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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

How To Tell If You've Been Cooking French Food

Every burner on the stove is being used.

Your kitchen is a disaster area and your sink is full of dishes.

8 comments:

  1. What time is dinner?

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  2. I'm afraid you're too late, Rose. I'll try and send your invitation out a little earlier next time.

    :-)

    I made Chicken Fricassee from Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. It was awesome. She's 2 for 2 now in our house.

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  3. Of course, if one wants to minimize dirty dishes, just follow the recommendation I read when I was a kid[1]:

    - Open can of beef stew.
    - Put can directly on stove burner[2]. Stir occasionally with spoon.
    - When hot, eat straight out of the can with the spoon you used to stir the stew.
    - Throw away can, wash spoon

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    [1] This was in the book "Warm Bodies" - *not* the current "Zombie Romance" that was just published and made into a movie. No, this one was about life in the Navy.

    [2] A friend of mine had a housemate that would do this with canned beans, but without opening the can first[3]. Miraculously, there was never an explosion.

    [3] Variant: "Boiled Can"- take a can of sweetened condensed milk, and drop into a pot of boiling water. Boil for a while. Remove can. The contents are now carmel syrup.

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  4. Anonymous6:10 AM

    ...you run out of butter

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  5. drozz, you're right on the money. I had to go to Costco to stock up on the stuff before cooking.

    :-)

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  6. Tim, have you tried tying a can of soup, stew or beans next to your car's exhaust manifold and then driving around? It cooks things quite nicely, or so I've heard.

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  7. Now that you mention it, I see that there is a new E-book edition of the cooking-on-your-car-engine cookbook Manifold Destiny.

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  8. I think we have the same stove. :)

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