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Interests => All Things Edible (and how to prepare them) => Topic started by: Mr Mannn on August 26, 2012, 06:24:05 PM
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I bought angel hair spaghetti because it was on sale.
Now when i make spaghetti, I only use a microwave oven. I put the spaghetti, a pinch of salt and water in a disposable plastic container. I don't even bother to measure the water, its going to drained away in any case.
Nuke for 6 minutes. With regular spaghetti I can let it sit in the water for another three minutes while the sauce is nuking, and then I drain...always comes out perfect.
So six minutes go by. take out the angel hair. its already soft, but I let it soak for another three minutes while the sauce gets ready. I come back and there is NO water in the spaghetti! the angel hair ad absorbed it all!
further it had formed a semi-solid mush/porridge consistency. It was one solid piece of slimy mush.
so what to do? I tried draining it and only a few drops came out.
So. I poured on the sauce. and ate it.
It was OK. It tasted like spaghetti. It just slid down a lot easier.
Just another day in the exciting bachelor life.
I have no allusions about married life. I don't expect my wife to know how to cook. But I expect she will learn rather quickly after a few of my meals. :-)
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That's kind of gross. :lmao:
I dislike making pasta. It's such a pain in the ass.
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Which is why I let my wife make stuffed pasta shells yesterday. A man's got to know his limitations. :-)
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That is all ?
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If you have trouble cooking angel hair pasta, I would hate to eat the rest of the meal. Just boil it and follow instruction. :hammer:
BTW, I have seen very few women that could outcook me. My ex could not boil water without screwing it up.
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If you have trouble cooking angel hair pasta, I would hate to eat the rest of the meal. Just boil it and follow instruction. :hammer:
BTW, I have seen very few women that could outcook me. My ex could not boil water without screwing it up.
I've yet to meet any non-professional that can outcook me.
Being a perpetual bachelor, food lover and a cheapskate necessitates learning to cook just about anything well.
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My wife's a cook and I'm a plumber. We eat crap and the pipes leak!
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You can do what you were talking about but with a brain mold..... :lmao:
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Don't let your pasta set in water. Always cook it al dente. Cook it on the stove where you can control it better.
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I've never cooked pasta in the microwave. :???:
I have reheated it, but from scratch? Uh-uh. I think it must be against the law in at least 57 states. :tongue:
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Angel hair cooks faster than regular pasta. Try cooking it for 4 min & set for 3 or, drain it immediately.
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My God.
:thatsright:
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I mixed the sauce and mush together and ate it with a spoon. Kinda like spaghetti pudding.
I imagined it was like what the astronauts eat.
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I mixed the sauce and mush together and ate it with a spoon. Kinda like spaghetti pudding.
I imagined it was like what the astronauts eat.
Yeah, the Russian astronauts!
:lmao:
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microwaving pasta, is like microwaving bacon..a big NONO
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microwaving pasta, is like microwaving bacon..a big NONO
I microwave bacon. You just have to know how to do it. It turns out great if you double wrap the bacon in paper towels on a plate and cook it on med. power and do not overcook it. Plus the mess is less.
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I made spaghetti last night. Normal spaghetti in a disposable container. add water and salt and nuke for 6 minutes.
take out and let soak in the hot water for 3-6 minutes until its soft enough.
add ground beef to spaghetti sauce. Take a cup of freeze dried ground beef and reconstitute with boiling water, add it to the sauce. mix. Nuke for 3 minutes.
By the time the sauce is done the spaghetti is ready. Drain. Leave the pasta in the disposable container. Pour the sauce in. eat with plastic fork. Drink tea from disposable plastic cup.
when done dispose of everything wrapping in a plastic grocery bag-tie shut for no smells.
spaghetti dinner with NO clean up. priceless.
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I would switch to "Minute Rice". Before I married, I lived off rice. After marriage I tell the wife, "everything goes with rice". :-)
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I would switch to "Minute Rice". Before I married, I lived off rice. After marriage I tell the wife, "everything goes with rice". :-)
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Rice is why I'm NOT married. I told my fiance that same thing, "Everything goes with rice." But I added, "Now get in the kitchen, woman!" alas, I am single to this day.
