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ot: beer-can chicken cooker and ceramic turkeys

updated sat 10 apr 04

 

Eva Gallagher on thu 8 apr 04


Lee - your idea of stuffing a pot has reminded me of a wacky marketing =
gimmick that I once had but never had the nerve to make and sell - a =
ceramic turkey for vegetarians. They can stuff it and then they can =
serve up a really nice centre piece for their =
Thankgiving/Easter/Christmas dinner. However if beer-can cookers sell =
perhaps its time for ceramic turkeys!

Eva Gallagher
Deep River
Ontario

> What I have been making is chicken in a kama meishi bowl. I
> mentioned these before, these kept Mashiko alive for many years when =
the
> pottery business went south. They are a little pot that looks like
> the old time wood fired iron rice kettle, with a little ceramic lid.
> They were the container of a very popular Eki-ben, or, railroad =
station
> boxed meal.
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> What I have been doing is making stuffing from my Grandma =
Love's
> sage turkey stuffing recipe, stuffing the kama meishi bowl with it =
and
> then cover it with a half a chicken breast instead of the lid. A
> friend, an ex-pat from N.Y.N.Y gave us her old electric oven so I can
> cook this and Minnesota Hot Dish. Tuna isn't expensive, but when I
> can find Campbell's mushroom soup, it costs about $2.25 a can.
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> Mel made a list of skills every person should have. I was
> surprised not to see cooking on it (I do think he did list sewing.) =
:-)
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> Lee In Mashiko
> surf with Lee: http://hachiko.com
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