[Thanksgiving (US) 2023]

This afternoon my niece called to discuss Thanksgiving dinner which she usually gets from a restaurant and brings down here.  She wants something a bit more elaborate than a Wawa turkey sub. I refrained from reccomending  Stouffer's  frozen turkey breast  dinner which I rather like. (Hey,I'm 83 years old with arthritis  and  use a walker.Most of my kitchen equipment is either too high or too low  for me to reach) While checking out what's available she came

across one restaurant that charges $200 for a thanksgiving dinner that serves 6 people, but does not include a turkey. 

 

 

[Remembering Anna N]

18 minutes ago, Mjx said:

Kerry, thank you for bringing a gleam of light to this extremely sad news, with your wonderful memories of Anna. 

 

[Green Bell Pepper Haters - This One's For You]

 I don't know what rou jia mo means but going by the picture it doesn't look like it means mean green bell peppers .

[Shaming Heat Intolerance]

2 hours ago, Tropicalsenior said:

But it would certainly have been an article with a very small audience.

 

And would you, as a child, been inclined to read it? 

Unless the article was in a Hardy Boys mystery or  the Saturday  Evening Post I might not have come across it, but if I had come across it I might have read it, and if I did read it I certainly would have hidden it from my mother.

 

Lima bean haters are legion.  They are right there along with brussel sprouts haters.  The difference being that brussel sprouts are despised usually

because cooked wrong whereas lima beans are vile in and of themselves  however they are cooked. And, raw, they are poisonous.

Note - I am not shaming brussel sprout haters   I have sympathy for them because they've never had the opportunity to encounter any of the many delicious ways brussel sprouts can eaten cooked or raw.

[Shaming Heat Intolerance]

Having experienced lima bean shaming as a child I might have appreciated an article on how to cultivate a taste for lima beans. I might have started small such as vegetable soup with  a few lima beans in it  and gone on to succotash and then forward to lima beans as a vegetable side dish.  No longer would I sit at the dinner table for what seemed hours contemplating a dinner plate with a mound of the vile beans in front of me

[Scrapple!]

best with a fried egg on top

[Culinary Terms/Terminology and their Etymology]

Staff note: This post and subsequent responses were split from the Mac and Cheese: Defining and Pushing its Boundaries topic, to maintain focus.

(a)Macaroni is the macaroni product the units of which are tube-shaped and more than 0.11 inch but not more than 0.27 inch in diameter.

(c) Spaghetti is the macaroni product the units of which are tube-shaped or cord-shaped (not tubular) and more than 0.06 inch but not more than 0.11 inch in diameter.

(d) Vermicelli is the macaroni product the units of which are cord-shaped (not tubular) and not more than 0.06 inch in diameter.
 Thus sayeth the in fedgov  one of its regulations. So you could have Mac and cheese, Spaghetti and cheese or Vermicelli and cheese It'smuch easier tnan saying you are having  pasta which is tube shaped and between 0.11 inches and 0.27 inches in diameter and cheese for dinner.

Somewheres there may be a very bored beaurocrat with a set of calipers and a box of pasta praying that his agency will offer its employees an early out.
in one of its cost cutting frenzies.

[What's wrong with eating raw flour?]

I suppose it's better than  putting "Don't eat or play with raw flour,dough,or batter. It'll give you worms."  on the label'

[Wasting food is a "sin"]

My sympathy is with the customers having her sitting close by.

[Food Funnies]

Barney and his friends agreed it had been a great picnic. "And"said Barney as he picked his teeth with Dipsy's antenna "the teletubbies had been especially delicious".

 

 

 

 

[Tell us about the popular foods you’ve never tried]

5 minutes ago, DianaB said:

 

 

What about things you would love to try but can’t because such foods are not available in your location, or the expense just can’t be justified?  

Caviar.The really good and prohibitively expensive stuff.

[Nose to Tail in Practice]

Probably beef spleen.It was so long ago I can't remember for sure.

[Nose to Tail in Practice]

years ago in Philadelphia PA  at a kosher restaurant I had stuffed spleen for a starter.  I don't remember what it was stuffed with,but  I'm  pretty sure it wasn't pork.

