RMJCMT wrote:

While we are all "cooking," I wonder what is everyone's favorite pan or
pot to cook in? Sadly, somewhere in a move I lost my #10 iron skillet I
had for 25 years. Bought a new one, but it's just not the same. Nothing
compares to an old, crusty, well-seasoned iron skillet to bake cornbread
and fry chicken! For easy clean up though I like my KitchenAid non-stick
pans.

I have two lightweight cast iron frying pans, two cast iron Dutch ovens,
two cast aluminum tortilla skillets and a cast iron one, several 2-, 3-,
and 4-quart stainless steel saucepans (some with an extra-heavy layer of
aluminum bonded to the bottom and a few without that I use only for
boiling water and the like), a stainless steel chicken fryer with heavy
layer of aluminum on the bottom, and several 4-, 6-, and 8-quart stainless
steel pots with heavy aluminum bottoms. This does not include my 8- and
18- quart electric roasters and 20-cup rice cooker, the first and last of
which get frequent use around here (the 8-quart roaster also gets used
like a slow cooker). Plus I have two bread machines (used to do two
loaves at a time to feed hungry little fledglings, a 3-quart slow
cooker/deep fryer that generally only gets used when i am taking food to a
potluck, my Foreman grill with removable plates for easier washing, and a
6-quart stainless steel pressure cooker.

I used to cook tons and loved it.

piqued my curiosity about what things you
guys would not eat when you were a kid that you enjoy eating now.

"Ed Chait" <edchait4remove at (no spam) earthlink.net> wrote in news:-
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piqued my curiosity about what things you
guys would not eat when you were a kid that you enjoy eating now.


Raw tomatoes. I wanted to like them, but I didn't. I kept trying. One day,
my SIL gave me a tomato sandwich with a garden tomato. Zing. There it was.
Love at first bite.



--
~Donna
http://www.thesewingdictionary.com

Ed Chait wrote:
The lamb recipe thread kind of piqued my curiosity about what things you
guys would not eat when you were a kid that you enjoy eating now.

The ones I mentioned were olives, raisins and any kind of seafood.

ed


Brussels sprouts and salmon.

Things I didn't want to eat when I was younger and still don't want to eat
now: cooked green peppers, asparagus, shrimp, crawfish, lobster, crab.

Marsha/Ohio

Ed Chait wrote:

So he ate a river of liver so as to not hurt her feelings. What a good
son.


Actually, it was more like he was terrified of her. I actually was the
first person in the family to give her the wonderful experience of not
caving to her every whim, and my name has been mud ever since the first
time I said to her, "I had an agreement with you, and I am keeping my end
of the agreement and I don't see what's wrong with asking you to keep your
end of it also and not go doing something different and especially not
even bothering to tell me that you aren't going to keep your end of the
agremeent."

Ed Chait wrote:

How about this:

"Dear, I really enjoy your cooking but this particular recipe just
doesn't do it for me".


Some people are allergic to confrontation and cannot bring themselves to
say even that.

Ed Chait wrote:

A year or so ago, however, I bought a good quality nonstick skillet at
Costco that was the same size as cast iron one. It's also HUGE, but it's
also light and really easy to clean.

I put the cast iron away and haven't looked back since.


We kept having problems with nonstick pans, even the good ones, warping
and not fitting on the stove's electric burner (one price of teaching
one's children to be independent and to be able to cook for themselves),
so I gave up and did cast iron. I eventually found a few lighter-weight
pieces that were made in earlier days when craftsmanship was better and I
can handle them fine.

"Marsha" <mas at (no spam) xeb.net> wrote in message
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Ed Chait wrote:
The lamb recipe thread kind of piqued my curiosity about what things you
guys would not eat when you were a kid that you enjoy eating now.

The ones I mentioned were olives, raisins and any kind of seafood.

ed


Brussels sprouts and salmon.

