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Posted on 09/30/2018 7:18:57 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
You seem to know your way around the kitchen. I just took up cooking as a hobby. I know a lot about food (you’d be surprised), but I need to develop the skills needed to prepare quality food.
As a little kiddo, as I watch my grandmother and/or mother cooking, it all seemed like "magic" to me, so I decided to learn how to cook, bake, and my grandmother taught me how to decorate cakes and make candy. Throughout the ensuing years, I've managed to learn and perfect my skills.
I have always believed that it is an important life skill, for boys & girls, men & women to know how to cook and cook well. Throw in knowing how to sew on a button, make a bed, and do laundry, and manage money are things that everyone should do how to do.
One doesn't necessarily have to become a gourmet cook, but cooking well ( also knowing HOW to pick out produce, meat, poultry, and fish ) really is NOT all that difficult to do! It is an enjoyable hobby, is much cheaper and often healthier than eating out, as well. :-)
Oh I probably wouldn't be surprised re how much you know about cooking; after all your posts have been proof of that. :-)
“Throw in knowing how to sew on a button, make a bed, and do laundry, and manage money are things that everyone should do how to do.”
Except for managing money, that’s for the hired help. Probably tasks that can be bargained for.
Everyone should know how to cook though. On that, we agree.
You’re a gourmet cook? Hmmm...can you make a souffle? Do you know the difference between a souffle and a flambe?
What was the last thing you chiffonaded?
What two pieces of pork make up a whole pork shoulder?
What are burnt tips?
What is uni?
CANADA PWNS TRUMP IN NEW NAFTA DEAL
By managing money, I would have, at one time, said balance a checkbook; however, a lot of people no longer have checkbooks; or so I'm told. Though I really can't see how they pay bills.
Yes, I can make a souffle; however, I tend to flambe stuff( set it all a flame/on fire ), much more often. I'm a dash hand at Strawberries Romanoff, crepe suzette, and cocque au vin.
I also make a great creme brulee; however, THAT is never done "flambe".
Hmmmm...the last thing I chiffonaded? Romaine lettuce, IIRC.
Not a big cooker of pork ( though am big on bacon and sausages ), so I have no idea at all, what makes up a whole pork shoulder, which I haven't ever cooked nor eaten.
Nor am I big on BBQ, ergo burnt tips, though I do know what they are ( the ends of a brisket ), aren't in my cooking repetoire. About the ONLY thing I do on a grill, with any regularity is Porterhouse/T bone steak and sometimes bourbon steak ( done with rib eye on the bone )...none of which can be considered to be "gourmet" anything; though tasty. :-)
"uni" ?
Is that the disgusting sea urchin goop? I seem to remember that that's what it's called, but I've never eaten it, shall NEVER eat it, and I don't think it's cooked.
My oh my, after all these years I’m finally starting to truly like you! We’re friends now right? Despite our (long ago) disagreements on the Vietnam War and our respective pedigrees?
How time flies...
My oh my, after all these years I’m finally starting to truly like you! We’re friends now right? Despite our (long ago) disagreements on the Vietnam War and our respective pedigrees?
How time flies...
We had an argument over "pedigrees"? Are you certain that you've used the correct word? Please explain, via FRmail; as this IS far too damned personal for an "open thread" reply. But I'm confused as just HOW one can have an "argument" concerning one's parents, grandparents, etc.!
I don't lie, embellish,nor exaggerate; I tell the truth. And yes, I AM a gourmet cook. I enjoy cooking,baking,candy making, as well as eating, and talking about food. :-)
Time really DOES fly and we've both been here on FR a long time.
lol - great pic
this will go far in helping secure the Wisconsin vote.
Today, it’s “Little Miss Mufti”.
Love it. So Canada’s trade negotiator Chrystal Freeland got Trumped. I guess she forgot she worked for Canada. Buuuuwaaahaha!
Which one? French or English?
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The pack is NFL and is antiAmerican
So, now we have a US, M and C trade deal?
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LOL....EXACTLY what POTUS has dubbed the deal!
Yes. The agreements are bilateral.
You fry them once partially, allow to cool then fry crisp. The Netherlands style.
Wow. Dairy protection is huge up there.>>>>>
President Trump is doing Canadians a huge favor.
