Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:09:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cjc26@cornell.edu, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recipies [was Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars calendar.history] Message-ID: <19990810090943.N31076@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990810012303.I99680@bitbox.follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:23:03AM %2B0200 References: <199908091607.LAA23828@free.pcs> <Pine.SOL.3.91.990809182858.27801B-100000@travelers.mail.cornell.edu> <19990810012303.I99680@bitbox.follo.net>
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On Tuesday, 10 August 1999 at 1:23:03 +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 06:31:09PM -0400, cjc26@cornell.edu wrote: >> On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: >> >>> Darn it, now you've gone and made me hungry. I definitely fall into >>> the latter category (haveing someone else cook for me), so I'm going >>> to pester my wife to make gravlax this week. :-) >> >> To make *what*?? "Gravlax"?? > > Graved[1] Salmon[2], to do an exact translation. It is an old > norwegian dish involving treating the fish with caustic soda and > spices, and leaving it to itself for a while. That's the export version. > It tastes good with scrambled eggs, and is traditionally served at > christmas breakfast. > > If anybody want an exact recipie, I can look it up - I've not made it > myself, and it is a number of years since I've participated when my > parents made it. > > [1] Any noun can be verbed. Don't verb a noun that is already two verbs: 1. "To bury", from OE 'grafan'. 2. "To scrape a ship's bottom", from French 'grève'. > [2] Or is that trout? I can never remember which is which. Salmon. Are you now going to tell the obligatory story about salmon only four days a week, or is that only Swedish? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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