Text 19442, 72 rader
Skriven 2009-01-09 13:59:13 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 19317 av Carol Shenkenberger (25826.cooks)
Ärende: Cooking habits
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Hi Carol,

 > That was Nancy being quoted, not me.  I do quite a bit of real cooking.
 > Tonight's supper will be chicken parmesan with spaghetti & home made
 > marinara sauce, possibly a green salad on the side.

 CS> Yeah, Nancy above ;-)

I just wanted to clarify, lest people get the impression I've stopped
cooking. (as if!)

 >  CS> Keep in mind I barely 'cooked' at the picnic too!  I turned 'eat'.  I
 >  CS> mean come on, a crockpot of peanuts and a simple soup?  Had to make
 >  CS> the soup though as if i hadnt done something with Dashi after all
 >  CS> these years, they'd have tossed me out on the porch ;-)

 > You missed the sauce, meat ball and braccole making session that I did
 > earlier. Michael was sous cheffing me there, getting a few hints on the
 > way I do meat balls.  I made up & froze the lasagne before the picnic,
 > thawed and baked it at Janis's.  And, no, we wouldn't have tossed you
 > out on the porch; we would have asked to see proof of identity. (G)


 CS> LOL!  What if I'd forgotten my ID card?

You would have some form of ID on you, if not anything else, your
driver's license.


 OHH!!! meantime we got there
 CS> in time to eat the results of your efforts, a substantial amount of
 CS> which ended up in Charlotte's tummy slightly to the dismay of a hungry
 CS> MLoo (tweak!).

She did pack away a lot more than I expected for a skinny kid. (G)  Have
you made any since?  I'll probably do small batches (2-3 meal's worth)
between now and whenever we pack out so I won't have too much on hand in
the freezer.


 >  CS> Once the stock was boiling, it took about 3 mins to do the rest for
 >  CS> the soup.

 > Didn't you do the taro also?

 CS> Ohh dont remind me!  (grin).  Even cooks have the occasional failure.
 CS> It got turned off by accident then once i turned it back on I forgot
 CS> about it so it turned a rather 'different' grey color.  I recall
 CS> passing about a little for taste tests but none of us wanted to make
 CS> taro fried cakes just then.

With all the food there, I don't think it made too much difference that
it didn't work out.  I think about the time it was getting close to
done, we opened the durian--enough reason to make you forget the taro.


 CS> Probably molded in Janis's back fridge til she went 'what the heck is
 CS> this' and tossed it ;-)

Most likely; if it had been raw, she could have made poi. (G)


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Ruth
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