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So far, nothing good. All stuff microwaved in plastic dishes today - ala prison. They even cored their apples for baked apples with PLASTIC KNIVES!!
I must say, though, that I really enjoyed the show.
I don't know if it was the back and forth between martha and david spade, or the fact that she was really making fun of herself, but I was amused and entertained the whole time.
Hopefully, there will be some good food on in the future (not microwaved nachos made with dehydrated refried beans and cheese grated on a contraband sardine tin that she punched ragged holes in...), b/c I think the show itself was kind of funny.
Oh, and as an off-topic aside, I was a little disturbed when she told viewers to let their children do the entire craft project on their own. The craft project involved an iron on the second to the highest setting. I won't be letting MY child do that anytime in the future!!
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Now the old show did have celebrities and ordinary folk, not to mention characters from Sesame Street, of which we are promised more. But if you used to tune in to Martha to pick up any useful info, this first show does not promise what you're looking for. It may pick up, but I think the future is fortold by the change from professional restaurant stoves and ovens to GE's Monogram series.
Speaking of Sesame Street, her website tells me that Elmo will be on today:
It's Poncho Day and everyone in the studio audience, the crew, comedian David Spade, and Martha are cloaked in knitted ponchos like the one Martha made famous when she left Alderson. Martha unveils her microwave recipes. And the loveable, furry, red Sesame Street Muppet, Elmo, crafts while wearing his poncho. -
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For the life of me, I couldn't figure out how to use that Atlas hand-cranked machine with only two hands. Indeed, I needed four in my house: one to stabilize the machine (the clamp didn't work with any of the surfaces in my kitchen), one to crank, one to feed the dough, and one to remove the pressed dough or cut pasta. Now I only need two hands -- and that machine can roll far more quickly than I ever could with that crank.
I saw this on Good Eats w/ Alton Brown and I've tried it myself. Try clamping your hand cranked pasta maker to an ironing board. Its the perfect length for the sheets of pasta. I just lay a bed sheet on the board before clamping so no flour remains to ruin my work shirts later. I also found that the clamp requires a thick surface so I used 1) folded newspaper or 2) small piece of wood.
I love this idea!!!!!
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Aaahhhhhh!!!!
I hate every single one of you for making this sound easy!!
I don't know if dinner will ever get made and it will take days to clean my house.....
back to my struggle with the pasta machine
Oh no! I just won one on eBay, and now I'm scared.
my kitchen was a disaster today after making muffins - I'm sure pasta will be an adventure for sure!
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Start with good ricotta (not the watery Polly-O crap), a few egg yolks, flour and, if you're me, plenty of nutmeg. Mix into a light dough, adding just enough flour to bind it together.
Get a guy with thick fingers and hairy forearms to flick each piece over the tines of a dinner fork, and then you're done. Toss them into boiling water and they're done when they float to the top.
Sam - how much flour, and how many yolks would you estimate for a pound of ricotta?
Like many cooking tasks, after you've done it a while it becomes a "by feel" sort of thing. So I can't really say how much flour and egg yolks for a pound of ricotta. This is all the more true because regular supermarket ricotta has substantially more water content than the almost-as-thick-as-cream-cheese ricotta I'm using. If I had to guess, I'd say something like 1 pound of thick ricotta (drain the supermarket stuff overnight), plus two egg yolks, plus 2/3 cup flour. The idea is to add maybe half of the flour and stir the mixture a few times, and then add in just enough flour to make it come together as a light dough.
Thanks - this is helpful! I plan to get the ricotta from a local Italian market that makes it fresh, daily. It's very thick and delicious.
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Start with good ricotta (not the watery Polly-O crap), a few egg yolks, flour and, if you're me, plenty of nutmeg. Mix into a light dough, adding just enough flour to bind it together.
Get a guy with thick fingers and hairy forearms to flick each piece over the tines of a dinner fork, and then you're done. Toss them into boiling water and they're done when they float to the top.
Sam - how much flour, and how many yolks would you estimate for a pound of ricotta?
I don't know if my forearms are hairy enough for this task - I hope they turn out!!!
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Meanwhile, I sense a groundswell for fresh Italian pasta thread, including stuffed pastas and gnocchi....
I'm all for it! I have wanted to try Slkinsey's ricotta gnocchi for a while.
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Family, no question. And I've eaten some truly dreadful meals as a result.
