Saturday, March 2, 2019

Digest for rec.food.cooking@googlegroups.com - 25 updates in 11 topics

Gary <g.majors@att.net>: Mar 02 11:13AM -0500

A Moose in Love wrote:
 
> my flat screen tv; the colours all of a sudden they started to run together. i thought about getting a repairman, and went all over the www for advice. i've been told that it's better to purchase a new one. so next week it's off to bestbuy. this tv lasted only 8 years. it's not the cable or the box it's the tv.
 
Well don't buy that brand again. Here's one opinion of a new TV
for you.
 
I bought an "Element" brand tv from Target over 12 years ago. It
was a sale one that I had never heard of but it turned out to be
an excellent brand. After 12 years it still works perfectly. The
key factor here is how many hours has it run and this tv has
logged way more hours than the average tv.
 
Only time I ever turn it off is when I go to work. When I'm not
working, it stays on 24/7. I don't watch it that darn much but I
just leave it on. The tv is just my little bedroom buddy. heheh
Point here is that hour wise this is definitely the "Energizer"
TV. It keeps on going and going.
 
If this one ever stops working, I'll buy another Element. They
have proven their quality to me and I highly recommend the brand.
A Moose in Love <parkstreetbooboo@gmail.com>: Mar 02 08:26AM -0800

On Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 11:13:11 AM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
> TV. It keeps on going and going.
 
> If this one ever stops working, I'll buy another Element. They
> have proven their quality to me and I highly recommend the brand.
 
i inheritied a 55" LG. i'd rather get a smaller tv. lg's have a good price, but i don't like the fact that it only lasted 8 years.
Ed Pawlowski <esp@snet.xxx>: Mar 02 11:38AM -0500

On 3/2/2019 11:13 AM, Gary wrote:
> TV. It keeps on going and going.
 
> If this one ever stops working, I'll buy another Element. They
> have proven their quality to me and I highly recommend the brand.
 
I'm not sure how much brand actually matters. Most screens are made in
the same factory and most other electronics from another one or two and
they get assembled with a different brand sticker.
 
Buying today, I'd get an OLED and any other features that may be
important to me. I also use a sound bar. The thinner the TV, the
harder it is to get decent sound. Sound bar fixes that, in my case, I
often listen to music from YouTube so it sounds as good as it looks.
 
I have Samsung and LG TV's. Happy with both.
 
Oh, no matter what size you want, get the next one bigger and you won't
be sorry. I could not fit larger than 55" in my last house. Here, wish
it was a 65". I also wall mounted it too. Safer that way.
dsi1 <dsi123@hawaiiantel.net>: Mar 02 08:52AM -0800

On Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 2:15:41 AM UTC-10, A Moose in Love wrote:
> my flat screen tv; the colours all of a sudden they started to run together. i thought about getting a repairman, and went all over the www for advice. i've been told that it's better to purchase a new one. so next week it's off to bestbuy. this tv lasted only 8 years. it's not the cable or the box it's the tv.
 
My guess is that in a few years, OLED TV will take over the market. We are now in a transition period. You can probably get a pretty good dirt cheap LCD TV now but I expect that you'd want to get an OLED model in a few years when they become dirt cheap. You're probably going to get blown away with either types of TVs.
graham <g.stereo@shaw.ca>: Mar 02 09:56AM -0700

On 2019-03-02 9:52 a.m., dsi1 wrote:
> On Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 2:15:41 AM UTC-10, A Moose in Love wrote:
>> my flat screen tv; the colours all of a sudden they started to run together. i thought about getting a repairman, and went all over the www for advice. i've been told that it's better to purchase a new one. so next week it's off to bestbuy. this tv lasted only 8 years. it's not the cable or the box it's the tv.
 
> My guess is that in a few years, OLED TV will take over the market. We are now in a transition period. You can probably get a pretty good dirt cheap LCD TV now but I expect that you'd want to get an OLED model in a few years when they become dirt cheap. You're probably going to get blown away with either types of TVs.
 
