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Skriven 2015-01-24 16:38:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HANSCHKA
Ärende: Re: chicken  was: Seitan
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-=> Quoting Ruth Hanschka to Nancy Backus on 01-22-15  23:57 <=-

 >  >  > quick pan fry and serve with stuff...  :)
 >  >  RH> True, but thighs have some flavor of their own.  
 >  >  RH> With breasts the only flavor is the marinade. 
 >  > True.  At least the Wegmans marinades are pretty 
 >  > good tasting, so it can make the breasts
 >  > edible...  :)
 >  RH> Grilling them probably helps too. 
 > Mixing in with lots of other stuff helps, too.
 > 
 RH> Things with actual flavor.  The Chinese recipes I've 
 RH> found often involve putting some baking soda in the flour 
 RH> mix when you shake the chicken bits up prior to stir-
 RH> frying. It seems to help.
 
That would be even more necessary if the white meat
chicken wasn't nicely marinaded...  :)

 >  RH> I got a "broccoli kugel" at the supermarket 
 >  RH> tonight out of the kosher case.  At the price
 >  RH> it was (before being marked down 90% to get rid
 >  RH> of it quickly) I figured it would have to be
 >  RH> pretty good.  Big mistake. 
 > Maybe it was better when it was fresher...?  Or maybe 
 > it was just another of those things that were better
 > in concept than in execution... ;)  And the price
 > might have been a ploy to get people to buy it, using
 > your reasoning that at that price it would have to be
 > pretty good...  ;)

 RH> That only works once, and then word gets around.  I have 
 RH> a feeling it was a case of someone trying to cook 
 RH> "healthy" and cooking "ecchy" instead.
 
I'd lay bets that you won't see it show up again, then... ;)

 >  RH> Even when I cook breasts until just done, they're 
 >  RH> still often tough.  I think it has more to do with
 >  RH> the size of the piece of meat and the length of
 >  RH> the "strands".
 > Could be that too... :)  It's one case where organic 
 > may not actually give better quality... I remember how
 > very disappointed I was in an organic chicken noodle
 > soup where the chicken pieces were tough, even in
 > soup... IIRC, they touted all white meat chicken... ;)
 > 
 RH> I've run into that too.  One more reason to make your 
 RH> own.

Indeed.   :)

ttyl           neb

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