Someone here actually makes a pretty good chicken pizza, onions peppers and mushrooms and put the chicken without the sauce.
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 7, 2020, at 11:09 PM, meward1954--- via Cookinginthedark > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Could you eat a white cheese pizza, if you like that kind of thing? No > tomato sauce. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Simon Wong via Cookinginthedark > Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 7:59 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Simon Wong <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [CnD] Homemade Pizza almost > > Sorry cannot eat pizza because of acid reflux. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pamela Fairchild via Cookinginthedark > Sent: Friday, August 07, 2020 8:10 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CnD] Homemade Pizza almost > > The crust crisps nicely on the edge. It would crisp all over if I weren't so > generous with my toppings. If you go easy on the sauce, and just add > pepperoni, it gets nice and crispy with the cheese. With the olives sausage > and onions, it doesn't get as crisp, but you can pick it up and eat it > without it getting floppy. The oil is what helps it to get more crispy. One > pita crispins if you skip the sauce and just do pepperoni and cheese. With > all the things I add, the two crust idea really helps. I love the cheese > between. I may also experiment with flour tortillas or a combination of pita > for the first layer and flour tortilla for the third. With fewer toppings > the cooking time can be cut to 10 or 15 minutes. > > Pamela Fairchild > <[email protected]> > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cookinginthedark On Behalf Of diane.fann7--- via Cookinginthedark > Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 7:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CnD] Homemade Pizza almost > > I certainly haven't found any frozen pizza that I like. This looks like all > kinds of possibilities. Does the crust get crispy? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Pamela Fairchild via Cookinginthedark > Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 5:26 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: [CnD] Homemade Pizza almost > > DOUBLE CRUST PITA PIZZA > > 2 pitas, any size you choose but both should be the same size, or if not, > use the larger pita on the bottom. > Olive oil > Cheese or cheeses of choice > Pizza sauce of choice or use any pasta sauce you like, or spaghetti sauce > Any toppings of choice > > Choose a pan to cook the pizza in or on. These may range from a cookie sheet > with an edge to a pizza pan, pie tin, or whatever works with your pitas. > Those all come in different sizes. > Generously oil your pan, then let the larger pita rest on the oily surface > of the pan. Flip the pita making sure there is enough oil to coat the second > side, but not as generously as the first side. Flip it one more time so the > less oily side is on top. > Put cheese slices on the pita for the second layer. Make certain to cover > all the pita well to within 1/8 inch of the border. > Layer 3 is the second pita. Press it down firmly against the cheese so it > all sticks together when the cheese melts. > Layer 4 is the sauce. I put it on with an ice cream scoop and used 3 full > scoops to cover the crust. > Layer 5 was a sausage patty that was cooked in the microwave and then broken > up to a crumble. Best to use 2 breakfast patties here. > Layer 6 was onions cooked in the same way, I used half an onion and it was a > Vidalia. > Layer 7 was black olives, I used 10 that I cut up into 3 slices each. > Layer 8 was a thin layer of grated cheese, about the same amount in layer 2 > where I used the slices. > Layer 9 was pepperoni, and I was generous with that. If you like it slightly > well done like I do, put it on top. If you like it less done then put it > under your last cheese layer. > Cook in a toaster oven at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. I put it in the cold > oven rather than preheating, and it worked fine. > I had to let this cool a bit before cutting. It turned out great. There will > be many more of these in my future! > > Pamela Fairchild > <[email protected]> > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cookinginthedark On Behalf Of Linda S. via Cookinginthedark > Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 3:52 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Linda S. <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [CnD] Matches and irrational fears > > I love these stories. We can immagine ourselves sitting around a table of > food that we all cooked just telling our stories. How fun! > >> On 8/6/2020 10:58 PM, Carol Ashland via Cookinginthedark wrote: >> When I was a child, we lived in a little trailer house. I had a little > potty chair in a shed om the porch, but I suppose my parents used an out > house. I don't know what my mother did with the laundry. There was a storm, > and the roof of the house caved in right above me because of the weight of > the snow. Then we moved into a real house. I loved that house. The back yard > was literally carved out of the forest. There were birds galore in and over > the back yard, and across the gravel road that went through the community. I > used to walk up the road to a neighbor's house. She had a washboard to cope > with her laundry. My mother got a ringer washer, and finally a regular > washer and dryer, which we had until we sold the house on Arthur Street. > They don't make appliances as durable now as they used to! >> >> Carol Ashland >> [email protected] >> Sent from my BrailleNote Touch+On Aug 6, 2020 6:38 AM, Pamela >> Fairchild > via Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Oh, yes, I remember ringer washers and hanging my clothes on the >>> clothes line outside, and on a wooden rack in the house in winter. I >>> am so grateful to live in this country, and in this day and age with >>> modern conveniences. I can remember outhouses in my youth, and wood >>> heating stoves and coal stoves where only one