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[same_sky]

I have to go to work in two hours. That feels so weird. I'm not so much in the mood, but I guess that's what working is all about. My parents are headed to Lexington to take a class about food stamps, so the other woman is there. She's nice enough, but we have nothing in common and I'm not good with small talk.

carrieb and ozswede asked about the fried apples, so I thought I'd elaborate on them. I had to call my mother to ask about it, since I've never made them for myself. The apples are really not so much fried as cooked. I don't know if I added the fried part or if that's what they call them, but stewlis seemed to know what I meant, unless she fixes them some other way. I don't know. Anyway. Peel the apples, quarter them and cut into pretty thin slices. (1/16 inch or thereabouts, maybe) and put into a pot. Add just enough water to keep them from sticking (but not too much, especially if they're frozen, cause they'll make their own juice.) Cook with a little oil (sounds to me like butter would be better, but what do I know?) and possibly some sugar until they're tender and the water cooks out of them. (Depends on the apple as to the amount of sugar. To taste. It's supposed to a be a kind of sweet dish, though.) They're often kinda mushy. Eat with biscuits and other breakfast food.

I can't think of what else I was going to write about, so might as well go fix myself some lunch and get ready to leave. But first, a cheery hello to shornshort. :)

Comments

[ozswede.livejournal.com]

Thankyou for the cooking lesson. I'm actually happy that carrieb asked first, so I didn't feel like a clueless Aussie. Now I'm intrigued by eating it with biscuits. In Australia, biscuits are what you guys call "cookies". So then what is a biscuit in America? *puzzled*

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

A biscuit is.. well, not a cookie. I didn't even think of that when I wrote it, but I do remember that it's not called that now that you mention it. I have no idea what an American biscuit would 'translate' to. I don't think Magnus had ever had one. A biscuit is kinda like a roll, only.. different. Coarser in texture, and I don't think there's typically yeast in a biscuit--at least ours don't. Flour and baking powder and salt and milk.. I think. Again, this is something I don't make for myself. I've only been interested in cooking for a year or two, so my food knowledge is sometimes limited. hehe.

Okay, I realize that this isn't the best site for quality food information, but here's a picture of an American biscuit (with sausage in the middle. Common fast food breakfast item.) McD's biscuit

[ozswede.livejournal.com]

Hmm, well after looking at the "delicious" sausage biscuit *gag* *choke*, I think the American biscuit is what we more civilised nations call a scone. And, here are directions to make scones See, talking to me you get to learn things you never wanted to know!

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I always had the idea that scones were somewhat sweet. That recipe had a bit of sugar in it.. is it not enough to make it a sweetish (swedish, rofl) kind of bread? Biscuits are definitely not sweet. But the concept is seemingly the same, at least.

Maybe I just never KNEW that I wanted to learn these things!

[stewlis.livejournal.com]

Yes, we call them "fried" though it's more like "cooked," although we have been known to fry them occasionally...slightly different taste but not enough to really matter in my opinion. We use butter/margarine instead of oil, oil seems to me like it would be very yucky in apples!! If they end up mushy, you used a soft apple (like Macintosh apples). Cooking apples (like the Granny Smiths) hold their shape better while being cooked or canned. Not sure how else to explain it without either having a list of which apples are which or just plain experience, but it's the same concept as with potatoes. Some are better suited for baking and mashing because they do the "mushy" thing (like Idahoes), and some are better suited for scalloped potatoes and fried potatoes because they hold their shape better and don't tend to crumble (like the red potatoes).

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I'm really not a big fan of them, so I don't really know much about it. You know I've never been so much into country cooking! ;) They're okay, but nothing I'd crave. I believe that they prefer them mushy in my family. I kinda do, anyway. Mom was laughing at the ones she froze this week because she did them all together, and so when they get cooked, they're going to be some mushy, some firm.. hopefully the added texture will be a good thing! :)

[stewlis.livejournal.com]

I don't believe I've ever talked so much about apples in my life, but one more post!! It won't hurt to have them mixed up, I like it that way best, so you get some of the mush and some of the whole pieces (is that right? Can you have a whole piece of something?!!) it makes for a nice texture combo. :) I can live without them but they remind me of home, and are quite yummy. Though mom had them like, every day, so I kinda got bored with them and took them for granted.

[carrieb.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the cooking lesson. Those sounds kina of. . . ummm. . . . yucky *lol* Sorry! I don't much like apples and I don't much like cooked fruit. I did make an apple crisp for Mike one day, but that's about the extent of my cooking with fruit. I guess that must be a regional thing. Of course, there are lots of regional things all over the States that always surprise me. I went to college in OK (From OR) and some days I had no clue what the cafeteria people were trying to feed me. I'd never heard of a hushpuppy or okra or grits *l*

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I'm not hugely fond of the apples myself. I'll sometimes take a spoonful, but it would never ever in a thousand years occur to me to make them for myself or anything. Okra and grits.. eww, but hushpuppies?! Surely everyone knows that hushpuppies are divine! Course, they go with a certain fried aquatic food, so I guess perhaps you wouldn't be so interested in it. *giggle*