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Skriven 2007-05-11 10:12:10 av hap newsom
     Kommentar till en text av Carol Shenkenberger
Ärende: Re: Breadmaker
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Howdy Carol!
-> 
-> -> Grin, find it a new home where it will be appreciated perhaps?  I'm sure 
-> hn> Anne 
-> -> wont mind.
-> -> 
-> hn> We're hoping that when Amanda gets a place of her own she'll take it 
a
-> hn> likes making bread! But if that's not in the cards you can bet it will
-> hn> somewhere! (girn)
-> 
-> Sure will!  Thats a gift that keeps on giving.  Just be sure wherever it 
goes, 
-> they don't already have one and they arent on Atkins or such diets <g>.
-> 
With Amanda it's a sure deal! 

-> -> Tonight's dinner BTW is chicken salad, apples, and popcorn.  Before 
you 
-> hn> freak, 
-> -> Charlotte just got her braces off after 2.5 years.  She's not been 
allowed 
-> -> unpeeled apples, popcorn, or hot chocolate all this time.  Guess what 
-> hn> she's 
-> -> drinking dinner down with?  (grin, with Marshmellows too!).
-> -> 
-> hn> Good for her! Give her a congratulatory hug from us here in the echo .
-> hn> an extra marshmallow or two!
-> 
-> Will do!  She'll be home from school shortly.  I got off early today.
-> 
-> We took out the duck to start it defrosting ad wouldnt you know it?  I 
think 
-> it's just slightly too long to fit my vertisserie.  Will have to see once it

-> defrosts if we can 'edit' it a little somehow?  It's about 1.5 inches too 
-> 'tall' right now.
-> 
When it's defrosted it might just "crunch down" a bit, or you can remove the 
nubbin of a tailpiece that Clean Dave calls the pope's nose.

-> If we cant 'edit it' down a bit sanely, we will use the roasting pan  and 
prop 
-> it up on some sort of cleaned tuna cans to keep it out of the greases.  I 
have 
-> a perfect rack for things like this in storage ('V' shaped) that you set
inside
-> 
-> a roasting pan.  I used it for long slow cooked pork shoulders in Virginia. 

-> The bottom-most part of that sits a good inch up from the pan.
-> 
I have one here, and if you were closer you could borrow it! (grin) You could 
check with nieghbors though!

-> For any others here who arent familiar with using cans to make a sort of 
riser 
-> for cooking a food to keep it out of the juices, the perfect can would be 
-> catfood or tuna but be sure to pop holes in the 'solid side'  which you can 
do 
-> with a can opener or just a hammer and a screwdriver.  Make them big 
enough so 
-> they wont 'clog' with 'whatever'.  If you dont do this, the grease seeps 
-> underneath then boils and blows the can up off the bottom which can be 
very 
-> messy and if it causes grease to hit the heat elemets, can result in a fire.
-> 
-> Please, don't ask this self taught cook how she learned that <g>.  I blush 
-> easy.
-> 
I've always managed to have/find a rack so I've never tried this method 
before...sounds interesting...and a little exciting! 

-> Get all the label and glue off the can before using unless you plan to throw

-> out all the grease.
-> 
-> Alternative style, is to use taller round vegetable or soup cans, and lay 
them 
-> on their side so the grease can flow in but still prop the food up out of
it.  
-> How many you will need, will depend on the pan and food size but you 
want it 
-> totally out of the grease so don't trust the cans to not 'slide away' as the

-> food cooks.
-> 
-> One mistake I never made, was to use balled up tin foil.  It traps the 
grease 
-> inside and can suddenly turn into bouncing betty landmines in your oven 
<g>.
-> 
-> Now to open some cans and make a big batch of tuna salad....  I'll need 4 
empty
-> 
-> 16oz cans on their side to bolster the 4 empty tuna cans at the middle for 
my 
-> particular roasting pan....
-> 
-> Oh, slight break.  3 cans tuna and 1 can clam just leapt happily into a 
bowl 
-> filled with mayo and matchsticked daikon.  2 cans of spinach decided to 
give up
-> 
-> their life graciously so we can experiment and Charlotte loves canned 
ravioli 
-> so picked that for dinner.  Humm, one more can.  I bet Don wants soup for 
lunch
-> 
-> tomorrow!  I'm set <g>.  If we can't edit the bird down, this will work.  If
i 
-> find 2 more cans, we'll use them at the bottom and top of the pan to 
make sure 
-> the tuna ones don't decide to play the 'north against the south' in a divide

-> and conquor operation.
-> 
-> Now, stop laughing so hard.  I'm self taught and like most, if you forget to

-> tell me 'You can't do that' in time, I tend to do it without knowing you
aint 
-> supposed to do that.
->                                        xxcarol
-> 
Learning by doing! Shows you've got a creative mind and are good at problem 
solving! Let us know how that duck turns out!
chat with you soon
hap 
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