"Joseph Littleshoes" > wrote in message
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> Joseph Littleshoes wrote:
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> > Old Magic1 wrote:
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> > > "Rick & Cyndi" > wrote in message
> > > news:hmcAe.3946$8N5.236@trnddc09...
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> > > "JeanineAlyse" > wrote in message
> > > ups.com...
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> > > " Deep Fryer story... DH, Rick, gets a deep fryer for Father's
> > Day...
> > > we
> > > used
> > > it for the second time a couple of weeks later. As should be
> > > expected,..... you guessed it, he dropped it. Oil
> > > EVERYWHERE!!
> >
> > > Cyndi
> > >
> > > This story really scared me, as I can think of what the out-come
> > would
> > > have
> > > been had your 4 year old lifted the fryer with HOT oil in it.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Old Magic 1
> >
> > Ditto, i have a small 1 cup or so deep fryer, with a locking lid that
> > i
> > rarely use prefereing instead to saute in a thin layer of hot oil and
> > keep the pieces of food to be sauted moving quickly about. Once the
> > cooking is done, the oil, of which there is really very little, 1/4
> > cup
> > at most, is immediatly dealt with.
> > ---
> > Joseph Littleshoes
>
>
>
> I used to routinely sauté or "doree" gild, with seasoned flour
> and/or bread crumbs & sometimes grated cheese and eggs, milk, bits
> of cut up veggies in the hot oil till they had a nice crispy,
> golden brown outside and were gently cooked inside, sliced
> zucchini, egg plant, mushroom, cauliflower or broccoli florets,
> tomatoes, bananas, sweet pepper & onion rings etc. and then cook
> any other piece of fish or chicken or any other animal flesh in
> that oil or at least a part of it.
>
> Nowadays, i steam my veggies and and eat less fried foods even
> though i believe if done correctly a diet of fried food is not so
> bad, but the professionals seem to think i should take every
> possible action to lower my cholesterol.
>
> I have even given up commercially available cookies! and am going
> to have to start making my own peanut butter as i can not find any
> commercial brands without hydrogenated or hydrolysed oils.

Can you not buy natural peanut butter? I buy Laura Scudder's natural brand.
Ingredients: peanuts and salt.
Alternatively, if you have a natural foods store in the area, they often
have a special grinder for making peanut butter.

TammyM
Sacramento, California