Your sister is trying to be nice by offering to host this year, and you can turn her offer down nicely by pointing out that traveling with an infant is a thorough thrash. But you needn't forego your family's company either: invite them and cook for them. You'll have all those extra hands to help with the baby, freeing you up to cook. The best of both worlds.
I agree! If you can find just one person to help you, I bet you can manage hosting it. I had Dylie on November 12, and hosted a 15 person Thanksgiving that year, thanks to some wonderful help from my sister-in-law.
I was exhausted, but the food was fabulous.
I don't know what we will do this year. My mother is pressuring me (understatement of the year) to come to her house, but my husband is miserable when we don't host it ourselves. And, my mom can't come to me, b/c my 93 year old grandmother can't come with her.
Ack!
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Hi Danielle! First things first - have you had your baby yet?
Now that the important questions have been asked...
Manna is the name of the Korean grocery, and it's on Broadway right near where it becomes Plymouth. It's a little tricky to find, especially since they used to be in this little shopping center, but that location closed and they moved right across the street!
I honestly haven't eaten much bibimbop in Ann Arbor other than the stuff at Kosmo in Kerrytown. I've been to Steve's Lunch once I think - not sure if I've been to Kang's (but a couple peopel have mentioned it so clearly I should give it a try).
There's a group in Ann Arbor that's starting a bibimbop tour - they want to try a different place each week until they've had them all. Alas, weekday lunches are more suited to students than working moms.
Yes! He came three weeks early, on August 7 - we are doing great.
I'll have to check out that grocery - I can't wait to move back to Ann Arbor.
I hated Steve's lunch when I went - Kang's is much better - let me know what you think when you make it there.
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I'm trying not to think about sushi. I absolutely love chirashi sushi and it's clearly out of the question right now. I'm also not eating medium-rare ground beef. I had a salade nicoise for dinner--my only tuna fish this month. But hey, it was a full dinner with plenty of protein what with the fish and hard-boiled eggs.
I'm allergic to fish, but love going out for vegetarian sushi, and thus was able to do so throughout my whole pregnancy. There are some really yummy vegetarian options out there, if you find a sushi chef willing to work with you. My husband loves chirashi sushi - the vegetarian doesn't really compare to that, but at least you'll have something!
My favorites are:
Spicy tofu maki (just like spicy tuna, but with "raw" or tempura fried tofu)
Sweet potato tempura maki
Sunshine roll (avocado, cucumber, lemon)
OK, now I'm starving for sushi! We'll have to bring Dylan and the baby there this weekend!
Incidentally, with Dylan, I stayed away from all the food no-no's. With Max, I ate Medium Rare beef, soft cheeses (even raw milk) and had a couple of glasses of wine throughout. I really missed the alcohol, but only broke down those two times. My husband brought beer to the hospital for me - that was a fun toast!
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Thanks for the kind words about the blog. I've been wondering about giving too much detail.
Impossible!!
I've really enjoyed your blog, and the amount of detail.
I feel like I've learned quite a bit about your neck of the woods!
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So here I am, counting down the dwindling moments til c-section on Friday. First trimester seems a long time ago!
Of course, somewhere into third trimester I shifted into dessert mode. Ate healthfully for meals in general, but have had plenty of ice cream and cookies and such. Trying to ignore the number on the scale...ugh.
Good luck to everyone!
Good luck Friday!! And don't worry about dessert mode - I did the same exact thing. You can just come join me on the Weight Watchers thread in a couple of weeks.
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here I am about 8wks along and food is just...weird.
Is it possible to steel my stomach to at least make decent food for my spouse? Sigh.
Congratulations!!!!!
And nope - no way to do it. But, it should be better in about a month.
I couldn't do steak the whole nine months!
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Thanks, Chris - very helpful suggestions.
The meal went really well. I did most of my shopping at the Korean grocery in town, and that was quite the experience as hardly anything was in English. But I managed to find all of the things that I needed. I stopped at a few other stores to pick up other items.
Tammy - where is the Korean grocery? And which is your favorite bibimbop place - the one at Kerrytown?
We love Kang's Coffee Break on South U.
Our favorite Japanese restaurant here in Toledo (Kotobuki) is owned by a Korean, and they make an amazing bibimbop. They also have a bunch of other Korean dishes, though they aren't listed anywhere - I think they have them around just for staff meals.
