If it has no pistachio at all, I've no idea. Of course,
Neapolitan ice cream isn't Neapolitan, nor does it have
Neapolitans in it; French vanilla isn't French; and so
on. Maybe it's called pistachio because it's green.

I was beginning to come to that conclusion... but then, so is mint
usually green....

Maybe it could equally be called mint, then.

But you kept up with his conducting....? ;)

Pretty much. I had eight other people behind me
to back me up. Of course, they couldn't keep up
all that well, either.

Sometimes one does wonder about the conductors... and some composers, as well.... :)

One wonders about just about everyone. One
of the vocal soloists came in I believe a
bar early, and we had to stop the aria and
start again.

in our lifetimes, there's some plausibility to some of
the crowing. But consider: who wants to live past 100
anyway?

Very good point. We had a lady in our church that lived to be over a hundred (we had a party at church for her hundredth birthday), but she kept saying she didn't know why she was still around.... Another lady

It was Horszowski who was heard backstage at one of
his concerts moaning "oh, lord, why must I keep
subjecting myself to this?" He was in his late 90s
at the time but held on to 100 and then went away.

I'm of mixed mind on that for myself.... :) I'm in no hurry to leave,
but on the other hand am not clinging to here, either...

There will come the day when you feel it's time.
Whether your body cooperates is another question.

courted pneumonia when she was in her mid-90's, so didn't stick around
to get to that "magic age".... If someone is in particularly robust health, and still able to do just about anything, living past 100 might
be not so bad, but there aren't many of those....

I do have those friends of whom I've spoken, couples at
90 and 92 who are still pretty robust, but how long
they'll stay relatively intact I don't know.

It's something we really can't know.... but I certainly hope they do
stay well.... :)

One hopes, of course, for them and for ourselves.

I'm not familiar with Watney's Red Barrel....

Of course not, it's beer. But that was referencing
a Monty Python monologue by Eric Idle about British
gammon tourism.

Ah, ok.... :)

It was a most famous sketch in its day.

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Title: Ajiaco Del Restaurant Garcia
Categories: Poultry, Ethnic, Vegetables, Kooknet
Yield: 4 servings

2 tb Butter
1 ts Cayenne Pepper
1 c Unsalted Chicken Stock
4 Ears Yellow Corn, shucked,
Sliced into 1" wheels
3 lb Chicken Breasts, cut up
2 ts Sweet Paprika
1 c Onions, finely diced
3 c Milk
2 lg Yucca, peeled and diced
1 Lime, juiced

Melt the butter in a 6 qt. pot over medium heat. Cook chicken pieces
in the butter until no longer pink. Remove chicken with slotted spoon
and place in in a bowl. Put onion, garlic, cayenne, and paprika in
pot and cook while stirring, until onion is translucent and colored
with the paprika. Add stock, milk, yucca, corn, and chicken to the
pot. Bring almost to a boil then reduce heat, cover and simmer,
stirring every now and then, for about 1 hour, or until yucca is
tender. Remove from heat and stir in lime juice. Serve with Cuban or
French bread that has been sliced and broiled until golden.

As an alternative frozen corn on the cob will work, as well as fresh
frozen kernels. The fresh corn cob seems to impart a nice flavor to
this dish.

If you're wondering what to do with the wheels of corn, just pick 'em
up with your fingers and nibble 'round the rims.

Source - Restaurant Garcia

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Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 11-24-18 22:12 <=-

If it has no pistachio at all, I've no idea. Of course,
Neapolitan ice cream isn't Neapolitan, nor does it have
Neapolitans in it; French vanilla isn't French; and so
on. Maybe it's called pistachio because it's green.

I was beginning to come to that conclusion... but then, so is mint
usually green....

Maybe it could equally be called mint, then.

Except that mint actually does have mint flavor... :)

But you kept up with his conducting....? ;)

Pretty much. I had eight other people behind me
to back me up. Of course, they couldn't keep up
all that well, either.

Sometimes one does wonder about the conductors... and some composers, as well.... :)

One wonders about just about everyone. One
of the vocal soloists came in I believe a
bar early, and we had to stop the aria and
start again.

In rehearsal or in concert....?

in our lifetimes, there's some plausibility to some of
the crowing. But consider: who wants to live past 100
anyway?

Very good point. We had a lady in our church that lived to be over a hundred (we had a party at church for her hundredth birthday), but she kept saying she didn't know why she was still around.... Another lady

It was Horszowski who was heard backstage at one of
his concerts moaning "oh, lord, why must I keep
subjecting myself to this?" He was in his late 90s
at the time but held on to 100 and then went away.

I'm of mixed mind on that for myself.... :) I'm in no hurry to leave,
but on the other hand am not clinging to here, either...

There will come the day when you feel it's time.
Whether your body cooperates is another question.

Time wlll tell...

courted pneumonia when she was in her mid-90's, so didn't stick around
to get to that "magic age".... If someone is in particularly robust health, and still able to do just about anything, living past 100 might be not so bad, but there aren't many of those....

I do have those friends of whom I've spoken, couples at
90 and 92 who are still pretty robust, but how long
they'll stay relatively intact I don't know.

It's something we really can't know.... but I certainly hope they do
stay well.... :)

One hopes, of course, for them and for ourselves.

Indeed.

I'm not familiar with Watney's Red Barrel....

Of course not, it's beer. But that was referencing
a Monty Python monologue by Eric Idle about British
gammon tourism.

Ah, ok.... :)

It was a most famous sketch in its day.

OK. May have heard it, but the reference would probably have gone over
my head even then.... :)

ttyl neb

... You don't get once-in-a-lifetime offers like this every day.

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