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2697. jayackroyd - 2/28/2005 6:40:00 PM Just got back from a local auction house that has a weekly walk in appraisal session. I was very surprised at the number of people there. I expected one bored staffer dealing with a trickle of people. Instead, there were four appraisers and a couple of dozen people there.
The stuff was valued at between 300 and 500 dollars at auction, which is an irritating number--too much to give away, really, but not enough to warrant a lot of effort to deal with. Presumably a buyer planning to resell would pay considerably less, and finding an auction that would take the flatware would entail more hassle than I would like to engage in. The place I went to won't deal with such cheap stuff.
If you're in the US, though, you can see their paintings guy on that antique roadshow thing tonight. He's an acquaintance of mine, and I was surprised to see him on television during a visit to my father's house. Today he was appraising things for people who were looking for gold in granny's oils and watercolors. When I asked him whether he was still doing that, he said he'd be on tonight. 2698. thoughtful - 2/28/2005 7:08:05 PM Ate out with friends on Sat night at a malaysian restaurant. Lots of food, reasonable prices. Everything was delish though very different from the fare I usually eat. Still, it was not food I'd ever crave. I had something called rainbow duck. Hubby had curried shrimp which was served on bamboo skewers. We shared around a bunch of the appetizers, and we had some sort of pineapple thing for dessert which was very sweet and tasty. 2699. alistairconnor - 2/28/2005 7:18:10 PM I love Malaysian food, though it tends to be on the upper limit of my hot-spice tolerance.
Though I would have trouble defining the differences between Malaysian, Thai, and Indonesian, all of which are good by me. One supposes a geographical gradient rather than clear-cut national characteristics.
Even Malaysian Airlines food is good. Not just "tolerable by airline standards" good, but actually appetising. 2700. thoughtful - 2/28/2005 7:28:38 PM I was surprised at the lack of heat in this food. hubby's curried shrimp was supposed to be hot, but it really wasn't at all. I agree there's not a lot of discernible difference. They seem to include lots of fish and finely chopped meat, rice paper wrappers, rice, tea, lemon grass and so on. 2701. ronski - 2/28/2005 9:44:59 PM I like Indonesian food, but I don't think I ever have had Malaysian, which I assume is not too different.
What made the rainbow in the duck dish? 2702. thoughtful - 2/28/2005 11:02:43 PM I'm not sure...it didn't look like a rainbow to me...unless they meant the combo of veggies which included the chinese cabbage and other things as well as the slivers of duck meat. The waiter then brought the plate to the table and made individual 'dumplings' by wrapping the veggies in these paper thin rice wrappers. quite something. 2703. uzmakk - 3/4/2005 12:14:21 AM Nilsson:
You seem to be confusing "back packing" with "camping" in which we Americans simply disgorge the contents of our vehicles into a campsite. 2704. PelleNilsson - 3/5/2005 9:53:02 PM The kitchen window. If you look carefully you will see Christina appear as a spectre.
 2705. neato - 3/6/2005 12:21:05 AM That's nice. Reminiscent of those Victorian spirit photographs. 2706. Magoseph - 3/7/2005 4:53:41 PM Hey, neato, I'm so glad to see you here--I hope that everything is all right with you. 2707. Jenerator - 3/7/2005 10:52:22 PM There's a good Thai place that my friends and I go to, but I have a question about the dessert. Is it customary to have vegetables in the coconut ice cream? 2708. Jenerator - 3/7/2005 10:54:02 PM I'm not a big ice cream person, but I thought I'd try it over the sticky rice with fried egg-like custard or the plain fried plantains.
The ice cream had peas and corn in it. 2709. thoughtful - 3/7/2005 11:15:19 PM yuck...peas and corn in ice cream? well i guess they're both starchy enough to be sweet. Then again, I never think of corn and thai food at the same time.
At this malaysian place, they had coconut ice cream that was just coconut...only thing is hubby and i hate coconut so we opted for the pineapple thing instead. 2710. Jenerator - 3/7/2005 11:19:33 PM thoughtful,
I couldn't help but wonder if they had thrown in the veggies thinking that Americans liked them (you know, the same reasoning behind the Chinese places always having that frozen mixture of peas and carrots in all of their entrees.) But these were sugar snap peas and parts of corn kernels. It was bizarre.
Everything else they have served has been fantastic,a nd it has quite a Thai following. Not just us gringos. 2711. thoughtful - 3/7/2005 11:39:29 PM maybe it's a mary poppins thing...remember just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down...just a spoonful of ice cream helps the veggies go down??? 2712. Magoseph - 3/8/2005 12:02:23 AM Of course, ice-cream is not in my diet, but from time to time Flexy picks up some vanilla at Uncle Harry's place, the local ice-cream expert, and I eat it with honey poured over it--once in a great while, though, because I feel obliged to double my time walking that day. 2713. thoughtful - 3/8/2005 12:12:24 AM Mags, I love ice cream. Though I'm not sure I'd like it with honey. Never tried it. I used to mix vanilla and honey into plain yogurt in my yogurt-eating days and it was tasty.
Our rule with ice cream is we don't keep any in the house. If I want ice cream, I have to go to the ice cream parlor which is a drive away and pay the premium price. It's also better than store bought so worth the higher price. But making it difficult to obtain also makes it infrequently eaten, which is much better on my waistline.
From a sugar shock point of view, real cream ice cream is not so bad as the sugar comes with a lot of fat which helps slow down the sugar shock and the high fat helps keep you from overeating. Not that it's good for your blood sugar...just that it's not so bad. And if you get the real all natural stuff, it's real food...not artificial junk like in the store-bought baked goods and no transfats. 2714. Magoseph - 3/8/2005 12:29:56 AM
We can't keep cheese or ice cream around because we'll eat it all the same day it's bought. When Flexy buys ice cream, he just brings a pint, which we share. Cheese is definitely my downfall and I have asked Flexy not to get it anymore--the last time he brought sharp cheddar, a couple of weeks ago, I ate the chunk in one sitting, making sandwiches with rye bread. I just could not stop and I was so disgusted with myself, it's not worth the indulgence.
2715. Jenerator - 3/8/2005 12:30:25 AM Sorry to change subjects here, but do you know what I saw at the store recently that had me cringing? Buttered popcorn flavored syrup for drinks! I think Torani made it or Michelanglo syrups. Can't remember.
Yes, I'll take a buttered popcorn flavored latte, please.
YUCK! 2716. Magoseph - 3/8/2005 12:38:09 AM You know, I can't stand the smell of popcorn, never could--it makes feel nauseated. At school, once in a while, someone would pop in the microvawe one of these packages that reek of cooked grease and the cafeteria smelled horrible. It smelled as bad the next day, that is how pervasive that smell is.
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