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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Charmion Date: 17 Oct 20 - 07:52 PM Okay, leeneia. I’ll stop fussing about it. My brothers and their wives came all the way from Ottawa for the funeral — an eight-hour day of travel each way and no fun. One of my sisters-in-law made eggs Benedict for all of us before they set out out on the return journey, a tour de force. Her Hollandaise sauce is to die for, actually worth the calories. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Steve Shaw Date: 17 Oct 20 - 07:58 PM "Garlic powder"?? What the hell is that?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Jeri Date: 17 Oct 20 - 08:07 PM Garlic powder - Wikipedia is a cool site that can answer many questions. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Jeri Date: 17 Oct 20 - 08:09 PM I buy granulated garlic for those times when I'm out of the real stuff. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Steve Shaw Date: 18 Oct 20 - 04:21 AM If I'm out of garlic the supermarket is three miles away. If that's all I need I'll save the planet and either manage without garlic or do a different dish. I do use ground spices such as paprika and chilli flakes and the one dried herb I'll use is oregano. I'm sure that the spice shelf at Morrison's has powdered garlic but my incurious eye has never strayed in that direction, and it never will! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Jos Date: 18 Oct 20 - 04:23 AM I can't remember ever being out of the real stuff - at least not since about 1969, living in a place without supermarkets and where the local greengrocers (remember those?) hadn't heard of such exotic produce, |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Steve Shaw Date: 18 Oct 20 - 04:24 AM I've just read on wiki that you can keep garlic powder for FOUR YEARS. Bwahahaha! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Mrrzy Date: 18 Oct 20 - 09:34 AM I use onion powder and garlic powder instead of flour for dredging and thickening. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Oct 20 - 02:17 PM What a food snob you are, Steve! A Mrrzy just pointed out, the dried onion and garlic (what I have is granulated, the powder is a little to fly-away to use easily) are excellent for seasoning bread crumbs for breading and frying foods. They're a shortcut when you're doing a value-added spice adding to jar marinara sauce, etc. I must have about 15 pounds of the homegrown heads of garlic (with huge cloves) in the pantry, it's not like I don't have and don't use. And the way it's stored here, it lasts for 2 or 3 years - the fresh stuff. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Steve Shaw Date: 18 Oct 20 - 06:27 PM How am I a food snob when I can purchase a cuchina povera garlic bulb for about 20p all the year round? How is garlic powder an improvement on real garlic? I'm scratching my head here. A lot of my cooking is Italian. Tonight we had spaghetti with prawns, lemon, chilli, sundried tomatoes, garlic and rocket. The lemon was a fresh lemon with its juice and zest. The garlic was two cloves finely sliced straight into the hot extra virgin olive oil. The chilli was dried chilli flakes. The rocket was out of my garden. I got the spag perfectly al dente and Mrs Steve gave me 9.5 on ten (a half teaspoon too much lemon). We'd been out all day sitting with my Mum in hospital 50 miles away, which is why I had to resort to dried chilli flakes. The whole thing took me twelve minutes. Why would I cut corners using abject dried garlic? You'll be telling me next to use bottled lemon juice... Good cooking means not cutting corners via processed ingredients. I will not use dried garlic or any dried herb bar oregano, which works brilliantly for reasons I know not why. I won't use lemon juice out of a bottle. It isn't proper lemon juice. Dull as ditchwater. One of those cushion bags of rocket? Useless. Either grow your own (in my garden I can't stop it) or don't bother. These things make a massive difference. It took me one minute to finely slice two garlic cloves, and my fingers smelled beautifully of cooking. It took me twenty seconds to squeeze the juice from a real lemon. Cut corners and you lose all the joy of real cooking. Anyway, that's what I think... