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Tropicalsenior
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6 minutes ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:
My memory is that it was delicious.
Trust me, nothing that my grandmother made was delicious! She used to feed us toast that was burnt black and claimed that it was good for us because we would never get worms.
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48 minutes ago, heidih said:
Never encountered the laxative effect.
You probably never drank the whole pitcher of tea.
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I've never had cornmeal grits. My grandmother used to make something that she called cornmeal mush that was pretty disgusting. We ate it with butter and syrup and only because we were forced to. The recipes that I have seen for grits seem very similar to this and I've just never been interested.
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11 hours ago, Tropicalsenior said:
You can overdose on it
I just thought I would mention an interesting fact that I learned some years ago. My husband had been on a green tea kick. He bought a huge package of it and then just lost interest. Rather than let it go to waste I decided to make iced tea with it. It was a hot day and it tasted so good that I drank almost the whole pitcher. I had no idea that green tea was a wonderful laxative. I do now!
This probably belongs in the 'I will never again' thread!
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My mother was an absolutely wonderful cook. I grew up on a farm so all our meals were pretty simple and still pretty stupendous. And except for breakfast, every meal that she made, she had to make two meals. One for us and one for my father who was a pain in the butt. He had every food allergy known to man and a few that he made up all by himself. All he wanted on his food was salt because any other type of seasoning would have killed him. She even had to fry the meat in separate Skillets because the seasoning from our food might migrate onto his and kill him. The meals that she set in front of us were well seasoned and imaginative and Lord help us if we didn't eat it because she said that she was determined not to turn five more people loose into the world like him. That said, she loved him dearly and put up with every one of his idiosyncrasies.
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11 minutes ago, SLB said:
I am wanting to make it as a backpacking snack,
Okay, then stem Ginger wouldn't work for what you want. The first recipe above from David looks to be about the easiest method. When you buy your Ginger, make sure that it is young fresh ginger. That is the pale colored Ginger with the pink tinge. The old Ginger will take hours to soften and will wind up tasting like cardboard sometimes. The new Ginger will cook up much better but will sometimes be quite hot.
Just be careful about using it for nausea. You can overdose on it and make yourself even sicker. Been there, done that.
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16 minutes ago, SLB said:
Thank you!
I don't know your reason for wanting to make candied ginger, but I stopped making it several years ago and started making stem Ginger instead. It keeps well in the refrigerator and freezer and it is great in baked goods and in Savory dishes. What's more, it is a heck of a lot easier to make. My recipe is very similar to this one.
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52 minutes ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:
I think you can see where this is going.
Sure can, been there did that. Just the other night, I took three beautiful boneless loin chops and brined them for several hours before I cooked them. I breaded them beautifully and added salt and pepper when I cooked them. I felt like I was licking a salt block when I ate them. My two wonderful, polite, housemates never blinked an eye.
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Is it possibly this?
Charcuterie (/ʃɑːrˈkuːtəri/ (
listen) shar-KOO-tər-ee, also US: /ʃɑːrˌkuːtəˈriː/ (listen) -EE; French: [ʃaʁkyt(ə)ʁi] (listen); from chair, 'flesh', and cuit, 'cooked') is a French term for a branch of cooking devoted to prepared meat products, such as bacon, ham, sausage, terrines, galantines, ballotines, pâtés, and confit, primarily from pork.[1]
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5 minutes ago, liuzhou said:
these
So far, that formula has held for everything that I can get. The river shrimp we get here or about that size and they turned out perfect. Then again, like you, I prefer them slightly undercooked.
Just out of curiosity, what did those weigh?
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1 hour ago, gfweb said:
They do cook quickly
Years ago when I first bought shrimp from a fishmonger he gave me the best advice that I have ever had. He told me that the shrimp themselves will tell me when they're cooked. When they curl into a C they are cooked. If they curl up into an O they are overcooked. It always works for me.
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26 minutes ago, Dante said:
Solyanka
Okay oh, I had to ask Mister Google but they said that this is an 'everything but the kitchen sink' type Russian soup. Yours looks delicious. Would you mind telling me what is in it?
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Also, would anybody be interested in having this bread recipe. It is absolutely no fail! It is called easy brioche. Easy, absolutely! Brioche, Mas o Menos. I make it about twice a week and I have used it about 10 or 15 different ways.
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5 hours ago, liuzhou said:
Smell tests for problems with food are dangerously unreliable.
So true, botulism, for example doesn't always smell. The best rule is, when in doubt, pitch it out! The cost of that beef fat will never outweigh the cost of a Hospital stay or a casket. I just went through a very light case of food poisoning and take my word for it, it ain't no fun!
