Doug and Mixed Vegetable curry Recipe Christine

[Guest guest]

Christine:

 

Your welcome I was mistaken I stick it 4 oz or 8 Tablespoons and 1/2 a cup.

 

Gayle

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Now this is where I have to disagree with people and stir things up a bit.

Recipes are only guides. And the slight differences in amounts of ingredients

added, or in differences in ingredients added will add to teh enjoyment of

cooking and your culinary abilities. It is like going to the theatre to watch a

play' no two nights will be teh same due to the nuances introduved by the mood

of te actors and the directors. Sometimes this is beneficial, sometimes

detrimental, but that is teh excitement of it. Okay, now for an example where

this attitude doesn't pay off, I tried to make nougat once using this philosophy

and ended up with toffee.

 

glpveg4life wrote: HI Christine:

 

Here a stick of butter is equal to 8 TBs or 1/2 a cup, or 8 oz.

 

Gayle

 

 

 

christie0131

 

Mon, 4 Dec 2006 1:54 PM

Re: Doug and Mixed Vegetable curry Recipe

 

I wish all cookbooks were as enlightened. My new Native Foods cookbook

only give measurements in American, which seems like such an inexact

science. I already had to buy cup measures but how is a person meant to

know what a stick of butter or butter substitute comprises? or, even

worse, a box of silken tofu? How do I know my box of tofu is the same

size as yours? Oooops, obviously feeling grumpy after a day at work,

LOL.

Christie

 

, Douglas Anderson

<djandersonza wrote:

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> Hi Judy

> Thanks for he compliment, but I am afraid that I cannot tell a lie;

the bbc food website gives measurements in both imperial and

metric......

 

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[Guest guest]

Thanks Gayle. That is really helpful. 8 oz is a big " stick " . Makes me

suspect that the box of tofu is also much bigger than the one on sale

over here.

Christie

 

, glpveg4life wrote:

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> HI Christine:

>

> Here a stick of butter is equal to 8 TBs or 1/2 a cup, or 8 oz.

>

> Gayle

>

>

[Guest guest]

I agree that recipes are guides and sometimes I follow them and sometimes I

don't.

 

Gayle

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Douglas

 

I think what you said is true. However, I think that cooking recipes

are usually more forgiving than baking recipes. I much smaller change

in ingredients or technique can make a much bigger difference in a

baking recipe as your nougat recipe indicates.

 

GB

 

 

> Now this is where I have to disagree with people and stir things up

a bit. Recipes are only guides. And the slight differences in amounts

of ingredients added, or in differences in ingredients added will add

to teh enjoyment of cooking and your culinary abilities. It is like

going to the theatre to watch a play' no two nights will be teh same

due to the nuances introduved by the mood of te actors and the

directors. Sometimes this is beneficial, sometimes detrimental, but

that is teh excitement of it. Okay, now for an example where this

attitude doesn't pay off, I tried to make nougat once using this

philosophy and ended up with toffee.

[Guest guest]

ohhh see now I would have been much happier with the toffee, than the

nougat!! Care to share the recipe??

 

 

On 12/4/06, Douglas Anderson <djandersonza wrote:

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> I tried to make nougat once using this philosophy and ended up with

> toffee.

>

>

> <glpveg4life%40aol.com>

>

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

What you say is true, but that is the fun of cooking!!!!!!!!!1

 

greatyoga <greatyoga wrote: Douglas

 

I think what you said is true. However, I think that cooking recipes

are usually more forgiving than baking recipes. I much smaller change

in ingredients or technique can make a much bigger difference in a

baking recipe as your nougat recipe indicates.

 

GB

 

> Now this is where I have to disagree with people and stir things up

a bit. Recipes are only guides. And the slight differences in amounts

of ingredients added, or in differences in ingredients added will add

to teh enjoyment of cooking and your culinary abilities. It is like

going to the theatre to watch a play' no two nights will be teh same

due to the nuances introduved by the mood of te actors and the

directors. Sometimes this is beneficial, sometimes detrimental, but

that is teh excitement of it. Okay, now for an example where this

attitude doesn't pay off, I tried to make nougat once using this

philosophy and ended up with toffee.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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