Mmmm, pralines
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You can buy real Mexican pralines online at Mi Tierra in San Antonio. I’m a junkie for these things.
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p>You can buy real Mexican pralines online at Mi Tierra in San Antonio. I’m a junkie for these things.
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January 2nd, 2004 at 7:18 pm
yum! looks like animal intestines!
January 2nd, 2004 at 10:10 pm
Yarrr! What’s a praline?!? Be it friend or foe? Be it animal or vegetable? Tis true – to look ‘pon it doth shrink mine salty underbottums. Yet know what it be? Not I…
Happy New Year Edith, John, and blue guitar! Ol’ Richard hopes ye hath a safe and joyous one as well.
Cheers!
Richard The Black, esq.
Scourer of the Seven Floor Tiles
January 3rd, 2004 at 3:08 am
mmm!
have you ever tried making your own? i wonder how hard it’d be… i usually leave candymaking to the experts but $11 for shipping’s pretty steep!
January 3rd, 2004 at 4:57 am
The ingredients list says: water, brown sugar, sugar, evaporated milk, pecans, butter, vinegar, lecithin, vanilla, baking soda. You probably just cook it all up and pour it out in piles on cookie sheets. The pecans come out all covered with candy so I guess they’re mixed in from the beginning. Somebody else should try it, not me! I’ll start a fire or something.
January 3rd, 2004 at 8:37 am
I’m sure they’re dee-lish, but isolated like they are in that photo they could easily pass for morsel-filled moist cat food, puppy puke or some other kind of chopped internal organs. As a committed sugar-addict myself, I’d indulge in them, too. Of course, I made a Resolution (see how long it lasts, right?) to cut out the sweet stuff in its crudest forms from my life. (With dreaded anticipation of that 2004 dental work ahead). Do you think there could be a connection between the tasty pralines and the dreaded ocular condition? I’m always willing to blame sugar for lots of things. I know there’s a sugar-eyesight connection for diabetes, so it wouldn’t
surprise me if there were.
January 3rd, 2004 at 9:40 am
I can’t blame the pralines for my tooth decay, I don’t get them often enough. More likely it’s the cokes.
January 3rd, 2004 at 9:42 pm
Edith knows way more about this than I do, but from the little I’ve read about Scintillating Scotoma I didn’t come across any sugar connection; however aspartame (i.e. Nutrasweet) *has* been named as a culprit, and I’m pretty sure that’s what triggered my SS. I’ve sworn off the stuff ever since.
Jeff
January 3rd, 2004 at 10:58 pm
(Oh, ocular. I read that too fast.)
January 4th, 2004 at 7:21 am
mmmmmmm! i sure love pralines. they really are soooo easy to make. we make them all the time at the house. the hardest part is the set-up…getting them all nice and pretty on the cookie sheet. by the way, how do you pronounce them…it seems to be divided here in the south. some say it with a long "a" or, if you’re like me, it comes out like, praw-leans.
xo
January 4th, 2004 at 7:42 am
In Texas it’s pronounced PRAY-leens. I’ve always heard rumors of pralines that did not come from the Central Texas area, but I always assumed those were a different type. There are at least two distinct types in Texas, the chewy carmeley kind, which you can buy at the store (e.g. "Texas Chewies" by Lammes Candies), versus the larger, more sugary crumbly kind like I have in the picture. Those were formerly only available at the counter of any self-respecting Mexican restaurant, but that seems to be going out of style these days in Austin. I had to actually seek them out but found the motherlode at that Mexican bakery.
January 4th, 2004 at 7:43 am
P.S. Those are *pecans*, not entrails. :)
January 4th, 2004 at 7:46 am
P.P.S. We say "puh-CON", not "pee-can."
January 4th, 2004 at 7:56 am
Yarrr! I was wonderin’ where my pee can went… ;P
Richard The Black, esq.
Scavenger of the Seven Yard Sales
January 4th, 2004 at 8:38 am
I learned from my born-in-Massachusetts-raised-in-Georgia mom to say "PEE-con."
Weird, I know.