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And, I would like a lesson in cooking sweetened condensed milk in the can.
Is it dangerous?
Well..yeah. Apparently. I don't know anyone who has actually ever had anything happen, though, and I know a lot of people who do it. I usually do it when I don't plan on being in the kitchen, and with a lid, just in case, though like I said, never knew anything to ever happen. Here, look here on how I do it: miscellany of me..: Insanity..
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Oh, yeah, and if you look in my comments, one of my readers says she makes it in a pressure cooker, to make sure if it pops it's safe. Though she's never had anything happen, either, and she does three at a time.
if you think about it, the condensed milk was canned with heat under pressure in the first place. surely to goodness putting it in boiling water wouldn't stress the can more than that.
80% of the time I am served stuffing, it has raisins (usually golden, which makes them camoflaged) or apple chunks in it. Bleh. I don't like sweet with my savory.
Things I adore: fresh peaches, good chocolate, gruyere, most stinky cheeses, pomegranates, most wines from Beaune, sushi, fresh mojitos and mint juleps, fresh gazpacho, one particular brand of whipped cream, shellfish if they are superfresh and done perfectly right (mussels and littleneck clams in particular), grainy mustard, regular cheesesteaks from Geno's (heartfelt apologies to Pat's - I used to live a block away from both places) or seitan cheesesteaks that I make myself, and a fruit that I've only eaten once (in Ecuador, the English translation was "custard apple").
80% of the time I am served stuffing, it has raisins (usually golden, which makes them camoflaged) or apple chunks in it. Bleh. I don't like sweet with my savory.
Things I adore: fresh peaches, good chocolate, gruyere, most stinky cheeses, pomegranates, most wines from Beaune, sushi, fresh mojitos and mint juleps, fresh gazpacho, one particular brand of whipped cream, shellfish if they are superfresh and done perfectly right (mussels and littleneck clams in particular), grainy mustard, regular cheesesteaks from Geno's (heartfelt apologies to Pat's - I used to live a block away from both places) or seitan cheesesteaks that I make myself, and a fruit that I've only eaten once (in Ecuador, the English translation was "custard apple").
Custard apple is a sapote (sapotay..sorta...more accent, though. ) or cherimoya, or soursop. Anyway you call it, I don't like it. But I am suddenly craving fresh peaches, good chocolate, and gruyere. Badly.
if you think about it, the condensed milk was canned with heat under pressure in the first place. surely to goodness putting it in boiling water wouldn't stress the can more than that.
Yeah, that's my theory. I am no going to run around and tell everyone it's totally safe, though....I could just see the resulting lawsuit.
So this postal worker and this Anglican priest walk into a bar....
Wait, seriously, why would anyone put fruit in stuffing?
you do know that I love you, right?
(someone needed to take this thread down that path. may as well be me)
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Originally Posted by OnTheBrink
Fruit is stuffing is nasty.
Caramel is wonderful As are most priests and postal workers!
you'd know. I trust your judgment.
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Originally Posted by tara
80% of the time I am served stuffing, it has raisins (usually golden, which makes them camoflaged) or apple chunks in it. Bleh. I don't like sweet with my savory.
I love me some raisins and apples in stuffing...along with sausage, celery, and onions.
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Although, for a turkey, if you stuff it with onions and cilantro and green onions ( the little ones) and quartered oranges and lemons.........it's the best. You have to throw the stuffing out, though. Oh, and stuff onions and lemons in the neck cavity. If you have a high tolerance for gooey biological stuff, you can stuff slices of lemons under the skin, but I don't, so it's just a plain golden turkey. It's half steamed, and moist, etc etc etc
I was wondering b/c there are the off- hand insults online, and there's the line about "would you have the post office run XYZ..." and "going postal." Nobody "goes librarian." or "goes DMV clerk."
I would point out that the people who ran the German petty states post office were ennobled. They still are nobles, with the train car lengths of noble names. Thurm und Taxis- somehow that's one of the names, or married to one of the names...
I was curious, b/c I'll poke around on some British gossipy sites every now and again, or there will be a link to a British site, from something skin care, or something knitting, or something sewn- really shallow stuff- and there will be these articles, or comments, that are singularly contemptuous of the whole British anglican priest thing- not, they hate them, not they disagree, although they do that, too- but that there's this off-hand contempt. Which doesn't fit my mental model of anglicans, episcopalians, or priests. and it's sort of all over, and upfront. Which is so odd. I mean, I was really close to the founders of the atheist society in town here, but they never spoke of priests, or pastors, or anyone religious with contempt. So it doesn't even fit my mental model of atheists.
