tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80458854487447051492024-02-21T00:52:14.577-06:00When Dad CooksWhat Happens When an Over-Educated Husband & Father Gets Loose in the KitchenChef Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621018056104194641noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045885448744705149.post-69387377337287255562012-11-21T07:02:00.000-06:002012-11-21T07:02:33.129-06:00Weird Wednesday: "Turkey" a Word Bigger than BirdLife has been hectic lately. Now, it's hectic for a different reason. Thanksgiving is tomorrow. I am tasked with picking up the bird and its trimmings this morning. We ordered one of those turkeys that lived a life of luxury: no injections, no cages, an upstairs maid, a chiropractor and a jet ski.<br />
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The turkey is native to North America, yet bears the name of a nation at the intersection of Europe and Asia. What's up with that, you might ask? Or you might not but I'm going to tell you anyway.<br />
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This scruffy looking bird made its way to Europe through early European explorers and traders entertaining people with the strange things they found over yonder. Things like animals, foods and Lady Gaga. Farmers in turkey started breeding the birds and traded them across Europe. They became known as "turkey birds" after their newly localized point of origin. That eventually was shortened and today we eat "turkey" with no sense of irony about the name.<br />
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As to how a turkey came to be a pejorative slam on things? Well, have you ever seen one?<br />
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Happy Thanksgiving.Chef Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621018056104194641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045885448744705149.post-8592966864892170182012-10-26T00:01:00.000-05:002012-10-26T00:01:01.069-05:00Food, Family, Friday: Breville Panini Maker
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A man wants to know he has the right tool for the job. To drive a nail, you need a hammer. To do anything else, you need duct tape. <o:p></o:p></div>
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That about covers it.
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Surprisingly, though, in the kitchen you run into the
occasional situation where a hammer and duct tape are not enough. I am not making this up. The wife says it has something to do with
keeping the food edible and I should not try to tell her duct tape is high in
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We have many kitchen tools, though we’re not big on
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kitchen items that only do one thing – and therefore are used once or so
a year – are seldom worth the money when other tools, properly used, will do
that same thing and many others as well.
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A couple years ago, we bought a Breville Panini Maker when
it was on sale at <a href="http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/breville-panini-press/?pkey=e%7Cbreville%2Bpanini%7C3%7Cbest%7C0%7C1%7C24%7C%7C1&cm_src=PRODUCTSEARCH||NoFacet-_-NoFacet-_-NoMerchRules-_-" target="_blank">Williams Sonoma</a>. This
gadget is named like a uni-tasker, but it is much more. We bought it because it not only makes great
sandwiches, it functions as an indoor grill.
We grill chicken, steaks, even salmon on this thing and they are all
done to near perfection in around six minutes.
It is especially handy if you are just throwing grilled meat into
something else like a pasta dish. Your
ingredient is done in six minutes and there is no running in and out of the
house just for an ingredient. <o:p></o:p></div>
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That is not to knock Panini, even if the name sounds like a
schoolyard taunt. A Panini is a sandwich
that got dressed up to go to the prom. That
fancied up sandwich pairs nicely with other simple things such as salads or
soups. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Cheese is key to making the whole thing work, but after that
it’s up to you. A Panini is as much a
concept to play with as it is a specific recipe. Here is one that I came up with
recently. It keeps the meat simple and
uses chopped up vegetables to add flavor and texture.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ingredients:<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 slice prosciutto per sandwich<o:p></o:p></div>
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½ pound mushrooms, sliced in two<o:p></o:p></div>
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2 medium zucchini, chopped into half inch rounds<o:p></o:p></div>
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½ large onion, sliced roughly<o:p></o:p></div>
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dash of balsamic vinegar<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 slice (or so if your bread is big) provolone cheese per
sandwich<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sun-dried tomato mayo (recipe follows)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Put a few tablespoons of marinated sun-dried tomatoes, a
clove of garlic and just enough olive oil (could come from the oil in the
tomatoes) to make sure they will whir up in a food processor. Whir them up to be as smooth as
possible. Combine that with a half cup
mayonnaise. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Grill your veggies.
You can put them on the Breville or toss them in a shaker basket and put
them on the regular grill. When they are
starting to char, remove them and let them cool a bit. Then, put them into a food processor and give
them a healthy chop with a splash of balsamic vinegar in the mix. Be sure not to puree them or your sandwich
will be a mess. You should leave them
with plenty of texture.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Take two slices of whole wheat or multi-grain bread per
sandwich. Paint one side of each slice
with olive oil. On the other sides,
paint them with the sun-dried tomato mayo.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Put a slice of prosciutto on the mayo side of a bread slice. Spread a layer of grilled veggies on
top. Place a slice of cheese over all
that and cap it with the other mayo side of another bread slice. Place that on your pre-heated Panini grill
and close the lid. It should take 3 to 5
minutes to get good grill marks and properly oozing cheese. If you start hearing lots of sizzle, your
cheese is probably melting too much and oozing onto the grill.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The cheese should help glue all the veggies together as it
melts. And if things start falling
apart, you have my permission to use a little duct tape. LEGAL DISCLAIMER: That’s a joke, son!<o:p></o:p></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Chef Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621018056104194641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045885448744705149.post-82427796480161205052012-10-24T07:10:00.000-05:002012-10-24T07:10:14.252-05:00Weird Wednesday – Ferrari Icebox
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My grandmother was born in 1888. She lived a long life and I was a later life
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We lived with Gramma.
She was a simple woman, the matriarch of quite an extended family. She spent much of her days tending her
gardens. I say “gardens” plural because
I can remember at least three that she had in various spots on our 5.5 acre
homestead. Some days, she would
disappear for hours and show up again just before dinner with her straw hat
full of twigs and an apron full of vegetables.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She would clean the veggies and put them in the
“icebox.” For the longest time, I
thought she was referring to the freezer compartment when she used that
term. Turned out, “icebox” was a
holdover from a previous era of home refrigeration.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The icebox was a piece of home furniture that was pretty
much what it sounded like. The ice man
brought a block of ice to your home and it went into a compartment high in the
box and as it melted it cooled your food.
