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#Post#: 27613--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
DIR By: acl-ny
Date: October 10, 2021, 2:09 pm
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--- Quote from: CatDancing link ---
>
> [quote author=offtopicalways link=topic=379.msg27600#msg27600
date=1633891785]
> [quote author=acl-ny link=topic=379.msg27593#msg27593
date=1633891263]
> Not funny, but memorable to me. I made a 21 lb turkey for my
first Thanksgiving in my very own apartment. The guests were my
mom, dad, and grandma. 21 lbs for 4 people. But hey, it was on
sale an less expensive than the smaller birds.
>
--- End Quote ---
I ended up with a 26 lb turkey because I was at Costco, and
tha's what was left. We were 4 people, including the 18 month
old. A few years ago, I could only find a 12 lb-er, and was
teased about serving "a chicken."
[/quote]
Poor little turkey! Maybe if you put it in the sun and kept it
watered, it would get bigger --
[/quote]
Ya beat me there! 26 lbs!
Reminded me that one year, recently, we decided last minute to
make Thanksgiving just for us at home. Several of the usual
attendees had passed away by this time, others were busy
elsewhere.
Do you know how hard it is to find a fresh turkey the afternoon
before Thanksgiving?? I lost track of how many stores I went
to, but I finally found a small fresh turkey breast. It cost
way more than that 21 lb turkey I had bought years before.
But it was good. And worth it. Because, you know, I can cook.
#Post#: 27616--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
DIR By: HeddyL2627
Date: October 10, 2021, 2:16 pm
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I have another pressure cooker tale — nothing harmed.
After decades of stovetop pressure canners and cookers, I picked
up a 6 qt instant pot on sale. Mom was visiting, so we decided
to make a dal for its first run. Why bother with that silly
water test?
I was doing all the prep work while spouse and mom sautéed
aromatics in the IP, then I added the pulse, liquid, and slapped
the lid on.
After the initial beeps, it was silent.
You’d think a bunch of peeps who don’t flinch at the occassional
canning jar breaking (looking at spouse who quick depressurized
my pressure canner once), aren’t bothered by the whistling and
chug-a-chug of stovetop PCs or foaming beans/grains, wouldn’t be
unnerved by an electric PC.
But, nope, not the case. Mom and spouse fled, occasionally
peering around the corner into the kitchen where I was making a
tadka :D
Spoiler alert: it didn’t explode ::)
#Post#: 27617--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
DIR By: acl-ny
Date: October 10, 2021, 2:17 pm
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Another cousin story.
Took another turn at hosting Thanksgiving. All went well, of
course. During dessert, my cousin made one of his
funny/obnoxious/funny comments.
So to be equally obnoxious, I tossed a cookie (a real baked
cookie) at him. I thought it would gently sail over his head,
land on the floor and the dog would make it disappear in
seconds.
But no. The cookie hit him right between the eyes, right above
the bridge of his glasses, and, um, drew blood.
I couldn't have hit him there had I tried, and I assure you, I
did not try. It's a good thing they love those cookies. And me.
#Post#: 27619--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
DIR By: acl-ny
Date: October 10, 2021, 2:19 pm
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--- Quote from: Thetis099 link ---
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> My grandad made "wine" and beer. His "wine" was made from
Mustang grapes or plums and had a much higher percentage of
alchohol than traditional wine. I will use a substitute name
for my grandad, but we all called his wine "Old John" as a play
on Old Crow whiskey - because his "wine" was very potent and it
tasted terrible. Nobody but grandad really drank it. Many
unsuspecting folks were lured into trying a glass. It was fun
to watch their faces when they tasted it and who would be polite
enough to try and drink the whole glass before he would let them
off the hook.
>
> The major mishap happened with grandad's brewing efforts. My
grandparents had a two car garage with a big laundry and storage
room. There were lots of shelves full of preserves and pickles
and whatever else grandma had canned from their garden. His
most recent effort at brewing a case of beer had been bottled
and was being stored on a high shelf.
>
> When they came back from church on Sunday, the garage smelled
of beer. Grandma opened the laundry room and found most of the
case of bottled beer had bursted open their caps. Beer had
spewed into every nook and cranny of the laundry room. It was a
terrible mess.
>
> My grandad was in serious trouble with my grandma over the
beer soaked the laundry room. His first few attempts at
cleaning up the beer disaster left the laundry room smelling
like sour stale beer in the Texas summer heat. By the time he
had properly atoned for this transgression he had taken
everything out of the laundry room (including the washer and
dryer) to bleach every surface. He also repainted the laundry
room. Grandad stuck to making only the "Old John" after that.
>
--- End Quote ---
Oh, phew. I was afraid you were going to say that all her
preserves were hit by shrapnel.
#Post#: 27620--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
DIR By: CatDancing
Date: October 10, 2021, 2:20 pm
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--- Quote from: acl-ny link ---
>
> Another cousin story.
>
> Took another turn at hosting Thanksgiving. All went well, of
course. During dessert, my cousin made one of his
funny/obnoxious/funny comments.
>
> So to be equally obnoxious, I tossed a cookie (a real baked
cookie) at him. I thought it would gently sail over his head,
land on the floor and the dog would make it disappear in
seconds.
>
> But no. The cookie hit him right between the eyes, right above
the bridge of his glasses, and, um, drew blood.
>
> I couldn't have hit him there had I tried, and I assure you, I
did not try. It's a good thing they love those cookies. And me.
>
--- End Quote ---
Hah! You were clearly a ninja in an earlier life -- or the
cookie had been one of those throwing stars. One or the other!