I've been wondering for a while, and things just sort of accumulate when I notice them, and then I can ask a question about an oddity. And, really, who else could I go ask?
you can also pour the sweetened condensed milk into a pyrex measuring cup, and set it in water in your crockpot, and cook it that way. I don't know if it's quite as syrupy, but it's definitely safe.
there was a cooking light magazine that had a can of that poured into a piecrust, and topped with whipped cream. Being cooking light, it was all non-fat/low-fat. Being me, I made it once, full fat, dh loved it, but he likes caramel. I would think with chocolate drips it would be so much better.
you can also beat in into a cream base for ice cream.
I grew up with apples in stuffing. When dh came to our home for turkey and found out that my mother was doing that he thought she was out to poison him (allergic to apples)! - thinking about it... perhaps she was. She about did all of us in with the turkey itself - major blech!
carmel apples - yum, dark chocolate - yum, my mother's turkey - I'll take a pass.
Postal workers - ours were okay sort of ... but I live in Chicago. 'Nuff said. Okay, well the one we currently have - who was our regular but then left us and is now back as a sub - is s o s l o w . And, I can no longer mail things from the house, because, dare I say, he's lazy and just stuffs what I want to mail out back into my box. That, and we often wonder where are mail is... as in, it just doesn't show up. Although , I'll give it to him this time - I don't think mail is disappearing like it did the first time he worked this route - that would be when we'd get calls from creditors - why ddin't we pay - and we'd say, but we didn't get a bill! grr.
They were supposed to do an overhaul of the postal situation in Chicago. Try going into our local post office - be prepared to wait a l o n g time. That's why we try to mail from a suburb.
However, I have no issues with postal workers who are on Amity
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I've never been served stuffing with fruit in it. Maybe it's not popular out west. Sounds good though.
I despise gizzards in the stuffing! IMO that's a cruel joke. It totally ruins it. And there is always a relative that sneaks them in. Usually it's one of the old ladies.
To the OP, I've never actually met a priest but I'm sure they are for the most part good eggs.
We're a rural city address so I drive to the PO almost daily for my mail. They're good people too.
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What British website are you clicking to? It sounds like it not be representative of the country, just the tone of that site. Maybe try going to other sites and compare. Start with the BBC. They love them some anglicans there. And postal workers have occupied the headlines for several weeks with all their strikes, talks, etc. The whole country is in a tizzy because 24 hours a few posties walked out. Who says they aren't vital to the country and worthy of respect? (And better pay, scheduling practices and pension? which the strike is about) I know my postal worker dh is well loved here and by those on his route.
And fruit is stuffing is good. Unless it is those golden raisins. yuck. Those things are wrong on multiple levels. Dried apricots or apples are lovely.
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Hey Katie, have you seen the bbc series called around the world in 80 faiths or extreme pilgrim? I love them both and now have some weird fascination with the priest on them.
I have NEVER had one single complaint ever from any of my consumer interactions with postal employees. EVER.
that said, um, well, I once, a heck of a long time ago, had to do an evaluation on a former postal employee who, well, went postal.
And, TARA, what the heck are you talking about with NOT LIKING CARAMEL?!?! better than chocolate. Just take some butter, some cream, and some sugar and heat them. What could be better than that?!? Heaven, I tell ya. Heaven.
You know...I never understood why people go...er...postal ;-) until I started this job. Now, I get it. It didn't take long before I was talking to myself at my case, like everyone else and having all of those numbers and names and boxes going through your head at all times, not to mention some of the crazy customers...yeah I get it. ;-) And I work with awesome people, my boss rocks, but I've been told that the previous bosses were really bad and could definitely cause people to go postal (a well as caused a lot of people to quit).
) or cherimoya, or soursop. Anyway you call it, I don't like it. 
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better than chocolate. Just take some butter, some cream, and some sugar and heat them. What could be better than that?!? 
It didn't take long before I was talking to myself at my case, like everyone else and having all of those numbers and names and boxes going through your head at all times, not to mention some of the crazy customers...yeah 
I get it. ;-) And I work with awesome people, my boss rocks, but I've been told that the previous bosses were really bad and could definitely cause people to go postal (a well as caused a lot of people to quit).
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