Fancy models had ways to collect the resulting water and drain it. For the rest, you just put a tray under the
unit and Lassie lapped up the water as it collected.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They were attractive pieces of furniture as these pictures
from Wikimedia and historian Mike Manning of Magi Media show. Decidedly low tech by today’s standards, but
they could conceivably fit in any room of the house.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In a back to the future move, a UK company named Robey’s has
recovered the attractive aesthetics of that bygone era and solved that low-tech
problem. <a href="http://www.robeys.co.uk/product/meneghini_la_cambusa" target="_blank">For more than $40,000, you can buy a refrigerator </a>that could live in any room of the house. It can be configured with a coffee maker, a
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Fittingly, it is called Meneghini La Cambusa. I have no idea what that means, but it sounds
more like an Italian sports car than a box that holds beer and burgers for the big game.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s essentially a house contained in a refrigerator. It’ll do everything except tend the
garden. Of course, you probably have
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I wrote the below a couple years ago. I have since made a minor update to the recipe, so I thought I would repost it. Enjoy.<br />
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Let’s face it: butternut squash is funny looking. With the fat part down, it looks like the start of a cartoon character. With the fat part up, it’s hard to resist driving a nail into the wall with it.</div>
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But, it’s plentiful in the winter and offers that rustic, homey flavor a cold winter day cries out for. If a comfy old flannel shirt had a flavor it would taste like butternut squash.</div>
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I haven’t just posted a recipe in a while, so here is one of my favorite soups along with a spice mixture I developed after investigating Middle Eastern cooking a couple years back. I call the mixture “Middle Eastern BAM” after the popular invective Emeril utters when he tosses his “Essence” creole seasoning around. That doesn’t make this a Middle Eastern soup. Middle Eastern BAM (or “MEB” for short) comes in handy for numerous things where you want to add lots of subtle flavors. You might also try it to season the flour before you dredge mild-flavored whitefish varieties. You can also substitute other vegetables like carrots for the squash in this recipe.</div>
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Shake it all together. I do not put salt and pepper in the MEB so I can control that in whatever I’m cooking. Also, almost anything I use this with already has some fresh onion and garlic in it. Otherwise, you would want to add some onion powder and garlic powder to the mix. If you like heat, you could add a touch of cayenne, but I actually don’t recommend it. The Middle Eastern cuisine that inspired the mixture is not geared toward heat but lots and lots of subtle nuances.</div>
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1 medium or 2 small butternut squash</div>
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1 medium onion, chopped<br />
2 medium carrots, peeled and chopped</div>
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Peel, seed, and chop the butternut squash. This squash has a thick peel and if you have to work up a sweat to peel it, get thee a decent peeler anon! Put the squash on a cookie sheet and give it a minor toss with just a bit of olive oil. Into the oven with it until a fork slides into the chunks like a warm welcome at a friend’s house; if it becomes a tearful, mushy welcome at Aunt Maude’s family reunion then you cooked it a bit long but the soup will likely be fine.</div>
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Anyway, by this time your squash should be ready. Take it out of the oven and put it in with the onions. Give it a few stirs, enough to coat it a bit with the spice mixture, then add your stock and bring to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer a bit, just long enough that all your ingredients can get on a first-name basis with each other. Then – and this is very important unless you were planning on getting plastic surgery anyway – turn off the heat. Check to make sure you’re not getting bubbles any longer. Now, take out your immersion blender and puree the soup (I like a little texture left in mine, but only a little). </div>
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Return it all to an ever so gentle simmer and add the half and half, a little at a time. Let that simmer a bit and then taste it. The soup should have rich flavors that kind of finish with just a shadow of sweetness. If the sweetness is missing, add a bit of honey but don’t go overboard. Sweet is just one of many flavors here.</div>
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Chef Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621018056104194641noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045885448744705149.post-65179769454587121152012-10-17T00:01:00.000-05:002012-10-17T00:01:00.287-05:00Weird Wednesday: The Next Food Network StarReality TV is everywhere and the trend has infected cooking shows as much as any other genre. One of the highest profile is Food Network's <a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/the-next-food-network-star/index.html" target="_blank">"Food Network Star" </a>in which they put a group of star chef wannabe's through a grueling set of tasks. <br />
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It's pitched as a test of how creative these chefs are, how their style translates to Food TV and generally how good a cook they are. Even the sting of losing is softened by the thought that all the contenders have somehow joined the Food Network family.<br />
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One of the tests of creativity, of course, is how you deal with duress when things don't go quite how you planned. It's an important part of cooking shows, tracing back to Julia Child's famous flub while flipping some sort of pancake. This classic scene is juxtaposed here against Meryl Streep's recreation of it which has been on Youtube for a couple years though no doubt contains material owned by media companies.<br />
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The truth is that no matter how well prepared you are, things don't always go as you planned when you are cooking. Take the case of one cook in Holland Township, Michigan.<br />
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According to the website Mlive, a Michigan news site, <a href="http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/10/resident_using_torch_to_singe.html" target="_blank">a gentleman was preparing to cook a squirrel. </a> Like anyone would, he grabbed his propane torch to burn the fur off the carcass first.<br />
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Certainly not. This is a reasonable, pragmatic torch-wielding squirrel eater. He stepped out onto the deck of his apartment building to burn the fur off his rodent. <br />
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But, you know, things happen when you're cooking, even if you're Julia Child or a Food Network dude. In fact, things happened to 32 of the apartments as flames leaped from the deck to the roof of the building. Luckily the only injury was a firefighter who broke a toe in the blaze. As to how the toe was broken in this case of roasted rodent gone awry...insert your own joke here.<br />
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MEMO<br />
Attn: Food Network<br />
RE: The Next Food Network Star<br />
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One of the classic memes of fatherhood is the enthusiastic
welcome home Dad receives at the end of a workday. In the cartoon version, Dad is literally
knocked over with love as kids and dogs express their unbounded joy that he has
returned once again to the family nest to share his wisdom, warmth and humor
with a loving brood.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For the most part, I work out of the house. My morning and evening commute is a grueling
10 feet between the home office and the kitchen. I don’t get swarmed with love. I get people wondering what’s for dinner and
why isn’t it on the table and can I have $10 for school tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The only time I ever get overwhelmed with love, a physical
outpouring of joy and devotion that threatens to knock me off my feet, a
veritable native dance of jumping and arm waving enthusiasm…is when I make
guacamole. Even then, the object of
affection is the mulcajete full of green stuff that I have to hold over my head
to get it to the table. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And that’s not easy.
A mulcajete is a large mortar and pestle carved out of volcanic
rock. It’s cool, but it’s heavy. You do not want to drop this thing on your
toe and certainly not on your head. Culturally,
it comes from Mexico, though it is just one expression of the mortar and pestle
that comes in many forms around the world.
They are all similar in nature; you put stuff into the bowl and bash it
up. Being a rock, the mulcajete is quite
an effective basher.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This elegant rock was a birthday gift from the family. I dutifully set out making guacamole with
it. After bashing it all together, I set
the whole thing on the table and turned to get something to drink with my chips
and guac. When I returned to the table,
it was all gone and there was an outcry for more. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Since then, whenever I get the mulcajete out of the cabinet,
my family goes through a werewolf-like transformation. Though instead of deadly beasts, they turn
into a pack of coyotes yip-yipping at my heels.
As her last bit of humanity passes from her body, <a href="http://whendadcooks.blogspot.com/2010/07/conventional-wisdom.html" target="_blank">BMW</a> reminds everyone
to leave some for me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And then she tears the bag of chips open with her teeth and
growls at the kids.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chef Dad’s Making Guacamole<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ingredients:<o:p></o:p></div>
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3 large cloves of garlic<o:p></o:p></div>
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Juice of half a lime (maybe more depending on how juicy your
lime is)<o:p></o:p></div>
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2 tsp of ground coriander<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 tsp of ground cumin<o:p></o:p></div>
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Handful of cilantro<o:p></o:p></div>
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Generous pour of good extra virgin olive oil<o:p></o:p></div>
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Salt and pepper to taste (they’re important ingredients)<o:p></o:p></div>
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2 large, ripe avocadoes sectioned so it all fits into
mulcajete<o:p></o:p></div>
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The trick here is to first make a base out of all the other
ingredients, and then bash the avocadoes into that base. Put everything except the avocadoes into the
mortar and pestle. Start by crushing the
garlic cloves enough so that you can work with them. Then bash everything up, moving the mass
around. The advantage of the mulcajete
for this is that it is a rough surface so that any movement does some grinding.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Eventually, the mass will be relatively smooth (though still
textured) and a uniform green color.
Toss in the avocadoes and repeat.
