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Post by George61 on Jul 8, 2004 3:25:09 GMT 7
Exactly!....... half a cup of dehydrated water crystals, Half a cup of dried beef powder, I Teaspoon dried onion powder, half teaspoon dried mixed herbs, 1 cup dried tomatoes, Mix, stir, and bring slowly to a boil. Add spaghetti. Salt to taste and serve.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jul 8, 2004 3:29:47 GMT 7
I strongly suspect that a few tablespoons of maple sugar will add that authentic taste...
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Post by George61 on Jul 8, 2004 3:43:30 GMT 7
Authentic taste? Spaghetti is Idalian, not Canadian...needs a dollop of Olive Oil, not Myrple Syrple.
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Post by Ruth on Jul 8, 2004 7:54:54 GMT 7
I've never tried dried spaghetti mix. It actually sounds quite awful. But, someone I communicated with last summer before coming here said she took packages with her to Korea. I've tried to make spaghetti here two or three times. SOMETHING was lacking. I thought mixes from home might help. Either they don't have oregano (and other familiar spices here), or I don't know how to ask, or our translator friends don't understand, or I haven't looked hard enough. I'll get back on it and see what I can come up with locally.
We have our orders in for a home-cooked spaghetti dinner at a daughter's house, and another one at a son's (daughter-in-law is Italian!). I can't wait.
George - what the HECK are dehydrated water crystals? Do you grow them in Oz?
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Post by Ruth on Jul 8, 2004 7:57:31 GMT 7
Here are the directions for George's dehydrated water crystals: Just add water and you have...water
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jul 8, 2004 13:33:22 GMT 7
Authentic taste? Spaghetti is Idalian, not Canadian...needs a dollop of Olive Oil, not Myrple Syrple. Dui. Spaghetti is indeed Italian (unless you ask a Chinese) but dried spaghetti sauce mix is most assuredly NOT Italian. In fact, I suspect many Italians would become angry and hit you for even bringing it up, and good job, too. Olive oil or maple sugar? Depends on which "authentic taste" you're trying to achieve. (Ruth, just teasing, Love. Try whatever you want. If you like it, mangia!)
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Post by George61 on Jul 8, 2004 14:32:19 GMT 7
..........and who said Merkins are slow!
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jul 8, 2004 15:20:25 GMT 7
No, not at all. The question is perfectly valid....much of the water in Oz seems to have been converted to dehydrated water crystals. So much so that insanity seems to be spreading from people into the native wildlife! To wit: Warning Issued Over Aggressive 'RoosWed Jul 7,11:02 AM ET CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australians living in the nation's drought-ravaged capital were warned on Wednesday to keep their distance from aggressive kangaroos after the iconic marsupials attacked one woman and killed a pet dog. Eastern Gray kangaroos, which can grow to more than 5 1/2 feet tall and weigh more than 150 pounds, have started moving out of the parched bush into inner Canberra suburbs during the day to look for grass and water, increasing their contact with people.
A senior wildlife ecologist with Environment ACT, Murray Evans, said the kangaroos could pose a threat to people and dogs, with one woman savaged by a large kangaroo as she was walking her small, pet dog in a paddock last week.
"Her dog went near the kangaroo and she followed and before she knew it the kangaroo lashed out, scratching her down the side of her body," Evans told Reuters.
Another woman told how a kangaroo drowned one of the four dogs she was walking with a friend, attacking it in a pond and holding it under the water with its hind legs while it hit out at one of the other dogs with its front legs.
"My friend started shouting: 'There's a kangaroo in the pond. It's got Summer'. It was surreal, like your worst nightmare," Christine Canham told the Canberra Times newspaper.
"She was screaming and screaming. The kangaroo just stared back at us. I will never forget that."
Evans said it was not unusual for kangaroos to flee into water if they felt under threat and, as a last defense, they would try to drown their predator with their powerful hind legs.
He said most of the behavioral change in the usually placid animals was due to the scarcity of feed after a run of dry years in Canberra, the inland bush capital, as Australia battles its worst drought in a century. If this doesn't convince you, George, then bear in mind that the lovely, maple-flavored Ruth is in fact Canadian by birth, which may help explain some things. This informational message brought to you by Raoul's China ESL Saloon, the internet's only forum sporting the phrase "woman savaged by a large kangaroo".
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Post by George61 on Jul 8, 2004 16:32:47 GMT 7
I realise that. She also volunteered to become a Merkin...which may explain some things.
kangaroos are wild animals!...They may look cute and cuddly, like all Australians, but they can be dangerous, when annoyed...like all Australians.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jul 8, 2004 16:55:42 GMT 7
And they have pouches on their stomachs for carrying their young........
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Post by George61 on Jul 8, 2004 17:19:25 GMT 7
The females do...the males just look like they do!
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Post by burlives on Jul 8, 2004 18:12:00 GMT 7
"There's a kangaroo in the pond. It's got Summer'. It was surreal, like your worst nightmare,"
"She was screaming and screaming. The kangaroo just stared back at us. I will never forget that."
When Icons Attack. I always tell people that koalas are explosive. They eat only gum leaves and it leaves them soaked with eucalytpus oil. In dry summers, parched and weakened, they fall out of the trees onto tinder-dry underbrush. They are Australian napalm. Luckily, they stink. Most people stay away.
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Post by George61 on Jul 8, 2004 21:37:26 GMT 7
What else can a 'roo doo?..........."Doh! What are these people yelling about..I'm just drowning a dog!"
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Post by George61 on Jul 8, 2004 21:40:03 GMT 7
Alexis, I hope you are getting some sort of feeling for China by now.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jul 8, 2004 22:38:50 GMT 7
Not to mention the other people on this forum. For example, this is called a "hijacked thread".
What else can a roo do? Show some remorse or shame, for God's sake. Foreigners just don't seem to feel things the way our animals do. You do that roo doo that you do so well.
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Post by George61 on Jul 9, 2004 19:50:41 GMT 7
Certainly been wett hi=jacked...but I didn't start it Oh m'kay...I am pissed again. Listen Raoul, Roos don't give a flying m'kay about other peoples dogs.....if a dog upsets them, it is dead meat! Roos don't muck about.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jul 10, 2004 0:15:24 GMT 7
I was trying to figure out why you were angry until I remembered you don't use 'pissed' the same way we do. Relax, George, I don't really expect a roo or almost any other animal to show remorse. Or shame. I was really just also wondering what the hell the lady in the story was expecting the roo to do.
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