From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 9 16:43:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C26215474; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 16:42:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA03596; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:10:04 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA41243; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:09:44 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:09:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Eivind Eklund Cc: cjc26@cornell.edu, Jonathan Lemon , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recipies [was Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars calendar.history] Message-ID: <19990810090943.N31076@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199908091607.LAA23828@free.pcs> <19990810012303.I99680@bitbox.follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990810012303.I99680@bitbox.follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:23:03AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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