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I'll bet you ate the paste in kindergarten, too.Ivan Seeking said:I love fried okra as well as rice and tapioca puddings.
I'll bet you ate the paste in kindergarten, too.Ivan Seeking said:I love fried okra as well as rice and tapioca puddings.
turbo-1 said:I'll bet you ate the paste in kindergarten, too.
That's something that many "chefs" don't seem to get, or they think their customers don't get. Food can be very simple and still taste fantastic. Complexity in preparation and elaborate sauces can be warning signs that you are expected to be "impressed" by the presentation, and not expect to be blown away by the wonderful tastes and textures of the food.stevo101 said:It may sound some what plain but its almost to the point where words can't describe it.
turbo-1 said:That's something that many "chefs" don't seem to get, or they think their customers don't get. Food can be very simple and still taste fantastic. Complexity in preparation and elaborate sauces can be warning signs that you are expected to be "impressed" by the presentation, and not expect to be blown away by the wonderful tastes and textures of the food.
TheStatutoryApe said:On Top Chef Tom Colicchio always says that the way he tests a new chef to see if they know how to cook is to have them cook an egg. In one episode they asked the chefs from what is apparently the worlds foremost french culinary institute to present the contestant chefs with the ingredients they believed would show a good chef's true skill. These turned out to be a chicken, potatoes, and an onion.
I generally enjoy simple. I've never even learned to do much of anything difficult or complex. It always makes me wonder why people have such a hard time cooking and think I do such wonderful things with food when I hardly know what I am doing.
Not a bad choice, though I would want to have a few more staples at hand. If my wife calls and tells me that she has to work late and wants me to have supper ready, and I have these things at hand, supper is drop-dead easy. Scramble an egg, dip the chicken parts in the egg and then roll them in a mix of crumbs, salt, pepper, and whatever other seasonings appeal to me (I am fond of Javin-brand curry powder) and bake the chicken in a preheated oven (375F) in a covered dish until done, then uncover the dish and brown the breading. I prefer Panko bread crumbs, but Saltines work quite well (just cut back on the salt). In the meantime, I'd either throw some baking potatoes in the oven (while fixing the chicken) or cut up the potatoes with the skins on and boil them with onions and a few cloves of garlic and mash them all together with a little butter, salt and pepper. No milk, no over-mashing to "smooth" the potatoes. If I baked potatoes, I would saute the onion and garlic in butter, take the potatoes out of the oven, split them and spoon in the onion, garlic, and butter, season with salt and pepper, and perhaps add some sharp cheese before returning the potatoes to the oven for a bit.TheStatutoryApe said:In one episode they asked the chefs from what is apparently the worlds foremost french culinary institute to present the contestant chefs with the ingredients they believed would show a good chef's true skill. These turned out to be a chicken, potatoes, and an onion.
turbo-1 said:If you want light, cheap, easily-sharped knives, Acuto is not real bad. They are very lightweight and have small handles (even for my stubby hands) so they are risky for folks that tend to "drift off" and cause self-injuries. The Chinese-made Kuhn Rikon knives are far superior (if you can call a $5 chef's knife at TJ Maxx "superior"). I love the Thiers Issard (4-star elephant logo) hand-forged knives, but they are incredibly expensive. A carbon-steel 6" chef's knife will run you $75+ and a small set of SS knives (4 small knives and a steel) will easily run you close to $400.
Google on Vector Marketing and decide for yourself. When you visit the Cutco web-site and they don't even list prices for their knives, you can be pretty sure that they are WAY overpriced and they rely on friends and family (pity factor) of their sales force to pay the price.TheStatutoryApe said:My friend is selling CutCo knives. What do you think?
aaarrrghh!turbo-1 said:evo close your eyes!
I just had a small handful of nestle dark raisinettes, and they weren't too bad. The dark chocolate plays against the sweetness of the raisins pretty well.
turbo-1 said:The dark chocolate plays against the sweetness of the raisins pretty well.
Ben Niehoff said:A few days ago I made an amazing salad with baby greens, cucumber, mango, and red grapefruit. It was a hit at my birthday party.
http://www.cmej.org.za/index.php/cmej/article/view/1448/1184Marinate your steak for a healthier meal If you are frying steak and worried about your health, then marinate it in either beer or red wine. This is according to food scientists who measured the amounts of a family of carcinogens found in fried steak after soaking them in booze.
Cooking food increases the levels of cancer-causing compounds called heterocyclic amines (HAs). Fried and grilled meat are particularly high in these compounds because the high temperatures convert the sugars and amino acids in muscle tissue into HAs. Various substances can reduce the HA content: an olive oil, lemon juice and garlic marinade cut HAs in grilled chicken by 90% and red wine reduced HAs in fried chicken.
Now Isabel Ferreira and colleagues at the University of Porto in Portugal have looked at the effects of beer and red wine marinades on fried steak. Six hours of marinating in beer or red wine cut levels of two types of HAs by up to 90% compared with unmarinated steak.
For a third type of HA, beer was more efficient at reducing its levels than wine, cutting its levels in 4 hours, while wine took 6. Beer contains more water-retaining sugars than wine and Ferreira says that may hinder the transport of water-soluble molecules to the steak’s surface, where high heat converts them into HAs. The marinades also apparently improve the flavour and texture of the meat.
New Scientist, 3 January 2009:13.Nature, DOI:10.1038/nature07239
Thanks. My wife and I decided that dipping into our savings to make cooking and canning more pleasurable and easier was a good investment. It was very difficult to find the space to make and process large batches of salsas, pickles, etc with the previous lay-out. The current set-up allows lots of stuff to happen more efficiently. We have had cramped and/or poorly laid-out kitchens about all our married life (going on 35 years) and it was time for a little self-indulgence.LowlyPion said:Very nice.
Congrats.
Google on Woodworker's Hardware, Moonie. That's where I ordered all the knobs and cup handles. The knobs dropped in price from $1.29 to $1.00 in quantities of 25, and the cup handles were inexpensive, too. If you can match the cabinets, and don't mind plain-looking knobs and handles like mine, you can replace all the knobs very cheaply. Forget the places that sell knobs for $3-5 or more each. They must rely on pricey decorators for their clients.Moonbear said:Though, it's those pesky knobs that get expensive if I can't find those to match!
If you have drawer pulls to replace, the main thing you have to pay attention to is the screw spacing. There are a couple of standard spacings that are commonly used, and Amerock produces many styles in both so that you can replace pulls without re-drilling.Moonbear said:Thanks for the links! Yeah, I don't need fancy knobs. I prefer the clean look of simple knobs like you have.
turbo-1 said:... (going on 35 years) and it was time for a little self-indulgence.