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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:22:16 -0600
From: "William D. Colburn (Schlake)" 
Subject: Lin-Liu Jen's Mother's Steamed Pork Patty

I had a lot of time to read this weekend, and I read from a book by
Lin-Liu Jen called Serve The People.  Early in the book she discusses
how, as a Chinese-American, she was ashamed of her mother's cooking
because it smelled funny and could drive away her Californian friends.
 She preferred McDonalds and Taco Bell over her parents choices of
restaurants which brought out a live fish to the table for approval.
By college she had outgrown that and embraced her ethnic culinary
heritage, and on the page before her remembrance of her first Drunken
Shrimp ( live shrimp which are tossed in a bowl with rice wine and
eaten alive) she gives a recipe for something her mother made; Steamed
Pork Patty.

This is not a meal; just a tasting.  I shall strive for 18:00 this
evening.  Please let me know if you are coming, as it will determine
how much rice I cook.

The meat, pork, with almost all visible fat trimmed, is ready to be pulsed in the food processor.

This is what it looked like outside, just after the power failed.

This what someone looks like when they try out a pull-up bar.

The meal is cooked. It doesn't look appetizing.

It looks less appetizing the more complete it becomes.

He didn't die from eating it, so it must have been ok.