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Post by Arrianna on May 22, 2006 17:54:23 GMT -5
*re-posted from IFO (May 18th)*
I'm making fried rice for dinner tonight.
Shall I start by mentioning that the pepper container looks just like my Madras curry pd container?
Can we say peppered rice? ;D
Anyone else want to share?
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Post by mickster on May 27, 2006 12:18:54 GMT -5
LOLOLOL, that is too funny, Arrianna LOL!
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Post by herringchoker on May 27, 2006 18:43:43 GMT -5
Arrianna has already heard this one, but I had a cooking *whoops* that turned out great. I was trying a new pasta sauce recipe, and misread the ingredients list before I went to the grocery store. I ended up with 28 oz. of diced tomato when I needed 38 oz. (and I'm an accountant...math is supposed to be my strong suit, lol!) I didn't realize my mistake until the sauce was simmering away on the stove. I dashed off to the convenience store, which was only about 100 yards away, and purchased a 12 oz. can of tomato paste to make up the volume differental. We loved the outcome, because it was thick and hearty - I've made it that way ever since. Hubby to this day calls it "mistake pasta sauce".
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Post by kurimoto on Jun 1, 2006 20:53:21 GMT -5
Arrianna has heard this one, but here it is. Well, one day I was making Chinese food and I needed to thicken a sauce. Well I didn't dissolve the cornstarch in cold water and add it to the sauce. I just added the cornstarch directly. I don't know what I was thinking. I've watched Martin Yan and Alton Brown enough to know better. Well, I got lumps of course, and I had to strain the sauce and start again. Not an earth-shattering mistake, but a mistake nonetheless.
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Post by Arrianna on Jun 1, 2006 20:54:50 GMT -5
LOLOLOL, that is too funny, Arrianna LOL! Glad you're amused. Ask me some time about the hot oil incident. BTW Nice to see you Kurimoto.  |
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Post by allezcuisine on Jun 2, 2006 6:37:04 GMT -5
LOLOLOL, that is too funny, Arrianna LOL! Glad you're amused. Ask me some time about the hot oil incident. BTW Nice to see you Kurimoto. What is the oil incident? Yes, it is good to see you, Kurimoto. |
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Post by Arrianna on Jun 2, 2006 10:20:51 GMT -5
Well, lets start by asking if you know what happens if hot oil and cold rancid oil mix?
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Post by allezcuisine on Jun 2, 2006 10:38:09 GMT -5
They go "POP!"? |
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Post by Arrianna on Jun 2, 2006 13:37:02 GMT -5
They go "POP!"? Exactly. Now picture this. I'm really tired and just finished frying in an inch or so of oil in a cast iron pan. I'm cleaing up and look over to see the oil pot (where we drain oils and meats etc.) and my mind goes "oil goes in the pot". So I move the pot onto the stove (less reach) and pour the hot oil in. ..... instant expansion. Hot oil boiled over across my stove, down into the drip pan, and over the side onto the floor. The room filled with the smell of cooked rancid grease... and I just stared (after moving out of the way of course). Once the expansion stopped I carefully put the lid on the pot, very loosely. Then once it stopped boiling I moved it off the stove with some extreamly thick pot holders. Fortunately the burners were off.It took about 2 hours to clean up the mess. I'm just glad that none of the kids were present. I have never poured hot oil in anything since. |
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Post by allezcuisine on Jun 2, 2006 14:16:03 GMT -5
Wow, I'm glad you're okay!
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Post by mickster on Jun 2, 2006 17:51:28 GMT -5
OHMYGOSH Arrianna, you were fortunate not to have gotten burned or worse. Thank goodness. The first winter I was here, I was making a big, BIG pot of chili on the stove. I was removing it from the stove and dropped the whole pot on the floor, the kitchen was carpeted back then. What a mess. I ended up having to remove the carpet, using a steam iron.
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Post by Arrianna on Jun 2, 2006 19:30:57 GMT -5
OHMYGOSH Arrianna, you were fortunate not to have gotten burned or worse. Thank goodness. Tell me about it. That's why I'm so glad the kids weren't around and the burners were off. At best we would have been heading to the emergency room. At worst I probably would have burned the house down. Now when you say you had to "remove the carpet, using a steam iron" what do you mean? |
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Post by mickster on Jun 3, 2006 9:33:07 GMT -5
I bought this house from a woman who was widowed and had three grown sons but she lived alone. Her sons always made improvements on the house for her, what they did, they did well. The put carpeting in the kitchen and glued it to the floor. The only way to get the carpet off was to use steam. I'm not in favor of carpeting in the kitchen, for obvious reasons, so I got energetic over the holidays and decided to rip the carpet out, only, it was stuck! So, to save the expense of someone coming out and removing it I decided to do it myself and used my steam iron, you read right, a regular little steam iron. It only took all day of three days to do it. Then I tiled the floor. LOL
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Post by Arrianna on Jun 3, 2006 16:21:40 GMT -5
Wow! I can't image spending 3 days doing that.
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Post by mickster on Jun 3, 2006 20:03:29 GMT -5
It wasn't the most fun I've ever had, LOL.
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