekly contributions to the blog. I do have a few...excuses though, and do hope for generosity in your judgments.

When I got news of the theme "EGGS", quite honestly I was stumped! All I could think of was the double eggs I used to get not too infrequently courtesy my teachers at the lyce'es JJR and MC. To my surprise and delight, the postings on this topic demonstrated our bloggers' superb talent and creativity. I would like to say that I have enjoyed every single contribution made to the blog. I will not cite every name, for I will miss someone, but each and everyone of you are amazing. And hats off to Ms BiTi, who does a superb job each week in putting them all together.

I know it's a bit...late, but hope that my humble entry for "Tasting Pleasures" be accepted by the blog authorities. It's a picture of my sons enjoying their ice cream this past week in Las Vegas with uncle QHung and aunt CNhung, celebrating their 34th wedding anniversary. Or, as QHung would say: 34 nam kho'i lua! It's all in fun, for I must attest this is one of the happiest couple I know, who are still deeply in love with each other. As a bonus entry, I am sending in a picture of the President of the Dior Fan Club for your enjoyment.

Humbly yours,
T.

Re: [MC74 and Friends] theme for next week project - TASTING PLEASURES

A dear friend suggested to me to try tea with lemon and honey when I was under the weather.
It works for me and it tastes good too. Wherever you are now, thank you.

TNS

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Dear hai ba` chu tiem and friends Hope I am not too lac de^`, but with Mother's day coming up next week, here is my contribution to Tasting Pleasure - a picture of a baby eagle enjoying food feeding to him by his mom. tha^n MThuy - TD2 ,_._,___

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Hi Cao Tieu Thu, BiTi, EmCi, PNEH, friends,



Reading your and Duc's postings reminds me of a picture I took a while back. Waking up one lazy morning weekend and looking out the window without my glasses and eyes half shut, I thought there was something unusual in the back yard. After grabbing my glasses and very much still half asleep, but being a pho nhom wannabe even then, I fumbled around to look for the newly bought P&S camera. Using the maximum zoom power (only 10X) and through the window's glass and screen, here's my second entry of the week:



"Weekend Feast" J

The bird of prey is a red tailed hawk.  With extremely sharp hearing and vision, he soon realized that someone is watching him, unpolitely and like a hawk, he flew off to a highest tree branch and finish his meal uninterrupted and no doubt with great pleasure…

Khiem

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My son cooked for me on my birthday that year. The best steak I ever ate.

TNS

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Dux,
Here I am, I have come for you, in your little corner.
Who dares say that this young man is not happy ?
If he's telling us that the paella is disgusting, he is
a hell of liar !
My entry for " Tasting Pleasure". Duà dzai.
a sturdy heart,
CTT

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Dear Caro:  Everything is too delicious!!!  Yummy, you must have a passion of  food-creativities  !!!

 

Dear MC, BT & All PNEH  MC Friends :  Here is my photo of the wonderful nutty buttery sweet cookies for this week entry;

 

Have a wonderful week friends,

Liem 

 

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Hello everybody

Love your Tasting pleasures entry from BL, MC, Tuan, BT, Khiem...
Here are my entries which are all home made  (check out my food blog bouchebebe.blogspot.com)

Tempura with prawns, scallops, asparagus, zuchini flowers, eggplants, onions, shitake mushrooms and other veggies, served with soba noodles...
For desserts, mini caramelizedTarte Tatin and Grand Marnier Souffles, as fluffy as clouds...

Enjoy!
Caro

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Dear friends

I am contibuting a portuguese seafood plate, then patisseries of your choice for dessert.

Tuan

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Dear all PAPNEH and friends,

I'd like to share with you some tasting pleasure and dis-pleasure as well.  All of these are things
I tasted for the first time in my life last year.

Let's start first with the displeasure (luckily there was only one :-))  This will come across as
a sacrilege to some of you no doubt... but I found cassoulet to be a total turn-off.  It is so rich,
that I could hardly finish … one bite ! I guess you have to like baked beans to like cassoulet :-)

From Carcassone with displeasure :-P  …....... le cassoulet !

 



Then the most surprising pleasure is this reine-claude prune soaked in liqueur and eau de vie I tasted in St Emilion, a must tasting pleasure.

On to tasting pleasures for the sweet toothed :-)    Croquants aux noisettes, amandes,noix, you name it ... you'll find them all over the Carcassone,
 Albi, Cordes area. They are quite delicious, very thin and croquant and not too sweet.  YUM!

Then in the Basque area,  you have the gateau basque, a tasting pleasure … if you  like almond paste or marzipan coz it's filled with it :-)
Paries the La Duree of Biarritz and St Jean de Luz

Of the many local versions of … macaron (all much bigger in size than their Parisian counterparts) the mouchous (muxu in basque = bisou) below
are pretty good.

Then there are the touron - sort of like nougat but softer and sweeter, more like marzipan.  They also come in very colorful rolls like sushis.


 
 

OK, I'll stop as  I think you are already ... over sweetened :-)

BT

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Dear fellows Pho' Nhoms\ en herbe, hoa. si~, thi si~ and our official art critic Mr. Kiu,

Here's my entry for this week's theme.  Although the "guess what?" theme has expired, but to "spice" things up a bit, anyone outside of the SJ area with the first correct identification of the yummy treat that BiTi and my better half were chomping to bits yesterday will be treated to a down home Texas BBQ on your next visit here, or to a "cha^`u pho"  at your local favorite Pho' s place (or anywhere for that matter) if we see each other, whichever comes first J. 

Have a good week,

Khiem