I actually believe they should be banning transfats.
Transfat is a way of making food cheaper, not of making it taste better. Plenty of fats, some healthy, some not (but still healthier than transfats) that taste as good or better.
Yeah, but you're an amateur fry cook and I come from a long line of fry cooks that don't live past 25.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
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Typo Boy - Apr 11, 2009 10:30:13 am PDT #6481 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Jessica - Apr 11, 2009 11:28:13 am PDT #6482 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Transfat is a way of making food cheaper, not of making it taste better.
Many chefs who serve french fries or fried chicken would disagree with you there.
Typo Boy - Apr 11, 2009 11:44:54 am PDT #6483 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Palm oil (which is high in saturaed fat but low in transfat) tastes pretty good for those purposes. Peanut oil makes really good fried chicken. Corn oil (IMO) makes really good fries. (I also happen to like olive oil (non-extra virgin) for fried food, but admit not to everybody's taste.
Typo Boy - Apr 11, 2009 11:48:55 am PDT #6484 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Here is a NY Times article on country fair food made without trans fat. [link]
The oil has to be changed more often (in this case soy oil) but the taste is the same.
Hil R. - Apr 11, 2009 11:58:41 am PDT #6485 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I just tried my first experiment in vegan matzo brei. It's not perfect, but definitely good enough that I'll try again, and adjust the recipe a bit. (This time: two pieces matzo, 1/4 cup blended silken tofu, salt, fried in Earth Balance.)
sj - Apr 11, 2009 12:01:16 pm PDT #6486 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I have my first attempts at ricotta pies in the oven. I'm hoping they turn out well.
Calli - Apr 11, 2009 12:15:36 pm PDT #6487 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I've started the dough for my first try at cinnamon rolls. They have to rise three times. I don't do a lot of yeast-breads so this should be interesting.
Strix - Apr 11, 2009 12:19:59 pm PDT #6488 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
My computer has graciously let me on for five minutes so I can be be mememe -- I have a 2nd date tonight. And he's getting more and more Buffista-like the more I get to know him.
I'm not going to touch the weight/health discussion, except to note that once I figured out that clothes are supposed to fit my body, and not vice versa, I found it much easier to not be an asshole to myself about weight and body issues.
Except now I have to figure out what to wear tonight that is a fine balance between comfortable, sexy and not too slutty.
Three variables is much more challenging than the sexy/not too slutty scenario.
Barb - Apr 11, 2009 12:22:06 pm PDT #6489 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Yay, Erin's date!
Hil R. - Apr 11, 2009 12:23:21 pm PDT #6490 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Wow. Talking about entitled students (and parents), this was in the Ethicist column in the NY Times this week:
When my daughter and her fellow college students handed in term papers, their professor had them submit their work to Turnitin.com, a Web site that detects plagiarism, something he had never done before. This has a whiff of entrapment. Shouldn’t the prof have announced in advance that this would be required, giving the class a chance to clean up its work? NAME WITHHELD, PHOENIX