On Nov 21, 10:58 am, "David" <cosmosatnointerbaunspamdotcom> wrote:
> "Bobo Bonobo(R)" > wrote in message
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> > On Nov 21, 12:10 am, "cybercat" > wrote:
> >> "Pete C." > wrote in message
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> >> > cybercat wrote:
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> >> >> "Goomba38" > wrote in message
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> >> >> > Christine Dabney wrote:
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> >> >> >> The article:
> >> >> >>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/21/dining/21carv.html
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> >> >> >> The video:
> >> >> >>http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_stor...c6bfc1c871d6f5...
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> >> >> > I haven't yet looked but I gather this is a MUCH needed guide. Carving
> >> >> > was
> >> >> > always the man's job at my family's holiday meals.
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> >> >> What? You mean men HAVE a job at holiday meals
> >> >> besides falling out on the couch afterward and grunting
> >> >> in an icky way if you ask them to take out
> >> >> the trash?
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> >> >> I've been ROBBED!
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> >> > Of course we do - we have to do the cooking so it will be good - y'all
> >> > can busy yourselves with decorating the table... Out of my kitchen!
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> > I do ALL the cooking, except dessert, which is my wife's province. I
> > will, however, be the one to procure the pumpkin from "that thing."
> > "That thing" is a pumpkin. My wife knows how to get the "pumpkin"*
> > out of the can, but not out of the squash itself. I bought her ground
> > clove, ginger and Ceylon cinnamon yesterday at Penzey's.
> > This brings me to the "CRAP!" part. Penzey's quit making powdered bay
> > leaf!
> > Other than pepper, powdered bay leaf is the seasoning I use most
> > frequently. Whole bay leaves take forever, compared to powdered.
> > Now, it's either use inferior powdered, or take an extra hour to
> > infuse the leaves. Grrrr.
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> >> So, are you married?
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> > One reason that I'm happily married is that I do 99% of the cooking.
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> > * canned pumpkin is really "Dickinson squash," *Cucurbita moschata*,
> > not pumpkin, *Cucurbita pepo*.
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> > --Bryan
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> Couldn't you break up some bay leaves and grind them
> to a powder in a coffee grinder or similar?

Maybe. I guess I'll go ahead and buy another electric milling thingie
dedicated to other-than-coffee stuff. Maybe it'll work.

> David.

--Bryan