quote of the day-before-Thanksgiving

[topaz]

"The next time I pick a complicated recipe without knowing where everything is in my kitchen, just shoot me, okay?"

This message has been brought to you by the department of improvised parchment paper, wax paper, fine mesh strainer, and wire drying racks.

P.S. Beth, you'll get the parchment paper and wax paper back first thing in the morning, I promise!
P.P.S. No, I didn't take anything else!  Honest!

Comments

[annburlingham.livejournal.com]

Earlier today, I was enjoying this bit from Mil Millington's Things My GIrlfriend and I Have Argued About:

Thus, when I cook a meal for four, the aftermath left in the sink as I carry the gently steaming plates to the table is a single saucepan and, if I've pulled out the all stops to dazzle visiting Royalty, perhaps a spoon. Margret cannot make cheese on toast without using every single saucepan, wok, tureen and colander in the house. Post-Margret-meal, I walk into the kitchen to discover a sink teetering with utensils holding off gravity only by the sly use of a spätzle glue.
'How the hell did you use all these to make that?'
'It's just what I needed.'
'What? Where did the lawnmower fit in?'

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Also, the department of unpacking-means-carrying-boxes-up-from-the-basement. <pointed look>

[jacflash.livejournal.com]

We always have parchment paper, fyi.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Yes, but you also lock your doors at night.

[opadit.livejournal.com]

Yesterday was the first day, ever, that I wished I had a pastry brush. I had to brush an egg wash over pie crusts that needed pre-baking. Either I've never needed to pre-bake a pie crust, or I've simply never bothered. I ended up using a silicone spatula.

Not sure if getting a pastry brush will result in my making more dishes that need it, or if it would just take up space until the next time I follow a new recipe to the letter.

What was your complicated recipe? Mine was sweet-potato pies -- or rather, not complicated, but fiddly.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

This was a chocolate cranberry cake. Like you said, not so complicated, but fiddly: the cranberry jelly is made from scratch and requires straining the cooked cranberries and letting them cool completely. The cake is more butter than flour and therefore needs parchment paper, which we don't keep on hand routinely because we don't bake often enough. Etc.

We keep buying pastry brushes and then losing them because we don't use them often enough, because I keep saying, "I wish we had a pastry brush in the house."

Subs for pastry brushes:

[harimad.livejournal.com]

A (clean) paint or makeup brush. Or a feather. Or sometimes fingers.