Oriental Salad

[cleo]

Even if we're all upset, ya gotta eat! This is an easy tasty salad, good as a main dish, and it keeps well.


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p.s.---mix the dressing with the salad before storing it for 2 hours!
Now go work on your garden while this yummy salad looks after itself!

[gardenlady]

are those mr. beef noodles like the ramen noodles? it sounds really good and i want to try it.

[cleo]

Yes-the 4inch package with squiggly noodles and a flavor packet. I think you could vary the flavor.
Don't store it with the almonds-they get soggy and lose their coating!

[gardenlady]

thank you i will be making that this weekend when the out-laws....i mean in-laws come up to visit :rolleyes: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Ichigo]

Oh! I LOVE this salad!! I got the recipe from my stepmom. But we only knew it as 'slaw salad'. Mmmm... makes want to make some right now! :D

[KiwiGardener]

What is a "pkg" ... how much does it relate to?

[cleo]

Hi Kiwi! If you mean the noodles, 1 pkg is 1 package which in Canada weighs 65 grams. I think that's about 2.5 ounces USA.

And Ichigo, doumoarigatou for the japanese lesson!

[KiwiGardener]

Ahh ok cool.

We use grams/KG here in cooking.

Also, another term I've seen in American cooking is a 'stick of butter' - how many grams is a 'stick'?

[cleo]

Butter is often sold packaged into 4 sticks to the pound. Since 1 pound contains 2 cups(Imperial) or 475 ml(Metric) , 1 stick is 1/2 cup or about 119 ml.
By weight, one stick is 4 ounces or about 113 grams.

I've quit complaining so much about the issues involved in measurement when one's country borders another that uses another system. When I was teaching, I simply taught both systems since so many of the refence books we used were printed in the USA. Most of the student's parents were confused about Metric measurement. The biggest motivator for my students to use Metric was that they did not have to bother with fractions using Metric. If a recipe called for 3/4 cup of sugar, kids struggled to break that down in half if they wanted to reduce the recipe size. In Imperial it was division of fractions . In metric it was simply 356 ml divided by 2.

My only residual hangup is the Weather. If it's 18 degrees Celcius, I still have to do some math before knowing if I have to go get a coat.

By the way, Kiwi, I still remember how I ran around trying to find out what in the world is 'castor' sugar!

Before I retired, I had my students make a Pavlova. I didn't realize how popular it is 'down under' until a returning exchange teacher on staff who'd been to Australia raved about how scrumptious they are. I agree!