Text 19828, 77 rader
Skriven 2009-01-18 15:35:21 av Carol Shenkenberger (26343.cooks)
  Kommentar till text 19820 av Nancy Backus (1:3634/12.0)
Ärende: Cooking habits
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 >  > crockpot once upon a time, but it didn't get a lot of use after a while,
 >  > and I think it gave up, and we never replaced it...  Sometimes I think
 >  > it would be useful, but never enough to do anything about it.  :)
 > 
 >  CS> We use it for many things but it's the sort of things where we make up
 >  CS> a batch on a weekend, for munching on during the week, or at night, for
 > 
 > I don't think I used it that way... or at least not very often... It's
 > been quite a while now...  But I can sorta see that as a reasonable use.
 > I've used simmer (on an electric range) for a similar type of thing...
 > coupla days, anyway...

Momma crock is stuffed right now.  Pork shoulder.  Huge one!  We cut some 5
lbs off one side to make it fit.

It's going with about 1 cup OJ, 1/4 cup soy sauce, 2-3 TB sweet brown
vinegar, and a red onion at the bottom.  Nothing else added yet.  Kinda
eyeing the 5 spice for later but may instead do a pulled pork with sweet-hot
chile sauce (Mae Ploy is what we have right now, a bit of flying duck too but
not enough).

We'll rotate the bone right away to a bean pot as this excess gets frozen for
many meals later in the month.

 >  CS> That and hungry kids coming home from school and stuff like that!
 > 
 > My hungry kid grew up 15-20 years ago now...  (G)  And now, when he's
 > over, he thinks that Lean Cousine is a meal!  (There are definitely
 > times when I wonder where he hatched!)


Hehehe!  Yeah, kids are like that.

 >  CS> I guess I did make the dashi look pretty easy if anyone was watching.
 > 
 > Yup.  :)

Well, fact is it is easy!

 >  CS> I did run the standard strength broth by MLoo for a taste test telling
 >  CS> him I use far more but looking for an opinon.  He agreed I should make
 >  CS> it 'my way' and I did. (Pretty sure I left some dashi powder in a jar
 >  CS> for Janis).
 > 
 > Tasted pretty good, too... :)  Especially with the miso added...  :)

Yeah, we prefer the Miso version too.

 >  CS> I meant to watch how MLoo did the octopus but frankly I had been
 >  CS> standing too long and needed to sit (back, treated it very carefully
 >  CS> due to drive back home).
 > 
 > I missed that, since I'd had to leave by then...  Maybe next time, the
 > timing will be such that I can be there for the whole thing...  ;)  I'm
 > glad I was able to come for as long as I got this time, though... it
 > really was fun.  :)

Hey, having you there as long as you could be was nice enough!

 >  >  CS> Squishy mushrooms?  Have to think a bit.  You'd mean either fresh
 >  >  CS> cloud ear or straw mushrooms right?
 >  > Not sure I know what they are called... cooked up in a soup they are
 >  > almost more mucilegenious...  I could just about taste it in memory, and
 >  > remember the texture, but since I really don't know what they are, I've
 >  > not bought any to have on hand.  Not something I've actually cooked
 >  > with, but have had in soups at Chinese restaurants...
 > 
 >  CS> Hum, cloud ear (fresh) is my guess but not really sure.
 > 
 > That could be.  Straw mushrooms I think I do recognize... they're more
 > defined than what I was trying to describe...

Sounds like cloud ear then.  Best guess.
             xxcarol
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