[blindcooks] Re: Did everyone survive the Christmas holiday?
- From: "Mike and Jenna" <schwaltze@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <blindcooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2018 11:48:47 -0500
Rob,
I have to agree with you. I don't even like cooking with mushrooms. I can do
it when it comes to cooking for others who like them but they grose me out.
I had to work on Christmas booth days so I slept for new years. I would
also be interested in how you do your sour crout.
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Sent: Friday, December 29, 2017 10:13 AM
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Subject: [blindcooks] Re: Did everyone survive the Christmas holiday?
I don't understand what's so special about those mushrooms that would cause
people to spend outrageous amounts of money for them. It's just a fungus
that grows under a tree root. Big hairy deal. It's really gross when you
think about it actually, mushrooms. They grow in the dark, in slimy, dirty
places. When you really think about it, you wonder why the hell you want to
botehr eating them.
My Christmas was boring, I slept all the way through it. I'd just come off
two long weeks of work and we were extremely busy, meaning I was exhaustaed
and didn't want to do anything for the two days I had off.
This weekend though, I'm going to put up sauerkraut in jars. You may recall
a couple of months ago that I got a big old cabbage and, at the end of
September I shredded it up and put it in a bucket with brine. Being that
it's colder out, the cabbage only now became sauerkraut. Next time, i'm
going ot see if I can get cabbage at the end of August.
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From: "Jonathan Rawlings" <twosocks76@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blindcooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 07:06:25 -0800
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
To: 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
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