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On 5/27/2021 at 10:40 AM, lindag said:
Is it possible that this would work for breads to help toppings stick?
Well I baked my bread today with mixed reviews. I'm satisfied with the nice brown color on the rolls but as for the seeds. Some stuck and some didn't. I will probably use it again as a glaze but I'm not crazy about seeds anyway. It doesn't work as well as egg wash.
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2 hours ago, heidih said:
I find knock-offs
Costa Rica is the land of knock-offs but so far down here I haven't been able to find anything big enough to put a whole pineapple in. Plus, right now we are in a severe lockdown and all are Chinese knockoff stores are closed.
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16 minutes ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:
Plus you get to have broken glass with your pineapple on your laundry floor.
You have a major point right there because everything landed right on my foot before it took off for everywhere.
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I've been changing over to these little by little but this container was just the right size to hold a whole cut-up cooked pineapple so I hung on to it. Now I am sorry I did. When I can get out and about again I will be looking for a new glass one. Thank you. I know they say that Amazon ships to Costa Rica but what they don't tell you is that the shipping fee and the customs fees are going to cost more than the product itself.
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I will never again put food in the refrigerator in a container without a tight-fitting lid. I just dumped a whole diced cooked pineapple on my laundry room floor. I don't need this today because I am trying to get over a bout of food poisoning from take out food on my birthday last Friday. That pineapple was going to taste good on my wonky stomach. One great big pineapple and the container in the trash.
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I don't doubt that for a minute. If they do it to only one, that's the one I always get.
And when I get in a line, I swear that it is tattooed on my forehead that it is time to change the tape, count the money, or change shifts.
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3 hours ago, Duvel said:
the fish was fried
Thank you, I should have known. There is no way to get fish that looks like that without frying it. I'm always hoping because I don't like to deep fry. One, because I can't get good oil down here to fry with and two, I don't like cleaning up all the splatter. The only air fryers that they sell down here are little bitty things and not worth the money.
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33 minutes ago, weinoo said:
not only do they taste great,
I've had Mexican tamales that I didn't hate but the ones in Costa Rica leave a lot to be desired. All tasteless Masa with meat about the size that you would get in a can of pork and beans or Campbell's chicken soup. The rest is just rice and raisins. It doesn't bother me not to like corn tortillas or tamales because when you go to Mexico there are so many other wonderful things to eat.
Even at my age, my digestive system seems to work just great without all that corn. My mama always said if it's not broke, don't fix it!
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28 minutes ago, liuzhou said:
They tried. They failed
Same here with sauerkraut! Personally, corn is not one of my favorites. I can't see that it has any nutritional value served just as corn. Do you feel the same way about things made with cornmeal? Central America and Mexico couldn't survive without their corn tortillas and tamales. I hate them! They are tasteless nasty little things.
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3 hours ago, Duvel said:
Got some nice fresh cod yesterday and was envisioning fish chowder for dinner. Family was feeling like a more caloric alternative, so ...
Fish and „chips“ (baked in the oven)
I'm with @weinoo on the mushy peas. But I guess when you grow up with them and somebody sets them in front of you when you're really little you just grow up thinking it's good food. Apparently, nobody fed corn to @liuzhou when he was little.
That fish looks absolutely wonderful. I don't know how you got it to look like that in the oven but I sure would like to try it. Would you be willing to share your method and your recipe?
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Kitchen Gadgets You Don't Need?
in Kitchen Consumer
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Very interesting article. Going through the list I have, at one time or another, had all of them. I have given away or pitched all but three.
1. I love my cheap little Citrus Juicer. I think it cost me about $12.
2. I use my coffee grinder all the time, but I only use it for spices.
3. I have a pasta machine with attachments and probably the only reason that I keep it was that it was a gift from my daughter and I don't know anyone dumb enough to want it. I used it all the time when we couldn't buy good pasta here but now we can, and I don't.
I traded my bread machine for a KitchenAid stand mixer and now I get perfect bread all the time.
Before I buy any Appliance or Gadget now, I ask myself two questions. How many ways can I use it and where the heck am I going to put it. One or the other usually stops me dead in my tracks.
However, I saw one little Gadget the other day that was sure tempting. A beautiful little red toaster just for making hot dogs. It had two holes in the middle for the hot dogs, and bigger slots on each end for hot dog buns. Decided it wasn't practical for me because there are three of us. Then too, there is the fact that we don't eat hot dogs but it sure was a pretty red thing.