Hi Hal, Vicki, Kelly and all
Happy Birthday Hal, belated or not . So glad you are with family.
We seem to have been friends for ages and always nice to know you are there. I
joined the list in 1997 having left Fort Lauderdale in the August to live on
the Isle of Wight. Have not the faintest clue how I found the group but all I
remember was a post from Justin asking for recipes for a coriander/cilantro
salsa and it went from there and Caroline and I became such good friends. I
think of her so often.
Through the group I have fortunately met a few. Firstly Estela. Geoffrey and
I met her in France when we went on holiday to the Dordogne and she came up
from Salou, near Barcelona. Another trip stayed with her and she made the
most amazing paella and showed us Barcelona sights food related.😜🤣
Met MK several times too. I have stayed with her in Nowhere Illinois actually
Morrison, Illinois. We had a bit of a foodfest where I met Shane. MK came to
visit us on the Iske of Wight. Then when I moved to Spain way back in 2006 MK
came and stayed with me for a month where we sampled loads of tapas. It was
during this time we both met Estela north of my Spanish village near Cartagena.
Amazing how we got to meet up.
In Spain I was a member of a group of exPats and a trip to Jerez was planned.
As that is where Estela lives she so kindly arranged for our group to have the
most fantastic evening with an authentic Flamenco group. They even provided a
Spanish bean stew for dinner. A memory a lot will treasure as usually you get
the tourist flamenco but this was the real deal.
So many happy memories to last a lifetime. Hal, I do remember the cornmeal to
Estela episode. Our village supermarket now stocks it back in Spain. Village
is called Turre if any wants to Google and I call if Inglaturre as many
English live there.😜.
It really is a small world. I have talked to Kelly when I was back in Fort
Lauderdale, think that was not long before Katrina. Now Vicki has moved from
Perth to Canberra, my hometown, so we have lots to share.
Back to food. I heaved myself out of the duvet where I was hiding from the
gloom and doom to go to Morrison’s to get some veggies to go with the turkey
breast roast for Christmas dinner. As you go in, first is the fish counter.
Chatted to the fishmonger and got a nice piece of salmon to try the gravadlax.
He was quite knowledgeable as they had wild salmon and the farmed but explained
the farmed best for gravadlax to absorb the flavours so we will see. Farmed
cheaper so he wasn’t conning me😜
Estela, re Indian food and sorry this is all in one post straying from the
original threads you can’t go wrong with Tandoori. Tikka Masarla which is sort
of a curry made for us Anglophiles is nice along with Balti. Home of Balti is
Birmingham UK, again a dish sort of invented for English tastes. It has long
been a custom of some Brits after a night on the Friday night booze up, to go
get a curry. Jalfrezi is good, spicy but not as much as Madras. Am sure you
will enjoy whatever you order, if you get a naan like Steve suggested, get the
Peshwari if you like coconut and sultanas. Our fave. We have super authentic
Indian restaurant in our Spanish village. It many Spanish go as too spicy😜
Oh Susan, just came to me. Way back in 1977 when I was in Singapore I had an
amazing Indian meal meeting up with the ex of my best friend for a catch up.
Think it was called Omar Kayan. Wonder if still there.
Have a good Christmas everyone, will be thinking of you even if I cannot figure
out how to zoom.
Julia/Jules
Sent from my iPad
On 23 Dec 2020, at 23:01, Chilecayenne <chilecayenne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Happy Birthday Hal!!!
Goodness, I don’t remember when I started it n the list???!
I moved to Nola in 1998, but I was on the list before that...
K
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I need a shot of salvation baby,
once in awhile...
On Dec 23, 2020, at 4:47 PM, Vicki Taylor <vicki@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Oh Happy Birthday Hal! I hope you have/had a brilliant day! Nice that you have
been able to be near family for it.
I think I remember reading that the group was set up in 1994. I only came in
about 2005 I think. This is a real community and I value it greatly, and
consider many of us to be true friends.
Vicki. :-)
On 24 Dec 2020, at 9:24 am, Harold Loeblein
<janhaltn@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:janhaltn@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
This post got me thinking a lot. I got started when Estela wanted a bag of
corn meal. I wonder if she remembers when that was. Over 20 years ago. I
thought this was simple. Go to the store, buy a bag of corn meal and sent it
to her. I got her two bags. Then the fun started. How to send it to her. I
was not that easy and it cost a lot more than the corn meal but I did finally
got it to her. She sent me a Fruit Cake in return. I will made that trade any
day. There were few of us at the start but this, group grew fast. Some of us
have been here for at least 20 years. There have been great and sad posts.
There was one meet and cook in northern US. Kelly made it but I have forget
who else were there. I have met up with went dining with Kelly a few times.
Always fun. I am 80 today and I think I am still the oldest member. Who would
have thought this core group would still be here. I sure didn’t but happy we
are still together. I am 99% sure that Kelly is the only one I have met. A
few of us have posted pictures of ourselves but if I saw you on a sidewalk
today I would have no idea who were. So I suggest if we don’t do Zoom we post
a current picture at least. I will give it a try when I am back home. =
Merry Christmas, Hal
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[mailto:oz-food-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vicki Taylor
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 2:57 PM
To: oz-food@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:oz-food@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [oz-food] Re: Christmas meetup on Zoom
Hi Hal,
You said earlier in the thread you will be with family this Christmas? Has that
changed? If so, I am sorry. ☹️ But maybe you can join in with our group call
then?
Julia, yes, really looking forward to a break. Sending Dohn to the shop for
supplies while I’m ‘working’ this morning, so I get it relatively easy. Will
make a chicken salad or something to eat on the road as I expect not much will
be open except servos, which can be awesome but are usually ugh.
And your computer fellow is useless if he doesn’t listen to you and respect
your wishes. 😐 He’s also useless if he can’t show you how to do something as
simple as installing and setting up an app, and instead allows you to
(presumably) pay him to do it. Or not, as the case may be. 😐😐😐
Vicki. :-)
On 24 Dec 2020, at 7:48 am, Harold Loeblein
<janhaltn@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:janhaltn@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Sniff sniff - got left out. I have been alone for the last 10 years after
Jan died == :=) Hal
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[mailto:oz-food-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Julia Leatherwood ;(Redacted
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Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 1:52 AM
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Subject: [oz-food] Re: Christmas meetup on Zoom
Vicki,
Am so happy for you and Dohn deciding to go to the Blue Mountains. The break
away will do you the world of good.
I honestly haven’t a clue about Zoom so am no help there. Had our “computer
p/tv guy” around the other day to set us up with Zoom so Geoffrey and I could
chat while I am/ was? In Spain and he just said use Skype, it is the same
thing. That is far as we got. Talk about
confused.com<http://confused.com/>🤔😩. It really would be nice to see each
other, As may not be possible are any of you on WhatsApp? Could at least try
to get in touch, especially to those alone, I.e. Kelly and Estela.
Loving your cactus lights too Steve. Here is where I went for a coffee in our
village, dark, and only 4 pm.
Jules🌲🌲