[Kitchen sounds you hate or love]

olive pits in the garbage disposal

[Poultry Viscera and Other Offal]

14 hours ago, Anna N said:

Where do doves fit in here?  I know @Shelbycooks them, and they belong to the same faemily as pigeons. Are any domesticated or only hunted?

.Both doves and pigeons are members of  the family columbidae and the rock dove is not the father of the family. The use of the terms dove and pidgeon is  not based on Linnaean classification. The Mourning Dove could be called a Mourning Pigeon, and  the Passenger Pigeon a Passenger Dove but you'll never check those names off on your birding Life List. 

 

[Costco]

I use instakart a lot, and one time I ordered  frozen spinach.Apparently there was none so the instakart shopper substituted a frozen medly with spinach, kale , and chickpeas.   I gave it  to a vegan I knew.  Had I eaten any of it, they would have heard me in Longport (the far end of the next island down from Brigantine  Island) and the weather bureau would have been issuing air quality alerts.

I'm also more careful now to specify "no exchanges" on my instacart orders.

[If you don't prick holes in a potato before baking...]

I always prick potatoes before baking.  An exploded potato can make a real mess in an oven . If the pricks don't go deep enough  the potato might  explode any way. I  use a fork now  but originally I used a mattress needle which I also used for trussing a chicken. It was very strong, and if the potato was small enough, it could  go clear through the potato, which is how I learned to not hold the potato in my hand while pricking it. 

 

[Foraging for favorites]

But everybody knows that you need some amanita virosa to put in your Coq au Nyquill

[The Food Safety and Home Kitchen Hygiene/Sanitation Topic]

2 minutes ago, blue_dolphin said:

 

I read it.  Whoever writes their headlines is clearly an effective alarmist!  Acrylamide is indeed nasty stuff, especially when inhaled and it certainly seems prudent to minimize its consumption.  Even though it hasn't been conclusively proven to cause cancer, it seems quite likely.  The fact that different species metabolize acrylamide differently makes it challenging to draw conclusions from animal studies and humans are notoriously difficult to study.  

A lot of the foods on the list to avoid are worth limiting due to their sugar and fat content so obesity and diabetes are probably greater risks from a diet high in fried foods and baked goods than acrylamide toxicity is.

 

As to your second question, the formation of acrylamide in cooking has really only been studied for the last 20 years so neither you nor anyone else knew about it 40 years ago!

And, at my age(82), if I did know about it 40 years ago,I  probably wouldn't remember it now unless I was orthorexic.

[Food History Articles and Links]

the USA declared its neutrality in the 1930s in several acts of congress the most recent in 1939. People     In a movie studio cafe in Burbank CA  in February 1941 might well have arguements while eating  over how much the US should be involved ,if at all, in those conflicts in Europe and Asia.  After all,even the national  hero Lindy was opposed to getting involved.   As long as that man in the White House and his "New Deal Democrats" didn't do anything to seriously antagonize the combatants then everything should go on just pleasantly as ever.

[China Food Myths]

well, it they were ironstone manufactured in the Potteries  you were eating off of authentic traditional chinoisserie willow pattern dishes.  If they were bone china you were eating off of authentic traditional china chinoisserie willow pattern dishes but if they were manactured in China you were eating off of  unauthentic traditional chinoisserie willow pattern Chinese china. I think my set was made in Japan. 

[Provincetown, the "Outer Cape," and Wellfleet Too]

Id rather eat  chocolate covered Swedish fish than Surstromming

[Accommodating/combating housekeeping differences in the kitchen]

If you have a cat he's likely to decide that your precious favorite ever vegetable peeler that you left on the counter while you left the kitchen for a minute  belongs under the fridge. So, being the thoughtful that cats are,he'll put it away for you and you won't find it until you buy a new fridge. And,despite its filthy disgusting condition, you''ll give it a good cleaning and put it in the drawer where you've been looking for it for the past several years.

[Chicken fingers that don't suck]

Isn't a chicken tender the breast part called.the tenderloin which has a white tendon running through it? I think Julia Child called them supremes

 and I made her recipe where they were poached in clarified butter.  It was the best chicken tender I ever ate and did not involve breading or soup mixs or dried spice blends or frying. The only hard part was getting the tendon out without mangling the tender.

[Food Funnies]

Not only that, but for octogenarians like me    you need space to the  left of the napkin for the crossword puzzle and ballpoint pen.