You should end up with something that looks like the picture above. Give it a taste to adjust seasonings if
necessary.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then fire a couple of warning shots to clear a path to the
table and grab some chips before the coyotes regroup.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Chef Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621018056104194641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045885448744705149.post-61036491862554294842012-10-10T00:01:00.000-05:002012-10-10T00:01:01.522-05:00Weird Wednesday: McDonald’s Wants You to Know The Big Mac Rots
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It is said that after nuclear Armageddon, life on earth will
be reduced to just a couple of categories: cockroaches and Rolling Stones
guitarist Keith Richards. The theory
goes that if Keith hasn’t killed himself with the many drugs he’s done so far,
he has nothing to fear from the bomb.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jokes operate on an internal logic all their own, which is
part of what makes them funny (and, yes, analyzing jokes defines the opposite
of funny). The internal logic operating
in this case begs a further question:
What will Keith do for munchies?<o:p></o:p></div>
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McDonald’s wants Keith to know that he cannot rely on all
the leftover Big Macs on the planet because they will, indeed, rot…more or
less…under certain circumstances.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My background is in corporate communications and journalism. Generally, the corporate practice is to extol
the virtues of your product, though integrity demands that you own up to any
shortcomings. In any other industry,
products that are built to last a long time would be considered an
advantage. Not so for McDonald’s.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I cannot come up with another example of a company extoling
the inherently rotten nature of its flagship product. But, that’s what McDonald’s did in <a href="http://yourquestions.mcdonalds.ca/questions/218" target="_blank">this unusual FAQ post</a> on their Canadian corporate site. In fact, Mickey D turned the page over to a
food scientist from the University of Guelph to explain that the Big Mac decays
like any other foodstuff – just a little more slowly than you might
expect. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But, the kindly scientist offered a couple suggestions for
speeding up the process if you’re into that kind of thing. And who isn’t, am I right?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Apparently, the Internet had been feasting on the rumor that
Big Macs are so chock full of chemicals that they do not decay. Oh for the days when important rumors could
be confined to high school and Wall Street where people knew what to do with
them. Alas, now that McDonald’s and food
science have cleared up this misunderstanding, the search goes on for a
post-Armageddon foodstuff.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Perhaps Keith Richards will have to satisfy himself with
Twinkies.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I really wanted to title this post “The Courtship of Eddie’s
Mommy.” But, I wimped out and went for
the title that would be more useful for search engines.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The Courtship of Eddie’s Father” was a late 1960s TV show
starring Bill Bixby as a hip and happening widower with an inquisitive young
son named Eddie. The core of the show
involved sweet, insightful heart to heart discussions between a father and son
bonding in a changing world. Presumably,
it has never been remade because no one can figure out how to turn that into a
Charlie Sheen sitcom. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The show lasted several seasons until one day on the set
Bill Bixby turned into The Incredible Hulk and threw young Eddie into the ocean
prompting Iron Man to buy the studio and shut down production.<o:p></o:p></div>
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OK, so that’s not quite what happened, but it would be one
way to update the show, am I right?<o:p></o:p></div>
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And let's be clear to note that while these videos have been on Youtube for some time, they are no doubt copyrighted by fine upstanding organizations who recognize the value of keeping something they have already paid for in circulation.</div>
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However, this post is about Eddie’s Mommy, or edamame if you
prefer but no one in this house can ever say it that way. Seems there is a penchant for cheap jokes
around here and I can’t imagine where it comes from.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The existence of edamame is one of God’s reminders that
there is no excuse for not eating healthy.
They are shucked soybeans that are cheap, highly nutritious, tasty, go
into anything and come in a bag that will shove open the freezer door and leap
across the kitchen into the microwave without any human intervention. People, it doesn’t get any easier.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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This recipe also uses my super duper Asian Sunbutter
Sauce. Sunbutter is made from crushed
sunflower seed kernels and offers more flavor than peanut butter, which we
don’t use around here because of a peanut allergy in the family. Let's give a shout out to <a href="http://www.sunbutter.com/company.php" target="_blank">Red River Commodities and SunGold Foods</a> for producing a great product.</div>
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Like most quick sauces, the proportions can
be varied for taste preferences or desired effect. Here, I make it a little looser, with less
sunbutter and more soy sauce, than I do in other applications.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Edamame and Whole Grains<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 16 oz. bag frozen edamame, cooked as bag instructs (obey
your bag!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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~ 3 cups whole grains, cooked (we used brown rice, wild rice
and millet - yes, <a href="http://whendadcooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/food-family-friday-musing-on-millet.html" target="_blank">millet</a>!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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~ 1 pound mushrooms, chopped<o:p></o:p></div>
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2 medium zucchini, chopped (I chopped them into matchsticks
to vary textures)<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 medium yellow squash, chopped (I did a yellow one just for
color, add another zucchini if yellow isn’t your thing)<o:p></o:p></div>
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½ a large onion, chopped<o:p></o:p></div>
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Asian Sunbutter Sauce<o:p></o:p></div>
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~ 1/3 cup of good soy sauce (if acid is listed as an
ingredient, buy a different one)<o:p></o:p></div>
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2-3 splashes of apple cider vinegar<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 splash of rice wine vinegar<o:p></o:p></div>
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couple squirts of honey<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 heaping tbsp. of sunbutter<o:p></o:p></div>
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Couple cloves of garlic, minced</div>
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~ a man's thumbnail sized chunk of ginger, minced</div>
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For this dish, you should end up with about ¾ cup of total
sauce volume. Feel free to play around
with the proportions of the sauce. Don’t
skimp on the apple cider vinegar though.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Put your cooked grains into a serving bowl big enough to
toss together all ingredients.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Stir fry the mushrooms in batches and put them in with the
grains. Do the same with the onions,
zucchini and yellow squash mixing some of each per batch.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Carefully open the edamame bag as there will be steam. Drain them first in case there is too much
liquid in the bag. Add them with
everything else.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You should have a heaping dish at this point. Toss things together a bit. Then add your sauce in stages. Mix further after each addition of sauce. The whole dish should end up a bit moist, but
you don’t want it wet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Serve and have a heart to heart discussion around the table
about The Incredible Hulk.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ve been trying to lose 10 pounds for about two years
now. Recently, I discovered that to
legitimately use the word “trying” requires some sort of actual effort. Apparently, the mental work of setting the
goal and feeling health conscious does not qualify as “trying” no matter how
many glasses of wine you consume while contemplating the goal. There is even some scientific evidence that
pounds and inches will not melt away from mentally wishing it so.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Who knew?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anyway, I can now put this whole trying conversation behind
me because I am well into the process of “losing” 10 pounds. And, yes, you guessed it -- there’s an app for
that. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In fact, there is a quite popular app for that called “<a href="http://www.myfitnesspal.com/" target="_blank">MyFitness Pal</a>.” It’s easy to use and
offers a wealth of information about foods, exercise and how all that relates
to you and your body. This past weekend,
for instance, the kids wanted lunch at <a href="http://www.chipotle.com/" target="_blank">Chipotle</a> where I usually crave the
chicken burrito that tops out at about 1,000 calories, almost half of what I’m
allowed per day. Between the door and
the counter, I discovered that the Crispy Chicken Tacos are only 465
calories and they made a nice lunch.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Did I mention that it’s easy to use? In fact, it’s so easy to use that it can make
you a bit obsessive. Those of us who
remember when computers were only connected to the wall socket (we used bear skins
to stay warm in the day) probably remember when Quicken came out years
ago. I lived in California’s Silicon
Valley at the time and I knew people who were losing sleep because they were
staying up all night obsessing about their finances – simply because they could. Facebook has the same effect in the connected
world. These tools turn seemingly
straightforward aspects of your life into a 3D IMAX screen of endless data and
analysis – all about you. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology)" target="_blank">Narcissus</a> died gazing into a smartphone rather
than a pool of water. (You’ve now had
your cultural moment here on When Dad Cooks and we’ll return you to our
regularly scheduled gonzo food rant.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Once upon a time, you had to first live a life interesting
enough for an autobiography, write the autobiography and then find a publisher
who agreed that people might care.
Today, any mundane detail of your life can be turned into an
autobiography with a few taps of a screen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Want to see what I ate yesterday?” I asked <a href="http://whendadcooks.blogspot.com/2010/07/conventional-wisdom.html" target="_blank">BMW</a>. She was making pancakes at the time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“No,” she replied.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“But, it’s right here," I said. "Look, the fish was only a couple hundred calories.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“That’s nice dear.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Which doesn’t even count since I burned 385 calories on the
treadmill.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Uh huh.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I picked up the bottle of maple syrup we would have with the
pancakes and scanned the bar code. Up
popped all the information you would want to know about something you might put
in your body.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Whoa,” I said. “This
gets me close to the amount of sugar I need for the entire day.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Have some pancakes with it," BMW said. "They’re multi-grain with high fiber.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I noted that in my automated food diary.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Maybe we can take a walk after breakfast,” I suggested,
tapping away at the screen. “Should we
do a basic walk at 3 miles per hour, a brisk walk at 3.5 miles per hour or a
very brisk one at 4 miles per hour? And
how long should we go, that will determine total calories burned.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It depends,” BMW said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“On what?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“On how fast you can run.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I thought we would walk.
