Hi Kurt,
 
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sports things starts, it never stops.  And like I said, do the math. It's
football season.  But this is a community of 375 as of this morning and you
are gonna have jerks along with good guys in any small town.  I have a
number of names whose postings I don't read, just delete on sight.
Including Mr. Nisters.
 
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cut down on the traffic they carry, but it makes rule freaks wild to know A
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Lynn
 
>Lynn,
>How do I desubscribe to this thing?  I've had it coming to work with 94
>messages on Monday, about 1/4 complaining about off-topic postings when
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>how to do a Bronx Cheer on this computer.
>
>To anyone who wants to communicate, as humans are apt to and should do,
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>Lynn, please inform the powers that be (not the Emilios 1 and 2) to
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>XXXXXXX,
>
>Kurt
>
>At 05:36 PM 9/18/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>Jan,
>>
>>Bay Scallops a la St. Joe Bay
>>
>>First you have to catch the scallops. We did this at St. Joe Bay many years
>>ago.  We could snorkel in the shallows and scare them out of the grass.
>>You sort of make your shadow stretch over the grass as you swim and the
>>scallops think you are one huge starfish and they swim up out of the grass
>>to escape. Dirty trick.  I don't  think you can do this without a license
>>any more, and it is probably illegal in some other several dozen ways these
>>days,  and the scallops are not  so plentiful. (No, we didn't eat them all!
>> The next night we had a blue crab feast, and smoked mullet salad  the
>>next. But those are other phyla)
>>
>>You can only do this over a beach campfire or maybe a Coleman stove...won't
>>work in a house.
>>
>>Next you then have to clean the scallops. That is fun or impossbile,
>>depending on how many bottles of wine you have on hand. You take this geat
>>big scallop and extract this itty bitty morsel of meat from it. You do this
>>a lot, til you run out of scallops and your fingers are getting bloody.
>>
>>Then you heat a big iron skillet and pour in some olive oil, and
>>some crushed garlic  and get the garlic sizzling over said beach fire.
>>Dump in the scallops and  toss them around for a few minutes over the fire.
>> Then throw some finely chopped parsley over all and put it on picnic
>>plates.  Deglaze the pan (that's haut cuisinese for rinsing out the crisp
>>bits) with some of the wine you haven't drunk and pour it over the
>>scallops.  Eat it with a lot of crusty French or Italian bread or that San
>>Francisco Sourdough the sadists have been dragging in front of us, all
>>buttery and garlicked, and mop up the juices with the bread.  Mmmm.
>>
>>Then sort through the shells for ones you want to keep for your collection.
>>Argopecten irradians concentricus is what we got but this might work with
>>your scallops too if you can find them.  I repeat my warning...this will
>>NOT taste as good done indoors, and it will not be as good with bought
>>scallops.  No way!
>>
>>Lynn Scheu
>>Louisville, KY, Site of the 1999 COA Convention
>>"You'll luv Loo' a vul"
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hello all,
>>>
>>>The Conch-L world may be a strange world (where discussions about how
>>>many clams live in SF Bay, "degenerate" in poop-stories, to ressurect as
>>>a how-to-prepare-the-best-soup cook book) but it is the only world where
>>>I can ask for delicious recipies containing molluscs as an ingredient.
>>>So come on, all you chefs ! In your kitchens, warm up the stoves and let
>>>us know how you cook your Mytilus, Haliotis or Pecten !
>>>Maybe we can put up a special section in the Conch-L archives with this
>>>thread : could be great !  "Chez Clam, we serve two tides a day..."
>>>I've a reservation for 8 PM at table 7 (4 persons)....
>>>
>>>Jan Haspeslagh
>>>Belgium
>>>
>>>
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