I’m interested.
I should buy ceramic?
Give me suggestions.
For although I cook every Sunday, all my meals for the week yes I do, while minding this thread and watching the shows....I am thinking of nominating my self for Food Network’s World’s Worst Cook.
Like today, the recipe as posted requires actual garlic.
Sure I have garlic on hand, a little round thing filled with oil-soaked pieces of garlic.
But the recipe above called for a real garlic clove so I bought one, so brave was I.
As I attempted to get at four “cloves” or whatever they call them, well dag, I COULD NOT GET THE GARLIC OPEN!
It was hard, papery that kept falling all around like crepe rain....there was no discernible way to open the thing.
THIS is the sort of thing I would like to learn.
Oh I eventually got the garlic parts out but it required kitchen scissors and a whack of a hammer. I just never see any of the Food Network stars hit the garlic with a hammer and they use garlic in everything, even dessert.
Or something.
Buy a bottle of chopped garlic. You can put it in everything and is easy to use. I love garlic and use it in everything.
He has Risen
It's about 10 bucks!
Never mind buying one on TV, just run down to Walmart and get one. The TV ad that got my attention was called "Or-green-ic" or something, and has a green ceramic inner surface. Everything they showed in the commercial was true. They had them at Walmart, but they were all gone.
The one I got has a metallic red paint on the handle and exterior, and a white ceramic interior surface. If this one warps or has some other structural frailty, I'll get a better one, but I'm sold on the non-stick characteristics of the ceramic lining. Just don't burn or scratch it.
The main thing about teflon is; it's a plastic, and a little bit of it comes off every time you use it. That's part of the reason nothing sticks to it. Where does that teflon then go?
Nevertheless, the cast iron skillet collection will remain in my kitchen arsenal. They are cheap, indestructible and solely-suitable for certain applications such as blackening, oven recipies, and making roux.
But Pat, if you want to saute some onions and mushrooms in butter, flip some pancakes, make an omlet, something quick...get the ceramic skillet.
Okay, I see the thread is at 100 posts already, so I can't claim this as my contribution on the way to 100 posts. But I do have a couple of remarks on this Easter Sunday.
First, a garlic remark as against the Food Network stars. If they are using real garlic, you will see them put a clove under a wide knife, then "hammer" the knife with a closed fist. I know that's not literally a hammer, but darn if it doesn't make the skin easy to separate from the meat!
As for the meaning of Easter, I am reminded of my dear departed father's remarks that Jesus Christ is the only religious figure who claimed he was God. I don't know if dad picked that up from CS Lewis, or exactly how he came to that particular notice, but he did make a point of expressing just how radical that was and is. My point in bringing it up is to assert that Christianity is special, it is different, and I daresay it is better - it is the divine truth, at least it is to those who have faith.
Happy blessed Easter to my fellow Christians! Just plain old Happy Sunday to the rest of you.