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« Reply #90 on: November 04, 2010, 01:18:38 AM »
I think I'd call that a meat dumpling Dina, but I bet there's all sorts of names for something like that!  ...sounds good no matter what it's called though, and as far as Shecky's avatar goes, I think it looks a lot like a kitteh that's about to sneeze really hard!
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« Reply #91 on: November 04, 2010, 02:24:33 AM »
There, there. Don't look so sad. I'll reserve you a portion of the dinner I am cooking...meat bread (er, I don't know if you call it like that. It is like a roll made from minced meat, with some veggies insiide). It has a topping of parmesano cheese.

Is it rolled up in bread/pastry and then sliced, making sort of a round pinwheel thing? Whatever the case, it sounds like something universal and yummy. And parmesan makes EVERYTHING better.
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« Reply #92 on: November 04, 2010, 02:50:50 AM »
Dina, when you want to try the Witches, go for Lords and Ladies. That's one of the books I use to get people addicted to Discworld, period.
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« Reply #93 on: November 04, 2010, 04:06:03 AM »
Shecky and Tallgrrl: no, it is not a ball (like a dumpling) and it has not bread nor pastry. Let's see if I can describe it.
Take the meat and add some condiments and egg (as if you were planning to do meat balls). Then take a rectangle of aluminium foil. Extend the condimented meat over the aluminium, making a thin layer. Press well, to make the meat compact.  Then, put some raw veggies and/or some boiled egg (you can also add cheese) near one of the long laterals (parallel to it). Mine had some bell peppers today. Then began rolling the meat with the aluminium to help you (as if it were a mini carpet that you wanted to transport). Each time you complete a turn  you have to press the meat to make it firmer, more compact. (You don't have to make an aluminium roll, just use it to help you working with the meat). It looks like a bread (that is why it is called "meat bread" here). Then, just put it in the pre-heated oven. When it is quite cooked, add some parmesan to melt over the meat!
You can cut slices and eat it warm, or cold the following day. You can freeze it, too.
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Re: Avatar discussion
« Reply #94 on: November 04, 2010, 04:18:16 AM »
Dina - Sounds like a local variant on what I would call a meatloaf. I'll have to try it that way...

Gotta add that Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg are my favorite characters in Diskworld. (Not that I don't really enjoy all of them...)
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« Reply #95 on: November 04, 2010, 10:44:04 AM »
Shecky and Tallgrrl: no, it is not a ball (like a dumpling) and it has not bread nor pastry. Let's see if I can describe it.
Take the meat and add some condiments and egg (as if you were planning to do meat balls). Then take a rectangle of aluminium foil. Extend the condimented meat over the aluminium, making a thin layer. Press well, to make the meat compact.  Then, put some raw veggies and/or some boiled egg (you can also add cheese) near one of the long laterals (parallel to it). Mine had some bell peppers today. Then began rolling the meat with the aluminium to help you (as if it were a mini carpet that you wanted to transport). Each time you complete a turn  you have to press the meat to make it firmer, more compact. (You don't have to make an aluminium roll, just use it to help you working with the meat). It looks like a bread (that is why it is called "meat bread" here). Then, just put it in the pre-heated oven. When it is quite cooked, add some parmesan to melt over the meat!
You can cut slices and eat it warm, or cold the following day. You can freeze it, too.
Mine was tasty!

That sounds awfully familiar... *racks his memory*... not to mention yummy.
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« Reply #96 on: November 04, 2010, 12:42:46 PM »
Ah-Ha!  That would be a Roulad!  Meat, either a regular cut either cut thin, then sometimes pounded thiner, or why the heck NOT ground beef(?), laid out flat then spread with a 'stuffing' of some kind, can be actual bread stuffing, a rice stuffing, or a vegetable mixture, then rolled up and cooked!  I've had pork with a spinach rice mixture in it... very tasty, and seen it on a cooking show with beef with an Italian mixture in it.  The ground beef sounds very good too!  Verry verrrrry good!  Hmmmm!  

Thanks Dina!!!

( OH, by the way, how does your avatar breath without a nose or lips?  :D  )
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« Reply #97 on: November 04, 2010, 02:03:34 PM »
Dina, are you in Brasil? I used to be on a support desk, and we constantly had to tell visitors to Brasil that the internet works fine inside the country, but getting to the rest of the world sucks. (This is apropos of nothing. Just curious.)


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« Reply #98 on: November 04, 2010, 02:36:51 PM »
Piotr: Yes, meatloaf seemed ok! Thanks.
Tallgrrl: in this case is minced meat, but you are welcome. And how my avatar breaths...it is a big secret (seriously, she is a character from Ctrl-alt-del sillies, by Tim Buckley. He introduced mouths on his characters, but public didn't like them. So mouthless they are  :D)
Mickey: I am not in Brasil. I am more to the South, in Argentina. My internet is ok.
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« Reply #99 on: November 04, 2010, 02:52:47 PM »
Tallgrrl: in this case is minced meat, but you are welcome.

"Ground beef" is generally interchangeable with "minced meat" in the US; it all depends on how fine the grinding is. Do you use very finely ground meat, or is it coarser?

Mickey: I am not in Brasil. I am more to the South, in Argentina. My internet is ok.

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« Reply #100 on: November 04, 2010, 03:05:03 PM »
Dina, are you in Brasil? I used to be on a support desk, and we constantly had to tell visitors to Brasil that the internet works fine inside the country, but getting to the rest of the world sucks. (This is apropos of nothing. Just curious.)


" But there are no bad Diskworld books..."

They're rare, but they exist. Masquerade, Unseen Academicals, and the first 2-3 novels are not very good (compared to the rest of his work). And while Mort is important and a fun little yarn, never start someone on Pratchett with it.


Interesting I actually liked Masquerade better than lords and ladies, and while I didn't think Unseen Academicals was his best work I thought it was better than Making Money. I guess it just goes to show that everyone has their own tastes.
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« Reply #101 on: November 04, 2010, 04:19:11 PM »
Tallgrrl: in this case is minced meat, but you are welcome. And how my avatar breaths...it is a big secret (seriously, she is a character from Ctrl-alt-del sillies, by Tim Buckley. He introduced mouths on his characters, but public didn't like them. So mouthless they are  :D)
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« Reply #102 on: November 04, 2010, 11:13:42 PM »
Exactly, starbeam! And that is just ok or the last silly would never had happen. http://www.cad-comic.com/sillies/

Shecky: Thanks! I didn't know that use of the word "ground", I prefer doing my meat bread with finer meat.
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« Reply #103 on: November 04, 2010, 11:26:31 PM »
Exactly, starbeam! And that is just ok or the last silly would never had happen. http://www.cad-comic.com/sillies/

Shecky: Thanks! I didn't know that use of the word "ground", I prefer doing my meat bread with finer meat.
            I am glad about your wife liking my country. Has she ever been here?
 


That's why she likes it. :D
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« Reply #104 on: November 05, 2010, 12:00:17 AM »
I work with 2 men from Argentina and my gf works with another. They're all very quiet. Is that normal? ;)
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