The Dairy industry is a huge federally organized cabal which artificially sets product prices. There is little or no competition or free market. (Same goes with eggs. You need a license from the government to sell eggs to the public, and they will shut a small farmer down and fine him.)
Canadians are jubilant. Now perhaps milk will go from being 8 dollars CD for 4liters of milk in Canada to about 4 dollars CD.
The price of a gallon of milk in the USA is between $2.50 and $3.50 USD.
This deal hopefully will be a great help to Canadian consumers who have been exploited by the social;ist Canadian government for generations, creating the dairy farmers and their processors into elites who can afford condos in the Caribbean so they do not have to cope with Canada’s cold winters.
If you are interested see here:
Milk MArketing Board:
http://www.cdc-ccl.gc.ca/CDC/index-eng.php
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“Canada’s dairy industry is a rich, closed club”
So you want to be a dairy farmer?
You buy a plot of land and a few dozen cows.
Then, you try to sell your milk to neighbors or maybe the local grocery store.
Not so fast. That’s prohibited. Canada’s dairy business – now the target of Canada’s trade rivals in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks – is one of the most closeted industries in the country.
The so-called supply management system is operated by farmer-run provincial marketing boards, which have a mandate to meet consumer demand and provide stable incomes for producers. Similar systems also govern chicken, egg and turkey production.
To get in, farmers must buy quota, which gives them the right to produce a set amount of milk and sell it at fixed prices. Membership doesn’t come cheap. Quota for a single cow ranges from $25,000 in Ontario and Quebec to $42,500 in B.C. Setting up a typical 70-cow farm would cost more than $3-million, plus land.
Steep tariffs and strict import quotas limit what other countries can sell here.
“I describe it as the last Soviet-style economic regime on the planet,” said John Manley, president of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, which has long advocated a phase-out of supply management.
And yet for decades now, Canadian governments have staunchly defended Canadian farmers against a relentless barrage of challenges to the tariff wall and other policies – from foreign governments and the World Trade Organization, to the restaurant industry, dairy processors and consumer groups.
So who are Canadian farmers, and why have they been so successful in protecting their system?
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When the supply management system was created in the late 1960s, there were nearly 140,000 dairy farms in Canada. Today, there are fewer than 12,000, and every year a few hundred disappear as farmers leave the business. Together, these farms sustain 112,000 full-time jobs and generate $5.9-billion in farm-gate revenues, according to the Dairy Farmers of Canada.
The industry is heavily concentrated in Quebec and Ontario, which together produce roughly 70 per cent of the country’s milk. Quebec alone is home to nearly half of the country’s dairy farms – 5,894 – and pockets 37 per cent of dairy farm revenues.
The numbers suggest the industry’s political clout should be waning. Across Canada, there are just 13 federal ridings with more than 300 dairy farms – eight in Quebec and five in Ontario.
But the industry continues to have outsized influence. Many Conservative MPs grumble privately about supply management. But on the record, they and members of every other federal party stand as a monolithic block in defence of the status quo.
Last June, MPs from all parties voted unanimously to urge the government to “respect its promise” to shield the dairy industry from any fallout from the European free-trade deal. The vote had echoes of a similar 2005 motion, when 100 per cent of MPs similarly stood up in the Commons to express unwavering support for supply management in global trade talks.
Speaking in Quebec City Thursday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper vowed to “protect our system of supply management,” while pursuing entry into the TPP trade deal.
Dairy farmers are well organized, politically active and often well known in their local communities. And they are in virtually every rural riding across Canada, ready to dial up their MP when they’re not happy.
The industry also has a sizable war chest – to build goodwill, encourage consumption and to defend supply management. The industry raises an estimated $100-million nationally from levies on milk for marketing purposes, plus membership dues from farmers.
Dairy farmers don’t just produce milk. They are also in the processing business, making everything from butter to yogurt and ice cream. Two of Canada’s largest dairies – Agropur and Gay-Lea Foods – are co-operatives owned by Canadian dairy farmers. And while farmers fight to keep the world out of their business, the dairies they own are expanding beyond Canada’s flat market. Agropur of Longueuil, Que., for example, has been aggressively buying plants in the U.S. – a country bent on ending supply management.
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