Things I didn't want to eat when I was younger and still don't want to
eat now: cooked green peppers, asparagus, shrimp, crawfish, lobster,
crab.

Marsha/Ohio

The only things I really hated when I was a kid that I still hate is any
combination of savory and sweet, such as lamb with mint jelly or turkey
with cranberry sauce, yeccchhhhhh.

Those two types of food just don't belong together as far as I'm
concerned.

ed

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Ed Chait wrote:

A year or so ago, however, I bought a good quality nonstick skillet at
Costco that was the same size as cast iron one. It's also HUGE, but
it's also light and really easy to clean.

I put the cast iron away and haven't looked back since.


We kept having problems with nonstick pans, even the good ones, warping
and not fitting on the stove's electric burner (one price of teaching
one's children to be independent and to be able to cook for themselves),
so I gave up and did cast iron. I eventually found a few lighter-weight
pieces that were made in earlier days when craftsmanship was better and I
can handle them fine.


I can't do electric burners. One of the first things I would look at when
we were house shopping was whether the stove was gas or electric, and if
electric, where the gas line was. Give me gas or I'm using propane:).

ed

ed

"Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply" <samhill at (no spam) TRASHsonic.net> wrote in
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Ed Chait wrote:

How about this:

"Dear, I really enjoy your cooking but this particular recipe just
doesn't do it for me".


Some people are allergic to confrontation and cannot bring themselves to
say even that.


I know people like that and it makes me wonder where all the repressed
feelings go and how they eventually manifest themselves.

I'm certain that a lot of chronic diseases and antisocial behaviors are a
direct result.

ed

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 12:50:59 -0700, "Ed Chait"
edchait4remove at (no spam) earthlink.net> wrote:


LOL!

So he ate a river of liver so as to not hurt her feelings. What a good
son.

I happen to like liver and onions once in a while, but I don't like making
it. Terri likes it too and we go to this one coffee shop that makes it
very
well. I ask them to add some bacon too.

ed


I think one reason so many people don't like liver is that most people
don't know how to cook it! Most people over-cook it so much that it
looks (and I imagine tastes) like bad shoe leather. It should be
cooked until the pink is gone and not one second longer. Beef liver
lightly coated in flour is usually cooked thoroughly when cooked about
three minutes per side.

Hmmmm...chicken livers are even better! <GG

Anne/OH

"Marsha" <mas at (no spam) xeb.net> wrote in message
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Ed Chait wrote:
The lamb recipe thread kind of piqued my curiosity about what things you
guys would not eat when you were a kid that you enjoy eating now.

The ones I mentioned were olives, raisins and any kind of seafood.

ed


Brussels sprouts and salmon.

Things I didn't want to eat when I was younger and still don't want to
eat now: cooked green peppers, asparagus, shrimp, crawfish, lobster,
crab.

Marsha/Ohio

The only things I really hated when I was a kid that I still hate is any
combination of savory and sweet, such as lamb with mint jelly or turkey
with cranberry sauce, yeccchhhhhh.

Those two types of food just don't belong together as far as I'm
concerned.

ed

I can't do electric burners. One of the first things I would look at when
we were house shopping was whether the stove was gas or electric, and if
electric, where the gas line was. Give me gas or I'm using propane:).

Ed Chait wrote:

I can't do electric burners. One of the first things I would look at
when we were house shopping was whether the stove was gas or electric,
and if electric, where the gas line was. Give me gas or I'm using
propane:).

I ended up going gas when we had to get a new stove because I was tired of
all the pans warping.

I understand, though, that although this oven has a self-cleaning feature,
it's best not to use it, because if it's used more than some number of
times, the element burns out.

The first time I used the self-cleaning unit it scared the be-jesus out of
me. That puppy gets hotter than all get out. We had bread in the drawer
beside it and it was not warm it was hot. I would never ever run it
without being at home for fear it would start a damn fire. It is really
hot.

--
Sue -- Firefighter mom -- still rabid UW DAWG fan!