Depot Diner & Coffee Shop

[cherokee woman]

Jim,

A gallon of coffee (reg. caf.) will STILL have me yawning and practically falling asleep!!

[Noah Hofrichter]

Walt, I know, my Dad was listening to it on the radio (no TV coverage for some reason) and I heard it from him. They need five duplicates of Ben Sheets if they ever want to get anywhere......

Dave, Etuofee is really really good. I have an aunt that lives in New orleans, and we have some every time we go. It's like a suop but a little thicker, and it's served over rice. As mentioned above, it's got all sorts of shell fish, shrimp, crawfi***ails, oysters, ect. It's alot like a thicker Seafood Gumbo, if you know what that is........

Sipping a nice cup of cappuicino as I right today, I needed a pick me up. Local came again last night. We had the fan on, as it was hot, and the radio on while watching them for about an hour, and the battery died when we tried to start her up to go home. Luckly my Dad work about 2 blocks from there, and he has Keys, so he went and called my mom from there. Got here jump started and on our way. It was kind of nice though, I got to watch the train switch the Plastics company for another half an hour.[:D]

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Noah Hofrichter

Walt, I know, my Dad was listening to it on the radio (no TV coverage for some reason) and I heard it from him. They need five duplicates of Ben Sheets if they ever want to get anywhere......

Dave, Etuofee is really really good. I have an aunt that lives in New orleans, and we have some every time we go. It's like a suop but a little thicker, and it's served over rice. As mentioned above, it's got all sorts of shell fish, shrimp, crawfi***ails, oysters, ect. It's alot like a thicker Seafood Gumbo, if you know what that is........

Sipping a nice cup of cappuicino as I right today, I needed a pick me up. Local came again last night. We had the fan on, as it was hot, and the radio on while watching them for about an hour, and the battery died when we tried to start her up to go home. Luckly my Dad work about 2 blocks from there, and he has Keys, so he went and called my mom from there. Got here jump started and on our way. It was kind of nice though, I got to watch the train switch the Plastics company for another half an hour.[:D]

Hope you guys did get home okay.
As to watching the game CW & I have the satellite,and we get FOX Sports.
And yes,Iknow about having them blacked out,especially in local area.[:)]

[locomutt]

For all,

CW & I JUST got a book in today,from Kalmbach.

It is through "Classic Trains" It's entitlled " GM'S GEEP'S"

I know alot of people don't care,but for me this was a great thing.
Even CW looked through it.

For Kalmbach Publishing ,KUDOS.

[edblysard]

Crawfish etoufee (ehh two fay )
To pronounce it like a cajun, fill your mouth with marbles and try to say
"Hey Today"

Looks gross , tastes like heaven.

1/2 cup oil or margarine
1/2 cup flour
2 1/2 cups shrimp stock
1 large onion(sweet) chopped fine
1 large celery stalk, chopped fine
3 fat garlic cloves, minced
1/2 cups crawfish fat(substitue 3/4 tablespoons crawfish stock)
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon salt(omit of using crawfish stock, its real salty already)
1 tablespoon parsley
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper(careful, its HOT)
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon thyme
1 bay leaf
1 lb frozen crawfish
2 large scallion tops, sliced

Lots of white rice

Make a medium dark roux by whisking the flour into the oil over a medium heat and cooking strring constantly until the mix is the color of chocolate.

Add the onions, celery and garlic, saute over medium low heat untill tender(the onions will go clear).

Slowly add the shrimp stock, and bring to a boil.

Lower heat to a simmer, add lemon juice, crawfish fat or the substitute and the rest of the spices.

Simmer 15 minutes, then add the crawfish, bring to a rapid simmer for about a minute, then lower back to a low simmer, add the scallions, then finish simmering till the crawfish are tender, about 10 minutes.
Serve over white rice.

I have no ider if you have crawfi***here, (mudbugs), but you could substitute shrimp and shrimp stock instead.
Every once in a while, I add a 1/2 cup of red wine to the mix instead of the stock.

The etoufee is a thick sauce, very rich, and very aromatic.

If you dont have crawfish, use shrimp.

Sounds hard to do, but its not, and tastes great.
Do not freeze leftovers(if you have some), it dosnt keep.

My brother in law taught me this recipe, is a Cajun, from deep in the Louisiana swamps,.
He speaks english, I think, but I learned this one from watching him cook it a few times.

If it turns out too salty for your taste, substitute a medium red wine in place of the crawfish stock, and leave out the teaspoon of salt.


Ed

[Kozzie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Noah Hofrichter

Walt, I know, my Dad was listening to it on the radio (no TV coverage for some reason) and I heard it from him. They need five duplicates of Ben Sheets if they ever want to get anywhere......

Dave, Etuofee is really really good. I have an aunt that lives in New orleans, and we have some every time we go. It's like a suop but a little thicker, and it's served over rice. As mentioned above, it's got all sorts of shell fish, shrimp, crawfi***ails, oysters, ect. It's alot like a thicker Seafood Gumbo, if you know what that is........