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That's kind of gross. :lmao:
I dislike making pasta. It's such a pain in the ass.
Really?
Pasta making instructions:
Put water in pot
Let water boil
Add pasta
Drain once cooked
Toss in pan with sauce of choice
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Really?
Pasta making instructions:
Put water in pot
Let water boil
Add pasta
Drain once cooked
Toss in pan with sauce of choice
HI5!
:rofl:
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I like my pasta al dente... can't stand overcooked pasta. Fishing a piece of pasta out of a boiling pan of water to check for firmness over and over again is annoying.
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overcooked pasta...is that a pile of mush too?
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I like my pasta al dente... can't stand overcooked pasta. Fishing a piece of pasta out of a boiling pan of water to check for firmness over and over again is annoying.
well i just throw a piece of pasta at fridge. If it's done, it will stick...... :p
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well i just throw a piece of pasta at fridge. If it's done, it will stick...... :p
That doesn't work as well with butterfly pasta or mac and cheese.
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Men: One rib short of perfection.
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Men: One rib short of perfection.
Girls never talk about problems like this. don't know why.
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Girls never talk about problems like this. don't know why.
Girls learn from mothers, and therefore don't have problems like this. :-)
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Girls learn from mothers, and therefore don't have problems like this. :-)
Uh no. Not all of us.
Some of us, learn from cookbooks. I still have my very first cookbook, Betty Crocker Cookbook, it's a red binder cookbook, that I got when I was 20.
Women are also VERY GOOD at reading directions... you know, the ones on packages....bottles....maps. :tongue:
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Uh no. Not all of us.
Some of us, learn from cookbooks. I still have my very first cookbook, Betty Crocker Cookbook, it's a red binder cookbook, that I got when I was 20.
(some) Women are also VERY GOOD at reading directions... you know, the ones on packages....bottles....maps. :tongue:
My wife buys appliances, watches, etc., and gives me the directions to read so I can tell her how to operate. :-)
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My wife buys appliances, watches, etc., and gives me the directions to read so I can tell her how to operate. :-)
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:thatsright:
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:thatsright:
I think I speak for a lot of men by saying, I don't get it.
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My wife buys appliances, watches, etc., and gives me the directions to read so I can tell her how to operate. :-)
I think I speak for a lot of men by saying, I don't get it.
It means his wife knows all about how to operate the gadgets involved. She just gives hubby the directions so he can feel useful.
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It means his wife knows all about how to operate the gadgets involved. She just gives hubby the directions so he can feel useful.
Still not getting it. Isn't that what women want ?
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Still not getting it. Isn't that what women want ?
His wife doesn't need his help on how to figure out how to do the stuff. She hands him the object and the directions, in order to boost his ego and feel needed, while ACTING the ditz brain.
Now do you get it?
If not, you are on your own, cause otherwise you are just trying to build up your post count. :whatever:
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His wife doesn't need his help on how to figure out how to do the stuff. She hands him the object and the directions, in order to boost his ego and feel needed, while ACTING the ditz brain.
Now do you get it?
If not, you are on your own, cause otherwise you are just trying to build up your post count. :whatever:
By now a woman might conclude that men just don't get it. As for post count, up till now I haven't needed much help with that.
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Chris, what's with all the pasta testing/fishing one out of the pot? You just buy Barilla, and it says, "Al dente perfection in 7 minutes." Or whatever. Set the timer. Good to go.
Mr. Mannn, I was somehow under the impression that you'd been married for years and years.
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I didn't read the box. :ashamed:
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Chris, what's with all the pasta testing/fishing one out of the pot? You just buy Barilla, and it says, "Al dente perfection in 7 minutes." Or whatever. Set the timer. Good to go.
Mr. Mannn, I was somehow under the impression that you'd been married for years and years.
Life long bachelor. Wah.
If I had been married, life would be perfect. I would come home to a neck massage and a well made dinner.
My wife would be posting here about how much she loves to cook for her husband.
Yep. If I was married, I would never need to clean house, or do the dishes. My super model wife would have retired to domestic bliss. She would never complain about picking up socks off the floor, and she'd love to watch my old monster movies.
Life would be good. The married guys just don't appreciate what they have.
