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Anna - 2011-06-12 11:16:27
So THAT's what a Dutch oven is! I am amazed, but pleased to finally know - we are indeed two nations divided by a common language. Le Creuset is fab - I have an orange one like the pic which has suffered at least 35 years of being used and abused without damage and now a smaller dark red one. A few months ago I cremated a small Le Creuset sauecpanful of plums, soaked it in bicarb repeatedly and although there are a few remaining black stains, it's good to go. Also, I'm with you on the unacknowledged homoeroticism of so many male activities. Have you seen rugby? It's like American football without all the helmets etc and is little more than an excuse for guys to stick their heads between each others naked legs. Sigh xx
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Jim - 2011-06-12 11:23:30
Wow, that is a great buy on that Dutch oven! I could use one of those. (My Dutch oven is plain cast iron, no ceramic coating.) -- In my family, my wife insists on driving on out-of-town trips. So if we run up to Providence for a play, she drives. Even if we just go ten miles to her mother's house, she wants to drive. (Actually, this is fine with me -- it means I can have a second beer or glass of wine because I'm not driving.) The only exception is when we have to go over significant bridges (like the bridges over the bay to Newport or I84 across the Hudson at Newburgh, etc.) -- she really hates driving across them, so I get to be behind the wheel then. After more than half a century of driving, I've mellowed out to the point where I just relax and enjoy being chauffeured.
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terri t - 2011-06-12 11:47:43
My sister "inheritied" the Le Creuset pot set when our mother died. She loves it and would never give it up. As a good cook...and you are...you certainly have earned the right to have the proper pots and pans.... I never thought about the male athletes that way but did think it was odd to stick a head near a butt so much....now I know the real meaning of it all. LOL
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Bozoette Mary - 2011-06-12 11:56:56
I'm with you on the Kitchen Aid - I'd love to have one but even the cheapest is way more than I'm willing to pay!
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dichroic - 2011-06-12 14:43:52
My similar pan is on the stove right now, with the chicken soup I made today cooling in it. Actually I feel a tiny bit guilty about that, because this is *not* my ancestral Jewish Chicken Soup recipe, which involves starting with a whole raw chicken, but one made from the carcass of a small roasted chicken. Only a tiny bit, though, because all my foremothers would have been entirely in favor of getting the last but of nourishment out of every bit of food.) I bought it when I moved back here, because it's one of the few things that is the same price or less in Europe, and because I don't have an all-purpose stock pot I use it for everything. I love mine. If you want a jambalaya recipe, I have not almost (but not quite) perfected.
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Poolie - 2011-06-12 21:29:28
I am eating freeze-dried stuff when I go camping in a few weeks and I am thrilled! My idea of gourmet is grilled cheese with tomatoes on the side.
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Stephanie - 2011-06-15 10:51:50
Oh how I yearn for a Kitchen Aid - even though I don't bake and would never use it! It's a good thing they're too expensive for me to even THINK about buying one!
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