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What to do, how to react, quips and tales of woe.
When it comes to socializing whether friends, family or work environments diet can be a bump if not a sink hole like religion and politics. I hate how you either drink or you don't to a doctor, there is nothing in between. If you meet for cocktails I am having a cocktail. Same goes for a party or other gathering of celebration where everyone is drinking. I will have a drink of something. It does not have to be alcoholic. And I am not going to put a spotlight on that detail. It is not the appropriate moment to make a stand. It can derail the perceived opportunity rather than promote your thing favorably. Family can feel there are no boundaries except honoring the long established dynamic. That was very one sided in my family. My parents especially my father could violate every "rule" including my personal privacy. Over the years I lost a lot of respect for my father observing his approach to boundaries and how he acted when it was just the family and when others outside were present. -
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poll What is your favorite way to eat/prepare eggs?
Too slow to edit but I mentioned salt pitting stainless steel, I omitted that they say adding salt to the water when boiling eggs helps prevent shell cracking. I ruined a pan using salt when I switched to stainless steel learning the hard way. You may get away with it if you are careful making certain the salt dissolves and no granules rest against the surface. I prefer to avoid salting anything when food is in a stainless steel cookware. -
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poll What is your favorite way to eat/prepare eggs?
So many subtle and distinct differences make a difference with eggs. I have seen contradicting ideas as to what leads to what. The cookware makes a difference as well. With stainless steel you have to let the food sit in the pan cooking and avoid stirring and flipping it as much as with other cookware or eggs will stick then burn and toughen. Personally I like scrambled eggs which are tender and moist as opposed to tougher and dry. I have seen contradicting points of view as to what leads to what. I switched from non-stick to stainless steel cookware and that takes its own special care or things will stick. Regardless of what you think about achieving a result with the food you have to consider the cookware. With stainless steel you have to let the food sit in the pan cooking more than otherwise. You cannot stir and flip as much. Eggs in particular will either stick and burn or they will smoothly glide on the surface. If I am in a hurry I stop cooking sooner and let the heat finish things off. As for hard boiled eggs peeling easily, I find that cold eggs placed into hot water tends to increase chances of cracking the shell during the cooking stage. I use stainless steel cookware and salt will pit the pan surface if it does not have a chance to dissolve. I don't risk it. I have found that the safest approach is to place cold eggs in cold water and bring the temperature to a boil. Then leave the eggs boiling for a certain amount of time to harden the outer most surface of the egg then after that stage you take them off the heat and let the temperature of the contents do the final cooking. Once that stage is finished you cool them as fast as possible displacing hot with cold water and even ice (optional). The key to easy peeling is cooking the exterior surface enough then cooling the shell quickly. I am also aiming for an ideal interior so I am also aiming to stop the cooking stage and to avoid overcooking eggs and producing that greenish film around the yolk. -
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Basic Chicken Soup
You have reminded me, I haven't had chicken soup in a while. I prefer to boil a pack of drumsticks for a few minutes to get the scummy foam to rise. Skim that off. Let it simmer on low for two hours. Let cool. Fish out the legs with tongs. Debone. Put meat back in broth. It shreds itself. Very fatty because of skin and very tasty because of bones. -
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Which foods have the most plastics? You may be surprised
Slightly off topic: Specifically bottled drinking water and its containers They already charge too much for good water. If they repackage good bottled water in glass it will raise the prices even more. Metal tends to impart an undesirable flavoring to water. I did a blind test and picked my preferred source accurately. I am sensitive to water sources. My throat closes up and my mouth puckers when drinking water from certain sources. I can taste the petroleum in the milky plastic bottles. I found a suitable source and exclusively drank that water for years. I don't know whether they changed their process at the same time but coinciding with a change in the bottle shape and strength of the plastic the water tasted different. It was bitter when it was the only water that was nearly flavorless. It was enough that I stayed up for two days driving in every possible direction to every known store which carried it to buy up the remaining inventory of the water using the old bottles. I had water stored in every space I could fit it. I had to walk around stacks in open spaces. I eventually ran out and had to adjust to the taste of the new container. Years later I found a 6-pack of the old stock I had overlooked. It was now 10+ years old. They do stamp and expiration date on their bottles. It was years beyond that date but I tasted it anyway. It was superior as I remembered it. Of course I finished off that 6-pack. I used to find it during once per year sales for a significantly discounted price. I would do a sale run buying several month's worth but not as thoroughly as when they changed the bottle. Then the distributor changed and prices kept going up. Now locally it is only when desperate that I pay their outrageous prices. The consistently lowest source has been online. But that can vary from month to month as much as $10 per 6-pack. I noticed recently that the source tells me how many times I have ordered it. I have ordered 1-3 12-packs 64 times since switching to online purchases amounting to quite a large sum of money for drinking water. I recall drinking off the garden hose when I was a kid.
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