So...whats for dinner?
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Along the coast here we have indian fried bread but 90 miles inland the same thing is sold as elephant ears.
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Chabba- Oh i know i have seen those too at carnivals isn't it funny the different names for the same kind of bread! Is your weather about the same as ours its been right around 70ish but the humidity seems higher than ive seen it since we moved here about 96% been kind of muggy! Nothing like what everyone else is getting but still uncomfortable at night.
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Today was in the low 70's and very comfortable. right now [1:35 am] it is 57 degrees.
I enjoy reading about foods of different cultures and their foods, how the diets have been affected by environment and technology and the common foods of various cultures. Bread types are particularly interesting to me. Probably because the earliest breads were just ground grain mixed with a liquid. patted flat and baked on a hot rock, it seems every culture has a flat bread even today. Many have become more sophisticated as people moved from hunter-gathering societies to cultivation and technology. Think tortilla--water and grain baked on a rock or grill--to fry bread--water, grain and yeast fried.
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Ahh..another "bread head"..
I'm guessing someone was surprised by their flat breat starting to rise and they decided it was good that way.
I make a couple of loaves of sourdough bread each week using a home made starter. It helps calm Sharon's chemo stomach. For whatever reason, normal yeast bread doesn't help.
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wow Eric.. way to be a good spouse.
I really like working with sourdoughs. i try not to use the oven much in the summer but am looking forward to cooler weather. Experimenting with sourdoughs has been really fun. a loaf that has been 'working' for 3 days sure has a lot of texture and spunk.
and then the daughter says..'mom' can you just make white bread like everyone else eats? - i just buy her a loaf.
we used to buy those biscuits in cans, take a little lid and cut out the hole, the center and fry donutss for ourselves. yum
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Apple - I remember making "donuts" from those Pillsbury biscuits. I also remember when they were dirt cheap! You could do lots of things with that dough.
Eric - I agree with Apple, you are so good to Sharon!
Lacey - enjoy the lake this weekend. The weather is supposed to be good. Could you leave a few things there so you wouldn't have to pack every time? I guess that doesn't help much if there are no laundry facilities.
Tazzy - enjoy your camping weekend!
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I just learned that today is National Fried Chicken Day! Here's my favorite recipe:
1/2 cup flour
1 1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp poultry seasoning
1 slightly beaten egg
2 tbspns water
2 1/2 - 3 pounds of chicken cut into pieces (cutting the breasts in half will make the pieces more uniform and help them cook in the same amount of time)
enough oil to fill your frying pan about 1/2 way
Combine the dry ingredients and put in a paper or plastic baggie
Combine the egg and water.
Dip the chicken in the egg mixture then shake in the flour mixture.
Place in skillet with hot oil and cook over medium heat until nicely browned. Turn the chicken over and repeat. Test with a meat thermometer to be sure it's done.
This method takes a little longer than deep frying. But pan-fried is the traditional method.
And you'll find all kinds of recipes that soak the chicken in buttermilk, add some hot sauce or other spicy seasonings, etc. They are all good. I have done one where I browned the chicken using this method then finished it in the oven - about 15 minutes or so at 375. It was good, too.
My all-time favorite lunch when I was working - a trip to the local grocery store for one fried chicken breast and a nice fruit or veggie salad from the store's salad bar.
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Thanks for the kind words.
In addition to fried chicken day, it's my dad's birthday. He lived to be 91. He would have been 99 today. For what it's worth, he grew up about 20 miles from where Colonel Sanders got his fried chicken start start.
I love fried chicken. I know Sharon likes fried chicken too, but she's trying to keep the weight under control and the steroids aren't helping. I'm afraid it would be a "This is good! Why in Hell did you make it?"
Eric
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I started baking bread in jr high school and except for the six years after I left home for college and until I married I've baked almost weekly. That makes about 50 years of weekly baking. I've probably made 50 or more different types but our favorites were always sourdough, my version of my family potato rolls and croissants. also did several flat breads, including lefse, and tortillas. Always found bread making therapeutic.
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Eric, I did not know sourdough could do that, interesting. thanks for the tip.
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Eric - one fried chicken breast...that can't be too terrible
I am good at quick breads (banana, zucchini, etc) but anything involving "rising" I leave to the experts!
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Moonflwr, if you mean help with the queasy feeling that breaks through the anti nausea meds...it helps..although I think any easy to digest/bland food would help.
It also helped my fiancee. But there, help was a relative term....daily chemo with no anti nausea meds (shudder). Even a 1% improvement was a lot.....
I started baking bread in college. I had half of a duplex so I had a kitchen and minimal cookware. Mickey (my fiancee) brought over the remainder of the jar of yeast that she had been using in a class of hers (biology/premed)...and the rest is history... As time went on, more "stuff", like loaf pans and glass bowls, was added to the kitchen.
Sometimes I feel like she is sitting on my shoulder telling me how best to help Sharon. It's an odd, comforting and sad feeling.
