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Post by octave1 on Aug 7, 2019 15:55:33 GMT -5
The best way to add cheese to a soup is with a cheese rind, and the best ones to add are Parmesan and Pecorino rinds. Being hard and seasoned, the rind will nor melt but flavor the soup, and the result will be delicious.
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Post by Wheelgarden on Aug 7, 2019 16:03:30 GMT -5
I add a few dry beans in the container for dried ground garlic and peppers to absorb moisture and prevent clumping. Works pretty good.
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Post by reuben on Aug 7, 2019 16:39:34 GMT -5
Cheese? Soup?
I made broth for French Onion Soup a few days ago. I made the soup last night, and ate it with a friend. He wolfed it down and asked for seconds. And yeah, I stuck it in the oven for the final phase to melt the gruyere on top.
Delish.
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Post by tom π on Aug 8, 2019 6:49:55 GMT -5
Tomatoes at Walden Pond I was surprised to learn that Thoreau grew tomatoes at Walden Pond -- they are not mentioned in Walden the book -- but he did or at least attempted to. www.sciencefriday.com/articles/farewell-to-ice-skating/A similar statement is in the scholarly "Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind" by Robert D. Richardson Jr. If Emerson feared hornworms as the first note says, then likely Emerson had tomatoes in his garden, and Thoreau could have gotten seeds from him. During the earlier tomato craze, tomatoes were claimed to be a treatment for tuberculosis. Thoreau may have been attempting to treat himself. It would be interesting to know how common tomatoes were among the literati of Concord in the 1840s.
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Post by tom π on Aug 24, 2020 20:56:01 GMT -5
In 1843 Thoreau wrote to his sister Helen about seeing acres of tomatoes on Staten Island. About this time, a quack claim was circulating that tomatoes were a treatment for consumption (TB), from which he and his sister eventually died, so he had a special motive for growing tomatoes. Whether or not he succeeded is another matter. A late frost in his second year at Walden destroyed his garden. www.kouroo.info/kouroo/trends/HicksiteOrthodoxSPLIT.pdf
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