Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tahitian pearl Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_=f0=9f=8e=b6_Get_in_That_Kitchen_and_Rattle_Those_Pot?= =?UTF-8?Q?_and_Pans_=f0=9f=8e=b6_2/19/2025?= Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:52:17 -0600 Organization: Pieces o eight Lines: 71 Message-ID: References: <177f6c2c8490e0fedfa65ad0e06a4663@www.novabbs.com> <97fcebb2f9ac192df64d8e51f8800419@www.novabbs.com> <67b7dbe5$6$2755$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net VGac5ypCTJ/MxrCOlJZbwQOojbHMml8YQKbPezf/uRpoPr3Azt Cancel-Lock: sha1:l4XgH4y3zbKFTkT6gxjlSgdxit0= sha256:V4GFvfCadHAdZJq9AauPgjVG32RqEgTZBBIWYNRZ/zI= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 In-Reply-To: Bruce wrote: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:53:05 -0600, Hank Rogers > wrote: > >> ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote: >>> On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 3:55:11 +0000, songbird wrote: >>> >>>> ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote: >>>> >>>>> What will be gracing your table for dinner tonight? >>>> >>>>   chili from the freezer. >>>> >>> That's always a good choice on cold winter days. >>> Beef stew or some sort of soup. >>>> >>>> >>>>> It's cold and we have snow, and we've reached our predicted >>>>> high of 27°F and my wind chimes tell me it's been breezy all >>>>> day.  Thank goodness for a well stocked upright freezer. >>>> >>>>   yes.  :) >>>> >>>>   it was a rotten time to have the furnace need replacing >>>> but we'd never use in the summer to know. >>>> >>>> >>> UGH!  Been there and done that and like you said, never >>> know it needs replacing in the summer months as it's not >>> used in warm weather. >>>> >>>> >>>>   it turned out ok in the end and we got through it and >>>> then the other night we lost water pressure so it took us >>>> a few days to get that dealt with - luckily it was not as >>>> bad as it could have been and we're back to somewhat normal >>>> now (or as normal as it gets :) )... >>>> >>>> >>> I've not lost water pressure but have had water heaters go >>> on permanent vacation necessitating a replacement. >>>> >>>> >>>>> A baked potato >>>>> will accompany this meal along with a bag of frozen broccoli >>>>> cooked until tender crisp.  That will be topped with melted >>>>> cheese. >>>> >>>>   tender crisp?  intesting choice of words.  not sure i >>>> would be able to apply that to frozen broc. >>>> >>>> >>>>   songbird >>>> >>>> >>> Yes, it's cooked but not cooked to mush as many people do >>> when cooking broccoli.  It's not raw, but a bit of resistance >>> when picked up with a fork.  It has a bit of chew and not >>> the consistency of baby food. >> >> Also known as "al dente" by fashionable wops, dagos, and New Yorkers. > > And known as "raw" by toothless rednecks? > When I think of overcooked watery spaghetti I think of cafeteria fare, and I attribute it to poverty. -- No heebies, creepies or hallucinogenics It's the height of paranoia Male, white, mid-to-late thirties