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silver palate stroganoff question...no pearl onions
Comments (13)As everyone has already mentioned, you can easily sub white or yellow onions chopped a bit. A word of caution, I have used the frozen ones and it has been hit and miss with them. Sometimes they are great, but I don't think they sell well in my store and I have gotten a few bags in the past that were freezer burned. I ruined a wonderful Boeuf Bourgignon a few ears ago thinking they would work in a braised dish despite the freezer burn - they didn't! Good luck and let us know how it turns out. Alexa...See MoreMaking Oatmeal Palatable
Comments (80)grainlady, I didn't know about phytates in oatmeal; knew they were in wheat. If soaking gets them out, don't you need to drain off that water full of phytates and replace it with fresh? For my whole childhood I was "made" to eat oatmeal and hated it. The glutinous quality always got me. My mom would put a big chunk of butter on there (double yuk), maybe some cinnamon, even jam she tried. Hated them all. When I found I liked Cream of Wheat (a little) I was allowed to switch to that; could only get that down with chocolate chips tossed on and allowed to melt. As an adult my brother switched to steel-cut oats but I don't care for those either. Then making oatmeal once for my Dad at my house I found out what the problem was: overcooking. Now I actually like it. I use regular oats and cook it in the microwave for 2 minutes a bowl, just so it's soft enough but hasn't started releasing the gluey stuff. Now I cook it with dried cranberries in it and add 2 T of ground flax seed. The flax seed adds a LOT to the flavor: to me it tastes sort of like ground almonds. Then top off with a scant half teaspoon of maple syrup: a little goes a long way; it has so much flavor that you barely notice that amount of sweetness....See MorePalate cleanser ideas?
Comments (33)FOAS, a palate cleanser is for restoring the palate to neutral after eating something very flavored or very rich. It's meant to be subtle so the tastebuds have to work at sensing the flavor. That's what helps them go back to neutral. What Mtnrdredux ended up with is more on those lines than some of the suggestions. Pannacotta is cool and refreshing and usually mild in flavor. The grapefruit provides a hint of sweet, more refreshing and cool, and some acid to cut through the richness of the holiday foods. You shouldn't need--or want--a palate cleanser on a tasting menu. That is a planned menu of small dishes to taste--not a tasting menu as in what shall we order for the wedding. :) Instead, as you suggested, you should arrange your dishes so that the flavors flow from one to the next, building in boldness. The whipsaw thing is a factor, and what you describe -- softening the blow -- is a good strategy if you don't have a more organic way to progress. That intermediate dish shouldn't be rice balls, though. Not the kind of bland and cool of a true palate cleanser. Tasting menus tend to be a lot of food anyway, and adding pointless starch isn't a great choice. If you're going in that direction, maybe a vegetable course that has a proper amount of flavor for its place in the middle. Think of it as a crescendo, starting quiet and smoothly getting louder, and you won't go wrong....See MoreWhat does your lavatory say about your?
Comments (31)I think that guy also read the book "Class"..)) (btw somebody here recommended a book.. "At Home" by Bill Bryson..I've just started but I'm in love already..it's a pity I don't remember who recommended it but thank you, thank you, thank you!) strangely-I'm kinda hitting his marks lol. I just dislike functional things out I guess..and I do like soap bars and soap dishes. I'm very tidy but not very into all that microbs whatever stuff. It depends on a person. My DD for examply is messy but very into anti microbial and all. toilet paper? ok I'm kinda fine with anything out there we didn't have toilet paper when I was a kid. At all. it was a deficite or something(we had a lot of these lol, "deficites") So neater people like my family cut newspapers into these accurate rectangles. People who cared less just tore it unevenly. of course now I'd be inconvenienced but then it was the most natural thing (I guess a problem in earlier decades, with dictatorship and all..what if you cut a wrong page you know...don't know what they used then. Maybe a toilet paper became deficite later?) So,.,coming back to toilet paper. We have some friends who're really big on entertaining. Greatest parties, music, lights change as per what the theme or the music is, throughout the house.. so they're the only people that can have black toilet paper(when one gets it at all?), blue toilet paper, fuschia toilet paper, scarlet red toilet paper..they put it to match the decor for the party..)) the house itself is this chic contemporary, very neutral..they add colors for parties only Last time it was "Silver"..unfortunately don't remember the toilet paper color..not silver though..:)...See More- 6 years agolast modified: 6 years ago
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