OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:

> ~patches~ wrote:
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>>kilikini wrote:
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>>>"OmManiPadmeOmelet" wrote:
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>>>>Goomba38 wrote:
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>>>>>Julia Altshuler wrote:
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>>>>>>Here's the way I do it that's even easier for me: Bring the water to a
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>>>>>>rolling boil. Put the broccoli in, cover and turn off the heat. (I
>>>>>>have electric so I move the pot to a cold burner.) Then time exactly 5
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>>>>>>minutes if I want to consider the broccoli cooked and exactly 2 minutes
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>>>>>>if I want to consider the broccoli blanched but essentially raw.
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>>>>>finger food type raw still? I am going to try this today.

Am i not getting this? A platter of raw sliced veggies with various
dipping sauces is almost de rigur around here, just about any home i go
to that is serving any kind of refreshment will almost certainly provide
a platter of raw sliced veggies.

I do live in a major, urban 'foodie' area, and tend to know mostly
people who take a serious interest in eating well. And fully half the
people in my social circle are vegetarians of one sort or another.

Some of the more seriously politically correct have stopped using toilet
paper, and even if they don't own a bidet, they keep a plastic squeeze
bottle of water and a special cloth to wipe themselves with. I really
don't want to know how they store this 'cloth' between uses or how they
wash it, though some of them claim to use their hand in the middle
eastern manner.

When this became public knowledge people started not being so put off by
my considering the 'shaking of hands' to be a meaningless social ritual
i choose not to indulge in.
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JL