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[gmcdavid]

mia_mcdavid and I spent some time this morning on post-snowstorm house maintenance. We cleared some snow from the deck, and unplugged a downspout that had frozen up. A heat gun and boiling water did the job here.

After that Mia went out to visit redwingkali. I ran some errands, then went home for the rest of the day. I did some hand sewing on a 17th century style

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[botanicavix]

Hot sour soup - yum! Would you post your recipe?

[gmcdavid]

It is that from Stendahl's Spicy Food (great book, BTW), with a couple alterations. I will send you a photocopy tomorrow. The changes we have made are to

• Roughly double, or more, the amounts of soy sauce, rice vinegar and sherry.
• I used 3 tsp of chili paste rather than hot oil.
• Chopped bitter melon helps.

It also helps to start with really good strong stock. Ours was largely chicken based, but included turkey, beef, and whatever else we had been eating--we freeze the bones and remains for this purpose. I suspect it will work with whatever you have, it is a case of nothing exceeds like excess.