On Oct 23, 1:00*pm, tert in seattle > wrote:
> spamtrap1888 wrote:
> > On Oct 23, 7:50?am, tert in seattle > wrote:
> >> sf wrote:
> >> > On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:15:39 +0000 (UTC), tert in seattle
> >> > wrote:
>
> >> >> sf wrote:
> >> >> > On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 05:59:12 +0000 (UTC), tert in seattle
> >> >> > wrote:
>
> >> >> >> tert in seattle wrote:
> >> >> >> > I can hardly stand it!
>
> >> >> >> whoops...completely missed it
>
> >> >> >> dang
>
> >> >> > After all that build up too.
>
> >> >> go ahead, rub it in
>
> >> > Heh! ?I guess we'll never know what it was.
>
> >> it was international nachos day
>
> >> but like Steve astutely observes, you can make nachos any old day
>
> >> I made keta chowder instead which I don't believe has its own special day
>
> > I remember when keta used to be called dog salmon -- except at
> > Safeway, which made a big deal over their "Silverbrite" salmon.
>
> I finally caved and bought some of that polenta-in-a-tube and fried
> up some rounds. *My son asked what I was making -- I called them
> "corn cakes". *He said he wanted some, and ate them right up. *If
> I'd called it polenta he would have told me it's icky.
>
> I'm learning....slowly.

I bought the tubular polenta because the rest of the food I was making
was complicated enough, and I didn't want to think about the starch. I
nuked the rounds though, because I wanted them to absorb sauce. I did
fry the leftovers.