Look, there’s still plenty of calories burned,” I pointed out helpfully.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You’re going to run because if you don’t get away from me
with that phone I’ll be chasing you with this spatula.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Twenty minute sprint with frequent lunges to the side: 948
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Tilapia is the Rodney Dangerfield of fish. It gets no respect.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the last third of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, Rodney
Dangerfield turned every average working class guy’s
just-trying-to-make-ends-meet struggle for respectability into comedy
gold. In the 1980s he took his act to a
new generation by turning it into movies like “Caddyshack,” “Easy Money” and
“Back to School” where he played that same everyman hitting it rich and
lampooning stuffed shirt, old money rich people from within their own
cloistered institutions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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His classic line – “I don’t get no respect” – lives on now
on Youtube for yet new generations.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And Rodney’s basic notion of getting no respect despite
trying hard and doing what appears to be the right thing at the time brings me
back to tilapia. Tilapia produces more
food than it eats – and it’s a vegetarian.
That means that it can be ecologically produced in farms as it is in the
United States and elsewhere. It is one
of the few farmed fish that gets a positive rating from the <a href="http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/sfw_recommendations.aspx" target="_blank">Monterey BayAquarium’s Seafood Watch guide</a> (albeit noting that farms in Asia are not as
ecologically efficient as those in the western hemisphere). It’s one of the least expensive fish you’ll
find in the seafood case and you can find it everywhere.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yet, tilapia gets no respect. It has nice texture, but it does not bring a
lot of its own flavor. It’s salmon’s
boring, plain-faced cousin. It doesn’t
show up at the party wearing the killer skirt and strappy, high-heeled
sandals. It wears sensible shoes and a
wool coat because it’s cold outside.<o:p></o:p></div>
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From a home cook’s perspective, tilapia simply needs a
makeover.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tilapia can be dressed up in any number of ways. If you’re looking to get dinner on the table
without too much fuss, this is what we do.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ingredients:<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 piece of tilapia per person<o:p></o:p></div>
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whole grain mustard<o:p></o:p></div>
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lots of garlic, chopped<o:p></o:p></div>
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olive oil as needed<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pat the fish dry.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Combine the garlic and mustard. Whisk or stir in the oil a little at a
time. You’re not making vinaigrette, so
there is no magic to how fast the oil goes in.
But, you only want enough oil so that the mixture will coat the
fish. Leave it quite pasty.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Coat both sides of the fish with the mustard mixture. Bake it 15 minutes and check to see if it
flakes. Give it a little more time if
needed but check it again by 17 minutes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Serve it alongside rice or simple pasta and some veggies.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And show some respect.<o:p></o:p></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Chef Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621018056104194641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045885448744705149.post-38148040894454095692012-09-26T07:13:00.000-05:002012-09-26T07:13:23.261-05:00Weird Wednesday: Gummy Cows
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Recently, I wrote about <a href="http://whendadcooks.blogspot.com/2012/09/weird-wednesday-old-skinny-ornery.html" target="_blank">skinny monkeys</a>. This post is about cows on a sugar high. They run around the pasture knocking things
over, refuse to take a nap and then melt into tears in the middle of the
grocery store, attracting disapproving stares from all the other shoppers whose
cows would never do such a thing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You know who you are.
Try getting your cows to settle down after they’ve been fed a steady
diet of gummy worms.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am not making this up.
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The <a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-09-23/news/sns-rt-us-usa-cattle-candybre88m05n-20120923_1_corn-crop-greg-lardy-herd-of-dairy-cattle" target="_blank">Orlando Sentinel reports</a> that desperate cattle ranchers
are feeding their cattle “cookies, gummy worms, marshmallows, fruit loops,
orange peels, even dried cranberries.”
The nation’s drought has dried up the corn crop so that feed costs have
skyrocketed and corn-based feed is sometimes not available at any price. So, the cattle are being fed castoff
candy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Doesn’t sound healthy, you say? Well, neither is the corn. Corn-based feed is used to fatten them up
because of all the starch and sugar. So,
farmers are just finding other sources of bad calories to feed their herds.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Some high-falutin’ analysis is called for here. But, it’s early and the high-falutin’ analyst
is still asleep. So, you’re stuck with
me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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First off, I live in Texas.
Y’all don’t know drought. We have
been in drought for three or more years.
Our best chance for precipitation is to coat high school football teams
in hydrogen and oxygen atoms and hope that big hits will fuse them into water. Concussions are a small price to pay for a
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The high-falutinest point, though, is the irony of the
situation which is apparently lost on one rancher quoted in the story. This cattle businessman points out that
because cattle are ruminant animals, with a four-chamber stomach, they can eat
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That’s the whole reason cattle were domesticated to begin
with, thousands of years ago, long before gummy worms. Cattle were a source of dense protein, but
the animal’s tough gut enabled it to eat things like fibrous grasses that
humans just couldn’t gnaw down and digest.
Cattle did not compete with humans for food, so they were low
maintenance protein factories. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Modern humans, though, could not leave well enough alone and
now cattle compete with us for the corn that is in everything we eat. In this newest outrage, they’re taking our
gummy worms and marshmallows.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Soon, cowmandos will parachute into Manhattan, kidnap
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My mother used to tell me that I would never starve as long
as frozen pizza existed. It was
certainly true at the time, though regular readers know that my repertoire has
expanded somewhat. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But, frozen pizza definitely figured into my culinary
upbringing. Mom worked second shift, so
when I was a teenager she wasn’t around to make dinner for Dad and me. I was the last kid in the nest after my
siblings flew away. Dad had
retired fairly young (don’t be impressed, it was a good government pension,
nothing more). So, it was just us guys
once I got home from school.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The old man and I would often eat in shifts, both of us just
grabbing something from the fridge. Once
our small Midwestern town hit the big time we were able to go down to the KFC
for chicken. Hey, it was front-page news
in our local newspaper: “World Discovers
Us! KFC Coming.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Or words to that effect, in big bold type.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But, the freezer was always well stocked with frozen
pizza. It was a staple on the grocery
list and it was dinner a couple times a week.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Frozen pizza was the first thing I could make that even
approached the status of a family meal.
It was also a snack, often shared with Mom when she got home from working at the
hospital at 11pm. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In college, I had a roommate in a small basement
apartment. He hated cooking as much as I
hated cleaning. So, we struck an obvious
bargain.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Frozen pizza was a staple on the shopping list and it was
dinner a couple times a week. Again. Mom thought her saying about frozen pizza and
my ability to stave off starvation was vindicated. <o:p></o:p></div>
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No recipes this week on Food, Family Friday. I’m sure you can figure out how to cook a
frozen pizza. This is more of a food
musing than a regular post. I’ll be back
in form next week.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I think about frozen pizzas as I return to blogging because
it’s a food connection to my mother. She
passed away a week or so ago. If you get
a chance this weekend, raise a slice to <a href="http://www.lawjonesfuneralhome.com/obituaries/show/1000488/Gloria%20M.%20Thompson" target="_blank">Gloria Thompson</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Chef Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621018056104194641noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045885448744705149.post-73513913532355587622012-09-12T06:49:00.000-05:002012-09-12T06:49:10.371-05:00Weird Wednesday: Sushi in Texas
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I grew up in a small town in Northwestern Illinois right on
the Mississippi River. I could spit and
hit Iowa (not cultured, maybe, but it sounds like a Mark Twain phrase, doesn’t
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So, I walked. Miles. In the snow.
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If you had told me then that I would one day eat raw fish
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hair curlers. Raw food was limited to a
few vegetables and fruits where I come from.
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cult (when in Rome…), I tried sushi and was hooked. <o:p></o:p></div>
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California turned me into a sushi lover. Then, it came time to move to Texas. If you had told me then that I would one day
eat raw fish in Texas and like it I would have told you to stop sniffing just
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But, sushi is everywhere I turn in Texas. One of the best sushi places in the Austin
area is in a strip mall in the suburbs owned by a good old boy who employs
chefs trained in Japan. And the first
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And after I polish off my fatty tuna ngiri, I need to go put
on a big, ugly hat and drill for oil.
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Our nest is not empty.
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The kids are old enough to travel alone. So, we shipped them to their grandparents for
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We cooked things the kids won’t eat.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m not sure how scallops became mollusks non grata around
this house. A story circulates that my
daughter choked on one when she was much younger. But, frankly, I don’t remember it. My daughter groans with that “You are such a
Dad” roll of the eyeballs when the story comes up and I protest my ignorance.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fathers do that ignorance thing a lot. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“What do you mean I was supposed to stop at the store?” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Complex math?
