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Sunday evening Shillelagh 01-20-2008
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Posted by Olwyn Mary on January 24, 2008, 2:22 pm
Mary Fisher wrote:

>>Mary Fisher wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I am NOT going to buy any microwave dedicated gizmos!
>>
>>>Mary
>>
>>Sssshhhh. Don't tell anybody, but..............I got mine for ten cents
>>at the church rummage sale!!
>>
>>Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.
>
>
> I shall be firm with myself. I shall not waver. I shall exercise
> self-control.
>
> Unless I see a REAL bargain :-)
>
> In truth, there's no room for anything else in our tiny kitchen, he's had to
> make a sort of table to go over the new oven to hold the things which were
> in the space now taken by the oven.
>
> <sigh>
>
> Mary

Fret not. I got a set of "microwave cooking dishes" free - included
with the price, that is - when I bought my first one, but I found I very
rarely used any of them. The good old Pyrex and Corning Ware pots and
dishes I have been using for ever are equally good in the microwave.
The only other thing I did buy, and fairly recently at that, was a set
of 6 plain white dinner plates for $5 the set. My everyday china has a
gold rim on, so cannot go in the microwave, and there are times when I
want to just reheat a plate of something. If your ordinary plates don't
have any metal on them, you can use them.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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Posted by Mary Fisher on January 25, 2008, 7:35 am


...
>
> Fret not. I got a set of "microwave cooking dishes" free - included with
> the price, that is - when I bought my first one, but I found I very rarely
> used any of them.

I bought two sets, very cheaply, from a pound shop. We use them for serving
food (not cooking) in the caravans, lightweight, stackable, with lids and in
a range of sizes they're very useful. But I simply haven't room in the house
for them so in the caravans they'll stay.

> The good old Pyrex and Corning Ware pots and dishes I have been using for
> ever are equally good in the microwave.

Yes I'm sure they are, I've tried Pyrex and earthenware dishes already.

> The only other thing I did buy, and fairly recently at that, was a set of
> 6 plain white dinner plates for $5 the set. My everyday china has a gold
> rim on, so cannot go in the microwave, and there are times when I want to
> just reheat a plate of something. If your ordinary plates don't have any
> metal on them, you can use them.

Most of our everyday table ware is plain white china - some of it very old
(I bought it second hand from someone who was emigrating to Rhodesia in the
1950s) so there's no proiblem. My 'special' dinner plates have silver rims
but I know about not putting metal in the oven so wouldn't anyway.

What surprised me was the instruction in the booklet not to wrap food in
paper when in the microwave - because some recylcled paper contains small
metal partcles. I didn't know that! We learn every day :-)

Especially from internet friends, thank you again.

Mary
>
> Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.
>
> --
> Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
>



Posted by Mary Fisher on January 23, 2008, 3:00 pm

>
>>
>> news:2dee7167-abf0-4b27-b880-
>
>> I rarely cook bacon > any other way now, and there
>> are a number of other things I use it for
>> as well. It is alwo great for quickly heating leftovers.
>>
>>
>> Bacon? Never thought of that ... so much to learn ...
>>
>> head swimming ...
>>
>> Mary
>
> I always do my bacon in the mike. But it's quite
> different from doing it in the stovetop.
>
> Use a dinner plate with at least a double layer
> of paper towels, lay your strips of bacon on
> the towels, then a double layer of towels on
> top of the bacon. Cook til the desired doneness,
> and use the paper towels to mop up the grease.
> Be careful, the towels will be HOT!

I hope I can remember that ...
>
> Because I love my bacon totally CRISP, some-
> times the bacon sticks to the towels. I watch
> for that and peel it off before it sticks.
>
> If I'm doing 4 or 5 slices of bacon, I cook it
> on high for at least 5 minutes, checking on
> it while it cooks.

But it doesn't take as long as that on the griddle ...

Mary
>
> Shelagh
>
>



Posted by Katherine on January 23, 2008, 12:11 am
> Well it's been another cool day on the Canadian prairies.
> Today felt quite a bit warmer than yesterday. =A0At least the
> hubbo and I were able to get outside to cut and split some
> firewood today.
>
> Yesterday and today I spent an enjoyable afternoon watching
> the Canadian Figure Skating Championships on CBC. =A0I'm
> wishing now I'd scraped the money together to go. =A0Oh well,
> there is a silver lining. =A0I'll be going to Skate America in
> Everett Washington at the end of October with the same
> friend who met me in Atlantic City in 2005.
>
> In addition to working on the Hanami Shawl which we all
> discussed in another thread, I've started some sock weight
> liner mittens for a friend to put inside her snowmobile
> mitts. =A0She's also asked for a pair of heavy woollen
> socks. =A0A great way to help get rid of some of my stash. ;>)
>
> Hope you all had a good day. =A0I'm off to warm up the turkey
> I made for dinner yesterday. =A0Yes - turkey. =A0My husband's
> company gives them out free for Christmas, so I always
> save it for January

Here it is Tuesday, and I am just getting around to replying to this.
Does that tell you how my life has been? LOL I am working on the
breast cancer socks, and have completed 36 rows on the Diamond
Fantasy Shawl. THe shawl is definitely NOT mindless knitting, and
the socks also require some concentration. But they are shaping
up nicely.
It has been cold in MOntreal, but compared to poor Keith in Wabush.
this is balmy. Plus they have been losing the power for brief periods
of time for the past two days - not fun! In fact, he has started
talking (again!) about getting a generator.
I like turley at any time of the year. In fact, when I go home in
February, I hope to cook one. Yum!

Higs,
Katherine

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