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Mrrzy Date: 18 Oct 20 - 10:31 PM I must say, Steve Shaw, according to you there is no joy in all the cooking I do. How sad and limiting for you. I am filled with joy by my dried and my fresh herbs, by my fresh and my frozen veg, by my boiled chicken necks and my better than bouillon... but not by yeast, which refuses to cooperate. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: sciencegeek Date: 19 Oct 20 - 02:32 AM dried spices and herbs fill a niche and here in the USA can be found everywhere that sells food... and that includes what we call dollar stores... and it's a sad fact that in spite of being a wealthy country, that wealth does not reach down to many people who live virtually hand to mouth... without transportation, many live in cities and have little access to fresh produce, etc.... and packaged processed food needs all the help it can get I grew up with dried garlic and onion powders along with various Italian dried herbs... when used in cooking it works just fine and is very cost effective and time saving for the cook who might have plenty of other things that need doing |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Dave Hanson Date: 19 Oct 20 - 02:50 AM I can see the point in dried herbs but dried garlic ? never come accross this, fresh garlic is so widely available dried seems superfluous. Dave H |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Thompson Date: 19 Oct 20 - 06:56 AM Getting back to damsons, there's a hedging version called Shropshire Prune, a heavy fruiter with, I'm told, beautifully scented blossoms; if it's grown on Pixy rootstock it'll make a fine hedge for the garden, and then produce delicious fruit, which personally I make into jam; I've yet to try one recipe which includes walnuts. I got presents of damsons and made them into jam this year; didn't try the damson gin, but if I do in some future year I'll do it without adding sugar (or pricking the fruit - the gin will get in there anyway). Made sloe gin a couple of years, with no sugar, and it was very good. Charmian, deepest sympathy. Ar slí na fírinne anois é. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 19 Oct 20 - 10:27 AM If you have mosquitos then dried garlic is your friend. Buy the largest container (granulated garlic is sold by the gallon in the warehouse clubs). Take off the lid but not the sealed safety lid. Instead, take a sharp pencil and pierce that safety lid a dozen or more times to turn it into a huge shaker. Then walk around the perimeter of the house and do a general sprinkling with the garlic. I do a zone about 10 feet in depth around the house. It repels mosquitoes for weeks, and only needs to be repeated about once a month. One of those containers will last for a long time because it isn't a dense layer of granulated garlic, it's simply sending that smell out. (The yard smells like an Italian restaurant after this application). Science geek nailed it as far as the income and grocery resource distribution in the US. Regardless of the source of spices, or if they are fresh or not, if some type of seasonings are available and people can learn to use them then it's working. This week I'm preparing to make a batch of relish, because the cucumbers are still producing. The poblano plants are leaning they're so full of beautiful peppers. Still getting a few okra and the onions and herbs are happy. Fall weather offers a second burst of growth in this part of the world. The batch of beans I made this weekend had garlic (fresh) and peppers (picked minutes before I used them) and bay leaf and oregano from the yard. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Donuel Date: 19 Oct 20 - 10:54 AM Egg nog is hardly ever called refreshing but if you use 1 part egg nog, 3 parts milk and half a teaspoon of Drambuie per 3oz. serving, its pretty good. I'm not a fan of nutmeg. The kids love dipping their graham crackers in it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: leeneia Date: 19 Oct 20 - 01:13 PM Charmion, I'm glad to hear that your siblings came for the funeral. Good for them. The Hollandaise sounds wonderful. I used to make Bernaise (sp?) sauce from the Joy of Cooking. It was a revelation. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: sciencegeek Date: 19 Oct 20 - 01:47 PM didn't know you could use granulated garlic for pest control that way... but we did make a slurry out of it and dosed the cats with it to help with worms and flea control... we had cats that loved it sprinkled on their moist cat food... garlic breath you wouldn't believe lol |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Jos Date: 19 Oct 20 - 03:09 PM I've heard of using a garlic infusion watered onto garden plants to deter slugs and snails, but never could bring myself to 'waste' good garlic. The same goes for beer traps - I'd rather drink the beer. But I shall look for a source of cheap garlic powder or granules as I would have no qualms about sprinkling them all over my vegetable plot. