h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

All these recipes! Small wonder there's talk of digestion problems!
Swedish solution to this is sold in all supermarkets, called "Messmör"

Essentially it's sort of halfways between butter & cheese in consistency, made from a mixture of cow milk & goat milk, and does wonders for the digestion (as well as tasting yummy!!)

That sounds very interesting, how is it taken/eaten?

My brother told me for years "Red meat isn't really good for you. Spicy foods can upset digestion and cause heartburn. And, vinegar is really bad for most people". None of those things have ever bothered me. Years later I find out that none of those bother him either...but, tofu and TVP(textured vegetable protein-soy) bother him.

There are lots of other healthful
foods. Variety is generally a good thing.
In small amounts, I'm not bothered by
much of anything, even tofu.

sorry paul. i must have been posting to the one earlier. i used to have really bad stomach and digestion problems with large amounts of beans. in fact, i still have trouble digesting when i eat food composed mainly of legumes. thast why i eat tofu or beans and have meat also and lots of vegies.

Hi, Evangeline & others!

Messmör is bought in tubs at Swedish supermarkets (dairy produce shelf) and tastes best on 'proper' knäckbröt or wholemeal bread

Like Marmite, you either LOVE it or hate it ....

I might never get a chance to try it, Bagheera.
Sweden is a long way away....

but they have marmite in the US, we might get Messmör too...

I'll trade a Turducken for Messmör...

Before anyone asks what a turducken is:

http://casa.colorado.edu/~kachun/tdc_recipe.shtml

ok, ...

that is a scary website...
ok, you can trade that bird all you want...

Evangeline, just HOW MANY hours/days did you say it takes to PREPARE this recipe??
And how many people for how many days to get shut of it???

I admit that was a scary website. It was the first to show up that wasn't commercially linked. Most people here just go to the local specialty meat markets and buy a turducken already stuffed and waiting to be baked. The average turducken is from fifteen to twenty pounds and bakes a couple of hours longer than a regular turkey of the same weight.

Everywhere I have seen them served there have been no leftovers. I can't eat any of it though, because I am seriously allergic to crustaceans. The shrimp and crawfish in the stuffing will make me very ill. If I wanted to, I suppose I could stuff my own with something else. Since that seems like so much work, the odds of it happening any time soon are pretty slim. So, as usual I'll just have to make do with lasagna, potato salad, green salad, and dessert.

Hjortron (aka 'Cloudberries') steeped in some sort of spirit and covered with soft ice cream (or whipped cream) is a dessert ....

now THAT sounds SO very good! i would really like that, what is a cloudberry?

I've tried a lot of Paul Prudhomme's
recipes. If anyone can make a turducken
work, he can.

But no way could I make it myself.

The one time I tried to roast a duck for
New Year's, I ran into disaster. For one thing,
I tried to roast it in a toaster oven. Unfortunately,
the duck was too big to fit. So I bought a second
toaster oven, cut the duck in half, and put half
ofthe duck in each of the two ovens. There were
still problems, though. Duck fat got down into
the toaster ovens, and they smelled of duck for
years.

Cloudberries resemble a raspberry in shape (but NOT in taste!0
They are native to northern Sweden, Norway & Finland (I think!) and are difficult to collect from the marshy areas they thrive in, so they are horrendously expensive! The spirit distilled from them (Lakka) is also yummy, if a tad sweet for my personal taste!!

mmm, but they sound good... especially with icecream.
i cant believe you tried to cook a bird in your toaster oven...

*considers buying a ticket to Sweden in order to try cloudberries*

A toaster oven. One year our oven broke two days before Thanksgiving. My brother(who had to work a night/morning shift on the holiday) brought our turkey to work and cooked it there and brought it home when his shift was over. The commute was only fifteen minutes so it was very warm when he arrived home.

One of our favorite things is grilled turkey for Christmas dinner. If you use fresh turkey and cut it into serving pieces before cooking it is very tasty. *note: Louisiana is not always cold on Christmas day*

And, now I am really hungry...

i would definitely consider that!
maybe ikia sells cloudberry stuff....
i must check it out!