Posted on 11/16/2018 4:40:43 PM PST by Jamestown1630
LETTUCE HAND ROLLS / LIME SAUCE
FILLING on med-low, saute minced gar/cl, tb ol/oil oil til fragrant 2 min.
Add chp cooked turkey, or use a chp portobello, tsp five-spice powder, 2 tb br/sugar,
tb soy sauce. Reset heat to high; cook a bit to meld flavors.
ASSEMBLY fill 8-10 crisp lettuce leaves. Plate.
Garnish w/ shredded carrot, julienned cucumber, chp peanuts, lime wedge.
SERVE w/ Lime Sauce.
LIME SAUCE 2 tb sugar, four tb lime juice, chp garlic, dash soy sauce.
I think we usually see it in the grocery stores in the Spring time.
You can freeze beans. I’ve been making my own substitute for canned beans by using dried. One pound of dried beans will give you approximately 6 cups of cooked beans, which equals 4 cans (a can is 1.5 cups). I keep them in Ziploc bags in the freezer and add them to whatever I’m cooking. It’s about a fourth the price of canned beans and really cuts down on the amount of sodium. I’ve also frozen beans in soup with no issues.
Thanks. My husband tells me that I was wrong - he didn’t think they got tough, he thought they got mushy. But I’m going to try with my next bean soup.
Good to know.
I usually do my pies the night before, and sometimes warm them a little after the meal is out of the oven.
Doesn't appeal to me. I like my chocolate straight up---not adulterated with pumpkin spices. But I do want to share
the marvelous topping. Handy to have for chocolate pudding, strawberry shortcake...anywhere you'd use cream topping.
Ree's Marshmallow Whipped Cream: Cream 7 oz jar marshmallow cream, 4 tb butter, at room temp.
Then add combined 2 cups h/cream, cup conf. Whip to soft peaks.
POINTS TO PONDER: Plymouth Gov William Bradford on life in the Commonwealth (courtesy: University of Chicago:
The experience that was had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanity of that conceit of Plato’s and other ancients applauded by some of later times; that the taking away of property and bringing in community into a commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing; as if they were wiser than God.
For this community (so far as it was) was found to breed much confusion and discontent and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort.
For the young men, that were most able and fit for labour and service, did repine [feel or express discontent] that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men’s wives and children without any recompense.
The strong, or man of parts [man of talent or gifts], had no more in division of victuals and clothes than he that was weak and not able to do a quarter the other could; this was thought injustice.
The aged and graver men to be ranked and equalized in labours and victuals, clothes, etc., with the meaner and younger sort, thought it some indignity and disrespect unto them.
And for men’s wives to be commanded to do service for other men, as dressing their meat, washing their clothes, etc., they deemed it a kind of slavery, neither could many husbands well brook it.
Upon the point all being to have alike, and all to do alike, they thought themselves in the like condition, and one as good as another; and so, if it did not cut off those relations that God hath set amongst men, yet it did at least much diminish and take off the mutual respects that should be preserved amongst them. And would have been worse if they had been men of another condition.
Let none object this is men’s corruption, and nothing to the course itself. I answer, seeing all men have this corruption in them, God in His wisdom saw another course fitter for them.
Source: Univ of Chicago
Happy Thanksgiving to All!! Thought I would quickly bump the thread to the top. In first gear over here, 2 big garlic heads roasting in the oven for the mashed potatoes, browned giblets and roasted back cooking in water on the stove. Will strain later and add a carton of turkey broth and other goodies. Our bird is always dry brined. This year we tried something different. Hubby spatchcocked the turkey. (spine out out so it spread eagled on a baking sheet) He watched the Good Eats redux show and that’s how Alton Brown does it. I tried a spatchcock chicken on the grill last year after watching an episode of Pioneer Woman. I like the show but not interested in her sweet recipes or the boozy coctails. Have a happy day everyone.
I like the idea of spatchcocking the turkey——the more surfaces that get browned, the better the gravy.
I took a couple of pictures. I’ll post them later, heading into a coma right now. It was delicious. We plan on doing it again next year. The skin was also very crispy yet the turkey was moist. It’s a nice turkey episode. The turkey goes in the oven right on the rack with a pan underneath to catch the drippings. Or Alton put his dressing pan underneath. We opted for no dressing this year. A good choice.
