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Re: What did you have for dinner?
« Reply #75 on: May 01, 2009, 01:27:28 AM »
Instant mashed potatoes are easier and cheaper for me because I bought a bunch for food storage (an LDS concept, basically keeping your pantry full so if you have an emergency you still have food). It is getting old and my husband refuses to eat it.  So I do real mashed pot. when I am feeling generous to my husband. He has been working late a lot and being the loving person I am, I made a meal for him.
We had chicken alla cucine tonight.  Chicken with artichokes and tomatoes.  This makes up for boxed mac and cheese last night.
And I think ramen is way better as a cheap starch because you can eat it without even cooking it.  My children love it that way.

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Re: What did you have for dinner?
« Reply #76 on: May 01, 2009, 02:12:24 AM »
I had a surprise b-day party at Maggiano's and i ate bruschetta as an appetizer baked ziti with sausage for the entree and for desert a pecan crostada with vanilla bean ice cream...yummy yummy yummy i got love in my tummy
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Re: What did you have for dinner?
« Reply #77 on: May 01, 2009, 02:20:18 AM »
Have you tried grinding the instant into a flour (with a blender or food processor) then using it for coating on fried chicken, or as the primary starch in crepes?  Hard to complain about them not tasting like "real" potatos then.
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Re: What did you have for dinner?
« Reply #78 on: May 01, 2009, 03:31:22 AM »
I do that with flakes, it makes the whatever nice and crunchy. But the kind I have now are "pearls" they look like gerbil food only white so I don't anymore.
My mother once bought a 20 lb bag from potato farmer relatives in ID.  Those were the best instant I'd ever had.  I could never get ones that good again.

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Re: What did you have for dinner?
« Reply #79 on: May 02, 2009, 02:41:51 AM »
Penne alla vodka. <3
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Re: What did you have for dinner?
« Reply #80 on: May 02, 2009, 09:58:42 AM »
Not sure I've ever had vodka food.

I'm starting to notice that I tend to dislike wine in all food that isn't French, but I love the flavour of dishes cooked with sake.
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Re: What did you have for dinner?
« Reply #81 on: May 02, 2009, 04:33:24 PM »
It is pretty damn good.

Sake is very powerful…right?

(That's the Japanese rice wine?)
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Re: What did you have for dinner?
« Reply #82 on: May 03, 2009, 09:14:04 AM »
I don't know that sake is all that powerful, but it sure tastes good cooked into stuff.  (Yes, it's Japanese rice wine.)
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Re: What did you have for dinner?
« Reply #83 on: May 03, 2009, 10:58:22 AM »
Rice is pretty high in malt(sugar) so it makes a stronger brew than beer.  It's probably around 14% alcohol like wine.
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Re: What did you have for dinner?
« Reply #84 on: May 03, 2009, 10:24:10 PM »
Reonard that's higher than the typical wine...proof is double the percent btw...7% and 8% are much more common
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Re: What did you have for dinner?
« Reply #85 on: May 03, 2009, 10:47:34 PM »
eh...I think it depends on what kind of wine you drink tbh. It generally hovers around that 8-15 % area...certainly not enough of a difference to argue about.
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Re: What did you have for dinner?
« Reply #86 on: May 03, 2009, 10:57:14 PM »
I wonder if whites and red's have different percentages on average...i prefer whites as a whole anyways, because they are sweeter
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Re: What did you have for dinner?
« Reply #87 on: May 04, 2009, 03:23:02 AM »
There'd be no reason for them to, Kaz, as the difference is simply whether or not they're fermented with the skin on or not.
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Re: What did you have for dinner?
« Reply #88 on: May 04, 2009, 03:55:28 AM »
I don't know that sake is all that powerful, but it sure tastes good cooked into stuff.  (Yes, it's Japanese rice wine.)

Actually, undiluted sake is usually around 18-20% (beer is never really higher than like 5 or 6% most of the time, and wines usually range from 7-16% or so, i've found.).

It's kinda high, but still no match for, say, vodka, or any other hard liquors.
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Re: What did you have for dinner?
« Reply #89 on: May 04, 2009, 04:35:45 PM »
Jade don't forget the stems and seeds are also in red wine...you get more tannins from them than you get from the skin
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