Jon,
I am glad you and Emily and the girls had a better Christmas this year. We
just had a quiet Christmas here. I had to work both days so nothing special.
I made the prime rib for new years eve dinner. I salted it and then before
cooking I added some garlic pepper and I roasted it at 500 for 30 minutes
then dropped it to 325 for about an hour and 19 minutes. I roasted potatoes
right in the pan with it. It turned out okay for a first time.
Mike
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[mailto:blindcooks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jonathan Rawlings
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2017 10:06 AM
To: blindcooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blindcooks] Re: Did everyone survive the Christmas holiday?
Jacob: I got to smell a bottle of white truffle oil back in my school days,
and never wanted anything to do with the stuff ever again. You're right, it
is an oil meant for finishing a salad or a dressing, or to be applied with a
light hand to protein dishes served hot. This Christmas, difficult as it
was, is still far ahead of last year in that we didn't come home to find our
dryer on the front porch with a note from the fire department stating the
thing nearly burned our house down. We're not having to deal with the
strong smell of smoke in the house while Emily is pregnent, and dealing with
being displaced from our house for ten days while the problem is being dealt
with. And, we're not coming down with bronchitis like we were this time
last year. The entire first quarter of our year sucked for us, beginning on
Christmas Day, and ending the day the youngest was born.
Jon
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From: Jacob Kruger <mailto:jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: blindcooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:blindcooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2017 4:03 AM
Subject: [blindcooks] Re: Did everyone survive the Christmas holiday?
Hi there, John, et al
Christmas/festive season is always going to be a somewhat eventful time, for
some of us anyway, and, besides the ilnesses, etc., hope you all enjoyed at
least some of it, and, hope you can look forward to a good new year, etc.
On my side, food didn't have too much to do with it, besides my sister,
again, giving me a slightly abnormal form of ingredient to play around with
for a while.
She got me both white and black truffle oil, and, while need to do a bit
more research, it seems like you primarily use these as a form of salad
dressing, or finishing off ingredient for warm dishes, since it seems like
you don't really want to try any form of actual cooking with these oils,
but, let's see - will ask for suggestions in another mail or two.
Anyway, hope everyone got at least one gift they find interesting/rewarding,
and, again, all the best for everyone!
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
"Resistance is futile, but, acceptance is versatile..."
On 2017/12/28 18:49, Jonathan Rawlings wrote:
Hi fellow list members:
I don't know about any of you, but now that Christmas has come and
gone, I feel like I have ssurvived something big and gone on to tell about
it. The baby has had cold simptoms off and on for most of the past several
weeks, and then, the Tuesday before Christmas, the stomach flu ravaged our
family as well. It hit the three year old first and hardest the Tuesday
prior to Christmas Day. It attacked her in the evening and kept us all up
until past 3 in the morning. A couple days later, Emily got it as well.
This was on top of the three year old fighting off a cold at the same time.
Fortunately, everyone pretty much seems to be over it all, and somehow, I
made it through it all with no illness whatsoever. I'm not sure how I
managed that, but I'm glad I have so far.
Christmas for us was a good one this year, despite at least one person in
the family fighting some sort of illness. Our finances were very tight for
the holiday season this year, so it was a modest Christmas for our family.
Still, Heather made out pretty well, getting her very own doll house we
found on sale earlier this year, and complete with furnishings and little
household items. I am somewhat dismayed that my big gift this year was
something I have never had an interest in and don't want, that being an air
fryer. I want nothing more than to return the thing and get something I
want, but my Mom has to find out where she put the receipt. If that fails,
I may sell it on E-Bay or something. I have no problem with someone else
using one and enjoying it, but I have a major issue with the way this thing
is being labeled and marketed. There is no exact substitute for the process
of shallow or deep frying foods. Perhaps you may get similar results with a
couple of items, but the fact is that hot air cannot produce the same
results as hot oil when cooking food. It is scientifically impossible. So,
I'm anxious to be rid of mine. The other big gift I got this year was a
small amount of the King Arthur flour sourdough starter. I have been giving
a starter serious thought for some time, but haven't got around to it until
Emily ordered it for me. I'll give it my best, and hopefully, this time, I
can get a really good starter going. So I'm curious...how did the rest of
you make out this year? Are there gifts you were given that you didn't
want, or things you wanted but didn't get? I'm very interested in getting a
Pazel maker as well as a Belgin waffle makeer for myself if I can, but I'll
have to wait and see how things go with getting this air fryer off my hands.
We did not make anything special for Christmas this year, but we were given
a honey baked ham by a good friend of mine, which we enjoyed a couple days
ago with some cheesy scalloped potatoes that the baby couldn't get enough
of.
Jon
