On Friday, February 28, 2014 3:17:15 PM UTC-5, John Kuthe wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:07:49 -0800, gtr > wrote:
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> >On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:51:17 -0800 (PST), A Moose in Love
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> >> The other day, I posted a super simple recipe for steak sauce. 'Home Made'.
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> >> However, I used bottled wurster sauce, bottled ketchup and cider vinegar.
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> >> Is it truly home made? If it were truly home made then I would make
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> >> the worcestershire sauce myself, as well as the ketchup, all made from
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> >> garden ingredients. Also I put in some hot sauce(an ingredient which I
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> >> omitted when I posted the recipe)which is also bottled.
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> >> If I add mustard, should I make mustard from mustard seed which I purchased?
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> >> Where do you draw the line?
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> >If it's an abstraction, who cares where the abstract borders lie?
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> >I figure if I should or want to take credit for a dish, a sauce, or
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> >some such, I'll call it home made. If I sprinkle or pour something over
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> >a purchased pot-pie, or canned/frozen food, I wouldn't call that home
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> >made. If I made a pie in a store-bought shell, I'd call it home made,
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> >no matter what the hell was in it.
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> >If I made a made a packaged dinner, like a pilaf mix or falafel I
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> >wouldn't call it home made, but I would call it home *cooking*.
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> >Actually I don't think I really use the phrase "home made" it seems to
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> >have lost its meaning unless it's like a quenelle or something. Or
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> >perhaps to distinguish it from the obvious alternative: "home made"
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> >yogurt, or "home made fried chicken.
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> >Actually I think finely mincing such terms is kind of a semantic game,
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> >rather than a cooking thing. Doesn't everybody?
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> How come this post is under my post and not the Moose'? Is that a flaw
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> John Kuthe...

Mine are ending up in wrong places too.