On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 04:45:21 GMT, Donna Rose
> wrote:

>I made the Kalua Pig for dinner tonight - took Louis Cohen's
suggestion
>and served it with sweet potato oven fries, dusted with an Asian
spice
>mix, and a cucumber/red onion salad dressed simply with celery seeds,
sea
>salt and vinegar.
>
>Everybody loved it and had seconds and thirds.
>
>Homemade nectarine sorbet with macerated blackberries & raspberries
for
>dessert.
>
>Definitely a winner - I'll make it again.
>
>This will be my last mid-week dinner party for awhile. After a 3 1/2
>year break, I'm returning to the realm of the employed on Monday.
>
>Donna
>A pessimist believes all women are bad. An optimist hopes they are.

It sounds like you had a wonderful dinner! Yum.

I always love Kalua pig. It has a wonderful flavor and you can
understand why Hawaiians would go through all the trouble of digging
an oven in the earth, line it with rocks, put in a dressed pig wrapped
in Ti leaves, then cover with more rocks and soil and wait patiently.
6 hours or so.

When we do an Imu(ground oven) we put in turkeys and sweet potatoes.
I have even heard of boy scout groups putting in briskets as for a
fund raiser. The turkey, I can tell you, is just as yummy imho as
Kalua pig.

Good luck returning to work!
aloha,
Thunder
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