Hubbys famous green bean casserole. We angle cut the green beans by hand because we could not find frozen French cut ones at the store yesterday. Made with cream of mushroom soup, a few chopped up portobellas, some hand pan toasted sliced almonds, some precooked chopped bacon, and small amount of a shredded cheese mixture, and 15 minutes before it's done put on the French fried onions. It was killer.
the table, roasted garlic mashed potatoes, heavy garlic, gravy and pickled beets from the jar. And I always like a plain baked yam.
Also broiled one medium sized salmon fillet from or freezer, caught this past summer and vac sealed.
......tres yummy......
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<><> duck prosciutto & melon …
<><> chilled seafood display with Florida stone crab, oysters, jumbo shrimp and clams …
<><> a carving station with turkey and all the trimmings, beef tenderloin, lamb, and salmon,”
<><> also Chilean sea bass, snapper, short ribs,
<><>traditional stuffing,
<><> whipped and sweet potatoes
<><> a number of desserts.
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An NBC report suggested that if Trump and his family were served romaine, his Secret Service detail would first test it.
ROMAINE LETTUCE TAINTED: includes all types or uses of romaine lettuce, such as whole heads of romaine, hearts of romaine, and bags and boxes of pre-cut lettuce and salad mixes that contain romaine, including baby romaine, spring mix, and Caesar salad. "If you do not know if the lettuce is romaine or whether a salad mix contains romaine, do not eat it and throw it away, the CDC said.”
“My husband loves Apple Cider, hard OR soft; “
Even easier!
Just pour a cup out of a half-gallon of good apple juice, shake it up good, add a pinch of the yeast, put the cap back on loose so gasses can escape (put breathable tape (like for bandages) around the cap if there’s a chance of those little fruit flies getting in).
Set it on the floor where it won’t be disturbed.
Try it when the bubbling dies down, try it when the bubbling is ceased., try it after the bubbling is ceased.
He’ll like it at one of these points! When it raches that point put it in the refrigerator, cap loose.
DON’T SHAKE IT UP, the stuff at the bottom tastes awful (but won’t hurt you).
Hope this sounds as simple and easy as it is.
If he wants it stronger add some sugar before shaking, but increasing the alcohol content will hurt the taste at some point.
My recipe in reply #68 is for an easy holiday dessert drink that all can enjoy (and could be made in time for Thanksgiving- guess no one risked it!) and requires no special equipment.
This doesn’t require any special equipment, just a matter of finding out what the ‘client’ prefers.
Hope your holidays are happy...
“You can freeze beans”
Ah! At last I can contribute a non-wacky reply to this thread!
I buy fresh beans in season at the local farm stand and freeze them.
The difference fresh beans (these are pinto soup beans) make is AMAZING.
APPLE BRANDY
PREP BTB sugar and water; cook/stir dissolve sugar. Set offheat.
METHOD Place apples in large glass or plastic container; add sugar mixture, brandy, cloves and cinnamon stick.
Cover/ steep at room temp at least two weeks; stir once a week. Strain; discard apples and spices.
Pour into glass decanters. Place 3 cloves and a cinnamon stick in each bottle. Yield: 2 quarts.
ING 4 c sugar 2 c water 4 lb apples, sliced liter of brandy 3 whole cloves
3" cinnamon stick whole cloves and cinnamon sticks for bottling
HOT APPLE BRANDY TODDY
PREP Dip glass rim in apple cider then cinnamon-sugar.
Whip cream w/ 2 oz. Calvados to stiff peaks. Fridge til needed.
ASSEMBLY Heat 6 oz apple cider. Add rest Calvados. Pour into glass and top with whipped cream.
SERVE garnished with cinnamon sprinkle and cinnamon stick.
Ingredients for one toddy. 1⁄4 cup sugar tsp cinnamon, plus more for garnish 6 oz apple cider,
more for rimming glass 1 1⁄2 oz. fine Calvados 4 oz heavy cream stick cinnamon, for garnish
Chocolate Date Confections
ING 200 g almonds 2 tb unsweet cocoa pinch of salt
tsp vanilla bean scrapings 125 g dates 100 g chocolate Shredded coconut
METHOD Blender almonds to a fine flour; mix with cocoa, salt and vanilla bean scrapings.
Blender the dates, and rub them into the dry ing to form a firm dough (a very sticky process)
FINAL Roll into bite-sized balls (an even stickier process). Set on parchment in fridge an hour.
COATING Dip each sphere in dark chocolate melted in bain; roll in shredded coconut.
Let cool; harden in the fridge before serving.
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