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       #Post#: 27697--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
       By: Aardtacha Date: October 10, 2021, 6:28 pm
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       [quote author=TwoASAPsAgo link=topic=379.msg27651#msg27651
       date=1633896615]
       I love turkey leftovers.  When I was a kid, I would put a slice
       in the toaster oven with diced mushrooms and shredded cheese on
       top.  Sooo yummy.
       [/quote]
       I must be tired.  For some reason I read that as "in the toaster
       with..." and wondered why you hadn't burned down the house.
       #Post#: 27701--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
       By: Datdamwuf Date: October 10, 2021, 6:58 pm
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       [quote author=animaniactoo link=topic=379.msg27611#msg27611
       date=1633892880]
       [quote author=MinArlington link=topic=379.msg27607#msg27607
       date=1633892506]
       When I was a teenager, probably 15, my Mom left for a week to
       visit relatives, leaving me home with my Dad. He had a very
       limited diet, so she left me with instructions to cook him a
       hamburger patty each night, with a chopped shallot in it. And
       fried potatoes. Easy enough.
       I should also add that my mother and I were not getting along at
       this time in our lives.
       She comes home and immediately goes down to the basement and
       comes back up hopping mad. "I gave you ONE job to do while I was
       gone and you couldn't even do that!" I was floored because every
       night I had gone downstairs, grabbed a shallot (picked from our
       garden) and cooked his burger with chopped shallot,  just as
       instructed. So I told her that. "I just looked and there are no
       shallots missing! You probably can't even show me the bag
       they're in!"
       So downstairs we go, and I take her to the bag and show her that
       yes in fact there are fewer than when she left, because I did
       what I was told. I look at Mom and her eyes are closed. She
       finally says "... those are tulips."
       Mom: are tulips poisonous? Me: clearly not.
       We never did tell Dad.
       [/quote]
       Edible flowers are a thing! You were just ahead of your time.
       That's the story and you're sticking with it, right? 😂
       [/quote]
       Reminds me of dinner out w/my Dad. Often the restaurants had
       flowers on the table and I'd discretely pluck a few petals to
       add to a dish. As I was doing it at one place the waiter tapped
       my hand and said the dye on the flower I grabbed was a "wee bit"
       poisonous. His exact words...I stopped eating carnations unless
       I new they were natural , not a cooking accident but a warning!
       #Post#: 27702--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
       By: ineedamoniker Date: October 10, 2021, 7:10 pm
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       One of my flatmates in my first year at university was one of
       those people who are capable. You know the type, they can do
       just about anything they set their mind to, all the while
       looking attractive and never breaking into a sweat. So it was
       with Barbara. She was a tall, good-looking blonde, she played
       field hockey for the university team in our first term, she
       sailed through academic assignments, and always looked as though
       she'd just stepped out of a magazine. Not only that, but she was
       also extremely nice and we couldn't even hate her.
       And then we discovered that she couldn't cook. Not only that,
       she couldn't even boil an egg. Really, boil.egg.could.not. We
       found that out when she tried. One Saturday afternoon we were
       all in the flat, mostly in our own rooms, when there was a loud
       bang coming from the direction of the kitchen. It was like the
       sound of a cannon. We all raced to see what was going on and
       found Barbara staring with some horror at the ceiling. Someone
       had told her to put an egg or two into a small pan with some
       water and once the water was boiling to leave it for as long as
       it took. Only Barbara didn't know she should turn the heat down
       a bit nor did she know how long it took. So she left the kitchen
       while the mysterious cooking process was underway, went back to
       her room, and ... the water boiled dry, the pan got red hot and
       the eggs exploded. Unless you've seen the devastation that two
       eggs can cause you won't understand how high and how far pieces
       of egg can travel. It was lucky that there was a ceiling between
       us and the next flat or those guys would have been assaulted by
       missile yolks from underneath. As it was, we had egg everywhere,
       all over the walls, floor and ceiling - and worse, the pieces of
       egg were embedded in the plasterwork like ninja stars. That was
       over fifty years ago. I've never boiled an egg since then
       without taking careful note of the height of the ceiling.
       #Post#: 27738--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
       By: CaviaPorcellus Date: October 10, 2021, 10:10 pm
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       I am, of course, way past fashionably late, but:
       Growing up, one of my favorite things mom made was her bunny
       cake. It was a plain vanilla cake, which started life as two 9"
       rounds. One of the rounds was then cut up into "ears" and
       "bowtie" for the bunny. Decorating it was so much fun! Vanilla
       frosting and coconut for the fur, with some of the coconut dyed
       pink for the ears, and candy to make eyes, nose, mouth, and
       whiskers. LOVED it!
       And then I grew up and went off to college. And, feeling
       homesick one day, made a bunny cake, exactly as mom and I had
       made it so many times before.
       I finished decorating and stood back to admire my
       handiwork...right as my roommate's boyfriend walked into the
       room and said
       "What the f&&&, Cavia, why does that rabbit have a ball gag in
       its mouth?"
       I've never been able to look at bunny cakes the same way ever
       again.
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