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Sunday, March 02, 2003 |
Catfish and Roman Beans
5:54:13 PM 
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Just loafing
After a hard day in the kitchen, 'Ove' Glove slips into his complimentary Rolling Rock St. Patty's Day drinking mitt, leans against his latest opus and just relaxes a spell.
These loaves got an egg white wash. The yolks became glue for some more catfish filets coated with panko. As for tonkatsu, the glue sets up while drying in the fridge for about 4 hours, so the coating stays put when fried.
4:13:50 PM
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 Thanks to The Raven for this great idea - using rice bowls to hold ingredients for the next episode of Mise en Place.
I'm gong to add Alan's website to my foodie links next time I feel like arm-wrestling Radio. Hey, you know what? If you used Japanese soup bowls instead of rice bowls, you could have Miso En Place!
(Haw-haw-haw - a little foodie kneeslapper there)
Liz and I are watching James Taylor's Pull Over video. How can you not be happy listening to James Taylor on a sunny spring-like day?
Behind the rice bowls are a couple of loaves ready for the oven. In a few minutes, the smell of bread baking will intermingle with the garam masala, James Taylor, and sunshine.
Here's some more foodie humor from James Taylor:
Q: What did the Buddhist say to the hotdog vendor?
A: Make me one with everything.
3:03:49 PM
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Here's the loaded dehydrator. It was made American Harvest and you can get the latest models at Pleasant Hill Grain. It has a thermostat and a fan, both crucial for serious work. I've set the thermostat at 110 F. Every couple of hours, I'll move two top trays to the bottom. The aroma from the garam masala, onion, and garlic is hypnotic, like an arpeggio on a sitar.
Beef can also be dried in an oven Replace the oven light with a 60 watt bulb and it will be about the right temperature without even turning the oven on.
11:02:16 AM
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On the tray. The rear tray has a plastic liner, which is normally used to make fruit rollups, but will be used catch drips now. The front tray obviously has three slices of marinated beef.
10:38:43 AM
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Don't miss Jonathan Reynolds' recipe for roast suckling pig in today's NYT magazine. He journeys to Cascais, Portugal and visits a place that sells suckling pigs in carry out boxes.
9:40:36 AM
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Education as entitlement
The appeal of vouchers is choice and the apparent darkside is re-segregation. The real darkside of vouchers is that they may well become bills instead of write-offs. Now, most education is subsidized at the state level by property taxes. The trend is to shift tax burdens from property owners to wage-earners. The federal government's role in this is between the lines in the NYT column by Maureen Dowd today:
After obscuring the real reasons for war, the Bushies are now obscuring the Pentagon's assessments of the cost of war ($60 billion to $200 billion?), the size of the occupation force (100,000 to 400,000?) and the length of time American troops will stay in Iraq (2 to 10 years?).
A Delphic Mr. Wolfowitz tried to blow off House Democrats who pressed him on these issues: "We will stay as long as necessary and leave as soon as possible."
Rahm Emanuel, a congressman from Chicago, chided Mr. Wolfowitz, saying, "In the very week that we negotiated with Turkey, the administration also told the governors there wasn't any more money for education and health care."
Billions for defense, not one cent for education. Listen for a moment to what Raoul says:
So, while the upper-income 1% write off their misguided Enron investments, the Lucky Duckies have to borrow money to pay taxes for their kids' elementary school education?
I really wish Raoul would shut up, he's inciting class warfare.
3:24:15 AM
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Sleeping In A Jar
The coated beef slices, sealed in a jar. The vacuum hastens the marination and tenderizes the beef.
Now I can relax a few hours and write more poetry about my appliances.
2:42:18 AM
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Slices
This time, I'm going to vacuum cure the beef. Each slice is coated with the marinade and placed in a jar that can be sealed.
An alternative is to line a large pan with a white trash bag, and place the coated slices in it. Then twist it up tight and close it with a twistie. Refrigerate 24 hours, but "overhaul" it at least four times.
The vacuum sealed beef will only take 6 hours and can be overhauled just by rotating the jar. The point of overhauling is to redistribute the marinade.
2:27:32 AM
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Measure twice
This is a Rival food slicer. It cosy 99 bucks. You can remove the blade and tray and place everything in the dishwasher.
It's set up here for 1/4 inch slices, perfect for jerky. When the jerky is dried, it will be a little less than 1/8 inch thick. Some people say to slice the beef along the grain for "chewy" and across it for "tender", though I've never seen much difference. For chewy, cut 3/8 inch slices, though this will be hell on any loose dental fillings.
If you do not have a slicer, you can use a jury-rigged cutting jig. Use a serrated knife so you can "saw" the beef.
1:51:32 AM
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My Colander
My colander went away
It was here just yesterday
Water from pasta and broccoli passsed through it
It passed it well, a formidable conduit
It's silvery holes now tarnished with age
It came to me with a stapled page
That said "Aluminum Beware! -
It might react with silverware"
I heeded that not, abused it thoroughly
Cleansed it with Comet, made its surface surly
Perhaps, if I had treated it with care
It might still be "over there"
But now it's gone, I must lament
And only God knows where it went
If you see it somewhere, looking gloomy
Won't you please return it to me?
(afterthought)
If you could, I'd be most grateful
My abuse of it was never hateful
The loss, to me, has caused great pain -
And now I have some vegetables to drain
(Originally posted on alt.fan.frank-zappa, 06/12/98)
1:23:03 AM
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