What are you having for dinner? (wanna share your recipe?)

[whiteraven]

Broccoli macaroni and cheese. It's frozen, so no recipe. Very good, though.

 

[VioletButterfly]

I am the only person I know who put on weight on the cabbage soup diet ??. I really like that soup as well.

There's a lot of sodium in that soup, I believe. The onion soup mix? Maybe just a bit of water?? ??

 

[VioletButterfly]

Tonight is the sister-in-laws for traditional Italian Christmas Eve. There are many shrimp and calamari calling my name. I was going to have Christmas dinner, but I was low on furniture, lol, waiting for a place to put people. It arrived yesterday, but the friend who wants the old stuff hasn’t taken it yet, so now an over abundance of seating...if you could just move around to get to it.

So they are doing the turkey. I have already done the make ahead mashed, the one with cream cheese, sour cream, green onions and (lots) of garlic in it. Sweet potato and carrot crisp, dressing, and a rutabaga and pear purée. After years of near misses with the clever and/or Shun knives trying to deconstruct that dang vegetable, my friend told me to nuke it whole...lop off a bit of the stem end, place it in a bowl, and away you go. Scoop it out like a pumpkin when done....in all of my years of cooking and knowing tricks of the trade, I never knew about this. It turned out great, and I have all of my fingers, no stitches.... tomorrow I will make the cranberry sauce and a lovely sticky toffee pudding.i think I gained ten pounds by writing this.

I had a great belly laugh when I read this. I had a friend whose husband wouldn't allow her to use regular knives, he bought her the ceramic ones (I believe) because she was forever cutting herself. Ha ha. She was so cute. ?

 

[Friday]

<chuckling> I was taught that the average number of cuts per cut = 1:1500. IE you will cut yourself with a knife once every 1500 cuts. ...and the average prep-cook shift? 3,000 cuts. Invest in band-aids & finger-cots! (I refuse to wear finger-cots. I feel like I’m putting leprechaun condoms on my fingers. No. Pass. I’m FINE with nitrile gloves. Yes, I sweat more, but if I’m busy feeling ridiculous I’ll just cut myself again.)

I had a friend whose husband wouldn't allow her to use regular knives, he bought her the ceramic ones

Interestingly enough? The bloke who invented Band-aids was an entry level executive or intern (I’ve never been quite clear about that beyond “a nobody” in the giant corporate world), newly married to a very accident prone woman who was the delight of his life. So he pre-made gauze squares & sticking plaster (medical tape, essentially), and sealed them individually in wax paper envelopes, and kept some in his breast pocket of his suit at all times. During an all hands on deck board meeting at Johnson&Johnson the head of the company managed to cut himself (I’ve always wondered on what)... and from all accounts... the bloke LEAPT up almost diving across the table, whipped out his invention, neatly applied it, and then said “There, sweetheart, all better!” ...before he’d realized what he’d done.

:roflmao:

Whoopsies.

He was busy stammering apologies, and explaining about his wife, and apolozing some more... whilst the BigBoss was so thrilled at what he’d seen that once he could get the guy to shut up, and answer where he had gotten such a marvelous thing (I made them) he promoted him on the spot, and patented his invention & got it into production that very same day.

And thus? Band-aids were born.

(I was originally told this story by one of my grandfathers friends who worked for J&J, but it’s close enough to the account in “Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things” that I’m sold on it.)

 

[VioletButterfly]

I feel like I’m putting leprechaun condoms on my fingers.

@Friday - lol ? Pray tell, how did you come by this knowledge? ? Cheeky VB

 

[nursenurse]

<chuckling> I was taught that the average number of cuts per cut = 1:1500. IE you will cut yourself with a knife once every 1500 cuts. ...and the average prep-cook shift? 3,000 cuts. Invest in band-aids & finger-cots! (I refuse to wear finger-cots. I feel like I’m putting leprechaun condoms on my fingers. No. Pass. I’m FINE with nitrile gloves. Yes, I sweat more, but if I’m busy feeling ridiculous I’ll just cut myself again.)

Well, I had my big stock pot in the sink, it doesn’t fit in the dishwasher, so I put a few things in it, added soap, turned on the water and promptly cut myself with a wayward knife in the bottom of the pot. My daughter said it was revenge for not chopping the turnips the conventional way.

 

[Mee]

côte de beouf cooked rare. Roast potatoes. Tiberius parsnips. Star anise roast carrots . Brussel sprouts with chestnuts. :).

 

[Mee]

There's a lot of sodium in that soup, I believe. The onion soup mix? Maybe just a bit of water?? ??

That’s possibly it? I often used to have to take salt pills because my diet was salt deficient. Not since ptsd ?. The benefit of not cooking and eating bought food is that everything has too much salt in it so the cabbage soup diet might work? ?

 

[Friday]

@Friday - lol ? Pray tell, how did you come by this knowledge? ? Cheeky VB

If I find a pot of gold? I doubt I’ll whip out a measuring tape, but I’ll bet no one else does, either ;)

My daughter said it was revenge for not chopping the turnips the conventional way.

<nods sagely> Rutabagas have a mean streak.

 

[nursenurse]

???? so then I was making the bread crumb topping for the sweet potatoes....didn’t realize I was bleeding into it....yuck. Out it went, bowl furiously cleaned. Fortunately I had enough of the bread and pecans etc for new blood free batch. I am so done...oh, have to make toffee sauce for the sticky toffee pudding. No chopping involved, but hot stove elements are....

 

[Ronin]

Eek to hots, also :wtf: smilie, but the blood miighta be bit in the (old Pagan) season spirit.

Poor peoples prolly couldn't see their stuff w no industrial revo and cut themselves damnedest too, trying to make food for large families and keep em all up and healthy through the winter.

 

[LuckiLee]

The sticky toffee sounds phenom!! Minus the hemoglobin. Be careful. ?