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Many years ago, I took a cheap serrated blade steak knife and used it for cutting watermelon. To accomplish this, I curved the blade. The plastic handle cracked last month. I when shopping for a replacement at the dollar store... where things are $1.25 now.

Times change and the steak knives they now carry, have a straight edge. No problem, so I bought two. I opened one package, washed it and was amazed at the quality of the knife.
Stainless steel with a moulded handle. It cuts much better than the other steak knives and I plan to go back and get a few more.

It cuts like a knife, but it feels so right!




The old knife served me well...


Seedless round melon

In the 1950's, It was a big issue in America to service rice that didn't stick. I remember TV commercials about housewives making the perfect bowl of 'fluffy' rice. I heard one story where the husband invited his boss over for dinner and they were appalled to see his wife had cooked a bowl of rice where the grains stuck together. He was overlooked for a promotion simply because his wife had ruined their dinner!
We have all different varieties of rice and I believe minute rice rules out over rice that takes 30 to 40 minutes to fully cook.

Fast forward 40 years and I was dating a woman who was born in Hong Kong. She wanted to know what meals I cooked for myself, so I invited her over for dinner. Skirt steak, Caesar salad and rice was on the menu for the night.
Wash the rice, boil it for a few minutes, turn off the heat and cover. Perfect rice in less than 10 minutes.

Everything passed the test... except for the rice.

Why? It's nearly impossible to eat fluffy rice with chopsticks. She gasped and returned to the stove boiling the rice for another 15 minutes on high heat until it started to clump.

I can remember her scolding me because 'I didn't know how to cook rice' and to never do that again. Obviously, she felt bad for her actions and decided to buy me a rice cooker. The other thing was to buy different rice as the one I bought was long grain domestic and didn't have the desired flavor. A trip to the Asian market cured that.
Side note, the relationship ended before the bag of rice was empty.

Knowing now what to do now and avoiding lectures, I have been getting rice in 25 pound bags from the Asian market. Sometimes, 15 pound bags from the grocery store, but it must be cooked in the rice cooker to make it clump together.

Some of the imported rice has doubled in price lately. That doesn't bother me and... I was able to find a 20 pound bag of long-grain rice in Walmart for $10. Amazing !
But, it's domestic and doesn't clump like the imported rice, nor have any flavor. So, I'm being a diplomat until the 'wrong rice at the right price' is finished.

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We , as Bengali , always say ,

"Mache Bhate Bangali" ,
Meaning , "Fish Curry with Rice , is the Most Essential part of our daily Meal" .

Here I present one of our very Simple , yet Healthy and Tasty recipe for this Summer days .

It's Called "Macher Jhal" (Spicy Fish Curry)

Fish Curry with Onion Garlic Mustard and Poppy Seed paste .

Enjoy !!!!!

First, let me tell you the name of the Monster Energy. It's called Ultra Gold, and it's sugar free. It contains taurine, ginseng, caffeine, vitamin b and pineapple flavoring.

Taurine, if you didn't know, is a nervous system depressant and has a stimulating effect on the brain, so TECHNICALLY, it's good for you, albeit in small doses. Some will claim that the taurine in energy drinks is bull semen, which is false. The taurine in energy drinks is synthetic.

Anyway, back to the new Monster Energy.

Opening the can, I got a strong smell of pineapple, which I love! I took a sip, and was a bit disappointed. It tasted like watered down pineapple juice.. It's definitely not among my favourites, but I am not going to waste it. I will drink it and never buy it again..

I'll stick with the Mango Loco..

I was looking for something to snack on this afternoon and found a bag of oranges in the refrigerator. My protocol is to thin cut the peel leaving much of the white pulp. It's called pulp... right?
In doing this, I had a childhood flashback. Amazing!
My family moved to Florida when I was around the age of 7 and there were lots of kids in the neighborhood. Along the back yard was a utility easement wide enough for a pickup truck to collect garbage. The kids were allowed to play there instead of the street.
I recall going with the neighborhood kids to see an old woman who resided on the end of the block.
Her name was Mrs. Gurnett. I'm unsure if she worked or was retired, but I got the feeling she was a nurse or social worker. After school, several of us would go to her back door and call her name. Kinda slowly... Mrs. Gur-nett... and wait a few seconds before repeating the call. Mrs Gur-nett...

Just like magic, Mrs. Gurnett would appear with a plate of goodies for us to eat. It could have been sliced apples, chocolate or thin slices of orange covered with sugar.
Yes, the sugar orange slices were my favorite.

Over the years, I've had a few Deja Vu thoughts when I passed by the confection aisle in the grocery store. While I've been avoiding candy with sugar... if I had to choose it would be a cherry or orange Gummy Bears if I couldn't find the sugared orange slices.

I don't remember the reason we stopped going to see Mrs. Gurnett. Possibly an adult was 'letting us off easy' by fabricating a story that she moved. The house was vacant for a few years and knowing what I know now, she must have passed away and didn't have family to inherit the property.



Mrs. Gurnett... thanks for the memories!

I didn't know what to make for dinner tonight, so I grabbed my frying pan, and went looking in my fridge. I found some diced beef, a carrot, which I sliced, and a pack of cocktail sausages. I placed all that in a pan, and then I added some salt, chili flakes and more salt, and gave that a toss. Finally, I gave it a decent amount of ketchup, and then dinner was ready.

For something I thought up on the fly, it was surprisingly good.. I just don't know what to call it, though..

Whenever I go to the Asian market I try to get some bananas from Thailand.
They are short 'finger size' and have a thin skin. Typically, it's best to keep them in plastic and wait for the skin to split to indicate they are ripe.
Last night I see the local Publix grocery has finger bananas from Colombia that look like dwarfed bananas of the variety normally sold here that sell anywhere between 65 cents to 80 cents per pound. When fully ripened, the Manzanos are sweeter than normal bananas but cost prohibitive at $2 a pound.




The ones in the store are slightly distress and look nothing like the ones on Chiquita's website.

I bought some chicken wings last Saturday, because the packing said "extra spicy"..

I made some for dinner tonight, and I was excited. "Extra spicy wings for dinner? On a WEDNESDAY, of all days? Yes. Please!"

So I shoved them in the oven, setting the time for 35 minutes. The bag said 30 minutes at 180 degrees", but I always give my food a bit extra, just to make sure the food is done. The smell of spicy wings were all over the house! So good! It made me very excited for the food!

I grabbed my oven gloves and took the wings out of the oven. They looked amazing! Lots of sauce on them, which is absolutely key for getting that SPICY kick.. I then took a bite out of one wing, and.. Well.. let's just say I have had more spicy chips than this..

"Mate, what is THIS..?" I asked myself.. "These wings aren't spicy at all.. Pff.."

I don't want my "extra spicy" hot wings to go down easy. I want to sweat. I want to squirm in pain.. I want to feel EVERY. SINGLE. BITE on my tongue..

But no.. They didn't even manage to do that..

Extra spicy? More like extra weak..