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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: bijou on January 10, 2008, 02:36:19 PM
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PinkTiger (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-09-08 12:57 AM
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Another cooking "haunting" to report.
Many of you may remember i have talked in the past about my empathic abilities, which are limited but interesting to me, at least, and my cooking with dead chefs. The way it works is, when I go to a new city or country, and start wondering how their food is cooked, I am visited and followed home by chefs who work with me in the kitchen until I get it right. I am often amazed by this - and a little piqued, too, because when the chef fades, the cooking does, too, just a little.
I had another visitation, a very interesting one - over Christmas I wanted to make my mother-in-law's bread recipe; I never really knew her - she died two years before i met my husband - but I found her recipe in a box of photos, and decided to make it this Christmas. I felt she was there, all the way, working with me on the bread, which turned out very well. Now, another thing - when I was a teenager, my first job was a waitressing position at a small local cafe. I worked there for four summers, and loved to sit in the kitchen with the cook/owner, Carl, and talk about life. He would be fixing stuff and I would be talking. Two things he made, I would love to be able to make well. One I can - the garlic toast - that was simple. But the Coleslaw recipe, which was a trade secret, he kept under wraps. Last week, after a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease, Carl passed away. Last night he told me to make coleslaw, and I did, and in my kitchen, as he told me what to put in it, I marveled at its simplicity and said "of course! I should have known, I saw you make this so many times."
He laughed and told me I was never paying attention.
"You were too busy flapping your jaws!"
But he swore me to secrecy on the recipe. Sorry.
I just love it.
link (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=245x60360)
There is obviously something missing from our 'all things edible forum' perhaps Flippy Doo could be persuaded to branch out into recipes.
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I want some of what she's drinking :o :beer:
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Someone should tell Pink Tiger the bourbon is for the cake. :mental:
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I'll take a snort of that too. Must be some good stuff.
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Her screen name needs to be "ChasingTheTiger"
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Coleslaw, eh? As in a dish made with cabbage?
Special Agent Cab Badge goes behind enemy lines once more. I'll have to ask him how he made the DUmmie hallucinate the chefs.
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I hope she has a tall stool for when Julia Child visits. She will need heavy cream, too.
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Coleslaw, eh? As in a dish made with cabbage?
Special Agent Cab Badge goes behind enemy lines once more. I'll have to ask him how he made the DUmmie hallucinate the chefs.
OMG I didn't spot that... I hope I haven't blown his cover. :(