stopped by to look a few days ago, after quite a while ;-)

Best carp sandwiches, Joe Tess' Place, Omaha.
Frank Reid

Seriously? Im game, is that like gefilte fish or what? Is it deep
fried?

Midwest? Of course its deep fried. http://joetessplace.com/ Every
year, we have a carp fest and get carp from here. One of our guys
makes some AWESOME carp cakes, and, though different, would compare to
some of the best crab imperial I had in Maryland.
Frank Reid

Corn Crab/Carp Cakes

(Four portions)


1 Pound fresh or frozen lump crabmeat (for this recipe, we use carp)

1 Cup cooked corn

½ cup finely diced onion

½ cup finely diced green bell pepper

½ cup finely diced celery

1 cup mayonnaise

½ teaspoon dry mustard

Pinch of cayenne pepper

Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

1 egg, lightly beaten

1 ¼ cups saltine cracker crumbs

2 tablespoons olive oil

2 tablespoons unsalted butter

Tartar sauce

Combine the crabmeat (carp), corn, onion, bell pepper, and celery in a
mixing bowl and toss well.
In another bowl combine the mayonnaise with the mustard and cayenne
pepper. Stir into the crabmeat mixture, and add salt and pepper.
Then, using a rubber spatula, gently fold in the egg and ¼ cup of the
cracker crumbs.
Form the crab mixture into eight patties. Carefully coat the patties
with the remaining 1 cup cracker crumbs, and chill, covered, for at
least 30 minutes but no longer than a few hours.
Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil and 1 tablespoon of the butter in a
medium-size skillet. Cook the crab/carp cakes over medium heat until
golden on both sides, about 3 minutes per side, adding more oil and
butter as necessary. Serve immediately with the Tartar sauce on the
side.


Tartar Sauce

1 cup mayonnaise

2 tsp fresh lemon juice

1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

Dash of Tabasco sauce

¼ cup finely diced dill pickle (or more to taste)

¼ cup chopped fresh Italian parsley

2 tablespoons finely minced shallots

2 tablespoons tiny capers, drained

Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste



Mix the mayonnaise, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, and Tabasco
together in a bowl. Fold in the pickle, parsley, shallots, and
capers. Season with salt and pepper, and refrigerate, loosely
covered, at least 1 hour before serving.



Makes 1 ½ cups

Frank Reid

On Nov 5, 4:57*pm, Frank Reid © 2008 wrote:
I equate this to the lack of good Mexican food outside of Southern
California. *TexMex is NOT Mexican food. *I do have a connection that
will score me a couple of dozen home made tamales around Christmas.
Could make them myself, but it would take two days of cooking. *That's
the only way I know how to make them.
Frank Reid
(who thinks the tamale is the worlds most perfect food)

There is little good Mexican food outside of Mexico. Most of what
passes for such stateside is crap for gringo palates that think hot
means quality.

And "Mexican" food is as amorphous a concept as "American" food.

American food: Minnesota, Alabama, Oregon, Texas,
Maryland.................what the hell is American food ?

Mexican food has the same variety. Just takes more time to figure it
out.

cheers

oz, whose local Mex (in the Ozarks, no less) restaurant is owned and
staffed by a family from Oaxaca........YUM

On Nov 7, 3:07*pm, Mike wrote:
..Best pizza would be twin city pizza
on broadway in bangor maine.....

They're ok. Not as good as Mama Baldacci's, though. But I can't
believe you know Outer Broadway in Bangor!

--riverman
(grew up thaya)

On Nov 5, 7:00*pm, DaveS wrote:
On Nov 5, 2:57*pm, Frank Reid © 2008 wrote:

I equate this to the lack of good Mexican food outside of Southern
California. *TexMex is NOT Mexican food. *I do have a connection that
will score me a couple of dozen home made tamales around Christmas.
Could make them myself, but it would take two days of cooking. *That's
the only way I know how to make them.
Frank Reid
(who thinks the tamale is the worlds most perfect food)

Los Hernandez in Union Gap (next to Yakima). Normal array, then in
Spring . . . asparagus tamales.!!! Yahuda! Check out the reviews.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/los-hernandez-union-gap

Dave
Right now I could go for an Indian Taco on fry bread

....and some years back ( '96 or so ) the family had a branch in Cle
Elum, about a mile from my house

cheers

oz

On Nov 5, 11:20*pm, Giles wrote:
On Nov 5, 4:57*pm, Frank Reid © 2008 wrote:

I equate this to the lack of good Mexican food outside of Southern
California. *TexMex is NOT Mexican food. *I do have a connection that
will score me a couple of dozen home made tamales around Christmas.
Could make them myself, but it would take two days of cooking. *That's
the only way I know how to make them.
Frank Reid
(who thinks the tamale is the worlds most perfect food)

Mmmmm.....tamales! * * * *

I don't make them anymore. *Good.....and fun.....but lots of work, and
I can get better any time I want, cheap.

TexMex? *Whether I intend to cook or just get a quick fix of ready
made at the lunch counter, I shop at Mercado El Rey at 35th and
Burnham. *The staff there speak about as much English as I do
Spanish. *As far as I've been able to determine through frequent
exchanges of smiles, nods, pointing, and holding up the appropriate
number of fingers, none of them knows or much cares what a "Texas" or
a "Southern *California" is, aside from something or other they or
their parents had to get through en route to and from America.