Between your mother and I we know everything there is to know. That must be one of the things she knows…”<o:p></o:p></div>
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In fairness to my daughter (because, really, who wants to be
fair to Dad), scallops can be tricky to cook and they will turn into little
hockey pucks if they are over done. Once
upon a time, Chef Dad was in a trial and error phase with scallops and it’s
possible that my daughter was unwillingly drafted into the National Hockey League
on one occasion. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Cooking scallops is one of those kitchen processes where you
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a stopwatch handy. No really. The stopwatch function on your iPhone will do
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You also need to pay attention. The scallops will tell you when they are
done. But, they use sign language not a
bullhorn. When they say they are done,
remove them from the heat. Fast. Pronto.
Lickety split. Don’t worry that
they have not been on the fire very long.
Most likely, you will need to develop an instinct about this precisely
because your initial instinctive reaction will be that they are not cooked
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You need a pan big enough that you will not crowd your
scallops. Get it quite hot with just
enough oil to coat the bottom. I use
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(and be sure to say “start your stopwatch” three times fast). They should sizzle immediately. When it gets to 90 seconds, check the bottom
of the scallops. You should see a golden
crust. Turn them over and restart your
stopwatch. You’ll notice that a few
cracks have formed in what is now the golden top. That’s good.
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scallop, and that stopwatch nears the 90-second mark again, they are done. Remove them from the pan. As Julia Child once said, you need the
courage of your convictions here. Don’t
wonder if they should have just a little bit more. Don’t stop to feel like a dork because you’re
using a stopwatch to cook mollusks.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Get those scallops off the heat or join the NHL. It’s one or the other.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A properly cooked scallop can be cut with a fork with gentle
pressure. They are that tender. Some people do a pan sauce afterward with
butter and other stuff. Some recipes
call for wrapping them in bacon and good scallops are one of the few things
that bacon does not really improve. They
are so naturally sweet that they really don’t need anything more than a nice
chardonnay to go with them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Those of us of a certain age – and we know who we are – look
at some of our habits and start wondering what little changes we could make in
our diets that might pay dividends by extending our lives. Perhaps one less glass of wine here or a
little less red meat there. Maybe just a
latte instead of a venti mocha chocolate sauce-a-chino at Starbucks. How about a walk after dinner, dear? <o:p></o:p></div>
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These are all reasonable things to contemplate. Unless, of course, you’re a group of middle-aged
scientists. In which case, trying to buy
yourself a few years starts with starving monkeys.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am not making this up. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/30/science/low-calorie-diet-doesnt-prolong-life-study-of-monkeys-finds.html" target="_blank">The New York Times reports</a> that scientists have been
starving rhesus monkeys (OK, the words in the story are “severely restricted
diets”) for their own good. The theory
is that when you reach old age you should starve yourself to extend your
life. I suppose the idea is that the
body’s survival mechanisms kick in because, well, you’re starving. </div>
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No word on whether this is actually a psychological
experiment to see if those later years just seem longer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In many ways, ideas like this are nothing new. Ancient Greek physicians had a highly
developed regimen of who should eat what and saw no distinction between menus
and medicine. Generations later in
Western culture, fat people were thought to be healthy and in many ways they
were since their health was measured against the starving serfs and beggars in
the streets who did not have a very long, happy life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The link between food and medicine is now part of our
popular culture. Mass-produced foods are
marketed as medicine. Apparently, if you
eat Cheerios you don’t die. I saw it on
TV just the other day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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experiment. <o:p></o:p></div>
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When the monkeys get old, we’ll starve them to see if that
extends their lives. This was more than
just a hypothesis to some scientists.
According to the Times, some of the scientists believe in this
starvation life extension so enthusiastically that they have “severely restricted”
their own diets. The idea was
intoxicating (or perhaps it was just delirium from not eating) since several
studies on rats and other animals indicated a positive link. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So, these scientists were starving themselves and anyone who
depended on them for food without bothering to note that some other, better
fed, scientists were looking at those seminal studies and suggesting that the
science was flawed. Apparently the original
researchers discounted any lab rat deaths from a cause not directly
attributable to old age (you know, like malnutrition from not getting enough to
eat).<o:p></o:p></div>
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The results from this latest round of starvation studies? These skinny old monkeys did not live any
longer than monkeys who ate a regular diet.
However, they were three times as likely to yell things like, “You kids
get off of my lawn!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Chef Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621018056104194641noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045885448744705149.post-45082555359514176162012-09-03T09:14:00.000-05:002012-09-03T09:14:46.921-05:00Monday Musing: Reaction to NYC High LineA bunch of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/opinion/a-high-line-thats-good-for-new-york.html?ref=opinion" target="_blank">letters in the Times</a> about New York City's High Line. The High Line is a park not far from Chelsea Market in Manhattan. It's the old meat-packing district. The High Line is a piece of New York history preserved through a public-private partnership. <a href="http://whendadcooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/weird-wednesday-cowboys-in-manhattan.html" target="_blank">This post</a> about Manhattan cowboys was inspired by the High Line and the great people who support it.<br />
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Apparently someone recently opined that there are too many tourists and not enough New Yorkers along this raised railroad track turned park. I was one of those tourists when I was in NYC this summer for a food conference. Good to see New Yorkers supporting the High Line in print.Chef Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621018056104194641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045885448744705149.post-30714849835902895882012-08-31T00:01:00.000-05:002012-08-31T00:01:00.310-05:00Food, Family, Friday: Sockeye Salmon Saltimbocca
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I love salmon. Like
most salmon lovers these days, I try to eat it with as little guilt as
possible. Did it roam free? Is it really just a science experiment with
fins? Were other fish harmed in its
production? They are all meaningful
questions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To eat Sockeye salmon you either need to shop with a GPS and
a map of salmon fisheries or trust the people you’re buying it from. The species has had an up and down time of it
in the northern Pacific Rim in recent years.
But, buying it is just the first challenge. <o:p></o:p></div>
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For me, the guilt does not really begin until after I cook
it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sockeye salmon is a much drier salmon than your typical
Atlantic or even King salmon. Cooking it
is more of a challenge, one that I fail at more often than I succeed. The margin of error between “done” and “dry”
is slim indeed. Depending on the
contours of the fish itself it could be virtually impossible to grill that
salmon to an even state of doneness from thick to thin sides.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But, it’s Sockeye time of year, the reports have been more
favorable on fish populations and Whole Foods had fish from rivers with more
prosperous salmon runs. I know that
because I waterboarded the fish guy at Whole Foods on where the fish came from
(my GPS was busted). So, I decided to
buy some Sockeye. <o:p></o:p></div>
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All of which begs the question: Now what? Because now that I have threaded this needle
of conscience (waterboarding aside), I must face yet another uncomfortable
reality: I suck at Sockeye.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My solution was Salmon Saltimbocca. It’s inspired by a wonderful Italian dish
originally made with veal (and you should see the butchers at Whole Foods run
when I ask questions about the free range veal). If you break saltimbocca down to its core
elements, it is just a template that can be adapted to whatever protein you
have handy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In my case this version lightens it up in calories by using
salmon rather than red meat. I also cut
back on the butter you would typically have in an Italian restaurant. Lazy chefs can easily cover up mediocre
cooking with lots of butter.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Harrrrumph.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Along with the butter, Saltimbocca is all about: sage,
spinach and prosciutto. Prosciutto is
one of those elements that makes everything taste great. In the Greek myth, Prometheus stole fire from
the gods and brought it to earth. But, the
myth does not report the inside scoop: that fire thing was just a distraction
while his Italian cousin Luigi carried off the prosciutto. <o:p></o:p></div>
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By wrapping the Sockeye in prosciutto, I could protect the
delicate flesh from the heat and it would hold its own moisture while marrying
its relatively assertive flavor (by fish standards) with the prosciutto.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That was the theory.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Salmon Saltimbocca<o:p></o:p></div>
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~ 1.3 pounds sockeye salmon, skinned<o:p></o:p></div>
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small handful sage leaves, chopped<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 small bunch spinach<o:p></o:p></div>
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a whole bunch of garlic, chopped<o:p></o:p></div>
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~ 1 to 2 tbsp butter (hey, it’s gonna feed four people)<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, first I had to take the fish off the skin. This is a combination art and science. Put the flesh side up on a cutting
board. Use the longest, sharpest knife
you have. Now comes the mental part of
the task. <o:p></o:p></div>
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You cannot go into this thinking that you’re cutting the
skin off the flesh. In reality, you are
scraping the flesh off the skin. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Find a spot, usually a corner on the thin end, and make a
small cut so that you can get your knife down to the skin but don’t saw through
it. This is a skill you develop by
feeling your way and when you get to the skin it will feel different from the
flesh.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Get your knife parallel to the cutting board and then angle
it slightly so that the blade is lower than the non-cutting edge. Now saw slowly back and forth with a gentle
forward pressure, scraping the flesh up off the skin. If you started on a corner, you want to work
your way so that you are generally centered width-wise on the fish even if
you’re still sawing back and forth as you progress. Peg the skin down with your other hand as you
go so that you keep some tension on it.
