Comments on: On Earth As It Is At Dinner But Not South of Hadrian's Wall

By: CRM

CRM — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 02:44:13 +0000

http://www.bionaturae.com/pasta.html makes a good pasta that’s available in the US. Noticeably better than other dry pasta.

By: Julie

Julie — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 21:57:50 +0000

psu, you forgot to add butter and nutmeg to your spinach!

By: Adam Rixey

Adam Rixey — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 13:50:35 +0000

And just as a warning, squeezing a can of spinach in the hopes that the top will pop off and the spinach will fly up into the air and you can catch it all in your mouth doesn’t actually work in real life. It just winds up in some combination of a hurt hand and a huge mess.

By: psu

psu — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 02:37:41 +0000

If God meant us to eat raw vegetables, he would not have given us fire and the Wok.

By: sandro Fouche

sandro Fouche — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 01:21:34 +0000

Heh, stir frying spinach is an affront to the Universe.

The appropriate way to prepare spinach is:

1. Rinse the spinach
2. Stem the spinach if you want
3. Tear into halves or thirds
4. Add boiled eggs, croutons, flavorful cheese, and possibly some crumbled bacon
5. Dress with something like parmesan peppercorn or ceasar, but only a small amount.

By: peterb

peterb — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:40:13 +0000

The other reason to take the pasta out early is that it will absorb some of the sauce, whereas if you overcook the sauce will just slide off the pasta. That’s an issue entirely apart from the pasta being too mushy and soft.

Also, don’t use too much sauce.

By: psu

psu — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:37:44 +0000

Boiling spinach in any context but ramen noodles is a crime against humanity.

Here is what you do

1. Stem the spinach if you want

2. Heat up a pan or wok.

3. Olive oil.

4. Toss the spinach in. Not so much as to fill up the pan.

5. Stir.

6. Salt.

7. Stir more until the leaves just start to collapse. About 30 seconds.

8. Remove.

If the leaves collapse all the way and start to spit out water, you’ve gone too long.