Comments on: Misadventures in cooking

By: littlem

littlem — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:37:29 +0000

“I’ve never had good luck with eggplant. Apparently, it can be (very mildly) toxic if not cooked properly …”

I eat it sliced and raw (post-organic veggie wash, of course).

I guess, to my detractors, that would explain a great deal.

Zuzu, you awe me. I can feel my head separating into equal pieces just reading that post.

By: Arianna

Arianna — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:23:14 +0000

A third salt-addict here. I love intentionally only partially de-salting my eggplant and then frying it… Yum!

Zuzu, can you post/link the Seitan recipe? I’ve always wanted to try making it because no where seems to effing stock it around where I live…

By: kerril

kerril — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:19:29 +0000

I made a picture perfect bread pudding a few weeks ago.
Really, it was a thing of beauty.
Too bad I forgot the sugar. It tasted as paper towels soaked at the bottom of my sink would taste. A little confectioners sugar helped but it took a while to redeem myself.

By: Zuzu

Zuzu — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:17:27 +0000

HAHAHAHA!

I forgot about the Five Gallons of Blue Gravy.

By: Kat

Kat — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:59:34 +0000

Two words: Blue. Gravy.

By: Zuzu

Zuzu — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:09:57 +0000

I had the flour, I had a recipe, and I thought, what the hell?

As for the salt, I used kosher, so it’s not quite as chemical-burny as table salt. The aftertaste reminds me of nasal wash, is all.

My peanut stew turned out much, much better. So did the blueberry pancakes. I’m trying to go primarily vegan (I refuse to give up sushi), and I’m having some fun with new recipes.

By: B.D.

B.D. — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:38:44 +0000

Ooo, too bad. These sorts of things happen to everybody. I’ve done the eggplant washing thing before in Parmesan. Ugh. Why are you making seitan from scratch? I did that once and it didn’t turn out well. These days, if I’m craving it, I just buy the prepackaged stuff (just like I buy my tofu instead of making it).

By: Linnaeus

Linnaeus — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:55:51 +0000

See, now I would have called that just about right. I’ll put salt on almost anything except ice cream. I salt potatoes until people stare. I should install a salt-lick in my kitchen.

Same here; salt is like heroin to me. Maybe we were separated at birth.

By: inkybrain

inkybrain — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:02:09 +0000

I’ve never had good luck with eggplant. Apparently, it can be (very mildly) toxic if not cooked properly, which fact I wish I had known before my ill-fated foray into the land of stuffed eggplant.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:00:18 +0000

See, now I would have called that just about right. I’ll put salt on almost anything except ice cream. I salt potatoes until people stare. I should install a salt-lick in my kitchen.