The goal is to get as much of the flesh off the skin as possible. You will no doubt sacrifice a little flesh,
but however much you leave behind this time, take that as a baseline and do
better next time. This is something that
takes practice.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And voila! </div>
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If yours doesn’t look like this the first time, well, mine
didn’t either but that was a while ago.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cut the salmon into pieces for serving. Wrap the salmon in the prosciutto. Get thin prosciutto and you can easily mold
it to where you need it to be. Tear some
pieces and patch it together to cover it all if you have to. It will all hold together. Set the prosciutto-wrapped salmon aside while
you get the pasta fixings going.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wash, chop and get your spinach ready to go. Chop some sage. How much?
Depends on how big the leaves are.
Sage is a core element of this dish.
But, a little sage can go a long way.
So, basically, I pull leaves until I think I have enough and then pull a
couple more. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If that sounds inexact and unscientific, well heckfire this
dish is not supposed to be made with salmon to begin with. I’m improvising on an improvisation here.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the same vein, chop as much garlic as you can stand. Then chop some more.</div>
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Boil some pasta according to directions. Splurge on some good artisanal pasta for this
dish.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Preheat the oven to 300 degrees. You need a skillet which is going into that
oven for just a few minutes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pour a middling amount of olive oil into the oven-ready pan
and heat it over a medium to medium-high flame.
Place your salmon-prosciutto packages into the pan and let them
sizzle. Depending on your stove this is
probably three to four minutes, but you want the prosciutto to brown some on
the bottom. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Turn the packages gently and keep them on the stove for just
a moment or two, then put the pan in the oven.
Total time in the oven will be another four to five minutes. Again, you’ll have some color on the bottom
and where the salmon is peeking out it will look pink and ready to eat.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Remove the salmon to a plate and keep warm. Off the heat, add the butter. Don’t put the pan back on the heat until the
butter is melted. Add the garlic. Once it is fragrant, add your chopped sage
and stir it together. Moments later, add
the spinach and stir it until the spinach is wilted. While the moisture from the spinach is all swizzled
with the butter, add your pasta and combine it all.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was wonderful. As
little guilt as possible. Sorry about
that waterboarding thing. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Not sure what to write about. It’s early.
Life changed yesterday when the school year started for everyone in the
house – students and teacher alike. A
bit disoriented this morning. But,
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I’ll figure it out.
Once I get my coffee.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This blog has a strong spiritual connection to coffee. I often write <b>When Dad Cooks</b> at 6:30 in the
morning. It’s one of the ways I wake up
to face the day. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But, that’s not what this post is about.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Man does not face the day armed only with his food
blog. He also needs his coffee. Coffee has a long and amazing history
involving colonial conquest, religious sacrifice, modern-day child slavery and
the Starbuckification of the world. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But, this post is not about those things either.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I take my coffee black.
Not with sugar. Not with
cream. Black. Do not lighten it with your confounding
confections. I want my coffee the color
of Jack the Ripper’s soul as seen from a deep cave while wearing sunglasses and
using a lump of coal as a telescope. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Some day I’ll write about the variety of waitress responses
when you order your coffee in those words.
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Coffee is different in different parts of the world despite
Starbucks’s best efforts. One morning
long ago I thought I’d died and gone to heaven.
I awoke from a deep, jet-lagged sleep and stumbled to a business meeting
I could smell from around the block. And
the coffee itself walked out of the machine and down my throat. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Not heaven, actually. I was just in Munich, Germany. Those Bavarians know how to make coffee with
some crunch.</div>
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However, this post is not about Bavarians
or even Jack the Ripper. I’ll find a
topic soon. Have to before the wife
wakes up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I don’t have a fancy coffee machine. I did once, but I got over it. It was one of those things that grinds the
coffee, heats the water, adjusts the drip rate and files your taxes for
you. I became completely dependent on
it, forgetting how to make coffee for myself.
At the first malfunction, I beat it with a hammer trying to fix it. It still didn’t work. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So, I got a bigger hammer.
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And before you judge me for that, remember, I hadn’t had my
coffee yet. What’s worse, I had to
relearn how to make it for myself before I could get my coffee. I had a bad month that day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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While we’re on the subject of coffee technology (which is
still not what this post is about), have you seen these new-fangled, sleek,
high-tech machines that make just one cup of coffee? What’s up with that? <o:p></o:p></div>
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We can put a man on the moon and a lawn mower on Mars and
someone thought this was a good use of science? All that money, research and development and
you get just ONE CUP OF COFFEE? How did
that make sense to anyone? No Bavarians
involved there, by God…<o:p></o:p></div>
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But, I digress. Well,
the truth is I am digressing within an extended digression. Must be a topic around here somewhere.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Following the unfortunate incident with the coffee maker, we
bought a French press carafe. Those
French know how to make coffee too. You
have to learn how to do it, but you’re doing it for yourself. No big-time technology involved and you get a
whole darned pot of the stuff.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You boil the water.<o:p></o:p></div>
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pour your water over them. Replace the
lid and leave the plunger up. Time it
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<!--EndFragment-->Chef Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621018056104194641noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045885448744705149.post-90678417996303301382012-08-24T07:18:00.001-05:002012-08-24T10:40:23.478-05:00Food, Family, Friday: Clam and Garlic PizzaOur favorite pizza is the one we make ourselves from scratch. Actually, we usually make three. This is almost always a Friday night affair that everyone helps with. We have two teens and anyone expecting to eat pizza has to help make it.<br />
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Our standard three pizzas are:<br />
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<li>Sausage, mushroom and onion</li>
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You need a pizza stone. Put it on the bottom rack of your oven. Set the oven to 375. Your pizza stone directions say that you need to heat the stone for 20 minutes. They are lying. Heat it for half an hour before you put a pizza on there.<br />
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Making pizza is really about making the ingredients. From there, pizza is not so much made as it is assembled. It's like building the legs and arms of a Lego robot first and then later attaching them to the torso to complete the final beastie. Check <a href="http://whendadcooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/pizza-week-continues-bmws-pizza-crust.html" target="_blank">here</a> for the wife's pizza crust recipe. Now, you just need something to go on top.<br />
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Cheese:<br />
Pre-mixed bags of pizza cheese are fine, but the flavor profile pales in comparison to grating your own cheese mixture.<br />
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Grate together fresh mozzarella, regianno-parmigianno, romano, and asiago cheeses. Proportions are pretty much about your own tastes. Fresh mozzarella usually comes in about a baseball-sized chunk and we use all of that. It's a moist cheese so it will be a bit messy as you grate it. The reggianno-parmigianno is probably the next largest component and together they provide the core of your cheese mixture. The romano and asiago add richness and some flavor highlights to your cheese. Mix all that up gently but thoroughly. You should have at last three to four cups of cheese in total. Don't worry about having too much. Taste it and you'll know that you're not going to waste it even if you have some left over.<br />
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Sauce seems to be one of the more daunting things about pizza-making from scratch. So people tend to buy it. But, making your own sauce is actually less work than going to the grocery store and deciding among the 14 million tomato sauce options on the shelves. I've seen Dads use up all their cell phone minutes trying to make a decision in that aisle.<br />
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Ingredients:<br />
~ half a medium onion, diced<br />
~ 4 good-sized garlic cloves, chopped<br />
~ 1 tbsp. tomato paste<br />
1 14 oz. can diced tomatoes (we use Muir Glen roasted)<br />
small handful of fresh herbs (oregano is the key, plus some basil or parsley)<br />
good extra virgin olive oil (we use Lucini)<br />
Splash of balsamic vinegar and/or bit of sugar, optional<br />
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In a sauce pan, start with a generous pour of the olive oil, it is actually an important ingredient in pizza sauce. Saute the onion until soft. Stir in the tomato paste until it coats the onion completely. Add the garlic and stir until the garlic reaches out, grabs you by the nose and yanks your face down to the pan (around 30 seconds). (If you are using dried herbs instead of fresh, add them now, just before the tomatoes go in and give them a quick stir to incorporate into the base.)<br />
