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Is it in the frig waiting for you to make whipped cream for "all the pies you're making for Thanksgiving?"
Probably for some of you the answer is "yes." But I just about fell out of my chair laughing when Rachael Ray said this on national TV, with a straight face. She was making some kind of cream sauce using regular milk, when she said "You can use some of the half and half you have just sitting in the frig that you're gonna use to make whipped cream for all the pies you're making for Thanksgiving."
After you make the whipped cream how do you get it into the squirt cans?
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Ahhh...whipped cream in a can. I love that stuff. I buy it just so I can keep it in the fridge to squirt in my mouth whenever I open the fridge for something. Plus, when the can is empty there's still enough nitrous oxide in it to get a buzz off of...so they say.
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I think this is what's been holding me back all these years and why I don't have my own TV show. I don't even have any half and half. Don't think I ever have.
quote: I have a thing of cool whip in the freezer....
I have never had whipped cream out of a can...I just can't imagine that it would be good at all.. I use to but cool whip some...but is is SOOOOOOOOOO easy to make your own..and it tastes so much better...there is just no comparison! But...I also have to add that I have never used half & half....I get heavy cream! Man...how could it stay your fridge for so long? I use it in everything...scrambled eggs, soups, mashed tators (makes them so creamy & yummy!) I thought about getting a can of that spray stuff since you all were going on about it...but ...NAW...
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Sheri...I watch Rachel Ray every day. We don't have the same cooking preferences...but she is a hoot. She uses too much frozen & canned stuff for my taste...but she has some really yummy ideas! I also like to watch Alton Brown...he's a complete nut case...but his shows are crammed full of great information...
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I have never had whipped cream out of a can...I thought about getting a can of that spray stuff since you all were going on about it...but ...NAW... [/QUOTE]
I knew there was someone in this bunch!!! And I know a secret. Cindy, Lou, Faye, Cinja has half and half in her frig and is cooking with it today!!!!!!
I like to watch Rachael too but she cooks a lot of heavy food. Sometimes I just want to eat light. She has to use a lot of convenience foods to get the dinner completed in 30 minutes. A friend of mine, who has every Pampered Chef item there is but they are still in the box since she hardly ever cooks, tried to fix a 30 minute meal one night. She said it took her 2 hours.
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I use to have quite a bit of Pampered Chef stuff...I have gotten rid of some of it through the years...but I love the baking stones...and those little pairing knives that they sell for a buck...I have a ton of those. Sold my apple peeler...never used it. But I will tell you one thing...if I ever win the lotto....first place I am heading is to a Williams Sonoma....and they would love to see me coming! I love that place!
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quote:And I know a secret. Cindy, Lou, Faye, Cinja has half and half in her frig and is cooking with it today!!!!!!
Okay...spill the beans...what is she making....?
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When my children moved out I pretty much stopped cooking and in this house I don't have a lot of space for gadgets. I have been to W&S though and I do like that stuff. Since I've been home sick and watching all these cooking shows I do feel like cooking some, but who will eat it? I cook when the girls are here or to take to work. That's pretty much it.
Right now though, I'm watching a show that says to eat everything raw.
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"Right now though, I'm watching a show that says to eat everything raw." I hear that was part of the Samurai philosophy...only eat live food. I try do do that, too...I like my cow still mooing! Plants: 2290 | From: norman, ok | Registered: Apr 2005
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quote: "Right now though, I'm watching a show that says to eat everything raw."
I'd have to draw the line there....some meats I like med rare...but raw... that just can't be good!
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I only use the canned "whipped cream" when I specifically want it for the squirted appearance.
Otherwise, it is from scratch. That's the best way to make a Fool anyway.
Half & Half, Light Cream and Heavy Cream are pretty much staples for one reason or another.
Chowder just isn't chowdery enough without the Half & Half...
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The host of the show said that's what Demi Moore did to get ready for her "come back". Raw veges, raw fruit, I guess sushi. What else can be eaten raw that won't give you worms or salmonella?
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My meat better be half charred when they bring it out ....everyone hates it when I get steak because then everyone has to wait for my steak to cook before they get their food...
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I'm with you, loz, my meat better be well, well cooked or I don't even get my fork near it!
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I just worry that if something isn't cooked well that there might be some kinds of disease that isn't cooked out of it....Mark does medium well.....and when he's cutting it and it's pink it makes me feel a little nauseous....
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I hate the thought of something possibly biting me back -- in one way or another.
Getting sick would be my own fault for impatience!
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Bestofour ~ are you also a part of the southern culture that adds bacon fat to cooked-until-all-vitamins-disappear vegetables?
I used to have some southern friends who cooked that way and it was delicious but it scared me, too.
