Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Recipes and Food
Message board moderation
Previous · 1 . . . 35 · 36 · 37 · 38 · 39 · 40 · 41 . . . 51 · Next
Author | Message |
---|---|
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
...avocados shouldn't be black... If you mean on the outside, that is incorrect. It depends on the species. A Haas avocado, for example, is ripe when it is black. The way to tell if a Haas avocado is over-ripe is to feel it (gently!!!). If it is squishy, pass it up. Also, if the skin has gone from a pebbly texture to a smooth texture then the avocado is rotting on the inside. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
...avocados shouldn't be black... The last ones I bought were black and smooth, right now I have a more pressing problem than a mere fruit, but it would be OT here, so I digress. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
For dinner last night we had pasta tossed with a pesto sauce that I made from basil that we grew in our garden. I threw in some roasted potatoes. Sometimes I throw in green beans as well, but I didn't have any in the garden or fridge yesterday. I topped each serving with some grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and some chopped roasted walnuts. 1 thing about tomatoes is that they give me gout. :-( Cheers. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
For dinner last night we had pasta tossed with a pesto sauce that I made from basil that we grew in our garden. I threw in some roasted potatoes. Sometimes I throw in green beans as well, but I didn't have any in the garden or fridge yesterday. I topped each serving with some grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and some chopped roasted walnuts. But tomatoes belong to the same family as potatoes (Solanaceae). Gout? Tomatoes is not the cause. I Think you know why you may suffer gout. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I know only to well why I suffer gout when I have too many tomatoes, citric acid, I also get it from having too many oranges as well. Cheers. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Sounds like an allergic reaction. But then I don't know much about Medical conditions. For instance nuts can be very dangerous. I learnt that in the 90's |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
Anyone ever had broccoflower? If you like cauliflower and broccoli, it's great! It's a cross between the two, and has the texture of cauliflower, with a gentle broccoli taste. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Anyone ever had broccoflower? If you like cauliflower and broccoli, it's great! It's a cross between the two, and has the texture of cauliflower, with a gentle broccoli taste. Broccoflower? Nope, I buy frozen veggies with its two parents inside that is mixed with carrots. Cauliflower / Broccoflower. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
carrots That reminds me - I need to buy some fresh ones. I like sliced raw carrots. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
carrots So did Mr Ed, though He liked them whole.. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
carrots That's true, but this also reminds me how I don't care for "veggie" flavored snack crackers and potato chips. I love my real raw veggies, and my real junk food. You can't successfully hybridize the two. ;~) The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
carrots I hear ya, I feel almost the same way Gordon, though I'd rather have frozen, since then I can just pop a bag on the microwave, nuke the ceramic pan and in 8 minutes they're good enough to eat, just add pepper, no salt or margarine added. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
carrots Right. There's so many snack items nowadays that try to appeal to the healthier side of us by showing pictures of vegetables and chips on the bag. It's a rip-off, imo. ~They don't taste good, and they aren't really that healthy, and they're silly expensive. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 20152 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
Right now I'm enjoying a cold pint of Belgian Chocalte ice cream. It is hot at work with no a/c. The cold ice cream is good going in me. Just wish lunch break was longer. |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
Dreamed I was roasting chestnuts. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Dreamed I was roasting chestnuts. So that's why it is so warm in My bedroom lately. ;-) The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
Dreamed I was roasting chestnuts. I tried doing that once... not, as the song goes, "on an open fire", but rather in a very hot oven using a cast iron pan. I cut X's in the ends of the chestnuts with a very sharp paring knife and then threw the chestnuts into the pan with a bit of vegetable oil. I did not think that the end product was worth the effort. Even having X'd them prior to roasting them, the chestnuts were still very hard to peel and I thought that they tasted rather bland. Salting them lightly didn't improve them that much. There are some products (very few, mind you) that I think are better canned than fresh. Canned pumpkin for baking is one of these products. Canned pumpkin typically involves a pureed mix of several different varieties of winter squash to optimize color and flavor. I find fresh roasted pumpkin to be too stringy for baking purposes, even when I use a variety like Sugar Pie pumpkins. I do, however, find fresh pumpkin to be vastly superior to canned pumpkin when used in soups and curries. Canned chestnut puree also works well in baking. I use jarred chestnuts for very occasional tortes and there is a Christmas cookie recipe Eric likes that calls for canned chestnut puree. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Mom like Canned Pumpkin as well, Libbys, though for years up until She couldn't do it any longer, She made Her own flaky crusts, by hand, then She switched to premade crusts. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22158 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
The best, and the worst, roast chestnuts were from street vendors in Hong Kong. The best I've managed at home, well on the boat, was on the red-hot embers of a wood fire; doing them, as you did Angela, in a pan on the stove, doesn't work anywhere near as well. Done over the fire the skins really did fall off very easily, and the nut had a distinctly smoky, nutty flavour, the stove top ones lack the nutty flavour. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
The best roast chestnuts I had where from street vendors in Rome. Very nice in a chilly december evening. |
©2024 University of California
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.