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Add the tomatoes with their juice. Stir it all together and adjust heat to simmer. You want to simmer out most of the liquid so that you end up with something that is getting chunky, though it should not be completely dry. Turn off the heat and wait until it stops bubbling. Then puree it with your stick blender or transfer to a regular blender and then back into the pan. It doesn't need to be completely smooth and, in fact, you can skip the blending step all together if you want. <br />
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Taste it. Add the vinegar and/or sugar only if you think it needs a little more acid kick and sweetness, all of which depends on the quality of the tomatoes that went into the can. Get it back to the lowest of simmers and add your fresh herbs. Call it "sauce" and turn it off while you tend to other stuff.<br />
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You now have everything needed for the basic cheese pizza. Saute some sausage, mushrooms and onions together and you can now assemble two pizzas. The clam and garlic pizza, though, is a special creation. You won't need the sauce, but you will need a few fresh tomatoes.<br />
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Clam and garlic pizza<br />
Ingredients:<br />
2 small cans chopped clams, thoroughly drained<br />
~ 2 bulbs of garlic chopped<br />
2 to 3 small tomatoes, seeded and chopped<br />
fresh basil, chopped<br />
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I put the little "~" sign in front of the "2 bulbs of garlic" note because for reasons I cannot comprehend people do not routinely use enough garlic to shut down production of every vampire show on cable TV. If it shocks you that there might be that much garlic involved in a clam and garlic pizza, well, the truth is that I am likely to use more than that. If you want to use less than two bulbs you are certainly welcome to. But, remember that it's called "clam and garlic" for a reason and that reason is that there will be only two main toppings on this pizza and one of them ain't clams.<br />
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For such a pungent ingredient, garlic is delicate stuff. It burns easily and you will not want to put it in your mouth if it is burned (if you think 2 bulbs of garlic sounds overpowering, try burning just one clove). Bring the garlic up to temperature from a cold start. Put a decent pour of olive oil in a pan and then put the garlic in. Then turn the pan on to around medium heat depending on your stove. Don't walk away.<br />
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As soon as the garlic shows the slightest sizzle, adjust your heat downward and be prepared to keep using your knobs for a couple minutes. The garlic should enjoy a warm embrace from the olive oil, like your mother saying she loves you rather than Great Aunt Maude carrying on about how you've grown. Stir it from time to time but watch it like a hawk. At the first sign of color, it is done and you should throw in the clams. <br />
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Stir the mixture together and keep stirring for a minute. Then put in the tomatoes and herbs and stir all that together. You can raise the heat a bit now if you want. Along about here you want to salt it somewhat generously and, yes, you'll just have to trust me on that. Cook it only until the tomatoes start to break down.<br />
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That mixture and cheese are the only things that go on your clam and garlic pizza. No sauce.<br />
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I say again, no sauce.<br />
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And thus ends Pizza Week.<br />
<br />Chef Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621018056104194641noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045885448744705149.post-17915667802911687582012-08-22T00:01:00.000-05:002012-08-22T00:01:00.540-05:00Weird Wednesday: Why Does Pizza Get Delivered?
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That's because even Microsoft acknowledges that pizza in this nation is just as much about cars, doorbells and cardboard boxes as it is tomato sauce and cheese. </div>
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When was the last time you picked up the phone and ordered a
hamburger for delivery? Would you like
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Or what about a roasted chicken? Do the yellow pages have a special listing
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Does a cowboy fire a warning shot when he rides up with your
order of Tex-Mex? On St. Patrick’s Day,
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So, why does pizza get delivered? It’s a question full of cultural, historical
and economic significance and I seem to be the only one bothered by it. I can’t get <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000115/" target="_blank">Nicolas Cage</a> and the producers
behind the “<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368891/" target="_blank">National Treasure</a>” movies interested. Conspiracy novelist Dan Brown and Tom Hanks
won’t even take my call despite the obvious connections to hazy Italian history
and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar" target="_blank">The Knights Templar</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And countless delivery people refuse the tip and speed away
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The vast majority of the pizza consumed in this nation comes
delivered. Several huge businesses like <a href="http://www.papajohns.com/about/index.shtm" target="_blank">Papa John's</a> and <a href="http://www.dominos.com/" target="_blank">Domino's</a> prepare fresh food for families without an actual restaurant to serve it
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No other food that I can think of has seen this kind of
transformation. In certain areas, you
can give an honorable mention to Chinese food; but, that’s highly localized and
incremental business to a neighborhood restaurant. Fast food chains certainly depend on
drive-through lanes but you still have to come to the food, it does not come to
you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Why does pizza get delivered?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Frozen pizza companies like <a href="http://www.digiorno.com/" target="_blank">DiGiorno</a> promote themselves as
being as good as real pizza – of course, that’s the pizza that gets
delivered. You know it and DiGriorno
knows it. Their commercials are built
upon the idea that the culture expects pizza to be delivered. It’s a perception they have to
overcome because we all believe that pizza, by definition, is brought to the door by a delivery guy. In the commercial below, a rather excitable and perplexed delivery guy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The evidence is everywhere that pizza as an economic artifact and cultural phenomenon has become a delivered commodity.</div>
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Spaghetti, also Italian, by and large is not in that category. Eggplant
Parmigiana? Nope. Risotto?
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Chef Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621018056104194641noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045885448744705149.post-63507551122449571412012-08-21T07:17:00.000-05:002012-08-21T07:17:01.686-05:00Pizza Week Continues: BMW's Pizza Crust RecipeGotta make this fast. I found <a href="http://whendadcooks.blogspot.com/2010/07/conventional-wisdom.html" target="_blank">BMW's</a> pizza crust recipe. She guards it jealously. So, I'm crouching in the pantry to get this posted without her knowing. <br />
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Better to beg for mercy after the fact than ask permission.<br />
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It's worth folding yourself up into a ball and having an electric griddle poke you where the sun don't shine. It's a great crust. It has flavor and texture and gets crisp everywhere even with sauce and meat on it. <br />
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Apparently, she's been developing this for a while. I found the ragged remains of a little recipe booklet we got many years ago with a bread-making machine. We got rid of the machine a while back when she decided to start baking bread from scratch. I wondered why she kept the recipe booklet.<br />
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She uses the base recipe for pizza dough from that book and has modified it over the years. Pizza crust, like so much else in cooking and life, is a matter of experience.<br />
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Ingredients:<br />
1 cup plus 1 tbsp. of water<br />
1 tbsp. of olive oil<br />
1 tbsp. of sugar<br />
1 tsp. of salt<br />
1.5 cups of white bread flour<br />
1 cup of whole wheat flour<br />
1 tsp. of active dry yeast<br />
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This recipe makes one to two pizzas, depending on how big you want them. Around here, she usually doubles the recipe and then makes three pizzas roughly 10 inches across. To get there she stretches the dough with her delicate hands and does the classic flying saucer bit as well, throwing the flattened dough in the air. It has to spin when you toss it to stretch. Not for the faint of heart or slow of hand. I'm sure you recently saw the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNfSJIyFMVw" target="_blank">classic Julia Child bit</a> where she flips the pancake or whatever it is and claims it is easy if you have the courage of your convictions. Then, she has to piece it all back together. Well, the same goes for flipping pizza dough like a quarter. If courage isn't your thing, rolling pins and your hands work just as well.<br />
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You need a pizza stone to get the crust just right, but I'll get to all that on Friday. Right now, I need to quietly open the pantry door and get out of here without getting...<br />
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<br />Chef Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621018056104194641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045885448744705149.post-14147845504115668602012-08-20T00:30:00.000-05:002012-08-20T00:30:01.707-05:00Pizza Week Guest Post: Refrigerator Pizza
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<i>Ric Granryd is a soccer coach in Austin and the director of
operations for the <a href="http://www.austinaztex.com/" target="_blank">Austin Aztex</a> soccer team (USL). He has coached teams at the college level in
California, Wisconsin, Ohio and Missouri.
