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Try match sticks of burdock root and carrots--use tempura batter and you've got a terrific addition to vegetable tempura (usually sweet potatoes, zucchini, etc.) to go along with the shrimp tempura.

Mis en Place!!!!!!!

My first experience with Indian food came while I was in college. Some friends had beeen Peace Corps volunteers, who then became Peace Corps trainers, and they introduced me to Ceylonese (now Sri Lanka) born trainers who made Indian food for me. The food was a revelation! The flavors exploded in my mouth--chicken curry, basmati rice, daal, naan, fresh coconut sambal, etc. Never had better food. Even I've been to countless Indian restaurants, I can never recapture that first meal.

Porterhouse---to share with wife and friends...with a beautifully charred exterior and a medium rare interior, and rosy red juices flowing tenderly from pieces just begging to be eaten; lightly flavored with sea salt and a trace of freshly ground pepper, nothing more. Succulent aromas of carefully aged and properly handled prime meat..........Yummmmmm

Fried rice, starting with a base of 1/2 lb of chopped up bacon and diced onions.......