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Post by darttender on Jul 23, 2006 6:58:25 GMT 9
Hey, you Forty-Niners, SAC-Trained-Killers, and fortunate souls who visited us here at The Griff:
Who among you remembers the Thursday tradition of heading to the NCO Club for "Cow Pot" for lunch?
It was GOOD stuff! I learned about it during my days with the 49th, and it was still a going-strong tradition when I got back to Griffiss as a SAC weinie in 1986. Cow Pot was the best thing about being here at Griffiss! (at least on Thursdays).
When they tore down our shabby, beloved NCO Club and combinedus with the new, shiny Officers' Club, Cow Pot went straight to chowhall Hell. They "reassigned" the dear lady who had made our lunch for years to a cash register, and let their bigshot multi-star chef do his thing.....and he fucked it up.
I've managed, through trial and error, to make an acceptable dish reminiscent of those wonderful Thursday lunches. In fact, I'm just finishing up a batch today - which prompted me to ask this question: Who remembers Cow Pot?
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Post by pat perry on Jul 23, 2006 7:45:57 GMT 9
I've managed, through trial and error, to make an acceptable dish reminiscent of those wonderful Thursday lunches. In fact, I'm just finishing up a batch today - which prompted me to ask this question: Who remembers Cow Pot? OK darttender, what is Cow Pot and what is your recipe? Pat Perry 456th FIS
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Post by darttender on Jul 23, 2006 8:03:17 GMT 9
Ah, Pat, you missed a really good lunch!
Cow Pot is, in basic terms, fried rice with chicken, onions and eggs. It was served with fried HOT peppers, cucumber slices, fresh green onion stalks, and crusty bread and butter.
It was wonderful! Especially when you and several colleagues had to attend had to attend weekly staff meetings with the Commander on Thursdays afternoons :angel:
And, if you were a ramp rat, it kept you warm during the winter - well into the next day! :embarassed:
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Post by Jeff Shannon on Jul 24, 2006 9:51:04 GMT 9
Why yes yes I do remember Cow Pot and the wonderful effects it had on ones G.I. track. :lol: :lol: :lol: At one time some of us were not "allowed" to go to the club for lunch. We went anyway
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Post by pat perry on Jul 24, 2006 12:58:13 GMT 9
Cow Pot is, in basic terms, fried rice with chicken, onions and eggs. It was served with fried HOT peppers, cucumber slices, fresh green onion stalks, and crusty bread and butter. What a fine load of projectiles and propellant If the Chinese hadn't invented gun powder, they would've had to invent this instead. Probably wouldn't have helped their social skills but certainly would've cleared the room after roll call!
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Post by Bullhunter on Jul 28, 2006 12:03:45 GMT 9
I was in the SAC Wing (Jet Engine Flt. Line Maintenance) from 1975-1978. I don't remember Cow Pot. Did not visit the NCO Club much.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2006 5:10:34 GMT 9
Darttender-- not only do I remember that gastronomic delight, my wife still makes it occasionally, she used to work in the kitchen with Panee!! We'll be back in the Rome/Utica area next month to see the changing of the colors--We may have nicer sunsets in So. AZ. but nothing to compare to the foliage of the Northeast.
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Post by redman on May 23, 2008 5:19:53 GMT 9
Oh yeah I remember cowpot and I sure as hell remember you Henry Burke.
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Post by ikar on May 29, 2008 13:05:29 GMT 9
Cow Pot is form Thailand. On my first working day there after finishing in country training I was assigned to a QRT patrol in a M-706. For lunch we stopped off at the on-base restraunt and picked up several orders of it for us and some of the posts in our sector.
My wife picked up a recipe for it while we were in Okinawa an made it a few times.
Now if I want some all I have to do is go to a Thai restraunt here and ask for fried rice with what ever kind of meat I want. It still tastes the same as it did back then. It helps when the people are really from Thailand and know what they are doing.
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Post by daoleguy A.J. Hoehn (deceased) on May 29, 2008 18:02:55 GMT 9
Kow Pad is "Dee Mak (very good)". It's kinda the Thai version of our mac and cheese for a quick meal. If you like Thai food try Nur or Moo Satay, beef or chicken BBQ on a stick with a great dipping sauce. My favorite is "Yam Nua", Grilled beef salad. That is so damned good. Nice and spicy with fantactic rich undertastes. If your brave and like spicy, order it "Pet Mak (Spicy)"
When I was in Thailand I lived on the economy. I was at Ubon and shared a bungalow just outside the gate by the Toyota dealership. It was a culinary experience trying all the different local flavors. My favorite restaurant there was Charns, just across from the jeweler at the gate. Great steaks.
Sorry for regression, but Thai food has been a weakness for me. I have to be careful now because I developed a shellfish allergy (in 1989) and Thais cook with all kinds of shellfish - BUMMER!
It's too bad they didn't have Pannee until tha 80's. In the 70's I know I would have been at the club a lot for luch if they had Kow Pad. Search Google for Kow Pad, plenty of recipes out there.
Gin mak krup! AJ
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Jun 5, 2008 2:06:19 GMT 9
The very best Kow Pad I had whilst in Thailand was at the Elephant Fair at Surin in 1967. I went there with the head waiter, Som Pong Manakool, from the Lotus in Ubon. His aunt was the head mistress of a girls school in Surin and had a food booth. When Som Pong introduced me to his aunt I was some taken aback by her English. She was an English teacher at the school but had never talked to an American, or any one else who's native tongue is English. Between her mangling of English and my mangling of Thai, we had a great time conversing. Good thing Som Pong was there to translate. She had the girls from the school do the cooking and she supervised. I can't tell you all that was in the Kow Pad, but know it had pork, snow peas (shelled and unshelled), onions, garlic and who knows what else. It was the best I ever had. Som Pong said Kow Pad is very regional in preparation and can be quite different depending on who makes it and where they are from. Where ever it is from, Kow Pad beats Chinese fried rice hands down.
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Post by Cliff Davis on Jul 20, 2008 11:48:52 GMT 9
Oh how I fondly remember the days the days eating Panee's cow pot at the NCO club. Anyone remember the upstairs bar?
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