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Steve Shaw Date: 19 Oct 20 - 04:13 PM Well you can buy tubs of alleged "organic pest repellent" here (at considerable expense) that clearly pong of stale garlic. I can attest to the fact that they don't work. Garlic is a beautiful thing. Roast it whole or in cloves (in foil with olive oil), throw unpeeled cloves into your Mediterranean roast potatoes (don't forget the rosemary sprigs), or in your one-tray baked chicken pieces, bash the cloves with your fist to chuck into stews, slice thinly to sauté in olive oil for your pasta dishes, stuff garlic pieces into nooks and crannies in your roast lamb, but always fresh garlic. And only ever mush it up, in very small quantities, for pesto. We buy little jars of garlic cloves in oil and herbs, Marché style, that we eat avidly in quantity. Garlic abuse should be a criminal offence to be dealt with by the nearest constable. No tubes of "garlic paste," no crushing cloves in a press for ragù, no dried garlic. I'm thinking of starting a change.org campaign... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Donuel Date: 19 Oct 20 - 05:20 PM You are a great chef but what about a baker Steve. I think a 3 Tier cake sounds good. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 19 Oct 20 - 05:34 PM Garlic Pepper Tea is a starting point for a sound organic program. It repels a lot of stuff. Garlic Pepper Tea Recipe
To make garlic-pepper tea, liquefy 2 bulbs of garlic and 2 hot peppers (hotter the better) in a blender 1/2 to 2/3 full of water. Strain the solids out and add enough water to the garlic-pepper juice to make 1 gallon of concentrate. Use 1/4 cup of this concentrate per gallon of spray. To make garlic tea, simply omit the pepper and add another bulb of garlic. Add two tablespoons of molasses for more effectiveness. To apply to plants, use a quart spray bottle, pump-up sprayer, trombone sprayer or backpack sprayer. Hose end sprayers are not great choices. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Steve Shaw Date: 19 Oct 20 - 06:52 PM I'm a cook, not a chef. Mrs Steve and I are currently enduring straitened times. My mother is in hospital an hour's drive away and is not going to come out. We have to go every day for many an hour to sit with her. There's just us, no-one else. Hospital rules, and they have coronavirus. To look after us I'm trying to prepare, in advance as much as possible, something healthy and nutritious for each evening when we get back late from the hospital. I can't bear the idea of resorting to junk food at a time like this. Last night we had spaghetti with lemon, prawns, chilli, garlic and rocket. Tomorrow we're having orecchiette con cime di rape, with home-grown tenderstem. Dead quick, dead easy, veggie. Tonight we had pasta with chickpeas (pasta e ceci). I prepared the whole thing last night bar the final adding of the pasta. Forget tomatoes. You don't need them. No chilli either. For two people, a can and a half of chickpeas, rinsed. A smallish onion, chopped. Two cloves of bashed garlic (use your fist). Two sticks of celery, finely chopped. A good teaspoon or two of FRESH rosemary, chopped up. Your finest extra virgin olive oil. About 300ml chicken stock, preferably home-made. Gently sauté the onion, rosemary, garlic and celery in a small glug of olive oil in a medium-size lidded saucepan. After about twenty minutes add the chickpeas and stock. Simmer that lot for about half an hour. Get a slotted spoon and remove about half of the chickpeas into a bowl. Blend the rest of the soup with whatever you use to blend. I swear by my stick blender. Put the reserved chickpeas back into the pan. That's as far as I went with it last night. So tonight I heated up the mix and seasoned it. Go easy on the black pepper but it does need some. When it was boiling, I threw in about 120g of small pasta (ditalini or mini-macaroni would be good, but all I had was a bag of small shell pasta. It was ideal). The mix thickened up a bit too much so I added a bit of boiling water. The pasta took about ten minutes to get to al dente. That lot went into two bowls and was drizzled with my finest EV olive oil and sprinkled with FRESH torn basil leaves. We had it with a bit of warm crusty ciabatta. It was a triumph. It sounds like it shouldn't be, but it was so easy, so delicious and so nutritious. