Hi KYH,
Yes it certainly did resemble small pieces of tripe, come to think of it! I've never had tripe (that I know of
) but whatever it was I really loved it.
Oh well I guess I just will never know unless I visit Calif go to the old store and buy some. The grocery stores in CA offered much more on the line of ethnic foods. Where I am...forget it! I can't find grape leaves, tahini, and just some of my favorite cheeses. I wish we had an International Market here. Just yesterday I made some hummus, but I sat here and decided how to get the flavor just right...and wa-laa I hit on it, in place of the tahini I substituted and added a little sesame oil when I added my EVOO and oh my goodness it was the very best hummus, I haven't tasted hummus this good since moving here! Sometimes I just have to really rack my brain to come up with decent substitutes.
You'd not believe what I did yesterday. I checked out a cookbook from the library, and took it along shopping with me to look for some of the ingredients I needed. Well you'd not believe this but it got stolen out of my cart, it had several pages of my notes in it (I was working on a review) and also some pages of recipes I'd printed off. So I feel such a fool. And now I have got to pay the librarian for that book
. Oh well a lesson well learned, next time everything gets written down on a list, no more taking books shopping with me
.
Happy MLK day to all, CCCathy