On Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 8:16:45 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> "dsi1" wrote in message
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> On Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 11:09:00 PM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> > "dsi1" wrote in message
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> > On Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 10:30:29 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> > > "Taxed and Spent" wrote in message ...
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> > > On 8/31/2016 12:42 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 5:22:20 AM UTC-10, sf wrote:
> > > >> I've been wanting chicken pot pie and had all the fixings, so I used
> > > >> up a couple pieces of chicken and odds & ends of vegetables in the
> > > >> vegetable drawer that weren't enough volume to serve two. The crust
> > > >> is my usual food processor butter pastry, with black pepper and
> > > >> parmesan cheese. The crumbles you see on top are seasoned and
> > > >> rendered chicken skins. Yummy!
> > > >>
> > > >> Pictures in alt.binaries.food
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> --
> > > >> I love cooking with wine.
> > > >> Sometimes I even put it in the food.
> > > >
> > > > When I went downstairs this morning, I saw my daughter demurely
> > > > cutting
> > > > some butter into some flour using a fork and a knife. She had her
> > > > earphones on and was in some kind of happy place. I told her to quit
> > > > using
> > > > such a pansy method of cutting butter and proceeded to jam my hand in
> > > > there and started rubbing the butter in to break it up and incorporate
> > > > it
> > > > into the flour.
> > > >
> > > > Hopefully, she learned that mixing in the butter this way is a lot
> > > > faster.
> > > > When she bakes the biscuits, she'll probably find that it produces a
> > > > better product. Then she will do that for the rest of her life. It's
> > > > what
> > > > I do with shortcrust too.
> > > >
> > > > https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/sh...hare_link_copy
> > > >
> > >
> > > I would not want to add heat during this process.
> > >
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> > > You need to use your fingertips which is what I assumed he meant
> > >
> > >
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> > Yes, my fingertips. Although, they are hot little fingertips! I also like
> > having a close and personal relationship with my dough, who doesn't?
> >
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> > I don't know but from what I read here, people are using machines.
> >
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> I never thought the time saved was worth the bother of using a food
> processor. Pretty soon, I'm going to ditch kitchen tools and just use my
> hand to mix everything. The reality is that your hand is better at mixing
> and folding batters than any tool made.
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> Only until and if arthritis sets in ..
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My thinking is that making pizza dough in a bag can offer some therapeutic benefits for folks with arthritis but I don't know anybody with arthritis to test this out. Hopefully, I'll find someone.