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All those good bread posts got me thinking about dinner. Was supposed see a play tonight, but after spending the morning getting things ready to pick up for the Cape trip at the end of this weekend, then the drive up here (I am always the driver....better eyes....I see things like Bedo's brother does
, I had no energy to drive another half hour over to Winnipesaukee and back...and I'm always the night driver these days. Being astutely observant of my fatigue
(I'd suggested he might want to heat up a Trader Joe's prepared meal for his dinner since I was not hungry but really tired), DH suggested he go to the play by himself. Music to my ears...I needed to get off this activity merry-go-round, and can live a full life w/o seeing this particular play, which he will probably enjoy.
Since I never did have dinner since I wasn't hungry when it was offered, I made a remnant dinner....a creation from leftovers. Sliced a couple of pieces of ciabatta bread and topped them with feta, sliced onions and some chopped walnuts, toasted them in the toaster oven for about 15 minutes, and sprinkled fresh chopped mint over while still warm. Odd but yummy. Also had a cup of the fruit salad I posted yesterday....and a little dessert....some chocolate dipped ginger cookies I'd left up here. Really yum!
Hopefully in the morning I can buy some plants to put in my deck pots. I am so darn far behind in getting any gardening done this year....and it is the longest growing season we've had in years A part of me feels like, just scrap it for this year.....too much going on and not enough hours in the day. But I so love my deck up here when it is colorful.....so I decided I will just really scale down what I do in terms of volume....and hope to get back to "normal" next year when I hopefully have fewer demands (no work transition) and more energy.
Eric,....Ditto on a Apple's comment....and your shoulder "coach" feeling blend is poignant.
I am also more of a "quick bread" baker except for pizza dough, and this wonderful (easy) french bread recipe I got from the Boston Globe years ago. When I post from home, I can include it.....if I remember.
On an errand run this week, I bought a poof, and now can't recall the site that has the directions for making the poof falsie. If anyone remembers that, I'd appreciate the thread.
Thanks! Soon off to bed.....of course the neighborhood "firecrackers" may foil my best laid plans. Nite all.....0 -
lacey - here is the link for the bath scrubbie poof falsie thing:
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Actually I made one of those and it looks pretty good. I haven't tried it on a suit though cause I haven't been swimming maybe ill have try it in the shower before I go out.
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Bread baking..
Is your preference glass or metal pans? Or does it matter? I've used both over the years, but I've never been able to decide which I like better.
For round loaves I always use a double wall cookie pan..one where there is a some space between the top and bottom pieces of metal. If I ever find a decent pizza stone, I'd try that...but I havent found a good one yet.
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eric, have you searched on line. I've had good luck at cooking.com. They carry high quality products at reasonable prices. Just checked them out, they have several styles, 20 choices at what looked like pretty reasonable prices.
When you get a stone be sure you get a peel. It makes getting things a lot easier to get on and off that hot stone. I've used my stone a lot, love it for french bread and round loaves.
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I have a pizza stone from Pampered Chef, bought it many years ago. Amazon.com has some highly reviewed stones that you might like.
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carberry... I've used a number of souvlaki recipes from this website. And souvlaki is so good to make on the barbeque!!
http://www.souvlaki-recipes.com/
Last night: miso soup, spicy salmon handroll with seaweed wrap, and a sushi- and sashmimi sampler platter. It was "date night" at a local, Japanese restaurant #solovesushi
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I am so impressed with all your bread making and recipes! DD stayed over last night, (we're close) so I bought "Homemade" food for her, Bob Evans mac and cheese, garlic mashed potatoes, and then poached salmon from Whole Foods. Also Skinny Cow Ice Cream bars. She said, I'm going to make myself a little dinner and piled her plate high with all plus avacados and cherry tomatoes, then mixed my mint water with ginger ale. My kind of cook.
My mom never really taught me because I was refused to eat meat I feel like I let my daughter down. I hope she will find someone like Eric who likes to cook!
I will post my recipe for refridgerator pickles since I have so many cukes from the garden, when I find it.
Dx 6/17/2011, IDC, 1cm, Stage I, Grade 1, 0/2 nodes, ER+/PR+, HER2-
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Here is a pic of my grand-dog, Nellie, AKA Smelly, AKA no wee wee on the rug AKA Belly
I'm not going out there until it's time to see Magic Mike, it's too hot! Belly and I are watching trash tv.
I am afraid to go back for LFTs, I hope that being off arimidex will make them OK. They have always been good until recently
Oh, well can't post a bigger pic.
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SpecialK, thanks for the directions site! I should be able to manage making that.
So poor DH, calls once the play (that he didn't really enjoy that much....soooo glad I opted out) is over and asks if I'd like him to pick up ice cream....."well sure, thanks!" It took a bit longer than I expected for him to arrive home.....turns out he was stopped by the local police for turning his signal on too late for making a right turn onto our "back route" road home...another reason I am the usual driver! Hope I haven't jinxed myself. He only got a warning, and sweet guy did also make it to the ice cream stand just in the nick of time.
I once had a pizza stone that I discarded because after only a few uses it seemed to absorb the olive oil from the pizza crust and developed a stale olive oil smell.What did
I do wrong? I would love to have one again, but obviously need to know how to take better care of it.
