"Julia Altshuler" > wrote in message
news:SMcAb.241554$Dw6.840184@attbi_s02...
> Nancy Young wrote:
>
> > Anything you wouldn't consider making for dinner?
>
> Deep fried anything. I like fried food now and then. Fried chicken or
> fish and chips or plain french fries are good-- but not when I have to
> heat all that oil and strain it when I'm done with it. It'd be easier
> if I were set up for it, but I'm not and don't want to be for all the
> use the special equipment would get.
>
> Then there are the foods that set off the smoke alarm. Around here that
> tends to be Thai curries.
>
> --Lia

I'll second the deep-fried anything. There is no way on earth I'm going to
have a pot of hotter-than-boiling oil in my kitchen. And when my SIL does
his deep-fry thing, I leave the room.

As for the smoke alarm -- think Paul Prudhomme and his blackened whatever.

Felice