I still use a CRT model. I have thought about getting a flat screen
monster but why waste money on all the crap that passes as entertainment
Ed Pawlowski <esp@snet.xxx>: Mar 02 11:57AM -0500

On 3/2/2019 11:26 AM, A Moose in Love wrote:
 
 
> i inheritied a 55" LG. i'd rather get a smaller tv. lg's have a good price, but i don't like the fact that it only lasted 8 years.
 
I've seen numbers from 30,000 hours to 100,000 hours life expectancy.
 
Reality is, no matter the brand, size, conditions of use, there will be
some that breakdown much faster, others that will go much longer. That
is true of TVs, automobiles, cameras, bulldozers, computers, and every
other man made item on earth.
lenona321@yahoo.com: Mar 02 08:51AM -0800

I make this regularly. As someone else said, it's good enough for breakfast!
 
https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=gbJ6XK2lO-7l_QaZ2aigDg&q=apple+crisp+oatmeal+peanut+butter&btnK=Google+Search&oq=apple+crisp+oatmeal+peanut+butter&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i22i30.670.9267..10425...0.0..4.1501.7959.12j5j3j4j0j2j2j0j1......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0i131j0.ZqVTywSzDFA
(variations)
 
My recipe comes from the Mennonite "More With Less" cookbook, by Doris Janzen Longacre. The peanut butter is optional. Either way, I felt the need to reduce both the white and brown sugar - and many may prefer to use butter, not margarine!
 
https://www.google.com/search?ei=iLN6XLSiJuyW_QaulaLwDg&q=%22apple+crisp%22+oatmeal+%22more+with+less%22+cookbook&oq=%22apple+crisp%22+oatmeal+%22more+with+less%22+cookbook&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i299l3j33i160.10371.11669..11974...0.0..0.87.642.8......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71.-DU6gGCo1Wg
(more variations)
 
Next time, I'll use Granny Smiths.
 
 
Lenona.
Jinx the Minx <jinxminx2@yahoo.com>: Mar 02 04:09PM

> it was more than 40 years ago, so I think my memory gets a pass on
> that).
 
> Cindy Hamilton
 
I never had it either until well into adulthood, and I grew up in the 70's
and 80's.
"cshenk" <cshenk1@cox.net>: Mar 02 10:45AM -0600

Jinx the Minx wrote:
 
 
> Yes! They really do eat yogurt and want it in their lunchboxes! "Home
> lunches", as my daughter calls them, aren't the lunches we grew up
> with.
 
Yup. When we got back from Japan, Charlotte hated the school lunches.
They were too 'different' from what she'd been eating for the past 7
years. We packed her up stuff she liked.
 
 
Charlotte was pretty popular to sit with at lunch because you never
knew what would be in her bento box and she'd share tastes about. Her
thermos was filled with dashi miso soup with little bits of green onion
or chives for example. Go-gurt was popular then so I'd get it at times
and add one.
"cshenk" <cshenk1@cox.net>: Mar 02 10:48AM -0600

Cindy Hamilton wrote:
 
> it was more than 40 years ago, so I think my memory gets a pass on
> that).
 
> Cindy Hamilton
 
Might be area dependent. I recall my mom getting it in the late 70's
at the store.
lenona321@yahoo.com: Mar 02 08:42AM -0800

I admit, I haven't used my cast-iron waffle iron in years, since I don't want to buy anything that comes in a spray can - and how easy can it be to grease it properly without that kind of spray? (Cleaning it is a pain, too...)
 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/recipes/22-things-you-can-make-in-your-waffle-iron/ss-AAosT8v?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout
 
The omelette - and the churros - sound good. (I had churros in Spain. Now if only, in the U.S., they'd provide something better than Hershey's Syrup to dip them in!)
 
 
Lenona.
A Moose in Love <parkstreetbooboo@gmail.com>: Mar 02 08:09AM -0800

On Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 10:20:28 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> peel it off and give it to the dogs.
 
