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Apple Pie Experiment
The taste is wonderful--a really nice mix of acidity with sweetness and crispy texture. They seem to be available only for a short time so, I have to make a pie pretty soon.
I get them at an organic grocery here. Maybe if there is one near you.
I have tried caramelizing apples before baking them in the crust. This really intensifies the flavor, but I like having more of the juice in the pie.
Dinner Tonight: Soy Poached Chicken
I make something very similar to this.
Mei kuei lu chiew a rose flavored distilled alcohol. I would substitute unsprayed rose petals and chicken broth for the wine or rose water (which you can get at an Indian store). Of course, one doesn't consume the petals.
I have Bittman's book "How to Cook Everything". It is a really wonderful book. All of the recipes that I have made from it are very good.
What's your spice aversion?
I really like the flavor of all spice, but it always causes me to get nauseous. I don't like anise, but I do like fennel.
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What do you use maple syrup for?
A little on a peanut butter sandwich is fantastic!
Apple Pie Experiment
The taste is wonderful--a really nice mix of acidity with sweetness and crispy texture. They seem to be available only for a short time so, I have to make a pie pretty soon.
I get them at an organic grocery here. Maybe if there is one near you.
I have tried caramelizing apples before baking them in the crust. This really intensifies the flavor, but I like having more of the juice in the pie.
Dinner Tonight: Soy Poached Chicken
I make something very similar to this.
Mei kuei lu chiew a rose flavored distilled alcohol. I would substitute unsprayed rose petals and chicken broth for the wine or rose water (which you can get at an Indian store). Of course, one doesn't consume the petals.
I have Bittman's book "How to Cook Everything". It is a really wonderful book. All of the recipes that I have made from it are very good.
What's your spice aversion?
I really like the flavor of all spice, but it always causes me to get nauseous. I don't like anise, but I do like fennel.
Where do you put condiment sauce on your burger.
My order:
bun
mayo
a dab of ketchup
lettuce
tomato
burger
cheddar cheese (not always)
bacon (not always)
mayo
another dab of ketchup
bun
BTW, I like my burger crispy on the outside and just barely pink on the inside. I guess you could say medium-well.
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
I use them as part of an apetizer plate with chutneys and pappadams. Something spicy and bitter and salty all in one. When I am eating alone, I sometimes eat them with bread.
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
Organic low fat milk
Liquid Smoke
Chinese Chili Sauce
Oyster Sauce
Hellman's Mayo
French's Mustard
Organic appricot preserves
Organic anchovies
Organic Shiro Miso
Worstershire Sauce
Indian Garlic Pickles
For me not so weird, but for my family, very weird.
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
Given the fact that my family has moved back to RI from MI, and can't move into our new house 'til Friday (we'll be celebrating Thanksgiving on the weekend (boo hoo, sniff, sniff) so we're staying in a hotel suite.The only items on the door of the fridge here are Irish butter and some bottles of lemon Perrier.
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
The usual assortment of American and Asian condiments, pickles, capers, sundried tomatoes and olives. A jar of yellow curry paste and a jar of Jamaican jerk seasoning.
Here's the one oddity: macapuno strings (I make a killer fruit salad of fresh strawberries, a drained can of lychee, and macapuno)
@WIGirl : Try this with your red curry paste. Fry about a tablespoon of paste in a skillet for a minute. Stir in a can of coconut milk and a can of water. Toss in a pound of chuck roast cut into 1 inch cubes. Simmer for about 45 minutes until the meat is done and the gravey thickens - watch that it doesn't get too dry. A simple substitute for Indonesian rendang. Serve over rice.
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
@nightowl, are you suppossed to refrigerate tapioca? i have it in my pantry.
What's your spice aversion?
CUMIN... after 3 weeks in India a few years ago, i developed an aversion to cumin after a whole week straight of eating food seasoned with cumin. Everything tasted the same.
Now, I can't even smell it at the supermarket.
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
Fridge door inventory:
Butter saver shelf: carton of eggs, half a lime
Shelf 1: butter, ketchup, small cans of pineapple juice, a pineapple fruit cup, a bottle of fruit smoothie drink, 8 oz glass bottle of Dr Pepper
Shelf 2: spray margarine, peanut butter, sugar free strawberry preserves, bottled bbq sauce, tabasco, cream cheese, box of baking soda in a ziploc, cold brew coffee concentrate
Shelf 3: bottle of aloe vera infused lotion, bottle of sriracha, bottle of balsamic viniagrette, bottle of ranch dressing, bottle of Cristalino, sour mix
Shelf 4: chocolate syrup, sugar free chocolate syrup, hazelnut flavored syrup, 2 kinds of homemade bbq sauce, white vinegar, hummus, maraschino cherries, tapioca pearls
Some of this is undoubtedly completely weird.
