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On Tue, 16 May 2017 13:13:17 -0600, U.S. Janet B. >
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>On Tue, 16 May 2017 11:37:20 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
>
>>i throw many things into my crockpot
>>
>>sometimes is comes out good, but not always, but i like to experiment,
>>and use leftovers, and not so leftovers too
>>
>>scallops in particular?
>>brown rice
>>crockpot
>>mix/cook with vegetables
>>
>>marc
>
>scallops need to be cooked quickly to avoid drying out, losing flavor
>and getting tough.

Scallops are pricey these days yet in the past I never considered them
anything special and I still don't. When I was a young kid the fish
mongers in Brooklyn would include a couple three pounds of fresh
scallops with the $5 fish order for free, same with jumbo shrimp. In
the '40s-'50s mostly poor folk ate seafood because it was plentiful,
didn't require feeding and tending to like beef and pork... at 8 years
old I could barely lift the bag with $5 worth of fresh fish and carry
it the one block home... thinking back it was like 3-4 pounds each of
cod, flounder, and halibut, plus the free shrimp and/or scallops, and
a couple free lemons too. Back then fin fish was considered expensive
as it cost like 29¢/lb; scaled, cleaned, filleted/steaks. Fresh water
fish cost a few pennies more, and was purchased for holiday meals.
like Easter and Christmas... Great Lakes whitefish was popular for
holiday brunch. I can remember when the best King Oscar sardines cost
19¢ a tin. Tins of Campbell's soup cost 9¢. I know, wages were much
less, yet recourceful folk worked extra jobs and lived quite well.
Since ten years old I worked all kinds of jobs and earned good money,
I never flipped a burger. At ten years old I earned more money in a
day sanding and painting wrought iron railings than an MD earned
making $3 house calls. Today's young folk are in debt and living in
their parent's basements because they're deathly ascared of dirty
hands, calluses, and perspiration. Buncha candy assed snowflakes...
will always be worthless *******s. Anyone who owes a student loan is
a WORTHLESS *******.

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Twelve pounds of fish? How many were you feeding??






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