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(He did the mush)
He did the spaghetti mush
(The spaghetti mush)
It was a kitchen smush
(He did the mush)
It all had to be flushed
(He did the mush)
He did the spaghetti mush
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Life long bachelor. Wah.
If I had been married, life would be perfect. I would come home to a neck massage and a well made dinner.
My wife would be posting here about how much she loves to cook for her husband.
Yep. If I was married, I would never need to clean house, or do the dishes. My super model wife would have retired to domestic bliss. She would never complain about picking up socks off the floor, and she'd love to watch my old monster movies.
Life would be good. The married guys just don't appreciate what they have.
Boy are you in for a surprise.
:rofl:
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Boy are you in for a surprise.
:rofl:
Yeh he is :rotf:
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Off Topic: Mr. Mannn, we recently adopted a cat off the street. My husband hasn't cared for the name I gave him (Bob). So last night he addresses him as "Mr. Mannn." So, now you have a namesake. :-)
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Off Topic: Mr. Mannn, we recently adopted a cat off the street. My husband hasn't cared for the name I gave him (Bob). So last night he addresses him as "Mr. Mannn." So, now you have a namesake. :-)
:rofl:
I refer to my dog, Angus, as Mr. Mannn as well. Usually when he is being a pistol. :-)
ETA: Been doing it way before I was ever a member of this forum, so no bad intent or slam there...
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Off Topic: Mr. Mannn, we recently adopted a cat off the street. My husband hasn't cared for the name I gave him (Bob). So last night he addresses him as "Mr. Mannn." So, now you have a namesake. :-)
See, husbands have uses from time to time.
I knew my name would be immortal...
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:rofl:
I refer to my dog, Angus, as Mr. Mannn as well. Usually when he is being a pistol. :-)
ETA: Been doing it way before I was ever a member of this forum, so no bad intent or slam there...
:thatsright: I know whats gonna happen now. There will be a post, "Mr Mannn pooped on my carpet...again!"
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:thatsright: I know whats gonna happen now. There will be a post, "Mr Mannn pooped on my carpet...again!"
Not from me, my Mr Mannn doesn't poop on the carpet....you????
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Not from me, my Mr Mannn doesn't poop on the carpet....you????
I am proud to say I'm paper trained.
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I am proud to say I'm paper trained.
Well then, we ain't got a thang to worry about.
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I am proud to say I'm paper trained.
Our TV has paper view. I don't know what that is, but it must be important to some folks.
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My Mr. Mannn never goes where he's not supposed to go. O-) A good boy. His only vice is a loud mouth. He's only got one volume setting, not his fault. Real handsome fella, too.
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My Mr. Mannn never goes where he's not supposed to go. O-) A good boy. His only vice is a loud mouth. He's only got one volume setting, not his fault. Real handsome fella, too.
Its in the blood you know. My son, the kitty.
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Mr. Mannn, did you know that this is an actual product? I'm in the food wholesale business, and just ran across this amongst the thousands of SKU's.
It is marketed to nursing homes, for patients who can't chew any longer. It goes for $37 per 10 lb. case.
Please don't ever put me in a nursing home...
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Mr. Mannn, did you know that this is an actual product? I'm in the food wholesale business, and just ran across this amongst the thousands of SKU's.
It is marketed to nursing homes, for patients who can't chew any longer. It goes for $37 per 10 lb. case.
Please don't ever put me in a nursing home...
Oh, god. Prechewed spaghetti, $3.70 a pound.
I am with you, Karin. Just let me walk out onto the ice, please.
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That's disgusting. :(
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Tarnation! They done stole my invention! :panic:
And for the record it wasn't that terrible. all the right taste was there...it just slid down reallllll easy. Kinda like it was slicker than normal.
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Tarnation! They done stole my invention! :panic:
And for the record it wasn't that terrible. all the right taste was there...it just slid down reallllll easy. Kinda like it was slicker than normal.
uh yuck..............prefried worms
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For your dining pleasure, we can also offer you:
Chicken, Roast Beef, Turkey, Fish, Bacon, Asparagus, and egg&toast, all pureed and ready to slurp down.
Brought to you by the fine folks at Hormel Health Labs.
Please God, take me cleanly and quickly.
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How much an hour do they pay?
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