primitives discuss French cooking

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

NashVegas  (1000+ posts)        Thu Oct-29-09 07:34 PM
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Speaking of French Cooking

I made this out of the August Bon Appetit. Ugly to look at, but oh my, was it good.

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Pissaladie...

after which a photograph of something--something--that looks like a slice of pie with cornflakes and blueberries

eleny  (1000+ posts)      Thu Oct-29-09 07:46 PM
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1. Where's my fork?

Was it hard to make? I don't know much about making crusts.

NashVegas  (1000+ posts)        Thu Oct-29-09 07:52 PM
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2. No, Not Really

I didn't have lard, substituted some chilled, rendered bacon fat (I cook it in the oven on a rack).

I cheat with crusts: use the food processor (pulse the fats w/the dry goods till it's crumbly, add the cold water s-l-o-w-l-y, a tsp at a time), flatten it to a disc, wrap it in plastic and chill it until I'm good and ready.

Then, when I use the roller, put the disc between sheets of lightly floured parchment paper or plastic wrap. Makes it SO much easier to get it in the pan w/no mess.

eleny  (1000+ posts)      Thu Oct-29-09 07:58 PM
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3. Thanks...

I've finally gotten pie crusts down with the help of DUers here in C&B. I roll out the soft dough between sheets of waxed paper. It's so arid here that I have trouble keeping crust dough pliable.

Doug's stupid ex-wife:

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Thu Oct-29-09 10:23 PM
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4. You guys find the coolest recipes. 

It looks great and the instructions seem simple enough.

hippywife  (1000+ posts)        Fri Oct-30-09 08:33 PM
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6. No hairy little fishies!

No! No! No!

I've tried, I mean really tried, to like anchovies and I no can do.

Glad it came out good for you, tho.

Whoa-ho.

That's what that is, in the picture?  Not a pie made of cornflakes and blueberries, but a pie made of dead fish?  franksolich is getting grievously ill.

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Fri Oct-30-09 11:32 PM
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7. Give me yours! I still remember one of my dear aunts looking at me BALEFULLY -- FULL OF BALE -- because I was eating too many of her hairy canapes as fast as my 6 yr old hands could shovel them to my mouth.

NashVegas  (1000+ posts)        Mon Nov-02-09 07:23 PM
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8. Funny I Didn't Notice any hair at all

mopinko  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-05-09 09:32 AM
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10. have you had the white ones? i had those for the first time the other day. 

not the same at all. salty little wonders.

Fire1  (1000+ posts)        Tue Nov-03-09 04:08 PM
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9. Anchovies are too salty for me but it looks good.

The consumed coffee in franksolich's stomach just did somersaults flipping back up and out.

[Karin]

No it's not cornflakes and blueberries.  It's anchovy and black olive pie.  No, thank you.  I don't mind an anchovy ground up to a fine mash and used as an ingredient in ceasar salad.  Otherwise, yuck. 

[JohnnyReb]

Fish are only fit to eat if they are 'deep fat' fried in pure hog lard.

Wonder how soon Obama and his klan will outlaw, or tax to death, good old hog fat? It's gonna cost him the southern foodstamp vote.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I'll eat kippers or sardines, usually in a sandwich, once in a blue moon, but anchovies have absolutely nothing positive going for them.