My quick french bread loaves crisp up wonderfully in my black double loaf pan. It's a pain to store, but great to use. I've had it for many many years.
Am getting the urge to make some bread....maybe on the first cool day after we return from the Cape....
....and yes, all we do is seriously relax there....coffee/tea and read in the AM on the porch overlooking the tip of the Cape, then walk from the apt to the shore and read while assuming a beached whale pose for several hours, then watch other people's kids frolicking in the pool for while before getting ready for dinner out or a play in P-town Center or Truro or Wellfleet....so many good restaurants there....usually walk off dinner in the AM (hope my energy kicks in:)... the weather looks conducive to all of the aforementioned....plus golf for DH at a rough course in Truro with most gorgeous views. We love that there is not a bit of maintenance that needs to be done there by us! That spells relaxation. Also we are originally ocean people, so this is our yearly ocean fix....for the past 32 years.
Here at the lake it is overcast today and getting cooler by the minute....not what was in the forecast, but relief from the heat is okay too.
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The fried chicken recipe sounds good Michelle i do add franks hot sauce to mine i like the 'kick' to it.
All the bread and pizza talk is making me hungry. I have made some bread and pizza from scratch but found i would rather buy the pizza dough and the bread freshly baked from a bakery.
So remember how excited i was when i passed my test? Well i got a letter in the mail yesterday from DMV saying my license is NOT valid and i need to return it to the DMV no explaination nothing. Im so upset and can not figure out what could be the reason for it. They are closed today so cant call until Monday to find out. So pissed! Back in 1987 i got a DUI while riding my bicycle i had got in a fight with my then husband and decided to go to a bar down the street thinking i will be ok because im on my bike. When i walked out of the bar i saw the cop and thought "Haha" you cant get me but sure enough he red lighted me he said have you been drinking? I grined and said yep still thinking he cant do anything about it, wrong he handcuffed me and took me to jail lol! I paid my fines got my license reinstated. Years later they said i had fines to pay did not have any record of me paying them. All these years later i have got different DL in many states with no problems even i oregon after that. so. 2 years ago they took over $800,00 out of my husbands taxes he was so mad because we werent even together then and they made him responible he even had to pay an extra hundred and something by check to pay everything off. When i went to the DMV last week i had to pay an extra $75.00 for a re-instatement fee which i asked them why and she couldnt give me a good answer i told her since my Dui back in 1987 i have had a license in Oregon with no problem so now this is happening DH is so made and said if they say we owe them more he will get a lawyer. I haven't even had so much as a parking ticket no accidents nothing since way back then. What the hell could it be? Anyways i needed to vent and if anyone knows what the problem could be i could sure use some kind of idea. Plus i didnt think they could go back that far. Hmmmm!
Kind of funny though when i had to go to court on this i told the judge, Your honor i was not drinking and driving he said, I dont care if you were on a horse we would call it a huai or if you were on a bike we call it a buai of course everyone in the court room laughed i was so imbarrassed. Needless to say i have never rode a bike or horse or car drunk again! LOL!
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Oh forgot to say Laurie where are you? Havnt heard from you in awhile hope you are ok, maybe camping?
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Hey Deb, it wasn't very long ago you passed. Perhaps this letter precedes your passing the test? Kinda crossed in the mail? Just thinking.
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Hey, I just found out we are going out for supper. My DH won a gift certificate at work, so we can go to a more expensive one or go to the one in town and I can get shrimp or crab. I want crab! It so expensive it may use the whole fifty bucks, LOL but hey, you gotta eat! LOL. My taste buds are at pretty much the normal range so I will enjoy it.
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Hey Moonflower - Enjoy the crab. And GCs are the bestest!! Too hot to cook here. My backporch said 102 a while ago but showers popping up. Might make a pizza. Have the prepackaged MaMa Mia's crust. That's as close to homemade as I get and enough time for the oven on though I must admit for a regular electric oven (8 years old) this one is pretty well insulated.
Do most local pizza places sell dough? Have a Mr. Jim's, Pizza Pro and a local shop. On another note, does anyone still use a bread machine? I have one I used to use often. Motor very ragged last time I used it. I have made kneaded bread but not in years. Really kinda short to do it effectively; can't get the arm strength down on it and that was b4 BC. Bought a really nice bread board last year and it's just collecting dust on the counter with other junk piled on top. I guess I need to haunt some junk, Goodwill shops for one. Need to try the ritzy side of Ft. Worth see who has cleaned out during the summer.
Oh, well, back to paperwork. Never ending.
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Hey, Debbie, I agree with Moonflwr, it's probably an invalid letter. Don't let it upset your weekend
Enjoy your crab, Moonflwr, it's not often we get it!!
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Thank-you both Bedo and moonflwr- But They didnt even know i was in Oregon because i had a ky license that was still good untill the 11th of this month. So puzzled though!! For crimeaney sakes wish dmv would get there S..t together!
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Chrissy (DD) has been kneading the sourdough. She uses a 1 foot tall step stool to get up high enough to lock her elbows and use her abs & upper body weight instead of her arms.
The driver license...here they check for problems even before they issue a license.
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