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
I also have Dianas Spicy Southwest in my refrigerator! I brought it back from a trip to Nova Scotia.
When it comes to strange, hmmmm...strawberry vodka? Habanero Peach Preserves, szechuan salad dressing from the chinese market (I still have no idea what to do with it), yellow curry sauce, tandoor marinade, garlic scape pesto.
I also have a jar of Baconaise, not the stuff you have on the website, the packaged stuff not made with bacon.
Wasabi dressing from my trip to Vermont. I could go on and on...
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
organic plain yogurt
butter
mozzarella cheese
2 types of soy sauce
oyster sauce
ketchup
dried up tahini
strawberry jam
Miracle Whip
Diana's Spicy Southwest marinade
stale Japanese vinaigrette
spare rib sauce
hoisin sauce
General Tao sauce
Italian dressing
Cesar salad dressing
molasses
sweet & sour sauce
yeast
canned cat & dog food
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
@angelfood thanks for the sorghum ideas!
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
Here's what to do with that sorghum: drizzle it over cornmeal pancakes
CORNMEAL PANCAKES FOR 2 ( recipe can be doubled )
3/4 cups cornmeal
3/4 cups boiling water
1/2 teaspoon salt
generous 1/3 cup unbleached flour
1/2 tablespoon baking powder
1 egg
1 tablespoon light brown sugar or honey
1 1/2 tablespoons canola oil
1/2 cup milk
Mix cornmeal with salt. Pour boiling water over and set aside.
Sift together flour and baking powder. Set aside.
Beat egg with oil and brown sugar. Stir in milk till well combined, then add to cornmeal. Mix well.
Stir in flour till just combined.
Cook on hot griddle. Serve with lashings of butter and sorghum. Sausage on the side goes well, as do fried apples. I don't eat meat so use Morningstar Farms links instead.
Now that frosty mornings are here, these should go down pretty good.
The best way to eat sorghum is fried grits but I can't find good white grits anymore....
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
All the usual things plus a jar of Garlic Jelly that I got at the Farmer's Market where my son sells the beef & pork from his ranch.
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
just about everything i thought was odd has been listed! i have evian spray
for my hot flashes, but peppermint is a great idea. i live in arizona, so
i keep my lipsticks there, and, i'm embarrassed to say, cigarettes, too...
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
@ jerzee-- how about doing some pineapple in light rum and apricots in the eau di vie?
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
Butter section:
-Butter
-baking yeast
-2 soup spoons (for when I have puffy eyes)
1st shelf:
-Brita pitcher
-sm bottle water
-toasted sesame oil
-maple syrup
-aging bottle of blueberry preserves
-Thai red curry paste that I don't know what to do with but it sounded good when I bought it
-aging bottle of horseradish (I keep forgetting to get some more)
-tabasco
-porcini powder (I LOVE this stuff!)
-Joy perfume
-Origins eye depuffer (which I keep forgetting about)
2nd shelf
-club soda
-big bottle of pelegino
-vermouth
-a beer (which will be gone shortly after I get home)
-almond oil
-low-sodium soy sauce (which I hate but I can't quite bring myself to throw it out)
-Pearl River Mushroom soy sauce (THIS is the stuff that I do use)
-HP sauce (fell for an englishman a couple years ago and I thought he'd like it... he's ancient history but the sauce lives on forever)
-A1 sauce
-the everpresent ketchup
-4 kinds of mustard
-taco sauce
-chili sauce
So all in all nothing too terribly odd.
@wasliche-- I didn't know abut storing your birth control in the fridge (was never a problem... still isn't... Viva la Menopause!!!!)
@jerzee-- I have got to try those cherries, they sound wonderful!
What do you use maple syrup for?
Ciao. Thought I'd report back after 2 experiments:
1) A Sazerac with maple syrup instead of simple syrup. Oh yeah!!! Gave the drink more complexity and a more subtle roundness. Could be a new favorite. We cut the maple syrup back by 1/2 and then brought it up to the full measure (same qty as you would use of simple syrup) because the maple was not that cloyingly sweet as we had expected. Truly excellent.
