NicholasH's Profile

Mark Bittman has a great recipe for split pea fritters, very similar to falafel, in "How to Cook Everything Vegetarian", IIRC.

asparagus, rhubarb, radishes, strawberries, and peas (though I think of them as more of a late spring / early summer crop)

If the outside is still tacky at all, you might consider rolling in confectioners' sugar to simulate the powdery white mold that often grows on the outside of dry cured sausages.

I use my 8 inch chef's knife for virtually everything. As long it I keep it sharp, I hardly need anything else.

I love to have green tea in cooler afternoons and evenings. You can pry my morning coffee from my cold, dead hands though.

I have an huge (about 2.5 lb) sirloin in my freezer, which I am definitely planning to grill. A thermometer would be pretty useful in figuring out exactly how done this big hunk of meat is - I don't have much experience grilling anything bigger than a pork chop.

I love to just eat them plain, at room temperature; they compete with peaches and strawberries for my favorite fruit. The aroma of a good mango is amazing.

I once severed a tendon in the last knuckle of my right index finger. I was stupidly not using the hand guard for my mandoline. A carrot got stuck halfway into the julienne blade, and for some unfathomable reason I decided to push it through with my knuckle. In hindsight, I've no idea how I imagined this would turn out well. Fortunately the mandoline blade was so sharp that I had very little pain at the time, just a lot of bleeding and some slightly disturbing lack of control in my fingertip movement. Unfortunately the severed tendon required microsurgery, and 8 weeks of recovery before I could use my primary hand again.

I do not mean to criticize anyone. What I do mean to criticize is the practice of people putting on blinders when it comes to the sources of their food. This seems to occur much less among vegetarians than others (for obvious reasons), but they are not immune. The point of this video, as far as I can tell, is simply that people are forced to remove these blinders.

If you find the activity performed here to be unethical, and you do not eat chicken or eggs, good for you. If the majority of people put as much consideration into the ethics of their diet as you, the food production system would be much better.

And just for the record, I am not a vegetarian, but eat vegetarian meals the majority of the time. The meat that I do eat comes from people that I trust to treat their animals well, in life and death.

(You may note that I'm assuming the video is accurate in it's portrayal that even smaller egg producing operations, which treat their hens well, still have to dispose of chicks somehow. I have no experience raising chickens, so I have no reason to question this assumption. If this practice only occurs at the industrial level, so much the better - and someone please correct me.)

Lastly, there is a difference between displaying animal cruelty and promoting it. As a matter of fact, it seems to me like Jamie is doing the opposite of promoting this type of behavior; by shocking people this way, he is forcing them to see the arguably unethical actions they've always been complicit to.

I actually do my bread dough in my food processor. It takes very little effort (obv.), but I also believe it is better at aerating the dough. More air bubbles in the dough before the yeast starts working means that the yeast will have an easier time raising the dough. As a bonus, this requires virtually no additional flour as kneading does.