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I make stock a lot on the stovetop. Never used a pressure cooker but have a new impulse buy Instant Pot. One of the bones of contention among amateur stock cooks involves temperature. Conventional wisdom is bring to a boil, skim the scum, reduce heat and simmer at about 190°F for x hours. Emphasis is placed on not allowing…

I expect any Ohio area with a significant urban population will have stores that sell ingredients commonly used in "soul food." Useful to be familiar with any number of such ethnic resources, not only for Soul but Asian, Mexican/Latin, Kosher, Halal (Middle Eastern), etc.

Never heard of baobab. How very peculiar they are.

You may be right, but I assumed dennisl31789, the OP, was talking about these:

Beets? I wrap the beets in foil and roast them then store them in crisper, still in foil, until ready for use. You can stir-fry the greens, tear them raw into a salad, or braise them like turnip or collard greens.

Certainly, there are food items in the center aisles that are necessary and good buys. In addition to those you mention are whole grain cereals like steel cut oats and grits from whole corn; canned small forage fish like sardines, kinds of vinegar are also necessary pantry items. But I'm sure you will agree that a lot of…

Someone else asked the same question a couple weeks ago and I actually made a list of choices. Instead of duplicating that effort, here is another strategy. Don't allow yourself to buy any more than three items for human consumption from any of the numbered aisles in the store. Soap, toilet paper, and charcoal don't count;…

I was looking into this a couple days ago and learned something, if not surprising, at least a little counter-intuitive. I was having pain in my feet and ankles caused by swelling and probably aggravated by a spike in salt intake. One of the ways to speed up getting rid of that excess water, I read, is to increase water…

You have no reason to listen to my advice and, truth be told, I have no interest the matter. But were it me, I hope I would honestly log whatever was consumed whether I ate the treats or tossed them out.

Scrambled eggs, grits, and hash made with ham, sweet potatoes, peppers, onions, garlic, and ginger.

Don't watch much reality tv but got hooked on Life Below Zero about Alaskan wilderness subsistence living. Never heard of an Ulu but mightily impressed watching Agnes Hailstone skin a salmon, or a seal, or just chop carrots with it.

I've had more than my share of gadgets over the years. Still have more than I need. But the real go to is a jerry-rigged double boiler using a 1 1/2 Qt. pot and a stainless steel bowl. The Instant Pot ordered on impulse last week was delivered yesterday. Instruction manual is in the reading pile. Trying to remember why I…

Grow 14 inches or lose 72 pounds to reach healthy weight.

Under the plan's daily calorie allotment, but all the salt from three generous helpings of smoked ham will likely cause water weight gain and increased edema pain.

I remember arguments over "several." I was five, and again when my kids were five. :) Relevant entries from Merriam Webster:* more than one; as in several pleas * more than two but fewer than many; as in moved several inches But following MW's link for English Language learners and link for children, the most common…

How much water is absorbed or evaporated would normally complicate the question, but this is boil in a bag. Seems like weighing the full bag before or after cooking, then subtracting the weight of the empty bag would give you the exact weight of all the rice. Then it's just a matter of dividing by the number of cups.

First of all kommodevaran, I enjoy your posts and can't recall your meaning ever being unclear. I understand "maximum" and "minimum" exactly as you describe and have never noticed a different meaning implied by those of other cultures. In the I need recs thread started yesterday by booty rubs and tacos, I don't think…

Never heard of Geechee Boy. What a great store and line of products! Not surprising they're in So. Carolina. Little out of my price range though.

Ditto what lynn said about enough capacity to weigh the whole potful. Not essential necessarily but pretty handy. Also handy is a big weighing platform so you can read the display when a big pot is sitting on it. It doesn't need to have a button that says, "TARE." Many of them just use the on-off switch. A short press is…

Grits is a name used for at least a couple of similar products. Throughout most of the south grits means coarsely ground dried white hominy. Hominy, of course, being corn treated with an alkaline solution in a process often called nixtamalization. Suspect this is the different process you were reading about. In pockets of…

As much as possible, my strategy in all things Christmas is to ignore it altogether.

I've been thinking about fiber and ginger root. If you look it up there is supposedly 0 fiber in a teaspoon of ginger. But if you've ever cut one up you know that it is one of the most fibrous foods there is. Now, I know that dietary fiber isn't exactly the same as fibers that you could make rope out of, but I gotta think…

I just realized that I misread the original post. Was thinking we were talking about grits which tend to be an extremely coarse grind. Regular cornmeal is more like flour in that the weight of a cup can vary an awful lot depending on how packed down it is. That's why bakers formulas, recipes that is, always use weight. If…

Bob's Red Mill is the brand I use. That label says 1/4 cup, dry is 35 grams. So 1 cup = 140 grams. The finer the grind, the heavier a cup will be.

I'll eat most anything for breakfast, soups, salads, sandwiches, and last nights leftovers. But most oft-used breakfast vegetables are onion and peppers. Peppers can be sweet or hot, red or green. Like them with potatoes in a hash, or with corn porridge. In the southern US, we call corn porridge grits which is looked down…

Favorites ordered by frequency of use.* How to Cook Everything, Mark Bittman * Cookwise, Shirley O Corriher * On Food and Cooking, Harold McGee * The All New Joy of Cooking, Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker * The Tortilla Book, Diana Kennedy * The Bread Baker's Apprentice, Peter Reinhart

My experience is "picky" is always and only used about adults by people making excuses for themselves or someone else. You are an educated adult. Do you want to buy healthy food? Buy healthy food. You don't need me to tell you what you mean by healthy, or food. Be a vegetarian every day but Taco Tuesday if that's your…

I weigh myself once, second thing every morning. Write it down in a spreadsheet. The column next to "Daily Weight" is "Weight-5 day roll". That is the average of today and the previous 4 days daily weight. For me the 5 day rolling average keeps things in perspective. By the way, the same sheet has columns for "Daily…

Have you posted that sausage recipe? What kind of casings are you using?

Has become my favorite breakfast. Grits made with homemade stock, chorizo, jalapeno, onion, garlic, and ginger.