Random Garage Stuff, Including Recipes!

You know how you set aside copies of funny emails, miscellaneous flyers, old Christmas cards, obsolete technology manuals, notes, and whatnot, together with some really important papers: It's all in some stacks, and you know you have to go through it one day, because you can't throw away the important documents and keepsakes, but you need to get rid of almost everything else? Well, that was my day today. I spent about three hours sorting through boxes and stacks of papers from the garage. I threw away or shredded about two boxes worth of unimportant papers, and kept a 4-inch stack of important documents.

In the stacks: Printouts of a 1997 Compuserve Forum chat between me and a Brazilian woman. She was giving me recipes:

Bacalhau a Bras

"I have a simple way to make this Portuguese dish. Cook the salted cod in plenty of water . . AFTER you have soaked it for about 3 days. After it's cooked, shred into pieces and set aside.

"Cut potatoes into cubes (small ones) and fry . . set aside . .

"Saute onions and garlic in olive oil . . saute until the onions are soft and transparent . . . set aside.

"Put it all together . . . in one big serving dish (all hot of course) . . usually I add just a touch of vinegar to the sauteed onions at this point . . just a touch. Some families will serve this with hardboiled eggs cut into slices . . I don't.

"Warm bread . . Vinho Verde . . . e PRONTO :-)

"Abracos,
Anne"

Brazilian Barbecued Chicken & Bahian  Cookery

"Hi Clare . .

"The sauce you put on chicken?? I use lemon, oil, garlic and some soy. Not sure if that's what you meant. [It was.]

"The Bahian food is also easy. Take some shrimp (any shell fish) and saute with garlic, onion, bay leaf, olive oil . . sauteed all together. Add some Cilantro . . 'Azete de Dende' (palm tree oil) . . let cook to mix flavors. Add coconut milk at the end and blend and simmer. Serve over plain white rice. The aroma comes from the coconut milk and dende oil.

"Don't forget the 'batidas' LOL

"Abracos
Anne"

(Some spelling errors corrected, but I kept the idiosyncratic punctuation.) I really want to try these! And now it's here, I can toss those papers, too!