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     Kommentar till en text av CAROL SHENKENBERGER
Ärende: dashing dashi!
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Ahoy Carol!

-> 
->  HN> they are also used to make dashi (xxcarol makes dashi a lot!) which
is
-> 
-> I've been using the powder here as I have a very cheap source for it and
can't
-> come even close to matching that price.  You use 1 TS per 3 cups water
(roughly
-> what you've seen me call 2nd use dashi) and the box has 1000 servings.
(3/4 cup
-> finished product per serving or 1/4 TS dry per serving).  15.99$ and a
-> perfectly
-> decent brand.  I can easily adjust the level between my old system of
'1st use 
-> dashi through 4th use dashi' by just varying how much of the powder I
add in.
-> 
-> That said, I have added a little niboshi and a square of nori to water
for a 
-> thin dashi then added the powder after simmer about 4 mins.  It enhances
it but
-> it's quite acceptable without that extra step except in a few very
special 
-> 'signature' recipies I make.
-> 
-> I got this same brand in Japan when I could afford it.  It's the most
popular
-> Japan one.  Think of it as the Japan version of Campbell's Soup <g>.  I
could
-> never get a box this big for a mere 15.99$ there.  It was more like
5,000yen 
-> (48$).
-> 
-> 
-> Before you freak at using up 750 cups of dashi in 6-9 months, keep in
mind it
-> is also used as a boiling sauce for many things.  A can of green beans
is 
-> enhanced much IMHO if you rinse the can juice off them then put them in
3 cups
-> of dashi to simmer.  Whatever meat I make with that, can easily have
another 2
->  cups or more dashi where you might be using chicken stock.  Thats just
dinner.
-> 
-> My crockpot (big momma) normally needs about 1 gallon liquid to whatever
else
->  is in there, and that may be dashi but before I used chicken stock due
to 
-> *cost* factors, of using up a whole gallon of dashi.
-> 
-> I like to use dashi for my ricemaker machine water, so if I make just
'rice' 
-> and a 4 cup yield, that's another 2 cups dashi (usually 4th use is for
rice). 
-> If making Japanese 'rice porridge' (congee/juk is close) I'll need 8
cups dashi
-> roughly for a big batch or 4 for a single batch for us 3.
-> 
-> See how it adds up?  Generally if you make your own dashi, it will run
about 5$
-> per gallon which isnt a horrible price but thats calculated across the
gamut of
->  1st use to 4th use all mixed in.  I'm not sure how many cups there is
to a 
-> gallon but I bet it's less than 27 (grin).
-> 

You use dashi like many of us (me included) 
use stocks. Makes perfect sense to me, and 
at the value you get for it a great enhancer
to your cooking style! Anne of course would
never let ME get away with that much fishy 
flavor in the menu (grin)...so I use chicken
stock in many cases where you'd be using 
dashi! 


-> The only downside?  Hey lets face it.  Its pretty cool to make your own
dashi!
-> I'll probably do that now and again just to show off <g>.
->

Face it...it's pretty cool to do 
stocks too! You like playing in the 
kitchen or you wouldn't be hanging 
about with this group of folk! The 
coolest part is we get to share with 
eachother and learn the "carol" way
and the "hap" way and the "Georgia Ruth" 
way and the enjoyment gets
shared and spread all over! I don't 
use dashi as much as you...but I think
I might give it a try in more dishes
if I can factor it in where Anne won't 
notice it! (well we'll see if she 
notices!)


->  HN> basically a  soup stock with fish or seaweed or bonito flakes or
->  HN> niboshi...or a combination of all of those! Here's a good site to
get
->  HN> some more information (For Shirley of course, you're an eat!!) 
-> 
->  HN> http://japanesefood.about.com/od/soup/a/aboutdashisoup.htm
-> 
-> Ohh, I'll sneak over there later and take a peek.
-> 

There's SO much to see and play with!

-> 
-> Yet another dashi use.  My new across from us folks who are comming for
T-day 
-> so we can combine cooking resources from our limited loaner sets (I have
a bit
-> more from the old stored stuff but the rest is same as theirs), is going
to 
-> make a sort of brined bird set (just cornish hens) and want each to be
-> different
->  so we are going to add salt to a 1/2 gallon of dashi and some soy sauce
and
-> try
->  that out on one of them.
-> 

I think Dave S has a great brining recipe..hope he posts it again! I don't
think we are gonna brine our bird this year...at least I haven't planned on
it!

-> The other 2 hens (remember, I have a big ham here too) are not settled
but we 
-> are thinking to use my one good knife and mostly debone then do the
pressed 
-> butter-fried 'tobacco chicken' bit with one and my 3 cast iron pans (big
one 
-> under, 2 smaller ones above pressing it down).  She's thinking a
southwestern 
-> rub on the 3rd one but said she might go plain 'traditional' with
stuffing and 
-> pretend it's a little turkey <g>.
-> 

Amanda and a friend are going to do 
game hens for Thanksgiving too, I'm 
not sure what they plan on doing with 
them...I'll speak to her today and 
try to remember to ask! For Anne and I
we'll be doing a small turkey, squash 
soup, cornbread stuffing and giblet gravy,
roasted brussels sprouts in balsamic vinegar,
and my "gotta have it" relish tray (radishes,
celery, carrot, green and black olives, green
onions, pickles,and some sort of dip; hummus maybe)


-> We are mixing and matching side dishes.  We both agreed to avoid all
nuts as
-> her
-> youngest is just at the edge of 'no more bottle' and eating pretty much
-> anything
-> yet nuts can cause problems and her middle kid might feed the younger
one
->  anything tastey. No known allergies but I think the advice was to wait
til
-> over
-> 1 year old and she thinks she was told same?
-> 
-> Her husband is on a diet (on the edge of military weight limits for body
fat)
-> so
-> we are making things that arent going to blow that too much and she's
going to 
-> be careful with the sodium for Don.
-> 
-> On T-day, if you hear the pitter patter of little feet, it's us running
back
-> and
-> forth between houses as we share ovens and range tops or trott my only
good 
-> knife back and forth.  Please excuse our dust <g>.  We will try to
muffle our 
-> giggles so we do not disrupt the rest of you.
-> 
->                  xxcarol
-> 
I'll be in the kitchen...if you need anything just holler as you go by!
chat with you soon!
ha
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