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[gridlore]

Still figuring out this cooking, thing, but I'm learning to do spaghetti (yes, it's boiling water, but I have this weird phobia about cooking. Gives me panic attacks, so I'm taking things slow.)

Everything was fine until it came time to drain the pasta.. dumping into the strainer, some of the water splashed up and hit my fingers. Sonofabitch! Stood with my fingers in ice for a little bit. No blisters, just a little redness.

The spaghetti (or as like to call it, piles of parmesan cheese with occasional strands of pasta) was good.

Pointless update finished.

Comments

Please be careful

[mdlbear]

Always pour away from you, and wear oven mitts if you have them. The flower_cat splashed boiling water into her cleavage once. No damned fun.

When you get a bit more experience...

[soldiergrrrl.livejournal.com]

Remind me to send you a copy of the 4-Ingredient Cookbook. *No* dish has more than four ingredients. It's pretty cool and easy as anything to use. :-)

Re: When you get a bit more experience...

[kshandra]

dafydd got a copy of A Man, A Can, A Plan for Xmas last year as a gag gift - which makes it a little embarrassing to admit I had been thinking about getting it for gridlore as a serious present....

Re: When you get a bit more experience...

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

It actually sounds good, and if you do get it, it will mean that I will know what I'm getting

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It actually sounds good, and if you do get it, it will mean that I will know what I'm getting <b<two years in a row</b>!!!

Re: When you get a bit more experience...

[kengr]

OOO! Want!

Is it a print book or something on the web? If it's print, the ISBN ought to do.

Re: When you get a bit more experience...

[nolly.livejournal.com]

AOL!
Be a nice companion for my 5 in 10 Dessert Cookbook -- five ingredients, 10 minutes -- though some of them cheat a bit, like using the result of one recipe as an ingredient in another, and not counting the chilling time, just the prep time. But still a good one.

Re: When you get a bit more experience...

[soldiergrrrl.livejournal.com]

It's a print book and it's actually the combination of three books in one. The ISBN is: 0962855030. Just to give you an idea:

1) 4 large potatoes, peeled and sliced
2) 1 pound lean ground beef, browned and drained
3) Green peppers, sliced
4) 1 (28 oz) can tomatoes, chopped (or you could use a can of chopped tomatoes!)

Layer above ingredients in order given. Bake at 350 degree for 45 minutes.

It's not bad at all.

[hellloooonurse.livejournal.com]

Oww :(

Yes...please be careful :)

I learned a looong time ago...oven mitts are your friends.

The spaghetti (or as like to call it, piles of parmesan cheese with occasional strands of pasta) *laugh* That's the same way I like to have it...pasta buried under several metric tons of parmesan. Mmmmmm.

[kengr]

Beats the time I was fixing breakfast in the nude and flipped an egg a bit too enthusiatically. Grease spatter on my thigh only a few inches from Rathe Important Bits of Anatomy.

I now wear at least an apron. :-)

[nolly.livejournal.com]

When Iwas learning to cook, I frequently burned my knuckles on the edges of the over or the oven racks. Never too seriously, though, and I did get better eventually. (My difficulties were likely related to my lack of depth perception; I had to learn by experience how big to oven is.)

Keep an eye out...

[murphymom.livejournal.com]

for one of those combination pasta pot/drainer things. The pasta goes into the 'drainer', which is actually a liner that fits into the pot. When time's up, lift out the 'drainer'. No pouring until later, when you drain the pot itself, which can be left to cool until then. It's on the list of things I want for my 'singularity' shower.

[rosefox]

Ice generally isn't called for; just run very cold water over it for fifteen seconds.

And goodonya for learning. *)