See, Vera? Dress yourself up; you get taken out somewhere fun.

Jayne ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


The Crying of Natter 49  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Kevin - Jan 05, 2007 9:45:42 am PST #409 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.

Oh, no, wait - I just noticed I've been saying looser rather than loser.

Hey: D'oh!


Dana - Jan 05, 2007 9:46:01 am PST #410 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

We use something like this to chop garlic if we don't feel like doing it by hand. It's a lot more convenient than a full-size food processor, with the two of us.


§ ita § - Jan 05, 2007 9:46:59 am PST #411 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You probably have more of a freelance type job with them? No?

Works for me--I know not of the definitions. But I do earn an irregular amount from them each week.

The winds here are annoying. They knocked out power at the only store I know of nearby that sells Alpen, so I had to try a different store and three different types of cereal, none of which taste remotely right. Still howling out there.


-t - Jan 05, 2007 9:47:09 am PST #412 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I love my garlic press - I don't even have to peel the garlic! I think it's a Zyliss.

Mincing is one of those things that I am terrible at. It's either whole cloves, large slices, or the press for my garlic.


Nora Deirdre - Jan 05, 2007 9:47:55 am PST #413 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

I think it's a Zyliss.

I think Zyliss is the ATK recommended press.


sj - Jan 05, 2007 9:48:25 am PST #414 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I use this chopper because I have terrible knife skills, and I can never get the garlic peices small enough.


Sean K - Jan 05, 2007 9:49:07 am PST #415 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I really enjoy chopping garlic (and veggies in general), and one of the reasons I bought us new kitchen knives for Christmas was to have much shrper knives and improve my technique.


SailAweigh - Jan 05, 2007 9:50:37 am PST #416 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

I buy my garlic in a jar, minced. It might cost me a little more, but saves me from stinky hands.


Jessica - Jan 05, 2007 9:50:44 am PST #417 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I use the mini-chop attachment on my stick blender to chop garlic since garlic presses are a PITA to clean sans dishwasher.


Topic!Cindy - Jan 05, 2007 9:50:51 am PST #418 of 10001
What is even happening?

I've heard the garlic press is evil, and I generally don't use it, but I wouldn't mind being proven wrong...I understand it wrings the juice out of the garlic bits.

It does wring out the juice. I don't know if you've used one, but if so, you can see the juice streaming out when you crush it. I only use my press for some recipes. For example, I put garlic in my beef stew (but I don't brown it first, it just goes in the broth), so I use the press right over the soup pot, because the juices go in, too. I also use it for the garlic I put in the cheese filling mixture for my lasagna.

I have a hard time cooking fresh garlic, properly. I love it, but I seem to scorch it, no matter what I do. It's oddly sticky, somehow. I've gone back to garlic powder for making red sauces. I mostly use fresh for things I've mentioned like the above, or for alio e olio.

Darn. Now I want something really garlicky.