Subj : Plan Aheads
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Thu Mar 27 2025 12:11:30
Hi Dave,
RH> 2 different things but we use "powder" as the generic around here.
DD> I tend to be pedantic in my recipes. Capitalising all instances of
DD> Cheddar (which is a proper noun) And correcting the cheese variety
DD> that is meant by the generic "Swiss" cheese to it's proper name
DD> (Ementhal), etc.
RH> We tend to be more generic on a lot of things.
DD> Diff'rnt Strokes and all that.
Very true, also depends on how you were raised.
DD> course, there's always the chef's knife or cleaver (If I've been
DD> watching "Yan Can Cook". Bv)=
RH> I've done that often enough, impressed our girls when they were old
RH> enough to realise what I was doing.
DD> I amaze myself whenever I get done choppig if I've not given blood to
DD> the propject. Bv)=
RH> OTOH, I very rarely cut myself when slicing/dicing. Guess I just
RH> learned to be extra careful around knives when I was working with less
RH> than ideal ones. My mom had a chef's knife she always kept on an upper
RH> shelf in the pantry, away from us kids. Once I got older and more knife
RH> savvy, I would pull it out and use it. I was using it one time when we
RH> were at my parent's house, mom was in the nursing home by then and dad
RH> didn't cook much for himself so I decided to make a beef stew. Started
RH> cutting up the beef with that knife and Steve asked to take over, so I
RH> let him, figuring I'd do other prep work. Warned him about the knife
RH> but a few minutes later, he cut himself--not seriously but enough to
RH> draw a bit of blood. I went back to cutting up the meat and later that
RH> night for supper, I think both of my brothers had seconds, then thirds
RH> of the stew.
DD> I've come close a couple of times tomdoing something "blue stupid".
DD> Like having a really sharp Santoku knife slip and head for the floor.
DD> And stopped my grab for it just this side of disaster.
I've been good about letting things like that just drop. The instinct is
to reach out to catch it but that's what lands you in the ER, needing
stitches.
DD> Last kitchen cut I can remember is when I first got the mandoline and
DD> took a chunnk off the pad of my signalling finger. The cut didn't
DD> hurt. But the juice\ of the onion I was slocing sure did sting.
I think the last kitchen cut I got was slicing something and didn't have
a finger quite out of the way--cut just deep enough that I needed a
couple of stitches to close it.
RH> ... If you think you are confused now, wait until I explain it!
DD> Been there, done that. Got the merit badge. Bv)=
I usually end with "........and the tee shirt ain't worth it".
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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