Okay, this is the most recent Recipe Thread

[infinite monkey]

heheheheee...lasagnoid.

I'm hungry.

[plthijinx]

ok, tonight i'm trying a recipe suggested by sheldon. i have half a fillet of salmon, lemon, fresh dill, salt pepper to taste. for the sides? 2 stuffed portabella mushrooms. can't decide whether to bake it or grill it. mushrooms are def going to be grilled. pics to come later.

[plthijinx]

here we go. fresh chopped dill, sea salt, fresh ground pepper, lemon slices (half of it sliced the other quartered to squeeze over the salmon), smashed and chopped garlic then resmashed and rechopped. then covered again in foil (poor mans dutch oven) and on the grill. along with the portabella shrooms. the shrooms are my appetizer tonight.

[plthijinx]

damn shel. great recipe!! it was great! only i added too much garlic. it negated the dill.

[BigV]

heh... I read pete's quote of you first (being the last post in the thread) and the FIRST THING that came to mind was, careful, that fucker is sharp.

I scrolled upward to see the source of the quote and I happily learned that you already know this fact, and did not have to learn it exsanguinously.

[Clodfobble]

I've always heard the kitchen tool called a "mandoline slicer." With or without an e, I'm not actually sure.

[glatt]

The only thing I ever bought from TV was a Super Slicer. It was worse than you would expect from a TV impulse purchase. To say this thing was utter crap would be unfair to utter crap.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by glatt

The only thing I ever bought from TV was a Super Slicer. It was worse than you would expect from a TV impulse purchase. To say this thing was utter crap would be unfair to utter crap.

Like that, only a LOT sharper.

(btw, I had no idea they were spelled differently. I've only ever heard the name spoken ... although it's probably in the instruction manual somewhere, I didn't read it.

[Tulip]

Originally Posted by glatt

The only thing I ever bought from TV was a Super Slicer. It was worse than you would expect from a TV impulse purchase. To say this thing was utter crap would be unfair to utter crap.

Glad I fought my impulse to buy it.

[Pico and ME]

This is the slicer that I feared the most. I have scars on nearly every knuckle on my right hand from slicing tomatoes back in my high school Burger King days.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

Wiki uses the spelling mandoline (with an 'e') for the kitchen implement.

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

I've always heard the kitchen tool called a "mandoline slicer." With or without an e, I'm not actually sure.

In an old house in Frisco
On 23rd and Vine
Lived 12 little cooks
Hitting the cooking wine
The sharpest one was Mandoline

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

In an old house in Frisco
On 23rd and Vine
Lived 12 little cooks
Hitting the cooking wine
The sharpest one was Mandoline

Foot is the man of a thousand limericks.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Mandolines are called that because you're sort of strumming up and down the thing. And yes, razor sharp blades are a must or it flat refuses to work. That means don't use the cheapest stainless alloy you can get your suppliers to supply, but instead the pricier alloy that will actually perform. There is such a thing as high carbon stainless steel. It's often called surgical stainless, but within that category are alloys that are better for edgeholding than some others.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Mandolines are called that because you're sort of strumming up and down the thing. And yes, razor sharp blades are a must or it flat refuses to work. That means don't use the cheapest stainless alloy you can get your suppliers to supply, but instead the pricier alloy that will actually perform. There is such a thing as high carbon stainless steel. It's often called surgical stainless, but within that category are alloys that are better for edgeholding than some others.

Ahhh. Ok that makes sense.

[casimendocina]

Is it possible to salvage jelly that hasn't set?

Story is that I made up some jelly yesterday...here everything has to go in the fridge immediately otherwise there is ant suicide on a large scale so I put icecubes in the jelly to cool it down so it could go in the fridge quickly and it hasn't set....recommendations for alternative uses or straight down the sink?