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tonight i'm stuffin the burgers w/ bacon & cheddar & bacon & blue cheese
btw, why don't we have the above emoticon or this one:
seems they would be apropriate : drool: & :tasty:
I once made a very tasty turkey burger that had lemon zest and fresh mozzerella. It's a Michael Chiarello recipe. Heavy, but delicious.
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You have to ask??
Go! Go! Go!
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All summer long, there are Del's lemonade and Saugy hot dog stands on or near the Brown University campus -- if yer lucky, one next to the other!
Chris - is there still the egg truck guy? I went to Vassar, and one weekend my friend Abby and I drove to Providence to visit a friend of hers at RISD. One of the guys we met took us over to the Brown campus at about 2am, and we had the most amazing egg sandwich from a truck. I can still remember sitting on a curb and eating it. Delicious. And, as Phaelon and JJ have pointed out, Vassar had really nothing comparable!
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I think I started a thread on this last year - maybe we could merge them?
Popular items for my 3.5 year old include:
cold pizza for sure
anything in her thermos - Annie-O's (she likes the Arthur ones), mac n' cheese, soup, leftover spaghetti
pb&j, but with natural peanut butter and fruit only preserves
hors d'oeuvres - I give her cheese, crackers, cornichons, olives, etc.
She doesn't love meat sandwiches, but will eat up chicken salad if I put it in a tupperware and give her crackers for scooping.
We've also done cold chicken legs and cold cuts rolled into little tubes.
Almost every day she gets a yogurt and a container of fresh fruit. I like giving her the Stonyfield yogurt tubes - I keep them in the freezer and they are defrosted by lunch.
Cut up veggies are great, but she insists on French Onion dip, which I don't always have prepared.
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You've probably already used the cream cheese, but here's something easy that I've made. Combine cut up chicken (can be from a rotisserie chicken), cooked broccoli, and cream cheese. Warm up. It can be varied with onions or spices, but the basic recipe is quick and tastes good. You could serve it with any kind of pasta or side dish if you wanted to.
I did prepare a casserole already (per Therese's guidelines), but haven't cooked it yet - we'll be eating it tomorrow.
And, I STILL have leftover cream cheese!!
If it's still good (doubtful), I can try your recipe for Friday - sounds like something my daughter would adore.
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Thanks Melissa. I was curious though, about how one makes it. Umm ... is this a recipe my mother should have taught me?
I have a great mujadderah recipe from David Rosengarten - he made it on his Taste show in 1996, and I saved the printout. PM me if you'd like it - I probably can't post it due to copyright issues?? Or can I if I change the directions?
It's super easy and delicious - I think the secret is in the allspice.
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Danielle - mazel tov to you and the family!
I like the idea of the savory cheesecake- I've made them with cream cheese - can you use the rice to make a crust? I've done something with rice .. mixing it with some eggs and seasoning and it holds together when it's baked.
I really have no other ideas... any other cheese and I'd have lots. What about roasting a bunch of vegetables and then adding dollops of the cheese to it and letting it melt?
eh. Good luck!
Thanks Pam!!
These are great ideas.
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Strong work on the baby front.
Throwing together casseroles with whatever's on hand is pretty easy. Assume one cup of cooked rice and half of an egg per person, add as much of the cream cheese as you'd like, and two cups of vegetables (either steamed or sauteed)---onions and yellow squash very nice together, and good with rice.
Put in the largest casserole you've got (assuming you've like the top crispy) and top with breadcrumbs. Heat till bubbling, run under broiler briefly to crisp the breadcrumbs if necessary.
Or...you could just order out and go to bed early.
Thank you!! He's a mellow dude so far - we are enjoying him!!!
Thank you too for the casserole guidelines - I think that will work. I bought some yummy homegrown cousa squash from the market, so it should be perfect.
I'm sure we'll be ordering out lots, but while I'm feeling motivated, I'd like to cook a bit - I've had no cooking all summer due to this infernal heat, so even though it's a time of my life where takeout is acceptable, I'm really enjoying the kitchen time.
Martha!
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I should note that I've never really liked Martha's personna...
until today!!
I was expecting to hate her new show, but as I said above, I was very much amused.
She did not seem at all apologetic or fake. Really, I felt like she had learned to be less stiff and formal. I thought she was funny. She was able to make fun of herself (never easy) and also joke around with David Spade (also not easy, I'm sure).
Will you watch the show? I'm eager to hear what you think after you've seen it for yourself.
(I can't believe I've written two posts today championing Martha Stewart! Too funny...)