pot stickers,help!
Wonton wrappers are an acceptable substitute. Save the uncooked ones by freezing them on a cookie sheet and then plastic bagging them.
Wonton wrappers are an acceptable substitute. Save the uncooked ones by freezing them on a cookie sheet and then plastic bagging them.
I used to be a real dill pickle fanatic. Any kind, any time. Now, though, I am just not feeling it. And that makes me sorta sad. It's a concrete example of the end of childhood.
There's a recipe out there for pork chops marinated in pickle juice, just google. I always wanted to try it, but I'm a little frightened.
I, too, was a latch-key kid. In kindergarten, we made a class "recipe book": the kids dictated the recipes to the teacher, who wrote them down and photocopied them into a little booklet (great idea, too!). My entry was (no joke), "making Spaghetti-ohs." (Get out the pan, open the can...) My mother was mortified, but that was my reality.
Now, though, I cook at least 4 times a week. Soups, Chili, teriyaki chicken (boning my own chicken!) I don't know where it comes from, as my mother still absolutely never cooks, but I adore it.
One of my favorite things? Looking down at an oddly chopped vegetable in my food and thinking, "Oh, I remember chopping you!" Yes, I was an odd child, and I am a strange adult. But cooking makes me feel relaxed like almost nothing else.
I have made my own, and plan to again. Honestly, I cannot remember if I put cheese in them before I froze them, but I would suspect I did. They were bean and rice and came out great from the freezer. I wouldn't make them just to freeze, necessarily, but whenever I am making some for dinner, I think it's a great idea to make lots of extras. Put 'em in the microwave for two-three minutes, and eat up.
Two nights ago, exact same dumb move as kmnola above, but I managed to let go much sooner and ended up with just one small blister. I feel sure that if the pan had not been one that I most commonly use on the stove top, rather than the oven, I wouldn't have been so quick to grab that sucker.
Turnip greens. I'm a Southerner, born and raised, but I can't take 'em. Strangely, I do like cooked spinach.
After looking at your profile, I wanted to add that you might want to talk to your doctor about this. There is really no "superfood" that will help with your growth. Eat an all-around good diet and see what your doc has to say.
Thanks to Martha Stewart's Living, I learned that quartered green tomatoes are perfect for pickling in left over pickle juice. Yum!
i love pickle juice, probably because I have hypothyroidism and addison's disease. But I love salty things. The pickle juice martini is like a really good dirty martini (which is usually just olive juice and either gin or vodka). I've seen little cans of pickle juice in the supermarket but have yet to try it.
We run a Girls Softball League Concession Stand and sell the clausen pickles, but also we freeze the juice in sauce cups and the kids go NUTS over Picklecicles!!! In 3 weeks time we have gone thru over 150 picklecicles. Now if we can just get them to buy the pickles, so we can buy more juice!!! We need to figure out how to make homemade pickle juice??
"Yummy" - it should be prohibited for use by anyone older than 12. When grown men and women say "it's so yummy!" (especially about something they just made themselves) - ewwwwww!
Also, "reduce down" as in "we'll add some wine and reduce this sauce DOWN for 5 minutes". As opposed to what, reducing it UP?
It used to drive me insane to see "x" at the end of the word until I started to work at a hospital 10 years ago. Everything ends in x to abbreviate -- history = hx, diagnosis = dx, etc. I still hate seeing "u" for "you" and "ur" for "your/you're," which propagates the erroneous use of your and you're. ARGH! I've gotten better about "tho" and "thru."
Back to food.
- "special blend" -- yay for vagueness
- use of the word "sushi" for anything raw. FFS, sushi doesn't even mean raw!
- innards
"Gets" for "understands," especially with the adverb "really." For instance, "so and so really gets the New York restaurant scene," or "really gets food," or "really gets service." It's a lazy, imprecise and charmlessly colloquial locution, and I hope it heads to the blogosphere tar pit as quickly as possible. Even worse when reduced "so and so gets it."
I can't explain it, but I really hate the word "unctuous."
As for "foodie," it would be nice to come up with another simple word we could use to describe ourselves. I don't love it, don't hate it. When someone says, "she's a real foodie," about me, it has a very specific meaning. Sometimes I say "food is my hobby," but it may not be clear that I mean I like thinking about food, shopping for it, preparing it, eating it, serving it to friends and family, etc. I'd love a simple word that could convey all that.
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