[Sca-cooks] Stupid cook tricks

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Jan 1, 2006, at 6:43 PM, Elaine Koogler wrote:

> Robin wrote:
>
>> Sometimes, it can be a mistake to do several tasks  
>> simultaneously.  I decided to get a start on roasting chicken  
>> pieces for dayboard.  I put the chicken in the pan. brushed it  
>> with olive oil, and sprinkled it with some salt from a little bowl  
>> that I'd set aside for bread-baking.  It wasn't until I decided.  
>> to have a piece for lunch that I realized my mistake: I'd  
>> sprinkled the chicken with sugar that I'd set aside for marzipan.   
>> I'd glad I only roasted half the package.
>>
>> Back to the bread...
>>
> Kind of reminds me of the time I picked up a container with powdery  
> white stuff to thicken a beef stew.  Couldn't figure out why it  
> wasn't thickening...turns out it was confectioners sugar...I'd  
> forgotten to label the container!  Aaaaarrrrrrggggghhhh!   
> Sweet...very sweet...beef stew!

Long-time members of this list will remember the tale of the batch of  
brownies I made with the unlabeled canister of flour, which were  
wonderful in all respects but for the peculiar garlic aroma and  
flavor... it turned out the label had fallen off my wife's canister  
of seasoned Cantonese deep-frying batter mix.

Adamantius




"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la  
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
     -- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry  
Holt, 07/29/04