Imponderables: Knockin' the dust off...

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ZEEK

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 9:46 PM

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Originally posted by DesktopHippie:
I don't know. I'm not great with the cookery stuff. I mean, I burnt jello.

*Zeek thinks the hippie was making jello shots*

MsB, post the bread recipe. I've never tried making bread for real. Me and my brother got my mom a bread maker once and we used that some, but it's really cheating. What does it take to make real bread?

DESKTOPHIPPIE

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 9:54 PM

No, regular jello. (We call it jelly.)

I just put the jello cubes in a pot and put it on the stove, and waited for the cubes to melt.

Well no one *told* me about the boiling water thing...

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MSB

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:05 PM

DTH try this then...you really can't mess this up. It's rolls you make in the blender

1 cup milk
2 eggs
2 teaspoons salt
1/6 cup sugar
1/2 cup corn or light oil
4 teaspoons baking powder
Flour

Put everything but flour in the blender and blend. Add flour gradually and blend until it looks like thick pancake batter. Pour batter into greased muffin tin cups. Bake at 375 degrees until light brown and puffy

Ok now for the real and nifty bread rcipe

2 cups water
4 teaspoons salt
1 cup sugar
1 cup Crisco or similar vegetable shortening
1/4 cup lukewarm water( with a pinch of sugar in it)
3 tablespoons yeast
2 eggs
5 cups flour ( may need a bit more than this)

Put the 1/4 cup water with pinch of sugar in a small bowl and sprinkle yeast on top. Set it aside. heat the 2 cups of water until it hurts your finger. Remove from heat and add salt, sugar, and Crisco. break 2 eggs into the mixing bowl and add the water, crisco, salt, sugar mixture. Add flour and mix. when the mixture is lukewarm add the yeast water. Keep adding flour until the dough is stiff and not very sticky. Cover the dough with a cloth and let it rise. Push it down and let it rise again. Knead the dough for about a minute. Shape and place in bread pans. Cover and let it rise again. Bake 350 degrees until brown ( about 40 minutes)

HUGS DTH see you're not a bad cook, you just had bad instructions. I had that happen with a cake recipe mom gave me. She listed ingredients and quantities, but forgot directions. I tried to wing it and it sucked:)

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SPACEANJL

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:47 AM

Pissaladiere

Mix 275g strong plain flour, a sachet of yeast (7g) and a pinch of salt. Add in 2 tsp olive oil and 250 ml warm water. Mix, knead out on a floured surface, then dump back in the bowl, cover with clingfilm and leave in the warm for an hour.

Meanwhile cook down 1.5 kg onions (about six, usually) finely sliced in olive oil, maybe a little butter if you like, and a good bunch of herbs (you want to take this out later, so tie 'em together) You want a good, thick onion mush. Season as wished.

Turn the dough out, knead it again, then push it out on an oiled baking tray. Put a thin layer of anchovy paste (bash a couple up in their oil) then the onions, leaving a border. Criss cross with slices of anchovy fillet, and faff about putting black olives in the gaps. Leave it while your oven gets to its max heat, then bake for 15 -20 minutes.

'Course, if folks are wussy about anchovies, up until that point, you got a perfectly good thick-crust pizza base...

MAGDALENA

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:39 AM

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Originally posted by DesktopHippie:
No, regular jello. (We call it jelly.)

OK... so do we, but we have a powdered variety... you pour boiling water over the jelly powder and stir and then leave it to set in the fridge!

Childhood memories... licking the bowl when Mum has made the Christmas pudding or Christmas cake or a pavlova! It was such a treat!

Funnily enough when I first read the ponder on your post MsB I though of my Dad taking us on a drive (who can afford to do that now?) either to a historical home, or a place where we could play... or going on holiday and staying by the beach or climbing a mountain and not having a care in the world! Funny how I'd like to go back to the simplicity of childhood... but definitely not back to school, or to my teen years with all their insecurities and fears...

I know where I'd like to be right now!

But I'll just have to wait... how long til D*C again?

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MAGDALENA

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:44 AM

Hey Angel! It's nice to see you about too! I must try that recipe - I am loving cooking here in Kent! I love living here and enjoying the local produce! I will definitely try that out!

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EMMARIGBY

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:44 PM

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Originally posted by MSB:
We were pondering what childhood moments would you like to revisit

It's funny, my first thought when I read the current imponderable was what I'd do DIFFERENTLY if I could relive an event as a kid but with my current knowledge/ experience.

I was bullied quite badly as a kid and I've thought many times how great it would have been on a couple of occasions to just raise an eyebrow in a mocking, disinterested way and come out with a witty put-down instead of bursting into tears. Plus I know a bit of Ju Jitsu now!
Oh, and think what a genius I could have been at school at age 7 with current knowledge!
Hmm, if I had to go through school again, I wonder if I'd end up smarter and have several degrees by 'now' or would I hit a ceiling?

Am I the only one who has day dreams like this?!

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SPACEANJL

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:01 PM

I'm just grateful that we don't have easily available guns in this country.

I'd have been the weird kid in the greatcoat who had a Columbine moment...

(Witty put-downs are wasted on the stupid. But a chair across the mouth gets the point across.)

I read a book once that had the protagonist wake up sixteen again. To my mind, that's a fucking horror story. I like being my age - own home, own car, own time, own money (well, own husband's money), own destiny.

But if I had my time over again, I'd be braver. A lot less inclined to try and please other people - it only leads to ulcers.

ZEEK

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:46 PM

So, MsB if one were to try that second bread recipe and one doesn't have any bread pans, how many bread pans would one need? Could said one just buy some those disposable aluminum pan thingies?

Quote:
Originally posted by EmmaRigby:
Quote:
Originally posted by MSB:
We were pondering what childhood moments would you like to revisit

It's funny, my first thought when I read the current imponderable was what I'd do DIFFERENTLY if I could relive an event as a kid but with my current knowledge/ experience.

I was bullied quite badly as a kid and I've thought many times how great it would have been on a couple of occasions to just raise an eyebrow in a mocking, disinterested way and come out with a witty put-down instead of bursting into tears. Plus I know a bit of Ju Jitsu now!
Oh, and think what a genius I could have been at school at age 7 with current knowledge!
Hmm, if I had to go through school again, I wonder if I'd end up smarter and have several degrees by 'now' or would I hit a ceiling?

Am I the only one who has day dreams like this?!

I think that's the wrong approach. You don't have to be combative to get them to stop. You have to show them that they have no effect on you. I was bullied and picked on to some extent but I would just let it roll off my back or throw them off by agreeing with them or something. By the end of gradeschool I was friends with the bullies and same thing happened by the end of high school. I always point to my senior year of high school when me (nerd), a football jock (guy tried to push me into a gym locker freshman year), a cheerleader and a druggie all partnered up (of our own free will) on a class project and it wasn't even so I'd do all the work. I was the biggest slacker really.

Anyway point is something about catching flies with honey or something. Note: don't give bullies honey. They'll probably pour it on you or something.

EMMARIGBY

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:59 PM

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Originally posted by Zeek:
I think that's the wrong approach. You don't have to be combative to get them to stop. You have to show them that they have no effect on you.

That's kind of what I meant (apart from the odd violent fantasy). I was quite emotional as a child and used to get really upset by the bullying - which of course made it worse.
I've had to toughen up since then (oh so much this first year of teaching), that I think I could have just laughed most of the bad stuff off were it to happen again.
Kind of jealose that you had that maturity to start with!

P.S. Bagsie a taste of the first batch of bread. Unless it's all hard and black...which of course it won't be!

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