> > The frozen fillets I get from Costco are skinned. Much more
> > convenient.
 
the one problem with tossing the skin is that the skin has many good healthy nutrients.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320838.php
songbird <songbird@anthive.com>: Mar 02 11:18AM -0500

Cindy Hamilton wrote:
...
> When I make a tossed salad, I put all the heavy things at the
> bottom with the lettuce on top. Then I add the dressing and
> gently bring the heavy stuff to the top.
 
considering what my teef are gonna do to it
in a short while that "gently" cracks me up... :)
 
 
> Of course, I don't demand that every single piece have the
> same amount of dressing.
 
swimming or drenched is my usual preference.
 
 
songbird
songbird <songbird@anthive.com>: Mar 02 11:17AM -0500

notbob wrote:
...
 
> Many spice companies subbed other pprs --even "black pepper"-- and have
> not changed back to "real" Szezhaun pprs. You might check with yer
> resto. ;)
 
i think i've got a container of that. ick.
should feed it to the worms as i'm not using
it - would much prefer sp's.
 
 
songbird
songbird <songbird@anthive.com>: Mar 02 11:13AM -0500

notbob wrote:
>> what I do or change, they always taste the same.
 
>> Luckily, Chinese restaurants are cheap and readily available.
 
> ....and they all taste the same. ;)
 
i see that wink... still i'm in the mood to ramble...
 
we've gone to the same chinese place for over 40yrs.
we've tried other places but like this one the best.
 
many places it seems the sauces are very similar
and likely come from a jar/container instead of
being made from other spices/ingredients.
 
one time in FL on vacation sister and i were in the
mood for chinese and we ended up at a place up on
the top floor of a hotel.
 
they made their sweet and sour sauce out of ketchup
and sweet pickles. we still get laughs out of that
one (it was horrible).
 
 
songbird
songbird <songbird@anthive.com>: Mar 02 11:24AM -0500

jmcquown wrote:
...
> about this because of seeing some documentary or some such thing on
> Native American cultures and ways they used ground acorns. If you try
> it I'm guessing it probably won't taste very good... ;)
 
there are different kinds of acorns, some are
quite mild.
 
 
songbird
"cshenk" <cshenk1@cox.net>: Mar 02 09:37AM -0600

Sqwertz wrote:
 
 
> $.88 here. Lest I be called a Sheldon, the proof:
 
> https://www.heb.com/product-detail/fresh-celery/325173
 
> -sw
 
More here but at this season, if it's local then it's from the hot
houses. Nominally 1.89-2.29 store depending for whole celery.
 
I get my green onions at 2 bunches for 1$ at the Asian American Market.
Price stays stable but size of bunches are smaller in winter.
"cshenk" <cshenk1@cox.net>: Mar 02 09:40AM -0600

A Moose in Love wrote:
 
 
> > I'm not sure where you live, but $3.50 for celery is ridiculous.
> > Not even the "organic" celery is that much in my stores.
 
> i'm from southwestern ontaro, canada.
 
Yeah, would all be hot house or shipped from lower USA. Cost to heat
or ship will do that. My guess is it's a lot cheaper in summer for you!
songbird <songbird@anthive.com>: Mar 02 11:29AM -0500

> kind of pricey for what you get. celery hearts are $3.99. a tad pricey, but i purchased some anyway. now i wish that i would have bought the green onions because i love them in a salad. cooking onions will have to do.
 
if you get a chance grow some green garlic (plant
garlic cloves in the fall extra deep then you can
dig it anytime in the spring/early summer and use
it just like a green onion or bunching onion stalk).
 
the more you cook it the more it tastes like a
green onion. if you use it fresher it has more
of the garlic taste.
 
once you start growing your own garlic you can
also have a surplus of small garlic cloves that
can be planted in pots and then trimmed back and
eaten through the winter.
 
 
songbird
lucretiaborgia@fl.it: Mar 02 12:10PM -0400

On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 10:28:21 -0500, Dave Smith
>> lives, or cannot feed their families adequately. Very often leaving
>> home is the last thing they wish to do.
 
>There is a legal immigration process.
 
