Comments on: The Return of the Appetite http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/07/23/the-return-of-the-appetite/ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:25:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Pony http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/07/23/the-return-of-the-appetite/#comment-24453 Pony Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:50:33 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/07/23/the-return-of-the-appetite/#comment-24453 Cast iron frying pans are a staple here too Jezzabella, although perhaps less so for the present generation of cooks than mine. They were and still are a stalwart in the bush. MMMM pickerel and bannock cooking over an open fire next to an ice-cold northern lake. Cast iron frying pans are a staple here too Jezzabella, although perhaps less so for the present generation of cooks than mine. They were and still are a stalwart in the bush. MMMM pickerel and bannock cooking over an open fire next to an ice-cold northern lake.

]]> By: Jezebella http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/07/23/the-return-of-the-appetite/#comment-24452 Jezebella Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:29:39 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/07/23/the-return-of-the-appetite/#comment-24452 It is nearly lunch time here in Mississippi, and you all are making me hungrier and hungrier. The doppio mezzaluna sounds like an outstanding device for making egg salad & the like, I've never seen one of those. By the way, if you Google "doppio mezzaluna", darkymac's post (two or three up from here) is the first result. inneresting, yah? I find, however, that the more I cook, the less kitchen gadgets I use. I use the chef's knife for everything slicey, dicey, and choppy. I've switched almost entirely to cast-iron skillets (I now have them in three sizes and finally, FINALLY, can fry an egg overeasy properly). Here in the Deep South one can find used, and therefore properly carnivorously lardically seasoned ready-to-use cast iron skillets. In fact, after the hurricane, a group of local New Orleans locals bought a truckload of cast-iron skillets and commenced to seasoning them and passing them out to those who'd lost the family cast-iron in the floods. It is nearly lunch time here in Mississippi, and you all are making me hungrier and hungrier.

The doppio mezzaluna sounds like an outstanding device for making egg salad & the like, I’ve never seen one of those. By the way, if you Google “doppio mezzaluna”, darkymac’s post (two or three up from here) is the first result. inneresting, yah?

I find, however, that the more I cook, the less kitchen gadgets I use. I use the chef’s knife for everything slicey, dicey, and choppy. I’ve switched almost entirely to cast-iron skillets (I now have them in three sizes and finally, FINALLY, can fry an egg overeasy properly). Here in the Deep South one can find used, and therefore properly carnivorously lardically seasoned ready-to-use cast iron skillets. In fact, after the hurricane, a group of local New Orleans locals bought a truckload of cast-iron skillets and commenced to seasoning them and passing them out to those who’d lost the family cast-iron in the floods.

]]> By: Rachella http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/07/23/the-return-of-the-appetite/#comment-24301 Rachella Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:56:55 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/07/23/the-return-of-the-appetite/#comment-24301 Re the expensive mandoline. Like the expensive food processor, it is now gathering dust at the back of the cabinet. However, were I to want to julienne a lot of veggies, the expensive one has replacement blades that make matchstick and regular french fry size sticks (or batons, it's a french mandoline) very quickly. I find I never do that and if I need half a cup I can slice with the cheapy and julienne by hand. The expensive one also will probably stay sharp long after the cheapy has been replaced. It's also bigger than the cheapy, which will stand on its end and has a small footprint. One thing about less expensive veggie cutters is they don't stay sharp forever. I use mine and they get dull and must be replaced every couple of years. Re the expensive mandoline. Like the expensive food processor, it is now gathering dust at the back of the cabinet. However, were I to want to julienne a lot of veggies, the expensive one has replacement blades that make matchstick and regular french fry size sticks (or batons, it’s a french mandoline) very quickly. I find I never do that and if I need half a cup I can slice with the cheapy and julienne by hand. The expensive one also will probably stay sharp long after the cheapy has been replaced. It’s also bigger than the cheapy, which will stand on its end and has a small footprint.

One thing about less expensive veggie cutters is they don’t stay sharp forever. I use mine and they get dull and must be replaced every couple of years.

]]> By: darkymac http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/07/23/the-return-of-the-appetite/#comment-24287 darkymac Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:52:21 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/07/23/the-return-of-the-appetite/#comment-24287 <i>It’s got a handle on top, kind of like a bench knife, and usually two parallel curved blades. That was the best thing for chopping hard-boiled eggs.</i> That appears to be a doppio mezzaluna. A grand mincing machine and indeed the cleanest egg-chopper. Being too lazy to fetch out -- and clean up -- special tools, one keeps the big chef's knife sharp for most mincing, but the chopping of egg demands the mezzaluna. It’s got a handle on top, kind of like a bench knife, and usually two parallel curved blades. That was the best thing for chopping hard-boiled eggs.

That appears to be a doppio mezzaluna. A grand mincing machine and indeed the cleanest egg-chopper. Being too lazy to fetch out — and clean up — special tools, one keeps the big chef’s knife sharp for most mincing, but the chopping of egg demands the mezzaluna.