He was also a professional goalkeeper along the way. Ric is my son’s goalkeeping coach and for
those in the area I recommend him highly.
He is also a husband, a father and a <b>When Dad Cooks</b> fan. He has a pizza story to tell that sounds like
something Chef Dad would do. Remember guys,
owning up to mistakes is entirely dependent on whether they are disasters or
flavor enhancers.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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pasta or refrigerator pizza – when I will literally take leftovers and anything
else we have in the fridge and make a pasta dish, casserole or assemble it all on
the HEB (Texas grocery chain), 2 for $5 frozen cheese pizzas (we like crispy
crusts, and these make for great crusts – without making it yourself). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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night. I needed an “overall flavor melder” and made a dark red,
pungent-tomato sauce, by taking the strained liquid from a can of Italian-style
diced tomatoes and simply adding tomato paste. Oh yeah, as that was
cooking on the stove, I got involved in NCIS Los Angeles and forgot to turn
down the heat. So, I had a little burn action at the bottom of the pan
(not real bad, but a little black) – and stirred it around in there.
Man…it was really, really good. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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our local HEB here in Austin) and use a simple pizza flavor blender to marry
the basic pizza with the toppings you pulled from the fridge. Ric uses the strained liquid from a can of Italian
diced tomatoes and simmers it with tomato paste. </i></span></div>
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car chases, don’t worry if the sauce gets a little crispy. Stir it in and you get that smoky flavor you
always wanted. </i></span><i style="font-family: Calibri;">As they say in software development: it’s not a bug, it’s a feature. </i></div>
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cooking by dropping some meat into that new-fangled fire thing while watching
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Chef Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621018056104194641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045885448744705149.post-4691376430522672402012-08-17T00:01:00.000-05:002012-08-17T00:01:00.081-05:00Food, Family, Friday: Remember the Alamo & Save Your Cheese Rinds
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I printed out this recipe from <a href="http://www.thekitchn.com/cozy-winter-recipe-onepot-past-135992" target="_blank">The Kitchn for pasta fagioli</a>
(that’s pasta and beans for all of us who only WANT to be Italian). We eat a lot of pasta around here and I like
pasta fagioli because it’s a little different.
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I liked this one in particular because it was different
still. Classic pasta fagioli is quite
soupy (NOT that there’s anything wrong with that). It’s peasant food and peasants focus on fresh
stuff that creates high flavor and then they stretch a single dish into as many
meals as possible. So leaving it soupy
was a way to get a few dinners out of it.
By contrast, the whole motive force behind this Kitchn recipe was to
reduce the liquid content and put the pasta and beans at center stage.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That, plus the bacon.
<a href="http://whendadcooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/food-family-friday-bacon-nuf-said.html" target="_blank">As I wrote recently</a>, everything is better with bacon. It was another excuse to use <a href="http://www.applegate.com/" target="_blank">Applegate Farms</a>
turkey bacon. If pigs could fly, they
would taste this good.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The recipe sat on the island while I started gathering pots
and such. As you likely know, I do not
follow any recipe to the letter. BMW (<a href="http://whendadcooks.blogspot.com/2010/07/conventional-wisdom.html" target="_blank">that's the wife</a> for new readers) looked at the printed paper and noticed my one chicken scratch across the top.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Remember the cheese rinds,” she read out loud. “That like remember the Alamo.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, yes, but completely different. It’s sometimes a losing battle, but I doubt
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Those of you who regularly grate hard cheeses like
Parmigiano-Reggiano probably have a few scraped knuckles from trying to pry the
last shreds of real cheese off the rind.
There’s a principle to defend in doing so, of course. You paid for all that cheese, including the
part that’s up against the rind. It’s simply
American to feel a little irked about paying for something you are structurally
unable to use.<o:p></o:p></div>
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and that last sliver of soap that keeps slipping through your fingers and
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Save your cheese rinds, my friends. When you can’t scrape any more cheese off the
rind and figure you’ve donated enough skin to the grating gods, take the rind
and put it into a bag in the freezer. It
will keep for months. Just like a
chicken carcass is the start of a pot of soup or a freezer full of stock,
cheese rinds can be tossed into soups or sauces so that you can milk all the
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It’s not so much a cheese flavor they add as a depth of
flavor in general. If you ever had a
thin soup that tasted like warm water with stuff floating in it (NOT that
there’s anything wrong with that), that was a soup that needed cheese
rinds. Or, if you ever wondered how the
Italian grandmother down the street turned a simple tomato sauce into a
religious experience, check her freezer for cheese rinds.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Recipes generally don’t include using your saved cheese rinds because
most people don’t have them hiding in the freezer. It’s something you pick up from another cook. Thus, I scrawled the words “remember cheese
rinds” across the recipe while it was hot off the printer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chef Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621018056104194641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8045885448744705149.post-38437407165630256682012-08-16T21:10:00.000-05:002012-08-16T21:10:58.499-05:00When Dad Cooks Special Event: Pizza Week
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Like a scavenger following a <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/shark-week/" target="_blank">Great White Shark</a> in the ocean,
hoping to lap up a few lingering crumbs, When Dad Cooks announces our first
annual Pizza Week. And for any of my
writing students popping in, yes “first annual” is a contradiction in terms.<o:p></o:p></div>
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from local Austin soccer coach Ric Granryd, director of operations for the USL’s
<a href="http://www.austinaztex.com/" target="_blank">Austin Aztex</a>. Regular features Weird
Wednesday and Food, Family, Friday will feature pizza and look for Pizza Tweets
and special posts along the way.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The human sense of taste evolved in part to protect us from
bad food. For instance, natural poisons
tend to be bitter on the tongue and we do not like bitter tastes (obviously,
that does not explain cable news shows but that’s a topic for a different
blog). Rotten foods as well are more
easily avoided because of their off flavors, but especially their smell and the
olfactory sense is closely associated with taste. Rotten foods trigger a physical response so
that we will avoid them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Except when we don’t.
In fact, sometimes we go to elaborate lengths to rot food so that then –
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Go into your favorite gourmet supermarket and your nose will
likely carry you to the section created specifically to display artisanal
rotted mammary gland secretions. Fancy
French restaurants will bring an entire cart of these rotten delicacies to your
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They just call it “cheese.” Actually, the French call it
“fromage” but you get my point. The
marketing consultants must have discovered that the name “rotted mammary gland
secretions” did not test well with the focus groups.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And we’ve embraced the rot elsewhere. Sauternes wine gets its delicate sweetness
from rotted grapes. Even the Internet is
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Astute readers of this blog will no doubt leap to the
conclusion that rotten bananas in the fridge must be a sign of Chef Dad at
work. A science experiment? Hiding things from guests? Preparing to throw things at the TV if the
Texas Longhorns have another lousy season?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Admittedly, I’m capable of all those things. But, in this case the ringed finger of rot
should point to BMW. Rotting bananas in
the fridge is a clear sign that we’ll be having banana muffins soon. You’ve no doubt seen commercials for foods
that tout they were “picked at the peak of freshness.” Well, for banana muffins, BMW uses the exact
opposite philosophy. Apparently, there
is a peak of non-freshness as well, just this side of when they really are
rotten and a few steps away from when they would walk out of the fridge on
their own like Thing in the Addams Family.<o:p></o:p></div>
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