#Post#: 27622--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
DIR By: offtopicalways
Date: October 10, 2021, 2:22 pm
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--- Quote from: acl-ny link ---
>
> [quote author=CatDancing link=topic=379.msg27601#msg27601
date=1633892147]
> [quote author=offtopicalways link=topic=379.msg27600#msg27600
date=1633891785]
> [quote author=acl-ny link=topic=379.msg27593#msg27593
date=1633891263]
> Not funny, but memorable to me. I made a 21 lb turkey for my
first Thanksgiving in my very own apartment. The guests were my
mom, dad, and grandma. 21 lbs for 4 people. But hey, it was on
sale an less expensive than the smaller birds.
>
--- End Quote ---
I ended up with a 26 lb turkey because I was at Costco, and
tha's what was left. We were 4 people, including the 18 month
old. A few years ago, I could only find a 12 lb-er, and was
teased about serving "a chicken."
[/quote]
Poor little turkey! Maybe if you put it in the sun and kept it
watered, it would get bigger --
[/quote]
Ya beat me there! 26 lbs!
Reminded me that one year, recently, we decided last minute to
make Thanksgiving just for us at home. Several of the usual
attendees had passed away by this time, others were busy
elsewhere.
Do you know how hard it is to find a fresh turkey the afternoon
before Thanksgiving?? I lost track of how many stores I went
to, but I finally found a small fresh turkey breast. It cost
way more than that 21 lb turkey I had bought years before.
But it was good. And worth it. Because, you know, I can cook.
[/quote]
How hard it is to find..is how I ended up with both the 26 lb
and the 12 lb.
One year, we were planning for just the 4 of us, and in sitcom
like fashion had 5 additonal people join us. I needed to buy
some tempeh to make a vegetarian stuffing, but other than that,
we had more than enough food.
#Post#: 27624--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
DIR By: 2schmoopiesathome
Date: October 10, 2021, 2:26 pm
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So many stories with smoke alarms. So many.
Just last week, I was browning some (vegan) sausage for lasagna.
The cast iron pancake griddle was still over the burners from
breakfast - husband always lets me clean the cast iron and I had
been lazy- so I put the pan on the other side of the stovetop -
the side that I usually use to boil pasta. I had turned on the
other cast iron pan, put in the oil and then the sausage after
cutting it up. I turned around to continue chopping veggies for
roasting and heard the friendliest female robotic voice, "The
smoke alarm in the family room is about to go off. It will be
very loud." I whipped around to see smoke coming from the
sausage - hit the fan just as the alarm went off. My husband
attended to the alarm as I realized that I had set the burner on
high - as if to boil water for pasta. I took the pan off the
heat and continued to stir. It took five minutes for the alarm
to settle down.
The lasagna was really good.
#Post#: 27626--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
DIR By: HeddyL2627
Date: October 10, 2021, 2:28 pm
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--- Quote from: acl-ny link ---
>
> But no. The cookie hit him right between the eyes, right above
the bridge of his glasses, and, um, drew blood.
>
--- End Quote ---
At least it wasn’t a fork? I have photographic evidence
somewhere amongst Nana’s slide collection.
Us cousins were warned against re-enacting :D
#Post#: 27636--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
DIR By: TwoASAPsAgo
Date: October 10, 2021, 2:39 pm
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--- Quote from: acl-ny link ---
>
> Another cousin story.
>
> Took another turn at hosting Thanksgiving. All went well, of
course. During dessert, my cousin made one of his
funny/obnoxious/funny comments.
>
> So to be equally obnoxious, I tossed a cookie (a real baked
cookie) at him. I thought it would gently sail over his head,
land on the floor and the dog would make it disappear in
seconds.
>
> But no. The cookie hit him right between the eyes, right above
the bridge of his glasses, and, um, drew blood.
>
> I couldn't have hit him there had I tried, and I assure you, I
did not try. It's a good thing they love those cookies. And me.
>
--- End Quote ---
Hmm, I question the edibility of any cookie that can leave a
flesh wound.
#Post#: 27638--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
DIR By: Esme Rain
Date: October 10, 2021, 2:46 pm
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--- Quote from: CatDancing link ---
>
> [quote author=animaniactoo link=topic=379.msg27545#msg27545
date=1633886569]
> [quote author=MidwestmikkiJ link=topic=379.msg27541#msg27541
date=1633886375]
> I guess food’s a serious business with me. I can’t think of
anything really funny.
>
--- End Quote ---
It doesn't have to be funny, it can just be memorable! The best
success you've ever had with something, conquering a recipe that
gave you fits, etc. as long as it's memorable.
[/quote]
Years ago, I was working on a cookbook with some friends of
mine, and we thought it would be fun to put in some old recipes.
OLD recipes. I have a number of old cookbooks, and so I
fetched them out, dusted them off, and started in on testing
some of the recipes.
There were the usual issues with bigger eggs and whatnot, but
beyond that I discovered that there were a number of recipes
that could best be described as "healthful and filling." Tasty?
No. They'd be great for a diet cookbook because there would be
NO temptation to get seconds. They weren't bad, mind you --
they just weren't good.
And the WWII recipes. Oh my God! There is a Treet and Lima
Bean casserole that is engraved into my memory, and not in a
good way. I didn't try that one -- I had developed a modicum of
self-protection by that time -- and even now I wonder if anyone
ever did fix that thing. Gaaaah.
[/quote]
Fascinated by this. We think of cookbooks as being for the
creative and tasty. But also had a role as "how can you use
this stuff you can actually get to grow and keep you and your
family alive with it."
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