Sipping a nice cup of cappuicino as I right today, I needed a pick me up. Local came again last night. We had the fan on, as it was hot, and the radio on while watching them for about an hour, and the battery died when we tried to start her up to go home. Luckly my Dad work about 2 blocks from there, and he has Keys, so he went and called my mom from there. Got here jump started and on our way. It was kind of nice though, I got to watch the train switch the Plastics company for another half an hour.[:D]

Noah and tree68, thanks for info [;)] - does sound interesting...sadly, [:(] I'm allergic to shrimps, and a few other things, so I guess I might have to pass on the efoufee...can't risk it...a few years ago I popped a shrimp in my nouth and suddenly got a real bad tingling sensation [:0] and my mouth sort sweleld up a bit - horrible feeling..[xx(]...allergies are such a pest [:(!] oh well! I can enjoy fish! [:)][:p][:p]
plenty of nice fish around...[;)][8D][:D][:)][:p][:p]

Dave

[Modelcar]

....Dave, you better hurry or you'll be late for lunch.

[Anonymous]

Leave it to Ed to make me want to go out and git sum o dat ettouffe---rahhhhht now!

Dave--you can also make it with stuff you are not allergic to, like possibly chicken (which I hear tastes just like cat), and it'll go down soooooo smooooooooooth! I think we could find a version that you could handle without having an allergic reaction.

The real problem with stuff like ettouffe is if you eat too much of it, you start to look like Chef Prudhomme!

Bring it on.

Ed--I stole your recipe. Hope you don't mind.

Off to another airplane! (yuk)

[Kozzie]

Ed - thanks for the recipe! Worth taking down...I'll take drephpe's suggestion and just substitute chicken.

I reckon we do get what you call crawfish down here, except, we call them Moreton Bay Bugs. I think the name Moreton Bay because our "Downunder" version of bug is primarily found in Moreton Bay, the bay beside which the shipping port for Brisbane is situated.

Thanks again

Dave

[cherokee woman]

Hey Kozzie,

It's 9:37 EDT here in Lou., KY. What's your time right now?

[Modelcar]

I believe Koozie is [correction], 16 hrs. ahead of Indiana time....Just afrer his lunch time, Tuesday. [:)]

[UPTRAIN]

9:23 in Ash Hill, Missouri!!!

[edblysard]

Dave,
Follow drehpe's suggestion, use chicken, and chicken stock, works great.
Do not use beef, dosnt work, I know, I tried, yuck.
Did use chicken, not as flavorful as I was expecting, but very good anyway.

Sorry about the reaction to shrimp, your missing out on one of Gods greatest gifts.

I go shrimping with a friend every once in a while, their good boiled just the way they come out of the water, Gulf Jumbo with a little butter sauce and garlic....

If your Moreton Bay Bugs look like little lobsters, thats the guys.
Goes by crawfish, crawdaddies and mud bugs down here.

Well, it 9:30 pm in the swamp, time for the news...

Ed

[Kozzie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cherokee woman

Hey Kozzie,

It's 9:37 EDT here in Lou., KY. What's your time right now?

[:)] Hey cherokee woman - I've only just jumped back on...I've had a think about modelcar's comemnts...pretty close to the mark....

Lets' see....it's just gone 1:00pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, Tuesday arvo...I reckon that's normally 10:00pm U.S. East Coast time Monday evening....

However, you've all probably switched to what we familiarly call here down under "daylight saving" but we officially call "Summer Time" so maybe U.S. East Coast is now only 14 hours behind......[;)]

...all that is, I think, correct ,cherokee woman, if Kentucky is included in U.S east coast time??? Is that right??? [;)][:)]

Dave

[philnrunt]

Man, if I had known there was gonna be math, I'd a practiced! Here in eastern Indiana, we don't change time, alot of people think we should, but I have no desire to mess with VCR's, DVD's puter etc. The new ones I hear, do it themselves, but i don't have new ones.
Modelcar- As soon as I saw the Pizza King comment, I knew where you were from...I'll have to bring in a Royal Feast for the folks at the Diner, and an Art's Around the World and some roast beef with peppers for you all to try..
dharmon and locomutt- I think the important question around here isn't when WE can hunt Lurks, but when THEY can hunt us. Nasties they be, and if they get into that shuttle going to the moon with the coffee, well, there goes the solar system.
edblysard- It's a no go on shrimp, used up all my chicken setting Troll Traps, could i substitute Lurk? And what would that ratio work out to? 2 Three Ringed Lurks for one Rhode Island Red, if I remember right. I've misplaced my Lurk Cookery book.
Kozzie- lets seeeeee, 04:25 here on Tuesday morn, if I figure this right....get my slide rule...where's that sextant....RIGHT! That makes it 36:30 last Thursday at your locale. See guys, not so hard. As soon as I get that Lurk eetoufee recipe, I'll pass it along.
Well, better get the joe started, Mookie and cherokee drank every bit of it up.

[Mookie]

Thanx for making coffee - Little wider awake this morning. Just too exciting around here for my delicate system. Now we need to do something with the air conditioner. It is sticky in here this morning.

