Quoting Dave Drum to Jim Weller <=-
Cholula ...
expensive ...
Transport must eat a lot getting it to you.
Well I'm 1000 miles north of Edmonton, Alberta, the nearest major
distribution centre and rail head which in turn is 1800 miles north
of San Diego and the Mexican border. The final leg here is by truck
only, not rail (which is much cheaper). If a tractor trailer
carrying 20 tons is charging $2.00 per mile I'm facing a 5 cent a
pound surcharge over southern Canada. But as we export nothing but
diamonds which don't weigh much and the trucker must deadhead back
he charges double. And air freight rates are about 5 times as
much, 10 times in the arctic for small turbo props that can land on
gravel runways. The one grocery store and sole restaurant up in
Kugluktuk pay $1.20 per pound to fly in perishable groceries which
is why Roslind's hotel charges her $100 per day for three very plain
meals.
On the other hand smoked arctic char is just $30 per kg there (at
the fish processing plant door) but $88 in NYC delis. Last night we
had a huge platter of cold smoked char, about half a pound each,
served up lox style with rye bread, onions, capers and lemon wedges.
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Title: Old Dutch Tomato Soup - Oud Hollandse Tomatensoep
Categories: Dutch, Soups
Servings: 4
1 l chicken stock
1 piece of bacon or ham rind
1 onion
1 lg carrot
2 TB butter or olive oil
2 TB flour
1 kg tomatoes
1 bay leaf
salt & pepper
Make the stock yourself or use bouillon cubes or ready made stock.
Finely chop the onion and dice the carrot. Cut the rind in small
pieces and quickly fry it for a minute in a dry skillet. Add the
butter or olive oil and saute the onion and carrots. When the
onions are transparent, sprinkle in the flour, stir and allow it to
cook for a few minutes. Bit by bit pour in the stock, stirring
throughout. Keep on stirring until the soup thickens.
Quarter the tomatoes and add them to the soup, together with the bay
leaf (take it out before serving) and let the soup simmer just short
of boiling.
Put the soup through a (rotary) food sieve or food mill and add salt
and pepper to taste. Serve with crisp, wholegrain bread.
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Cheers
Jim
... Superman was an illegal immigrant.
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