I teach adjustment to blindness classes to seniors and one of them gave this
suggestion. Take a plate and sprinkle your seasonings on it. Then take your
clean hands and spread and mix the seasonings. Then dip both sides of your meat
in this mixture. In class we use a paper plate. Then you just throw it away. A
thicker paper plate works best. This method works great!
Jan
-----Original Message-----
From: blindcooks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blindcooks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] ;
On Behalf Of David Mehler
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2017 10:55 PM
To: blindcooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blindcooks] Re: a new cook
Hello,
I'm 40, was born premature.
My experience at cooking, I'm very gunshy about it.
One thing I can ask right off the bat, how does everyone handle spreading
seasonings/spices? What I mean if you want to season some meat to go in a
crockpot or season a hamburger prior to grilling it.
I've been told to put some in my hand then do it, but that doesn't work, I
either get globs in one area and none in the other or it never hits the target
at all.
Thanks.
Dave.
On 6/8/17, Penny Golden <pengold2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi. I learned a trick that I think is invaluable. I never thought of
it, but read it in a book. If you're needing to pour something, maybe
dry ingredients, of course, we know it can be done over the sink. But
you can also work inside of a jelly-roll pan, which is, perhaps, a 10
inch by 15 inch pan with a little one-inch side around it. Why, when
something spills, it's in the pan, not running around my counter. I
thought that was a brilliant little trick.
I'll talk food in a moment or in a few days.
Dani already knows that what i construe to be a meal is something to
raise one's eyebrows.
(Smiles.)
Penny
On 6/8/2017 10:21 PM, Jonathan Rawlings wrote:
Hi Dave, and welcome to the list. Would you mind telling us more
about yourself, especially as it relates to your vision loss and also
to the kitchen? I'd like to know your age if you're willing to share
that information, how long you've been without your sight, and how it
was lost. Again, if you're willing. I will turn 41 in a couple
months, and I lost most of my sight at 21 months when a rare virus
infected my nervous system and cut off the oxygen supply to the
visual cortex in the brain, killing most of the nerves. My eyes work
as they should, but the signal isn't properly received in the brain.
Nothing can be done to correct the problem. I do not need a cane most
of the time, and I don't have a dog either. I can't drive a car,
recognize people visually, or read standard print. Yet somehow, I
managed to make it through an intense culinary program 12 years ago.
I am married for 5 and a half years, with a little girl that turned
three last month, and a new arrival that's about 10 weeks now. I'm a
stay-at-home Dad while my wife runs a small business providing music
therapy for those with special needs, mostly children. So...there's
just a bit about me.
Jon
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Mehler"
<dave.mehler@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <blindcooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2017 6:28 PM
Subject: [blindcooks] a new cook
Hello,
I'm a new member to this list. I'm blind. I'm a new cook, actually I
have tried to learn several times in my life to no avail. I am
trying again.
I hope to learn much from this list.
Thanks.
Dave.
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Penny (Golden)
pengold2@xxxxxxxxx