Need something cool for breakfast - how about Mom sez we can't get married so we CANTALOUPE (Kozzie, that's a melon) or do you husbands have a HONEYDEW list. (again a melon)

Groan....

Better just go drink more coffee....

Moo

[cherokee woman]

You're right, Mookie: since it's so hot and sticky, let's have cantaloupe, watermelon,
and honeydew and is it Muskmelon or Mushmelon? I only eat cantaloupe and
watermelon, so not sure about that last one.

[Anonymous]

Here in Philadelphia PA., back in the 1950 to 1970's there was a coffee shop in the old Broad St. station and the 30th Station. There was the Savory. for which people came and had there business lunch there. this space in the 30th St. Station is now a hamber shop. bring back the 50's.

[tree68]

Muskmelon = cantaloupe last I knew. Either way, sounds good with my morning tea. Gotta watch that cholesterol - looks like the drug makers must be short of funds - they talked the feds into lowering the recommended cholesterol levels... Again... Gotta sell them meds!

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by SILVERCHAMPION

Here in Philadelphia PA., back in the 1950 to 1970's there was a coffee shop in the old Broad St. station and the 30th Station. There was the Savory. for which people came and had there business lunch there. this space in the 30th St. Station is now a hamber shop. bring back the 50's.

I am with you! Ate in a diner this last weekend that had 50's food. It was to die for...fortunately we didn't, but it was so good! Real hot beef sandwich with real bread!

Yum

Mookie

[Anonymous]

Can I lope? Nawwww, I just walk fast. [:D]

The coffee is good this morning. Having a little "cake" to go with it too. Got the fire out, opened the windows and let all the smoke out. Good thing the smoke detector batteries needing replacing, I just would not be able to hand all that noise this morning. [;)] [:D] Well got lots to do this morning, so off I go.

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by philnrunt


dharmon and locomutt- I think the important question around here isn't when WE can hunt Lurks, but when THEY can hunt us. Nasties they be, and if they get into that shuttle going to the moon with the coffee, well, there goes the solar system.

That's easy......The Rules of Engagement clearly give the individual or unit the inherent right to self defense, using reactive force, appropriate and in reasonable proportion to the aggressor to achieve a mission kill or force a termination of the attack, up to and including destruction of the attacking force.

I would presume based on that, lurks, trolls and snipes...all of which are considered hostile, a pre-emptive shot is appropriate. As long as you don't hunt them for sport out of season....

[dharmon]

I guess it's appropriate that the discussion of coffee thieving space lurks is occuring on Area, I mean Page 51 of this thread................OOOOOOO WEEEE OOOOOOOO [alien]

[Mookie]

Had a co-worker go camping in the Nebraska sandhills. She said they had Sandhills bacon (the bacon got dropped on the ground after being cooked, so they washed it and tried to eat it - still too sandy: she grabbed butter flavored Crisco for the toast, and thought she had instant coffee, but had regular instead. Microwaved the water and put in a rounded tsp. Grounds woke her up - a lot! My advice would be don't go camping with her, unless you really like adventure!

Mook

[mudchicken]

100 Degrees in Denver today...Coffee brews by itself if left out on the sidewalk with the eggs already frying there. Send the SandHills bacon, what the heck.....

I think I'll settle for a gatorade float today.... (one of my fellow survey field dogs started every morning with gatorade and powdered mini-donuts every day of the year)

Scorched Feathers
[8D][8D][8D]

[Modelcar]

Phil....Yes, I suppose the Pizza King does give it away....We're here in Muncie. But on the pizza, you can get the similar product in Florida but it's under the name of "Sir Pizza". And on our time ver. Kozzie's....I believe he is just about 16 hrs. ahead of us. So now as it is close to 11 am. here, I would imagine Kozzie is sawing logs.

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken

100 Degrees in Denver today...Coffee brews by itself if left out on the sidewalk with the eggs already frying there. Send the SandHills bacon, what the heck.....

I think I'll settle for a gatorade float today.... (one of my fellow survey field dogs started every morning with gatorade and powdered mini-donuts every day of the year)

Scorched Feathers
[8D][8D][8D]

FRIED CHICKEN!!!!!! My favorite!!!!!![C=:-)]

We are also fighting no air conditioning. Only time I appreciate being below ground - it is a little cooler.....

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cherokee woman

Jim, PLEASE, you're driving me INSANE!!

EXACTLY WHEN IS YOUR BIRTHDAY?!?!?! Tell me, and I WILL BUY YOU the
black forrest cake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

awwww Today [:D]

Now where's my cake? [;)]

[Mookie]

awww - Happy Birthday Darlin'......

We won't tell....

Mookie

Hey everyone - it's trainsplanesbusses birthday - today!

[Noah Hofrichter]

Okay everybody (copy right laws force me to do this instead of the happy you know what song, don't you hate 'um) For he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow.... which nobody can deny.

Happy birthday Jim! Bring on the cake and ice cream!