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Steve Shaw Date: 19 Oct 20 - 08:14 PM BY the way, I've got nothing against dried spices. I'm not a fan of middle-eastern cooking or of curries, though the very occasional blowout in a good Indian restaurant is something I do enjoy. I will use dried spices when they're called for. But most of my cooking doesn't call for them. I do use paprika, whether sweet, or hot, or smoked, and nutmeg occasionally. I grate fresh nutmeg and won't use powdered. I'm very wary of it. One grate too much can wreck a dish. I simply can't understand why anyone would use dried herbs (except for oregano). They grow so easily in gardens, containers or pots on the windowsill. Parsley freezes perfectly. Garlic can be bought for next to nothing all year round. Mrrzy castigates me for having this attitude. Mrrzy needs to know that cooking with shortcuts is hardly shortcuts at all. There's nothing so joyous as picking a sprig or two of fresh basil, even if it's from a pot on the windowsill, and sprinkling the torn leaves on top of a pasta dish or a pizza. You can't do proper Italian cookery with dried basil, dried parsley, dried garlic or dried thyme. And in this day and age there is simply no excuse for trying to do so. I live in a remote part of England that totally lacks shops of non-British ethnicity. But our supermarket has all the fresh herbs you could ever wish for. They may not be as good as what you grow yourself. But they're a damn sight better that those abject little jars of dried herbs that bear little resemblance to the fresh article. Nothing sad about me, mate. I've been there with all that processed, dried crap. I've moved on and it's been a revelation. Have a go. Your first task is to bin any dried basil that resides in your house. No self-respecting Italian cook would ever use that, and, though you might think you can, you can't improve on real Italian cooking with your dried herbs! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: JennieG Date: 20 Oct 20 - 12:32 AM Several years ago I bought a pot of fresh basil and had it sitting on the kitchen windowsill, handy to pluck a leaf or two. After a couple of days Himself and I both noticed a very objectionable smell, as though a cat had sprayed around the kitchen - and we realised it was the pot of basil. From that day on, fresh basil has never seen the inside of my kitchen. I don't enjoy the smell of cat wee in my food. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Steve Shaw Date: 20 Oct 20 - 06:43 AM Occasionally a bought pot of basil will start to get blackened leaves after only a few days for some reason. The plants are crowded together in the pot and it isn't unknown for rot to set in at the stem bases. They're not supposed to be long-term plants. You can't beat basil from the garden, but you have to have the right climate. I've never had a cat-wee smell from basil, though I've had it occasionally from potted begonias, and I have horrible mildew on a gerbera just now. Stuff happens. Try again! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Steve Shaw Date: 20 Oct 20 - 06:57 AM By the way, after I've ravaged a potted basil plant for cooking I put the pot outside somewhere sheltered and give it a good feed. I've had a few excellent "second crops" that way this summer, and the basil is actually better, by dint of fresh air and sunshine, then the first picking. I potted up two windowsill pots of parsley in June in larger pots outdoors (after rabbits had wrecked my first sowing) and now I'm swamped with freezer bags full of lovely frozen parsley ready for wintery tribulations. A good tip I got from an Italian chef is to put those tough basil stalks in when you're making tomato sauce. You can fish them out at the end (count them in and count them out) and you get the benefit of lovely basil flavour in the sauce. The leaves can be torn into the sauce at the end or used for something else, pesto for example. Another great addition to cooking tomato sauce is an old Parmesan rind. After about half an hour in the sauce the cook gets the treat of a lovely, chewy bit of softened cheese, and the sauce ends up with added depth of flavour. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Charmion Date: 20 Oct 20 - 08:15 AM I live in a part of the world where fresh herbs are freely available in the garden, but only for about three months of the year. Even in a home greenhouse, tender annuals like basil and chervil don't stand a chance in an Ontario winter. Supermarkets of the better sort stock fresh herbs grown hydroponically in commercial greenhouses and they're the bomb, especially since the alternative is the abject little jar, which, incidentally, costs an alarming sum. I favour dried oregano, too. Also dried thyme, pace Steve. But for rub mixes for steaks, ribs and other barbecued meat, either grilled or cooked "low and slow", there really is no substitute for dehydrated & granulated garlic and onion, and dried thyme goes in that, too. It's a style of cookery in which most fresh herbs are just wasted. The daily combined route march and vigil Steve describes is a wicked trial of strength, both physical and mental. In my admittedly arrogant and unasked-for opinion, the cucina povera meals he describes are ideally suited: tasty, nutritious, creative and above all quick and easy to make *once you know how* (note emphasis) so you're not washing dishes at effing midnight. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Jos Date: 20 Oct 20 - 08:27 AM Washing dishes at midnight? You have to be joking. They'll be just as unpleasant next day so why spoil a lovely evening? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Thompson Date: 20 Oct 20 - 08:37 AM Very sorry to hear of your sad travails, Steve. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Mrrzy Date: 20 Oct 20 - 09:07 AM I didn't castigate, I said How sad. And it is sad that you insist [which by now you are] that I not find joy in my cooking. I *personally* find no joy in attempting to grow live plants, which I have tried, and having them all die, which they all have. I would *never* try to tell people who grow fresh herbs and have fruit arbors and vegetable gardens that there is no joy in their cooking just because *I* am not fulfilled by what they do. I cook with as much farmer's market produce as I can, including the fresh herbs available, and I also cook extensively with dried herbs and spices, and fill myself, and the folks I feed, with joy in so doing. So there. And how condescending of you to say I need to know cooking with shortcuts is hardly shortcuts at all. Do you grow your own black pepper, make your own ricotta for lasagna, harvest your own salt from the ocean? If not maybe you need to learn not to tell others what they need to learn. And if so, bully for you, but I still think you ought not tell others there is no joy in their way of cooking with purchased salt and pepper. And separately from you being on my case, what is wrong with shortcuts? If it makes cooks happy and creates deliciousness, why *judge* how? Ok back to me: fresh herbs in stores, since mine won't grow so I prefer not to grow them myself, are limited to dill, oregano, parsley, mint, and thyme, here. No fresh savory or marjoram or any of the other herbs I like to cook with. I do buy fresh parsley, mint, and dill, but prefer dried thyme and oregano. These bring me joy. If they don't bring *you* joy that does not make me *wrong* -just different. And vivent all the differences. Ok back to recipes: Made a large batch of my now-famous crab and asparagus soup, alas with frozen corn as fresh corn is no longer available at my farmers' markets [but frozen allows me the joy of corn in my soup, ok, laying off Steve Shaw now {grin}] so as to be able to reheat the rest instead of making another single helping. Still delish but with a slightly different flavor and texture. An interesting experiment. And I am now out of red chili flakes. Also I am discovering that hummous is yummy when plopped into all kinds of things, like a spoonful in a bowl of soup. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Steve Shaw Date: 20 Oct 20 - 09:29 AM Easy, tiger. Each to his own. Let's remember that it's a cookery thread. Many a cook gets passionate about their way of doing things. The only time to get cross is when someone who thinks they are helping gets under your feet in the kitchen. Fresh herbs for ever! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 20 Oct 20 - 10:03 AM A few weeks ago I needed fresh basil and couldn't find any so I strew a few seeds in a pot and now I have lots of basil. I've been thinning the plants as I use them. And I will pick and dry much of this crop because they won't survive the first frost. They're in several pots so one will attempt wintering in the sunroom (and will last for a little while before it dwindles), and one will go into the greenhouse where I hope to remember to go water it. I have a lot of oregano here that I picked and dried and use all of the time. When I am making things like focaccia or pizza I go pick fresh and chop and add it. It took me about a week of careful meal selection to draw down the fridge contents since I'd ended up with more than usual after a happy return to more cooking when the weather cooled a couple of weeks ago. I have frozen jars of beans now and a container of rice that I'll use with meals for a few days. I tend to freeze meat in small portions (whole chicken breasts, leg quarters, beef cut into one pound pieces or into single serving size. I thaw a pound if I'm making soup or beans or something like that.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Charmion Date: 20 Oct 20 - 10:29 AM "The only time to get cross is when someone ... gets under your feet in the kitchen." Even when they *are* helping, cross-ness can be hard to resist. My dear SIL kicked the cats' water dish while clearing the table of plates bedewed with her heavenly Hollandaise sauce. Then she was about to step in the spilled water ... I nearly lost it. I still feel small. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Mrrzy Date: 20 Oct 20 - 11:33 AM Each to his own, from Steve Shaw to me? That's rich. I now have both hummus and tahini. Am going to start adding spoonsful of one or the other to, probably, everything savory. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: leeneia Date: 20 Oct 20 - 01:13 PM You've had a bad shock, Charmion. It'll take a while to return to normal, I guess. ========== Now would be a good time for folks to make my recipe for cassoulet, posted on Jan 19th. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 20 Oct 20 - 04:26 PM Comfort food for lunch - a grilled cheese sandwich. I added a slice of ham (so had to put cheese on both sides so it would all stick together). To be a perfect comfort food meal, of course, it would have also included a bowl of Campbell's cream of tomato soup. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Jos Date: 20 Oct 20 - 04:29 PM Leeneia, I really like cassoulet, so I looked for your recipe posted 'on Jan 19th'. After searching for about three hours (I am NOT exaggerating) I found this: Simple cassoulet Put a liner in a large slow cooker (easier cleanup) Set 3-4 chicken thighs in it, flesh side down Drain but don't rinse 1 or 2 cans great northern beans. Add. Chop one half of an onion, add it pour on one can tomatoes. I prefer them without salt slip in some bay leaf cut up carrots into 2-inch pieces. add them cut Polish sausage into 2-inch pieces. put on top Slow cook on low till the chicken is tender and the carrots are how you like them. Remove chicken from bones. Just before dining, add 1 or 1.5 teaspoons dried leaf thyme. This is a good dish for when you forgot you were having company until the morning of the day of the dinner. It was posted on 15 January 2019. Is that the one you meant? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: JennieG Date: 20 Oct 20 - 05:09 PM There will be no thick basil stalks in any tomato sauce for me, Steve. I don't eat tomatoes. It is possible to enjoy pasta with sauce that hasn't been kissed by a tomato, you know. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Jos Date: 20 Oct 20 - 05:34 PM Jennie G - Look at Steve's post on 19 Oct 20 - 06:52 PM. It contains several pasta recipes and includes the words "Forget tomatoes. You don't need them." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Steve Shaw Date: 20 Oct 20 - 06:26 PM No sweat, guys. My dear old mum (91) died at four this afternoon. We were at her side and her passing was incredibly peaceful and not at all untimely. We've had to drive to the hospital for five days in a row, a round trip of a hundred miles every time, and sit in vigil with my mum. We're totally knackered. I've tried to get my ducks in a row every day so that I can cook a really nutritious meal every evening within a few minutes. Tonight we had a take on a traditional Puglian dish, orecchiette con cime di rape. I used gigli pasta instead of orecchiette, I put in about twenty cherry tomatoes (my own) into the sauce and I used my home-grown tenderstem instead of the traditional turnip tops. It has tomatoes, chilli flakes, garlic (sliced, not minced), parsley (fresh), extra virgin olive oil, greens and pasta, with just a bit of cheese grated on top. Incredibly tasty, incredibly healthy. Just what we need right now. Off-topic I know, but we had a very jolly family Zoom this evening, across the world from Cornwall to Yorkshire and New Zealand. My mum would have loved that, but she would have preferred fried egg and chips to the pasta... :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Steve Shaw Date: 20 Oct 20 - 06:35 PM Jennie, I make sauces of all kinds, many of which don't use tomatoes. I make creamy and cheesy sauces to go with chicken and, as Jos said, sauces with beans or chick peas without a tomato in sight. I can do a killer carbonara, toms excluded. I like variety and, though I love tomatoey sauces, I wouldn't dream of boring Mrs Steve with them night after night. The fact is that Italian cooking does use tomatoes a lot, and that's the kind of cooking I go for because it's generally simple and difficult to get wrong. But each to his/her own, eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Steve Shaw Date: 20 Oct 20 - 06:51 PM Maggie, a toasted cheese sandwich is a thing of beauty. I like the option of sticking some ham in it. There are times when a thing like that is what you need and nothing else will do. As Nigel Slater said, a salty bag of chip shop chips, eaten in a butty with terrible white bread and too much butter (so much that your teeth leave little cliffs in the butter when you bite into the sandwich), eaten when you're a bit pissed, is just what you need after a long night in the pub. I think he said that there's joy in licking the salty greasiness off the fingers. Especially if it's someone else's fingers... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: JennieG Date: 21 Oct 20 - 12:12 AM Sorry to hear about your mum, Steve. I have been known to add smoked salmon to cheese sauce - made from scratch, of course. Yummo! (kisses fingertips) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: BobL Date: 21 Oct 20 - 03:24 AM Now chip butties... A colleague of mine used to enjoy a chip-filled baguette with his lunchtime pint, we called it the "Chip Butty French". You could also have a Chip Butty Turkish (in pitta bread) or Mexican (wrapped in a tortilla). Any other variants? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Raggytash Date: 21 Oct 20 - 04:08 AM White (what Steve and I would call plastic) bread, DRIPPING and then chips ............ MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Steve Shaw Date: 21 Oct 20 - 05:47 AM It has to be chip shop chips. And they have to be dripping with vinegar. And very salty. It is not acceptable to include ketchup in a chip butty in m'humble. And the butty is made of a whole slice of thickly-buttered bread, folded in half with the chips inside, never cut with a knife. I deeply regret the modern practice of cooking chips in sunflower oil. It must be beef dripping or lard. I know about these things. My dear old mum had a chippy in Radcliffe for over ten years when I were a lad. Fish and chips were 11d in those days. I used to bash the spuds for her in the chippy back room for 7s 6d a week. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Charmion Date: 21 Oct 20 - 06:59 AM The Canadian equivalent of the chip butty is poutine: hot, hot, hot chip wagon fries (note idiom) topped with fresh cheese curds and brown gravy from a can — the canonical brand is Franco-American from Montreal. I’m probably risking my citizenship in admitting it here (or, indeed, anywhere), but the very idea revolts me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Raggytash Date: 21 Oct 20 - 08:37 AM This week has been set aside for making Christmas cakes. 1 kilo mixed dried fruit 300 grams mixed nuts 200 grams glace cherries 200 grams mixed peel the rind of two lemons and two oranges Liberal slosh of Brandy That will be left overnight then tomorrow 250 grams of butter and 200 grams of brown sugar will be creamed than the addition of 4 eggs, mixed spice, cinnamon, black treacle and marmalade salt and flour which will then be combined with mixed fruit and nuts ready for the oven at 140ish for 3 or 4 hours. Thats the first part!! Two cakes were made yesterday two more tomorrow. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recipes - what are we eating? From: Raggytash Date: 21 Oct 20 - 09:26 AM Now having 4 lemons sans peel I bought some limes and am making a Lime Pickle. Limes and Lemons are being salted as I type. |