2) A maple/bourbon glazed roasted quail. The glaze was the syrup, a shot of bourbon, a chili pepper, Viet Namese cinnamon (very fragrant), cloves, nutmeg and grains of paradise. Outstanding! Finger licking divine.
And yes, we sipped some straight. It is like a cordial.
AND I got a whole lesson on the Grade A/B thing and they agree with everything you've said Lemonfair.
Thanks!
P.S. No pancakes or waffles in Italy...it's against the breakfast code which states that breakfast can be no more than a cappucino and a cornetto (cigarettes used to be required, they are now optional)
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
Great topic!
@Twistie - I too have tonkatsu sauce, aloe vera gel and ponzu sauce in my fridge door! Are we fridge twins?
In addition I have:
-flax oil
-yuzu citrus dressing
-mirin
-hon tsuyu (a soup and sauce base)
-red curry paste
-anko (Japanese red bean paste)
-Patagonian dulce de leche (from a friend who visited Argentina)
-wasabi
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
I have the usual things...honey mustard, grainy mustard, mayo, ketchup, milk - it won't fit on the shelves of my fridge and didn't know that till we got it home! Also, capers, maple syrup, wine, soy and Worchestershire sauce, potassium injections for the cat's fluid treatments, Rose's lime juice, horseradish, jams and jellies, pickles, stuff like that.
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
Probably the most unusual things I have in the door of my fridge would be the bottle of tonkatsu sauce, a bottle of ponzu, a tube of aloe vera gel a friend of ours left behind after he did some gardening for us (and since he's moved out of state and fathered two [one at a time with the same mom] children since then, I guess it's probably time to toss it), and a half a packet of poppadoms that Mr. Twistie got a while back and tried to microwave even though said packet had no instructions for doing so and even a legend that said 'for best results, do not microwave' on it. I wonder why he's not so keen on cooking up that second half of the packet.
One day my husband will learn that while the microwave can be a very useful tool, it is not a universal one, even with pre-packaged foods.
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
many bottles of Ranch Dressing with only a half squirt in each, "number" birthday candles, some medicines and a partial bottle of flavored Vodka...the rest is pretty much the same as the other posts... and definitely no kimchi..what the heck is that?
And I used up all of my eye of newt and frog toes this past weekend...need to get more!...lol
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
@CATERPILLARGIRL: "an EMPTY jar of pickles, to which i say "why?" and get no answer."
PickleSickles!
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
@Koalaisnotabear, we keep our milk in the main part of the fridge for two reasons:
1) It doesn't stay cold enough on the door.
2) The gallon jug won't fit on our door shelves anyway!
Yes, we do love our milk!
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
What a great question...it also reminds me that it is time for a Serious refrigerator purge...
7 kinds of hot sauce (no foolin'), 2 kinds of bbq sauce, Brianna's Blush Wine Viniagrette, mayo, 4 kinds of mustard, Gi-Normous bottle of ketchup (small children), fish sauce, soy sauce, wor....-whatever sauce, Sriracha (essential), hoisin, black bean paste, rice wine vinegar, chinese chili-garlic sauce, garlic paste, ginger paste, lemongrass, thai curry paste, Claussen pickles (essential), homemade pickled jalapenos, and...the icing on the cake...anti-vomiting suppositories for when the barfing virus from Hades hits our house...
What do you use maple syrup for?
I do a lot with maple syrup - most recently crinkly, crunchy, chewy cookies.http://therunawayspoon.com/blog/2009/11/maple-spice-crinkles/
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
@kerosena, i also have kitty meds (bottle and 2ml syringe) in the fridge door... its from a long time ago and i should probably throw it away when i get home.
also have old jelly that was a 2005 christmas gift i cant bring myself to toss.
mustards, jams, ketchup, choc syrup, cheese, butter, hot and sweet pickles....
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
I have nothing that strange in itself, but some might find it odd that I have 3 types of milk (almond, soy, and cow) given that I live alone. I like the variety! Along those lines, I have about 4 types of mustard (that's not very many, I think I have an excuse to buy more, reading some of your counts. . .), and at least 6 or 7 types of salad dressing, at least half home made. I buy every type of vinegar I can get my hands on, too.
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A little on a peanut butter sandwich is fantastic!