When my passport was stolen, containing within my citizenship docs, I
had occasion to sift through lots of stuff online to find what I
wanted. I found the site where I could apply for immigration, very
expensive, that was just to apply and there was a notice that if your
application was not accepted, the money would not be returned! If I
recall correctly it was approx $2500. for a family of four, a fortune
to many people. So out of reach to many.
 
When we applied to become landed immigrants in 1968 (we were here with
NATO) it was as simple as David and I going to Immigration down at the
port, and they practically bowed and scraped and additionally, waived
the need to leave Canada for 3 weeks and re-enter (because we pointed
out the kids were all in school). I was quite disturbed about it but
David dared me to say a word :( So we were told to go down to the
Port on such and such a date and report. They then chopped our
passports as leaving the country a few weeks before and chopped us
back in as arriving that day on the Cristoforo Columbo. So we are
even registered to this day that way down at Pier 21.
 
What disturbed me was knowing that all this was done because we were
all white, English speaking, educated. Rules for some and different
rules for others. We wanted to stay enough I kept quiet but I have
always felt it must be very difficult for other people.
"cshenk" <cshenk1@cox.net>: Mar 02 09:49AM -0600

Julie Bove wrote:
 
 
> > When I want high quality peanuts I buy these:
> > https://www.hamptonfarms.com/
 
> Expensive!
 
Thats one thing we have cheap here in Virginia Beach. The city of
Suffolk is a major peanut growing area. It's about a 2 hour drive west
and a little south to get to Severn NC (where Hampton Farms is). Major
product here is raw in the shell.
 
We are also a major place for sweet potatoes and strawberries.
"cshenk" <cshenk1@cox.net>: Mar 02 09:58AM -0600

Julie Bove wrote:
 
 
> No Farmer's Market this time of year. I don't need that many nuts.
> Don't want raw ones. Don't want to roast them. And no. I'm not
> getting an air fryer.
 
Wrong season to get much of a farmers market most places actually. We
have a year round one but it's mostly crafts and winter veggies (plus
some hot house stuff) at this season. We'd have bins of raw peanuts at
ours because it's something that keeps well.
Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca>: Mar 02 10:45AM -0500

On 2019-03-02 9:57 a.m., jmcquown wrote:
 
> At any rate, it simply doesn't get that cold down here.  The idea of
> setting something outside to cool down before putting it in the fridge
> doesn't really fit this climate.
 
You have lived in a lot more places than I have and you are currently in
a hot climate. You are used to it. Up here we start to melt when the
thermometer goes over 80 degrees. We don't don't eat soup when it is
hot. Restaurants that offer soup or salad as a first course sell a lot
of salads in the summer and soup in the winter.
jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: Mar 02 10:50AM -0500

On 2/26/2019 6:35 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> to do in a slow cooker or on top of the stove.
 
> Behind the times? I've been making stock for decades.
 
> Cindy Hamilton
 
Joan said *she* was behind the times, not you. So what if she doesn't
make stock? Maybe she doesn't have a lot of need or use for stock.
 
Jill
ChristKiller@deathtochristianity.pl: Mar 02 09:39AM -0600

On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 04:19:48 -0800 (PST), A Moose in Love
>> them. :)
 
>> Jill
 
>i usually buy delisio frozen pizza with 3 meats. i saute some mushrooms in butter and put on top, a little extra cheese and bacon if i have it. and/or sausage(usually a mild italian). i also add a bit of tomato sauce(just passata). i like my pizza more loaded than what you get at the store.
 
 
what do you mean good frozen pizza? There is no such thing. Too much
added crap and chemicals. Makes the pizza taste like crap... You want
an easy delicious pizza? Buy a soft tortilla shell whatever cheese you
want, whatever toppings you want find your preferred pizza sauce..
dress the pizza with sauce then cheese then toppings or do it whatever
hell the way that you want then put it in the airfryer or oven for 6-8
minutes at 400 degrees and you have a delicious thin crust pizza.
 
Now quit buying that frozen crap. You are making my taste buds weep
with agony...
 
--
 
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