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Pancakes.
Topic Started: Feb 5 2008, 06:32 PM (731 Views)
LizDiggory
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Well it's not that hard to make a white sauce, just make a roux out of equal parts flour and fat, and then cook until it smells like popcorn, and then add milk and let come to a boil and thicken, then season to taste. :wink:

Oh, I've had home made mayo before and let me tell you, it is MUCH better than the store bought kind. And I agree w/ Krazy, it can easily be made in a food processor.

And for a side note, I made Bisquick pancakes today, and they were yummy. :-*
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Bex
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I now have a powerful desire for sweet potato pancakes.
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Inky
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Mmm, that sounds good. I just got home with my first-ever jars of baby food (for Olga) and now I'm eyeing the jar of Baby's First Sweet Potatoes.
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LD, a person who makes white sauce that way - :o I am awed, girl, awed - should hang her head in shame at the thought of packet mix pancakes.
Might I remind everyone that cooking is not a talent of mine? That I have been accused of not being able to cook pasta properly? The point is, that I, shallow purchaser of mayonnaise that I am, who has never baked a cake from scratch in her entire life, make my own pancakes. Which means, a child of 4 could do it, no packet required.

And LD, it's even easier to make a white sauce with cornflour. I did suggest it to him, knowing it was pointless, and got a withering look in return. This is a man who was has only just come round this year to the idea that fresh herbs taste better than the Magi-mix ones. :rolleyes:

EDIT: potato pancakes. Yum.
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Regullus
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Hmm. :huh1: I'm peckish. *wanders off to scrounge something edible*
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I'd like to add that at this point I have taken my Spider Jerusalem action figure and tied his wrist to my Cassidy (from Preacher) action figure just so I can work out which positions are feasible with them and which aren't.

Read that and weep, internet. Weep!

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Feb 9 2008, 03:15 PM
Maple syrup is time consuming to make but very worthwhile.

You don't actually make your own, do you? That would be hardcore.
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Feb 10 2008, 12:06 AM
a child of 4 could do it, no packet required.

And you can clean up the mess, thank you very much!
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:lol: I do.


How to make maple syrup, from Wiki.
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To collect the sap, holes are bored into the maple trees and tubes (taps, spouts, spiles) are inserted. Sap flows through the spouts into buckets or into plastic tubing. Maple sap is collected from the buckets and taken to the sugar house.
A small scale evaporation pan used in Ohio. During processing, called sugaring-off, the sap is fed automatically from a storage tank through a valve into a flat pan called an evaporator where the sap boils down until so much water is lost that it forms a sweet syrup.


:blink: And I thought LD's white sauce was impressive.

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lara
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And it takes a darned long time to get there.

We went to a local park where they have a demonstration of maple syrup and sugar-making through the ages. You think that's tough? Aboriginal Canadians hollowed out a log, filled it with sap, and then heated rocks in a fire and threw them into the sap until it boiled down to syrup.

Syrup-making was quite important for them and for the pioneers. They could keep the maple syrup and, even easier to keep (but more time-consuming to make) the maple sugar until spring, giving them a needed source of calories in the winter months, and allowing the Brits a sweetener for their tea.

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No, I don't make my own. I have friends who do make the syrup and I've helped. It was fun to do once. Made me appreciate it all the more.

I'm making a bismark right now. I cannot wait.
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I'd like to add that at this point I have taken my Spider Jerusalem action figure and tied his wrist to my Cassidy (from Preacher) action figure just so I can work out which positions are feasible with them and which aren't.

Read that and weep, internet. Weep!

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I'm of the opinion that it was fun to watch, but not just once. Katya loved it, so we will likely go back this spring. Hopefully when there's still snow and we can see them make the sugar in the snow.
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What will be on the bismark?

Pioneers. They were so brave.
I can't imagine living without a supermarket.
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/fat...2578694296.html

A pizza without salami? Or olives? It's not worth living.
The dubious establishment mentioned in the article is a wanky gourmet pizza place, not a real pizza place, and that might account for their strange attitude. They probably decorate their pizzas rather than cover them. <_<

Best pizza taste? crispy base, spicy salami, ham, olives, mushrooms loads of mozzarella. :wub:
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LizDiggory
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Pepperoni, and lots of it. Oh and lots of Pepperocini. :)
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I like pizza plain and simple, pepperoni and cheese.
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I'm there with you, Blood Raven. And very light sauce!

I do like pizzas with chicken/prosciutto, garlic, and spinach or broccoli, especially with a creamy garlicky sauce.
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I thought perhaps pepperoni was capsicum, but I find out from Wiki it is in fact salami. I'm so relieved. I thought I had stumbled into a den of vegetarians.

What, no onion? (I forgot to mention onion: but that might be because it's so essential.)

Pizza Ortolan is the best vegetarian pizza I have eaten. Potato, capsicum, onion (see?) and eggplant.
Chicken/prosciutto, spinach, broccoli and a creamy garlic sauce sounds like a near perfect pasta meal. But I wouldn't put it on a pizza. I might have caught a pedestrian attitude to pizza from Mr.FPS.

And what kind of base? Crispy? Soft? Thick? Thin?
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Hmm I love Prosciutto, Boromea, Tonno and Salame.

When I'm feeling hungry, I like the thick soft bases (Big Americans, we call em), but in general (especially with something as rich as Pizza Tonno) I prefer a thin base.

Stack up the mozzarella please!
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For pepperoni, I like a thin crisp crust. Same with prosciutto and spinach. A wood-fired crust is tops! For the heaviery chicken/broccoli pizza, with the creamy sauce, a hand-tossed crust is essential. You still want toppings to be predominant, but the crust must be sturdy enough to stay firm and functional under heavy, moist toppings.
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I don't really care for pizzas ever since I puked my first one up. All that cooked cheese can't be healthy - a nice hamburger is my junk food of choice.
"Well, ‘course dis one’s betta! It’s lotz ‘eavier, and gots dem spikey bitz on de ends. "
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But what must be in the hamburger?
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"Well, ‘course dis one’s betta! It’s lotz ‘eavier, and gots dem spikey bitz on de ends. "
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Some people don't know how to discuss trivialities with the seriousness they deserve. :rolleyes:

The very best hamburger I ever had was - a lentil burger from the milk bar in Portsea. It had grated raw beetroot and was so good. It was a great hangover cure, too.

Sliced tinned beetroot is a subject of hot debate here. Some people feel a hamburger that doesn't leave a trail of pink juice down your shirt isn't a real hamburger experience, while others feel sliced slippery red things have no place in anything.
Egg and bacon should be in a great hamburger. Cheese and onion, of course. Tomato sauce. I used to be anti-beetroot, but after successfully eating a hamburger with it once,(somewhere in NSW- on the way to Queensland)) and not ending up looking like a survivor of a train wreck, I see the benefits.
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I like a nice borscht, but otherwise have found little use for beets. Putting them on burgers is news to me, sounds interesting for a veggie burger.
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I must say, a good burger needs very little on it. If it's good, thick beef that's cooked well and placed on a nice bun, all I want is some lettuce, tomato, a slice of cheddar and some ketchup on it. Otherwise I can't taste the meat.
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