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MrEmjoy May 12th 2010 7:36 am

Re: Knife and fork usage
 

Originally Posted by Lorna at Vicenza (Post 8561349)
If I wanted to actually make waffles, wouldn't I need some sort of waffle shaped griddle/grill pan ?

Depends, you can get waffles chips.

You'd be better of making sweet potato hash or sweet potato Home Fries!

I've been perfecting my home fries lately :thumbup:

zargof May 12th 2010 7:38 am

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Originally Posted by MrEmjoy (Post 8561355)
The high sugar content can make them very mushy if you aren't careful when cooking them.

Practice makes perfect

We're having them tomorrow with pork chops and green beans, very good. I like to add a little balsamic vinegar before baking them

Leslie May 12th 2010 7:40 am

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Originally Posted by MrEmjoy (Post 8561355)
The high sugar content can make them very mushy if you aren't careful when cooking them.

Practice makes perfect

Do you fry them or bake them?

Lorna at Vicenza May 12th 2010 7:43 am

Re: Knife and fork usage
 

Originally Posted by MrEmjoy (Post 8561363)
Depends, you can get waffles chips.

You'd be better of making sweet potato hash or sweet potato Home Fries!

I've been perfecting my home fries lately :thumbup:

Don't think I can do any of the above because I've never found American sweet potatoes here.

A kind of cheapo supermarket once had a laughable so called American week here and they sold frozen waffles, maple syrup and bagels....oh ....and ready made popcorn. That was the total of American week.

When the same supermarket did a laughable British week they had cheap mustard, frozen bags of fish and chips and packets of real mature cheddar.
Word did spread on the Italian forum and every shop in the country sold out of cheddar in a day or two.

zargof May 12th 2010 7:45 am

Re: Knife and fork usage
 

Originally Posted by Leslie66 (Post 8561369)
Do you fry them or bake them?

Bake at 400 for around 30 mins.

MrEmjoy May 12th 2010 7:46 am

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I don't make Chips/Fries/Wedges with them normally, But I would make a wedge out of them if I was going to use them.

Big wedges tossed in olive oil salt pepper and in the oven!

They are also great as mash, baked in the oven until mushy then placed in a bowl as far away from a marshmallow as possible.

Normally I only make baby food out of them though :)

AmerLisa May 12th 2010 9:50 am

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Originally Posted by meauxna (Post 8561314)
Oh YES.
mmmmm

Crispy outside, mushy inside. Perfect. Bake them.


Originally Posted by another bloody yank (Post 8561335)
I baked them because I didn't feel like cleaning the fry daddy. And I baked them too long, so they were crispy. All the way through. But they were still good.:D

Yum! :thumbsup:

Steerpike May 12th 2010 9:55 am

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Originally Posted by Leslie66 (Post 8558943)
I close all the blinds and eat them with my hands and rub them in my hair.

You know, I REALLY want to meet you some day !!!

I have been traveling to Plano recently ... perhaps we could share a sausage together?! :)


Originally Posted by Lazzza (Post 8558928)
OOOO check you with your "you haven't even arrived yet, so therefore are not entitled to an opinion".

...
Sorry I am a bit grumpy...this moving and not being allowed an opinion until I do is really getting me down. :p

:) You can have, and express, as many opinions as you like! I'm just suggesting that perhaps you may not want to make 'absolute' statements about what is right and wrong until you've had the benefit of living here for a while. If you feel that your absolute statement is based on experience of the US then so be it - you are going to be one of those annoying Brits here who judge everything based on their own limited view and I will just be very thankful that we are most unlikely to meet! Enjoy your life here, basking in the superiority of the British way :)

Englishtart May 12th 2010 10:54 am

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Originally Posted by Leslie66 (Post 8561309)
Are they crispy or mushy? Do you fry or bake?

Tarty one fries hers...nice n crispy, she has made them from fresh, she usually boils them for about 5 mins, then drains and fries them:p

MrEmjoy May 12th 2010 10:55 am

Re: Knife and fork usage
 

Originally Posted by Englishtart (Post 8561723)
Tarty one fries hers...nice n crispy, she has made them from fresh, she usually boils them for about 5 mins, then drains and fries them:p

It's a well known fact that Leslie shudders at boiled veg!

Steam, dear, steam :p

Englishtart May 12th 2010 10:58 am

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Originally Posted by meauxna (Post 8561311)
:) He liked the feedback. Guys LOVE this fence. And you don't even know the details of it, which he wanted me to share. I told him to go get his own friends. :lol:
One nice thing he did was paint all the hardware copper colored for me.
I put up a couple more of the snaps.



eek, I hope not!
You can see my problem.. my window is the last one on the left there.. I must be able to figure out some way to monitor that door from here.

http://britishexpats.com/photopost/d...m/100_0457.JPG

Love your house!! how about a webcam type camera thing at your front door?

Englishtart May 12th 2010 11:01 am

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Originally Posted by MrEmjoy (Post 8561730)
It's a well known fact that Leslie shudders at boiled veg!

Steam, dear, steam :p

I shall take it under consideration;)

Steerpike May 12th 2010 11:02 am

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Originally Posted by meauxna (Post 8558847)
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FTR, our routine is to open the blinds when we open the house in the morning. That is, when we get up. We close them at sundown when we turn on the interior lights.
We also leave the blinds open all day, even if out. When the sun swings around and starts beating on the western exposure, we usually close those blinds to keep the house cooler.

Don't knock on my door if the blinds are shut. We're not taking callers if the house is not open.

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This is why we don't close our blinds during the day - we'd be missing a spectacular view! And at night, it turns into 'city lights' . Only time we close the blinds are from about 3pm to 7pm, June through August, when the sun pours in and we have to draw them to keep cool. Even then, we put in vertical blinds so we could angle them and still see 'out' in one direction. I feel utterly claustrophobic now in any room with small windows, let alone blinds closed! First two pictures taken 10 minutes ago ...

Bill_S May 14th 2010 8:19 am

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RED ALERT!! New knife & fork thread spotted in the Canada forums! Hop to it, all you tines-down purists, defeat the savages!

Sally Redux May 14th 2010 8:35 am

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Originally Posted by Bill_S (Post 8565631)
RED ALERT!! New knife & fork thread spotted in the Canada forums! Hop to it, all you tines-down purists, defeat the savages!

I'm getting confusd now about which nation stands accused of shovelling.


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