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Okay, I confess, I don't like rare. Medium rare is mooing enough...and there is no danger with beef cooked medium rare unless it's hamburger or that sort of thing. E. coli is the thing to worry about, and it's only on the outside if you don't grind the meat, and heat kills it. (If it's even there at all.) No parasites in the U.S. beef industry. Plants: 2290 | From: norman, ok | Registered: Apr 2005
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Merme, I don't add bacon fat but I grew up that way. My grandmother cooked the best green beans and potatoes, with the fat back and bacon grease from a jar that sat on her stove. Growing up my mother had a jar of bacon grease sitting on her stove too. My dad recently died from heart failure - his mother, his first wife - imagine that.
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when I first moved south I wondered what I had been doing wrong with my green beans for 40 years since they never tasted as good as what I experienced here - and then I learned about the bacon fat, etc... it tastes delicious but I don't want my veggies to have more fat and calories than my chocolate chip cookies. Boston Market has yummy green beans. I know there's garlic in them but I don't think I want to know about anything else.
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I have a jar of bacon fat on my stove... I never professed to be a "healthy" cook! Bev...if you don't want to use bacon in your green beans...add 1 or 2 beef bullion cubes, garlic powder or minced garlic. I always have bacon pieces in my green beans...and lot's of garlic! I don't cook my veggies to death though...I really like the flavor & texture of steamed veggies. I cannot imagine cooking crooked neck squash without bacon...
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I just use onion in my crooknecked squash, but I'll admit, Vanessa's alternate recipe for green beans sounds...yum! I used to eat 'em without bacon for several years for the healthiness, but I got back to using one or two bacon strips, diced, and some green onion or yellow onion. What's a little fat? Plants: 2290 | From: norman, ok | Registered: Apr 2005
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Never hurt anybody...besides..it will make your hair shiney! *
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I use beef boullion in my green beans too. I put 2 cubes per 4 servings. I think that tastes just as good as bacon. I cook my squash with onion - I fry my squash. Not exactly healthy but very tasty.
We went to the Olive Garden tonight and had some not raw food, except for the salad. Boy was it good.
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ewe...I love the Olive Garden...we don't do Italian food a lot....I'm not really sure why! We also don't eat out a lot. When we do we like to hit Outback Steak House. I haven't been to an Olive Garden in years!
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We don't eat out a whole lot either. That's really not true because we buy food and bring it home for dinner a lot. We just don't go out to restaurants a lot. While I've been sick I've been laying around watching the Cooking Channel and it made me want to eat at the Olive Garden for some reason. It's around 45 minutes from here but it sure tasted good. And this cheesecake is out of this world. Monroe, NC is hurting for good restaurants.
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Sheri, I'm not a TV "watcher" at all...wouldn't even own one if it were up to me. But...for some reson the thing is always on. So...I have been putting it on the Food channel so I can listen to it....I love it now! The only problem I have is that I usually always have our meals pretty well planned out..and then I start listening to the food channnel..and I cange my mind 47 times during the day!
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You actually drank the half and half? Isn't it cream?
4Ruddy, until lately, when I've been down and out I rarely watched TV. Reruns of Seinfeld and sometimes My Name is Earl. Now that's about all I do, except I have read 2 books. Until yesterday I could only stay up for short periods at a time, so laying flat on my back it was reading or TV. My daughter and neices are always talking about the cooking channel and I had never watched it. It's so funny that my sisters (3 of them) and I hardly cook but our children watch that channel and cook a lot. My daughter, Ginger, that lives alone, cooks for herself a lot. And my nieces all want kitchen gadgets for gifts. Go figure.
quote:You actually drank the half and half? Isn't it cream?
My mom use to pour it over strawberries & peaches...and she would put it on her cereal!!!
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You guys should try that "crooked neck" squash cut up thinly, with onions, sauted in some Blush Wine. As a side to fish, particularly on the grill, you can't beat it!
But I'm curious, how do you fry your squash, Bestofour? Do you dip it in anything first?
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K...gotta' say sumthin' here.....maybe it's because of my European raising....but I have never used whipped cream out of a can...always homemade with real whipping cream, lil' sugar and a lil' vanilla..yummy!! I think Rachel Ray uses far too much processed, canned and precooked food...might as well buy a TV dinner. Beef...hasta' be medium rare..some gourmet chefs wont even cook it any different..they feel thats the only way..eat it rare...or dont eat it at all. I'd rather add bacon fat to green beans than boullion cubes...the sodium in those is ridicious!!! Yes..it's good flavour but I bloat up like a balloon when I over do it with salt. But...thats just my opinion. Christina
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Christina, I think that's why Rachael is so popular, especially. They feel like they're cooking but their doing it conveniently. I suppose you have to weigh the options between a little fat in the beans or some sodium. I don't have a problem with salt intake so I opt for the boullion.
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Hey Christina beef is a lot more tender med rare for sure. I cannot imagine a WELL DONE steak The bullion does have a bunch of sodium...but bacon pretty much does as well (I guess depending on how it is cured) like I mentioned before...I'm not much of a "healthy" cook...guess I should be...but I'm more into YUMMY!!!
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I use to but cool whip some...but is is 
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I never professed to be a "healthy" cook!
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beef is a lot more tender med rare for sure. I cannot imagine a WELL DONE steak 
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