]]> By: Ledasmom http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/07/23/the-return-of-the-appetite/#comment-24276 Ledasmom Thu, 27 Jul 2006 01:51:54 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/07/23/the-return-of-the-appetite/#comment-24276 Please tell me that there is, in fact, an official film-rating abbreviation for "Nudity and Blubber Eating". I just made near-perfect braised baby bok choy and nobody else in this family is smart enough to eat it. Sucks to be them. Rachella, what do you use the expensive mandoline for? Does it have functions that the cheap one knows not of? And does anyone have a really good recipe for that thing with the fried green beans and the spicy pork? You know, the one that, if you're in a really good Chinese restaurant, they make with the foot-long or asparagus beans? I am not worried about slicing my fingers with a mandoline, because my worst finger scar, about an inch long, is from one of those awful cat-food cans that you don't need the opener for, you know, with the pull-off lid. I figure that when my fingers' times come, they come. Please tell me that there is, in fact, an official film-rating abbreviation for “Nudity and Blubber Eating”.
I just made near-perfect braised baby bok choy and nobody else in this family is smart enough to eat it. Sucks to be them.
Rachella, what do you use the expensive mandoline for? Does it have functions that the cheap one knows not of? And does anyone have a really good recipe for that thing with the fried green beans and the spicy pork? You know, the one that, if you’re in a really good Chinese restaurant, they make with the foot-long or asparagus beans?
I am not worried about slicing my fingers with a mandoline, because my worst finger scar, about an inch long, is from one of those awful cat-food cans that you don’t need the opener for, you know, with the pull-off lid. I figure that when my fingers’ times come, they come.

]]> By: pony http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/07/23/the-return-of-the-appetite/#comment-24274 pony Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:39:26 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/07/23/the-return-of-the-appetite/#comment-24274 Yes ulu's were women's knives because they were used for work on skins, hides and carcasses. Traditionally only women did that work. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner is an excellent film about Inuit told from their perspecitve. Should be available at any good alternative video store, or from the National Film Board site I linked in another thread. It's a story about survival and treachery (oh and there's lots of patriarchy blaming to be had) at the turn of the millenium, in Inuit with English subtitles. Nudity and blubber eating. Yes ulu’s were women’s knives because they were used for work on skins, hides and carcasses. Traditionally only women did that work.

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner is an excellent film about Inuit told from their perspecitve. Should be available at any good alternative video store, or from the National Film Board site I linked in another thread. It’s a story about survival and treachery (oh and there’s lots of patriarchy blaming to be had) at the turn of the millenium, in Inuit with English subtitles. Nudity and blubber eating.

]]> By: Rachella http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/07/23/the-return-of-the-appetite/#comment-24273 Rachella Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:10:44 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/07/23/the-return-of-the-appetite/#comment-24273 Hello all. . .I just discovered y'all and I'm in heaven. Re mandolines. I have an expensive one and a cheap ($35) one. I use the cheap one all the time (4-5 times a week) for slicing everything. The cheap one is a "Swissmar Borner V-Slicer Plus" and it works fabulously. You really should use the tool that comes with it to hold the veggies in place. I have a somewhat skewed ring fingertip and, hence, can speak from experience. This dohickey works very well because it has little prongy things to hold it in place. I adore you all. Hello all. . .I just discovered y’all and I’m in heaven.

Re mandolines. I have an expensive one and a cheap ($35) one. I use the cheap one all the time (4-5 times a week) for slicing everything.

The cheap one is a “Swissmar Borner V-Slicer Plus” and it works fabulously. You really should use the tool that comes with it to hold the veggies in place. I have a somewhat skewed ring fingertip and, hence, can speak from experience. This dohickey works very well because it has little prongy things to hold it in place.

I adore you all.

]]> By: Ledasmom http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/07/23/the-return-of-the-appetite/#comment-24265 Ledasmom Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:45:45 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/07/23/the-return-of-the-appetite/#comment-24265 Anyone have one of those wooden bowls with the knife shaped to fit it? It's got a handle on top, kind of like a bench knife, and usually two parallel curved blades. That was the best thing for chopping hard-boiled eggs. Anyone have one of those wooden bowls with the knife shaped to fit it? It’s got a handle on top, kind of like a bench knife, and usually two parallel curved blades. That was the best thing for chopping hard-boiled eggs.

]]> By: Hellatia http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/07/23/the-return-of-the-appetite/#comment-24235 Hellatia Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:23:58 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/07/23/the-return-of-the-appetite/#comment-24235 I have been lurking for a bit here but the sliced fingers kinda got to me. I do have a rather spendy mandoline with which I have sliced my own digits. Mostly,however, I avoid all bloodshed with something called an ulu which is also called a--get this--woman's knife. No blaming! Honest to Jah the chicks of the arctic know well how to slice their blubber and spare their own. Here's a link for youse: http://www.athropolis.com/arctic-facts/fact-ulu.htm happy chopping I have been lurking for a bit here but the sliced fingers kinda got to me. I do have a rather spendy mandoline with which I have sliced my own digits. Mostly,however, I avoid all bloodshed with something called an ulu which is also called a–get this–woman’s knife. No blaming! Honest to Jah the chicks of the arctic know well how to slice their blubber and spare their own. Here’s a link for youse: http://www.athropolis.com/arctic-facts/fact-ulu.htm

happy chopping

]]> By: Ledasmom http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/07/23/the-return-of-the-appetite/#comment-24225 Ledasmom Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:59:19 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/07/23/the-return-of-the-appetite/#comment-24225 Thank you, grr kitty, the link works fine. That looks just about right. Went to farmer's market again today and found the booth with the Asian stir-fry greens (I had never seen some of these greens) and fresh dill and pea tendrils and baby bok choy. Thank you, grr kitty, the link works fine. That looks just about right. Went to farmer’s market again today and found the booth with the Asian stir-fry greens (I had never seen some of these greens) and fresh dill and pea tendrils and baby bok choy.

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