room of the house was >>> heated. I remember coming to the living room to get dressed where it >>> was warmer, and when the electricity wasn't always reliable. Now we >>> are very spoiled in many ways. I for one don't have the physical >>> strength > of my older relatives. I don't have to work as hard. >>> We wouldn't have survived when I was young if we had not grown a >>> garden and put food up for the winter by canning it or drying it. I >>> remember when my grandmother got her first freezer. It lived outside >>> on the front porch, which was covered, but open to the wind. >>> >>> Pamela Fairchild >>> <[email protected]> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Cookinginthedark On Behalf Of meward1954--- via >>> Cookinginthedark >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2020 8:58 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Cc: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [CnD] Matches and irrational fears >>> >>> OMG! My washboard was actually stone, a shallow stone basin with >>> places for the water to come out and a drain in the middle. There >>> was a bigger basin to the side where you could soak the clothes. >>> >>> We had those gas things, too. I lived with another woman for a while >>> in a set of rooms, not connected, on the top floor of a building. It >>> was not really safe. I should have told her no. Anyway, one night, >>> somebody came up all those stairs and stole my gas tank. I tried to >>> make coffee in the morning and could not light the stove. No gas. >>> Literally no gas. I cried, cursed, and moaned multilingually. >>> >>> I had electricity most of the time, though it sometimes went off. >>> Same with the water. Sometimes during the summer, there was not >>> enough water pressure to get the water up to our apartment, this was >>> another roommate. So we had to carry jugs and buckets up those >>> uneven stairs. I couldn't do it now. I am such a chicken now. >>> >>> I was lucky living in the mountains. It was cold enough that I could >>> safely keep cooked food for a couple of days. But if it had meat, it >>> had to be boiled every twelve hours or else thrown away. I never >>> ever cooked chicken at home. I didn't trust it. That is what >>> restaurants were for. Yes, we had restaurants. >>> >>> Those were definitely the days. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> On >>> Behalf Of Linda S. via Cookinginthedark >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2020 7:30 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Cc: Linda S. <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Re: [CnD] Matches and irrational fears >>> >>> Wow, this brings back a memory. When I lived in Mexico, I learned to >>> wash my clothes with a wash board. The gas stove was also different >>> because you had to buy the gas in tanks and connect them to the >>> stove. I ex in-laws would do that thank God. There were people who >>> would go through the colonia and yell out what they had, for example, >>> gas, water, yams, the postman with the mail etc. >>> >>> We went to the store every day to buy meat and veges as there wasn't >>> a refrigerator in the house. If there wasn't money to pay for >>> electricity, well it just plain got turned off, no compromising until >>> it > was paid. >>> Those were the days, but I wouldn't trade them for anything, or the >>> lessons I learned. >>> >>> On 8/5/2020 4:23 PM, meward1954--- via Cookinginthedark wrote: >>>> Regarding getting the match to the gas flame, my burner was a very >>>> cheap little thing. It is possible that the reason I didn't have >>>> much trouble with that part is that it was not what I was afraid of. >>>> But I know these gas things come in lots of configurations. >>>> Actually, it had a disturbing history. I bought it from another >>>> Peace Corps Volunteer who had been killed in a bus accident. His >>>> brother came to take care of his things and visit with us. >>>> >>>> I had an electric range top before the gas one, but it had died. >>>> That electric burner was actually quite a bit more dangerous than >>>> the gas one was. As I found out when it died on me. Nearly caught >>>> the table on >>> fire. >>>> I was actually too scared to react. So I had to buy a gas one no >>>> matter what. >>>> >>>> When I moved back here to Texas, it was as though I had never been >>>> through any of that. >>>> >>>> There are still so many parts of the world where most people don't >>>> have access to the conveniences we take for granted here. >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> On >>>> Behalf Of Immigrant via Cookinginthedark >>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2020 3:07 PM >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Cc: Immigrant <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: Re: [CnD] Matches and irrational fears >>>> >>>> As far as matches - for me it was not a fear of matches themselves, >>>> it was simple inability to work with them. I would start a gas >>>> burner, strike a match away from the stove so I wouldn't cause a gas >>>> explosion, and when I tried to bring the match to the burner to >>>> light the flame, the match would burn in my fingers faster than I >>>> was able to bring it to the burner, and I would instinctively drop >>>> it onto the stove surface between burners. That was before I came to >>>> America. I am >>> glad my stove now has electric ignition. >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> On >>>> Behalf Of >>>> meward1954--- via Cookinginthedark >>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2020 10:12 AM >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Cc: [email protected] >>>> Subject: [CnD] Matches and irrational fears >>>> >>>> I used to have to light my burners with a match back when I lived in >>>> Ecuador. I had to work with a friend to light them because I was so >>>> afraid of them. She spent several hours with me getting me over my >>>> fear. I'll never forget it. >>>> >>>> I had to light the match and then light the stove with the lit >>>> match, which all my sighted friends said was more scary than >>>> lighting the match >>> itself. >>>> I had to do this or