jsolomon

It is a complex issue, because in places (like Broken Bow, Nebraska) there isn't a homeless problem. But, the hospital food there still sucks. So, I don' think the homeless issue is all to blame. It simply doesn't affect all hospitals the same, so calling it the root issue doesn't seem to pass the sniff test. There must be some other nefarious plot at the root of it.

A second for lavendar (and cheers for someone else who spells it with a terminal 'a')

Chezkaren, would you be so kind as to add your recipe to the recipegullet? I've never heard of honey jelly, and it sounds like something really cool to try.

No stale bread or garlic in your recipe... do you like it better that way? I generally like mine with less stock, but stale bread, garlic, and olive oil. The bread keeps the things like tomato guts and cucumber guts from over-hydrating the soup, and the garlic and olive oil really make it smile. I love gazpacho, and I think the world can always do with another recipe.

I can attest to that. When I ran the Pike's Peak marathon, I carried 5 liters of water with me, and that was finished before I reached the summit! That's twice as much as I normally carry on a marathon and it was gone in half the distance, too!

While I really like the thai salad they talk about, and Shogun in Lincoln has a really good Japanese-ish ginger dressing on their salad, if I had to choose only one to eat for the rest of my life it would be the one left off of the list. I would eat Seizure Salad (Caesar Salad) as my only salad if forced under penalty of death to choose.

When I was at the Santa Rampage in Chicago a couple of years ago, we had Hazed and Infused to drink. I don't know whether the particular bottle I had was maltreated, or whether it's just shit beer. But, I've never choked down another bottle. The only other beer I routinely turn down in chile beer. That stuff is atrocious.

Tongo, a thousand apologies. I blame too much work and not enough beer. But, if you're all complaining about skunky beer, you're not thirsty enough.

Jason, have you looked here for rabbit food?

Nah, the dodo's gone for good. Salad bars will have a resurgence in America as soon as we pull our heads out of our collective asses with regards to food safety and reasonable risk. [makes mental note to kick a lawyer on the way home]

I'm not arguing with that. But, if you cook using methods that dissolve the collagen, the protein that holds the meat together, you will not have dry chicken. Ditto if you lube with added fat, like cream and butter. Or, cut thinly across the grain of the meat. Or add tangy flavors so the mouth waters more. Or... But, freezing doesn't disrupt the protein framework so much as the cell membranes which then spill their contents out into the extracellular space.

I betting on Zaphod Beeblebrox, the President of the Galaxy.

Glad to be of service. Have calculator, will travel.

There are more scientific treatments. You just have to look hard. I'd find more, but my scifinder login is acting funny.

Well, 9x5 = 45. 8x4 = 32. Assuming your heights are the same, then 32/45 should be your answer = .7 (give or take). So, if you multiply ingredient amounts by .7, you should be good. Honestly, I would try multiplying by .75, and have another dinner roll. So, 3 cups flour * .75 = 2.25 cups 1 Tbsp sugar becomes 2.25 tsp 2 tsp salt becomes 1.5 tsp and so forth. For your cooking time, start checking 5 minutes earlier. Same temperature.

This can be overcome by proper preparation of said bird...

I made a similar argument in a thread about breeds of pigs. Greater gains in quality of chicken will be made from buying frozen chicken that has led a better life than fresh chicken that has had a shitty life. Edit: clarity

Marlene, that looks like a spectacular menu. Certainly more than I would expect were I in the shoes of the receiver. They are highly blessed with your friendship.

For me, a pilsener tastes really similar to the wheat it was brewed from (and no, I do not recognize the form with 3 consonants in a row). It should have a flavor that comes on quickly, and very little aftertaste. After you swallow, there shouldn't be any flavor of the beer left in your mouth. What it reminds of is the flavor of chewing on a piece of straw hay.

I still think that part of the premise of this show is dubious. However, I wish Alton a speedy recovery. Collar bones are the achilles heel of both bicyclists and motorcyclists.

It is true that saturated fats do not go rancid as quickly as unsaturated, this is due to both steric hindrance--oxygen can't get in to attack bonds in saturated fats, as well as resonance--when you have multiple sites of unsaturation, you lower the energy required to oxidize the molecule. Of course, your friend is making no distinction between cis fats and trans fats, cis fats do occur naturally and are generally thought of as healthy. There is an increasing body of knowledge saying the opposite of trans fats.

Ack. I think cold coffee is an abomination. 110F in the shade? Pass me a hot cuppa.

The proper method for making homemade jam begins with the two words, "hey, Mom..."

Well, it really doesn't take a lot of time to forage/grow/hunt a lot of food, actually. So, with judicious choice of foraged foods, you can offset the cash crop juggernaut to a certain extent. Of course, the other side of the coin is that every time you pay taxes you pay into the cash crop subsidy juggernaut. So, how about voting and writing letters?

I hate to be the pedant here, but with regard to a steam-injection oven, you get performance gains based on the food condensing the steam. What this does is transfers the energy it took to vaporise the steam into the food. This really is a tremendous amount of energy. So, with a good steam injection oven, you can cook at a lower temperature for the same performance because you are using a gas condensing to a liquid--actually you are creating a very high-temperature air-conditioner for steam when you do this. Ain't science great?