This will not be sent via email message sent to everyone. I thought that I would take a moment to comment on the first six students that we had over to dinner. We will have all of them over at least once and likely more. I am sorry that I did not get the chance to take pictures but next time or have posted them.
Norma put up the sign-up sheet last Friday only saying that it would be seafood and she marked out six slots. One young man signed up right away but than it stayed untouched for a while. I asked them last night if they muscled aside the young women to sign but they said no. I guess the next week will be lamb or so says Norma and we will see who comes then.
We like to get them to try different things so Norma got three kinds of fish: one red snapper, one pink snapper, and ??? I can't remember. Norma had read and listened to people's receipts and did not decide until just before she put them in the pan. White wine and some olive oil plus some herbs. She couldn't get the lower part of her oven to work right (This was the first time that she tried to use the oven. She just assumed that would operated normally.) so she used the broiler. We kept and eye on it and it turned out great. The fellas even commented how good it was. I also had them try some green tiger prawns, which they helped to clean and we boiled. We also had a taste of yabby and bug. What is he talking about!?!?!? Well a yabby is a crayfish and these were of good size and tasted great. The bug is some kind of "sand" lobster I guess but a very strange looking one. Think of Bobcat with the scoop on the front but flattened out. [I hyper linked to a web site that has a picture because my description just does not do justice to it.] Tim thought that it had a hint of blue cheese and some others thought so as well. My piece didn't but it was good. Norma also had a great green salad plus for another dish potatoes, green peppers, and onions sauteed together which were good. Finally dessert Norma cleaned a custard apple and put custard over it. Now this is custard that comes from the store and you just pour it over whatever. Tim since his home is in the UK had grown up with this kind of custard and he loved it. By the way, we had first seen this fruit in the Bahamas and they called it soursop (Although I only found a reference to a sweetsop in the grower information on them from Australia.). I think the fellas enjoyed the meal because there was little left of it. Oh - I forgot to mention that they had slices of zucchini sauteed with garlic so they could be eaten with crackers along with some Havarti cheese. At a little after eight, they went off to a dorm meeting and I cleaned up. We also had the requisite bit of Vegemite for them to try. No one loved it but Tim again because it is similar to Marmite back in the UK.
Norma went over to the meeting to hear what was happening to the students and say goodbye to a student that was leaving. The student was from Purdue and doing this all of this adventure on her own. She had been suffering anxiety attacks for a while and although our students were befriending her, it was too much. It is a shame that she was here only a week and a half and things are only getting started now. It is too bad.
That is all from here for now.
B.
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