go hungry. It was that simple. >>>> >>>> But guess what? Now that I am back in Texas, I am just as much >>>> afraid of lighting matches as I was before. I am also afraid of my >>>> Instant Pot. Even though I used a regular pressure cooker in >>>> Ecuador almost every day. In fact, I may have used the regular >>>> pressure cooker two or three times on some days. But now, I am >>>> terrified of even my very safe Instant Pot. I guess I am going to >>>> have to make myself use it a few times to get over this. And I will > have to keep using it. >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> On >>>> Behalf Of Ron Kolesar via Cookinginthedark >>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2020 10:08 PM >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Cc: Ron Kolesar <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: Re: [CnD] Preferred cooking methods >>>> >>>> I don't use the oven top as well. >>>> With the island that came with the house. >>>> The gas admitter burned out. >>>> So, to use the oven these days you need to strike the stove with a > match. >>>> So, that's out for me and the toaster oven and microwave is over used. >>>> SMILES. >>>> Ron >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Immigrant via Cookinginthedark >>>> Sent: Monday, August 3, 2020 17:02 >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Cc: Immigrant >>>> Subject: [CnD] Preferred cooking methods >>>> >>>> I use the oven and the microwave for my cooking, trying to avoid >>>> stovetop cooking as I don't trust myself boiling and especially >>>> frying. And I cannot think of any foods that I would prefer boiled > anyway. >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> On >>>> Behalf Of Karen Delzer via Cookinginthedark >>>> Sent: Monday, August 3, 2020 3:48 PM >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Cc: Karen Delzer <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: Re: [CnD] Cooking Brown Rice in a rice cooker >>>> >>>> We use Success rice sometimes, and it's great! You just boil the bag >>>> for about ten minutes, and then you're done. They've got different >>>> ones, >>> too. >>>> Karen >>>> >>>> At 12:44 PM 8/3/2020, you wrote: >>>>> As I said, my rice is minute rice, so it is partially cooked. It >>>>> comes in 4-ounce cups, and it is meant for microwaving. I don't buy >>>>> regular rice because I don't feel the need for a bag of 5 or more >>>>> pounds of rice for just me, and all that stovetop cooking for just >>>>> one person when I can cook a couple of those cups for a minute and >>>>> a half and they are ready. To rinse or not to rinse is not a >>>>> question as this rice is prepackaged and I cook it in its cup. >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> On >>>>> Behalf Of Deborah Armstrong via Cookinginthedark >>>>> Sent: Monday, August 3, 2020 11:30 AM >>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>> Cc: Deborah Armstrong <[email protected]> >>>>> Subject: Re: [CnD] Cooking Brown Rice in a rice cooker >>>>> >>>>> Well I prepare rice completely differently but I mostly eat brown. >>>>> >>>>> I have read that it is important to rinse rice, but packages in the >>>>> U.S. and cookbooks published in America advise against it. >>>>> >>>>> Turns out after further reading, I found out why; rinsing >>>>> originally removed field debris. Now that rice is prepared in >>>>> factories, rinsing removes excess starch which can make it sticky. >>>>> The reason they advise against rinsing is given is that here in >>>>> America, rice is fortified with spray-on vitamins and minerals >>>>> which > rinsing removes. >>>>> >>>>> If you eat plenty of vegies you don't need the spray-on nutrients, >>>>> so go ahead and rinse it to remove the starch. >>>>> >>>>> I put my rice in my cooker with 1 cup of rice to 3 cups of water >>>>> for brown and 2 cups of water for white. I sprinkle in a little >>>>> salt; that's all. I then let it sit an hour or two. I've read this >>>>> makes the rice better absorb the liquid and this works especially >>>>> well for brown; >>>> makes it less chewy. >>>>> I let the cooker do its thing; there's a sensor that knows when the >>>>> water is almost gone. Once it is back to just warming, I turn it >>>>> off and let it set ten minutes. Then I stir and cover again so it >>>>> won't dry out and put it in the fridge when it's cool enough. >>>>> >>>>> I generally flavor it when I add other things -- for example I >>>>> might microwave it with garlic or curry and vegies. Or I might mix >>>>> it with cumin and add it to enchiladas. Or I might make a salad >>>>> with cold rice, mayo, vegies, spices, pickles -- yum. >>>>> >>>>> I have tried flavoring it in the cooker, but especially with brown >>>>> rice, the hull is so thick that most of the flavoring is lost. >>>>> >>>>> --Debee >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Cookinginthedark mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Cookinginthedark mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Cookinginthedark mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Cookinginthedark mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark >>>> >>>> In the good old days of Morse code Shorthand, 73's AKA Best Regards >>>> and or Best Whishes,From Ron Kolesar Volunteer Certified Licensed >>>> Emergency Communications Station And Volunteer Certified Licensed >>>> Ham Radio Station With the Call Sign of KR3DOG >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Cookinginthedark mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Cookinginthedark mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Cookinginthedark mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Cookinginthedark mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Cookinginthedark mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Cookinginthedark mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Cookinginthedark mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark >> _______________________________________________ >> Cookinginthedark mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > https://www.avg.com > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
