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Amy - 2011-08-01 14:08:41
I'm glad that your weekend went well, and I hope that you're feeling less ouchie. Congratulations on the eggplant parm. It's amazing how a change in equipment can garner such dramatically different results.
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Poolie - 2011-08-01 14:44:25
Like I said yesterday...my birthday is in February. Just sayin'
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Terri T - 2011-08-01 17:47:25
I envy you your varied diet and your cooking skills. My husband is a meat and potatoes kind of guy....our new neighbor is Korean and has gifted us with 3 different meat dishes....husband tried the beef (loved it) and one ...yes O.N.E. won ton and thinks he has ventured off his usual path. Of course, that means that I get to eat all the rest by myself for 2 or 3 meals....
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dichroic - 2011-08-01 18:33:02
For baking you need to be precise. For cooking, at least the kind of things I like to cook, it's a lot more freeform! Glad the jamabalaya worked out. (I was sort of waiting for cooler weather to start working on goulash, but given that I've been wearing jackets every day, I'm not sure why.)
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dichroic - 2011-08-01 18:36:48
Rice the way I learned it from my college boyfriend: touch the bottom of the pot with your finger. Put in rice up to the first knuckle, then add water up to the second knuckle (with the rice still in there). Simmer until the water is all absorbed (15-20 min. is a good estimate but it varies a lot with the type or rice - risotto rice takes waaaay longer).
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Pam L - 2011-08-01 19:30:50
There's nothing worse when cooking than tossing the eggplant in the pan only to find out it's not hot enough and that batch, at least, will be oily and soggy. The first time I ever had eggplant parm was went I went off to art school in Philly and a fellow student from South Jersey made a batch in her dorm room in the little kitchenette that each room had. I was 18 and I was hooked. Yes, I had lived a sheltered life Upstate. And it smelled MUCH better than the boiling organ meat MY roommate from the Main Line liked to make and the odor lasted for days- Sweetbreads in a dorm room, really?!?!
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Stephanie - 2011-08-01 22:27:35
Rebecca recently asked for my sauce recipe, and I really scratched my head over that request. It's not easy to write up a recipe when you don't follow one.
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