Posts by dm6

in answer to your second question, treat all your food as delicate as the main part. Dont spend most time on perfecting your steak, but quickly chucking your veg in a pan of plain boiling water.

I would steam cook your vegetables with butter and seasoning, and for extra flavour, finish them off in a pan you have already used to cook say your steak or chicken.

I was always taught this as a golden rul ein the kitchen, remember seasoning your food will make ALL the difference beileve me, but always remember, you can add....but you cant take away! so be careful not to over season and keep tasting.

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2 Food questions,,, one for chefs, one for southern cooks

by talesin in

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1. can i make a roue using half-and-half butter w/ olive oil?

i know they have similar properties.. .

2. i love my swiss chard and beet greens.

dm6

I am a chef :)

9 years behind the apron and proud of it :)

Yes, you can make a roux with olive oil half and half with butter, but i highly reccommend turning your butter into clarified butter, or what the indians would call Ghee.

Simmer a block of butter in a pan and let it simmer for several minutes. Turn the heat off and leave for a few mins. Then with a ladel, take out the clear gold ghee and discard the fat and salt that seperates.

Now that you have clarified butter, you can put this on the heat in a pan to ridiculous temperatures, and the butter will not burn, nor will it boil.

put half in a pan with half olive oil, leave to heat up to a high temperature. Then add your flour and use a maurice (spatchelor) and mix constantly cooking throughout. You will know when it is ready to add the hot milk (in a seperate pan) because the roux you have made will keep cooking to the point that it leaves the sides of the pan and no longer sticks. It will look like a lump of dough in the pan that you can move around almost like a lumpy ball.

That is your roux done. To make a bechamel (white roux) have another pan of hot milk simmering, and add ladel at a time to the roux ball, mixing with your spatchelor until it reaches the stage where it becomes whiskable. continue to add milk whisking until it turns into a thick white sauce.

This is now a bechamel.

You can continue to cook throughout for longer to make a veloute' (blonde roux) pronounced vel-oo-tay.

continue even further to make a brown roux called an espagnol (brown roux) taken from the spanish term veal jus.

Commonly in kitchens bechamels are made worldwide as the most popular as it is a derivative meaning your base bechamel you have made can be used for various sauces, for example: bechamel in a pan add grated cheese and macaroni pasta, thats macaroni cheese.

Another example is, a seafood chowder, thin down the bechamel with homemade fish stock and make the rest yourself.

Hope this helps! lol !!!!!

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sigh

by C.O.B.E.Beef in

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this is my first time participating in a site like this , so please.

forgive me if my approach is clumsy.. my story is not extraordinary and hardly interesting, so thanks.

in advance to this forum for extending the bandwidth for my own.

dm6

these stories i read about you other poor jws are really heartwrenching, and its commendable you have woken up to save your children from this organisation. It could be the best thing you ever did.

As already mentioned above, a must read for all jws/exjws is crisis of consciense by raymond franz, former GB.

I wish you all the best, dont fret, be happy, your finally waking up to what life is really all about.

dm6

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Went to my first meeting today anonymously!

by TimothyT in

hi everyone.. jack and i decided we would go to his local kingdom hall this morning.

although i have no interest anymore in being a jw, i think its still nice to have regular bible discussions, etc, which can give you something spiritual to think about each week.

i love it and i think its damn good for you.. today, jack and i walked in, a little nervous, but were greeted and welcomed like friends.

dm6

The people are so nice, so genuine, so kind, but unfortunately, if they were to learn who we truly are, we'd be shunned instantly

Of course they will be nice and friendly, its mostly false smiles though anyway.

And you said it mate.... they would shun you like you were the devil himself if they knew who you two were.

The really sad thing about all of this is, you are only being yourself. And for that...to them...because of what you are... is vile, wrong, disgusting, perverse, etc etc etc.

As someone has already rightly said, you can join a nice bible study class somewhere, where everyone is of different opinions, and your not going to get slated for disagreeing with someone, or even giving your own take on something!!!!

All the best bud

DM6

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