sf wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:35:47 -0400, "Jean > wrote:
>
>> James Silverton wrote:
>>> On 9/14/2013 12:24 PM, sf wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 10:39:58 +0100, "Ophelia"
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I eat raw carrot sticks and of course green onions, but I can't
>>>>> really think
>>>>> of any others.
>>>>
>>>> No raw bell pepper, celery or cucumber?
>>>>
>>> That raises the question of *cooked* cucumber. I only know one recipe
>>> for that, stir-fried, Chinese style (it's quite good.)
>>>
>>
>> That's the only way I like cooking it. Hot and sour!
>>
> The cucumber I ate all over China wasn't hot and sour, it was kind of
> bland... but bland in a good way. That's why I've had a big problem
> finding a recipe to re-create the flavor.... I am totally unfamiliar
> with what they used to compose it.
>

Ah, if you give more clues, I have lotso of Chinese cookbooks. But
then, from what you say, the cukes are all wrong here.

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