I've been to Texas and to Southern California. *Texas and Southern
California are not the only places about which their residents have an
extremely warped minimal solipsistic perception.

Get off the Interstate and stop in Trinadad CO, go up the hill to the
neighborhoods and step into the old, saggy floor eateries with about a
dozen kitchen-style tables. Mostly you will smile and point, but you
will get the most authentic Mex vittles available. Join some old men
playing dominoes, but bring money.

cheers

oz

On Nov 8, 8:54*pm, MajorOz wrote:
On Nov 5, 11:20*pm, Giles wrote:





On Nov 5, 4:57*pm, Frank Reid © 2008 wrote:

I equate this to the lack of good Mexican food outside of Southern
California. *TexMex is NOT Mexican food. *I do have a connection that
will score me a couple of dozen home made tamales around Christmas.
Could make them myself, but it would take two days of cooking. *That's
the only way I know how to make them.
Frank Reid
(who thinks the tamale is the worlds most perfect food)

Mmmmm.....tamales! * * * *

I don't make them anymore. *Good.....and fun.....but lots of work, and
I can get better any time I want, cheap.

TexMex? *Whether I intend to cook or just get a quick fix of ready
made at the lunch counter, I shop at Mercado El Rey at 35th and
Burnham. *The staff there speak about as much English as I do
Spanish. *As far as I've been able to determine through frequent
exchanges of smiles, nods, pointing, and holding up the appropriate
number of fingers, none of them knows or much cares what a "Texas" or
a "Southern *California" is, aside from something or other they or
their parents had to get through en route to and from America.

I've been to Texas and to Southern California. *Texas and Southern
California are not the only places about which their residents have an
extremely warped minimal solipsistic perception.

Get off the Interstate and stop in Trinadad CO, go up the hill to the
neighborhoods and step into the old, saggy floor eateries with about a
dozen kitchen-style tables. *Mostly you will smile and point, but you
will get the most authentic Mex vittles available. *Join some old men
playing dominoes, but bring money.

cheers

oz

What's authentic?

Would Mexicans know anything about it?

g.

On Nov 8, 6:51*pm, MajorOz wrote:
On Nov 5, 7:00*pm, DaveS wrote:





On Nov 5, 2:57*pm, Frank Reid © 2008 wrote:

I equate this to the lack of good Mexican food outside of Southern
California. *TexMex is NOT Mexican food. *I do have a connection that
will score me a couple of dozen home made tamales around Christmas.
Could make them myself, but it would take two days of cooking. *That's
the only way I know how to make them.
Frank Reid
(who thinks the tamale is the worlds most perfect food)

Los Hernandez in Union Gap (next to Yakima). Normal array, then in
Spring . . . asparagus tamales.!!! Yahuda! Check out the reviews.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/los-hernandez-union-gap

Dave
Right now I could go for an Indian Taco on fry bread

...and some years back ( '96 or so ) the family had a branch in Cle
Elum, about a mile from my house

cheers

oz- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Cle Elum huh? That's the home of some of the best sausage West of the
Rocks' but I always forget the name of that shop on the South side of
the main drag.

Dave

On Nov 8, 9:49*pm, riverman wrote:
On Nov 7, 3:07*pm, Mike wrote:
.Best pizza would be twin city pizza

on broadway in bangor maine.....

They're ok. Not as good as Mama Baldacci's, though. But I can't
believe you know Outer Broadway in Bangor!

--riverman
(grew up thaya)

so did I..... I like the tiny peperoni they use ......went to mary
snow school and abraham lincoln vine st school......grandfathers farm
was right beside the kenduskeag at six miles falls with the
greenhouses........Gambinos pizza with the sauce on the
itialians........Jordans franks beans red dogs i think its time for a
road trip.......lived beside the salmon pool on the brewer side after
the army......Kinda regret that we didn't hook up when you were here
in ct......Moved to ct at 11years old moved back to maine in 75 moved
back to ct in 79 been here since..........

"MajorOz" wrote in message
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On Nov 5, 7:00 pm, DaveS wrote:
On Nov 5, 2:57 pm, Frank Reid © 2008 wrote:

I equate this to the lack of good Mexican food outside of Southern
California. TexMex is NOT Mexican food. I do have a connection that
will score me a couple of dozen home made tamales around Christmas.
Could make them myself, but it would take two days of cooking. That's
the only way I know how to make them.
Frank Reid
(who thinks the tamale is the worlds most perfect food)

Los Hernandez in Union Gap (next to Yakima). Normal array, then in
Spring . . . asparagus tamales.!!! Yahuda! Check out the reviews.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/los-hernandez-union-gap

Dave
Right now I could go for an Indian Taco on fry bread

Best Indian Taco on fry bread was traveling from Denali to Telketna, AK.
Wife and I stopped at a small diner at a gas station along the road.
Figuring the place would fill us up, but what could you expect at a gas
station. We were talking about gas station food last night because of this
taco. Was fantastic. And we decided that we have had 3 great meals in our
travels at gas stations. Years ago, a gas station in Italy north of Rome.
great selection and great food, and some of the best Costa Rican food on the
Pan Am highway, just north of where you come out on it from Santa Elena.
Just some reminisces about road food.