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The missus just back from her holiday in India said "The hard boiled eggs were not cooled properly, so they had a black line around the yolk." I'd forgotten about that.
 

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The missus just back from her holiday in India said "The hard boiled eggs were not cooled properly, so they had a black line around the yolk." I'd forgotten about that.
don't truly think that is because of cooling properly, and what is that anyway "cooling properly" never knew that was something to know. My normal thing is to take them out of the hot water after they sat in it for 15 mins. put on the countertop until I remember to put in the fridge, could be 30 mins later. and come to think on it, I don't see that ring.
 

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Yummy combination, hard boiled eggs, carmelized onions, blue cheese, mayo. Fresh baked bread yesterday. Got some local grown wheat, milled on site.
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How do you make your carmelized onions, if I may ask?
 

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How do you make your carmelized onions, if I may ask?
I start mine a little different than you'll find others do which decreases some fat usage and babysitting. Get a large pan, need the surface area, with a good fitting lid. Peel and thinly wedge/ slice up several onions, like 5 or 6 of them. (the end result will keep well for a week) . So you can use on sandwiches etc. or another treat I make. Tell you at the end.
Put all onion wedges slices in pan with hald cup of water and some salt, put lid on, turn to low medium. Now go do something else. We want the water to steam tender the onions. When that is done, takes about 20 minutes. Go back lit lid, let steam escape, add about 1/2 stick of butter. Turn heat up a little, we want the water to now leave. Start stirring, but let the onion settle a little to start the browning, stir and turn, let settle, turn and turn, continue. you want to stir up the little browning bits. Keep going until onions are darker than ginger blond hair.

There is a quiche type pie I make for Christmas parties, people love it. Its carnalized onion, with shredded Gouda Goat cheese, eggs, nutmeg, cream, pour into a pie shell. I do get the onions done days prior. If you don't like Goat Cheese, I have made it with a good Cheddar Cheese.
 

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@Meadowlark , the meat pies I did earlier had the caramelized onion in it also. Got a package of frozen Puff Pastry, my 2 day old meatloaf, and my onions. Pastry, then sliced meatloaf, a dollop of the onion and a heap of cheddar cheese, egg wash, baked about 40 mins. made some gravy. did some steamed veggies with it .
 

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Sounds delicious...days old meatloaf always tastes better to me for some reason.
 

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Sounds delicious...days old meatloaf always tastes better to me for some reason.
there is this thing UK folks make called "Meat Pies" I looked at how they do it, and for some reason I thought a thick slice of meatloaf would do it as well, and easier. So that is my take on the Meat Pies.
 

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Some folks have a bucket list. What Food product is on your bucket list that you want to make?
Mine is: a cream puff tower with webbed sugar surrounding it. While I have made cream puffs before it is the Sugar Web would be my challenge.
2nd one is a simple Jelly Roll. Just have not done it, should be able to.
3rd is Puff Pastry from scratch.
That is it.

So what is on your food challenge bucket list.???
 

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Baking. Never done it other than a failed mint chocolate cheesecake a couple years ago.
Jumping into making Cheesecake for you first bake experience, truly not a good thing. Try cookies instead. easy ones, drop cookies. like chocolate chip or oatmeal. Always read directions first, make sure you have all the ingredients first and don't substitute Today on You tube there are tutorials for anything. not in my day when I started baking/cooking at 12 years old. So look it up first on You tube and watch their steps. Always a couple different people doing the same recipe, gives a different slant to understand how to do it, if one of the people are a little confusing for you. I think of cooking/baking as a craft.

Believe my first cheesecake I was 16 years old. I used to just bake things and when it looked like the picture in the cookbook, I would say to myself, well done that, no use doing it again. Was into souffles for a little there in my early teens. Made one of those Angle Food cakes from scratch about age 14, perfect as the picture, do no need again.
 
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Anyone hear of GoldBelly. its a site that you can order unbelievable foodie items from , they are all high end, made by top chefs ect. of course big money. Fun to look at what they offer. Not sure I'll ever buy anything, imagine just the shipping cost would be crazy.
 

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The missus just back from her holiday in India said "The hard boiled eggs were not cooled properly, so they had a black line around the yolk." I'd forgotten about that.

That's probably from over cooking them, it causes the sulfur in the eggs to turn the hard yokes slightly greenish and gives that dark ring around them. I've lost track of time while hard boiling them and had that happen.. usually it happens around the 15 minute mark of "of crap, I forgot about the eggs". Normally I boil them for 10 minutes and let the residual heat finish them off as I peel them.
 

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Anyone hear of GoldBelly. its a site that you can order unbelievable foodie items from , they are all high end, made by top chefs ect. of course big money. Fun to look at what they offer. Not sure I'll ever buy anything, imagine just the shipping cost would be crazy.

I guess it maybe depends on the dish/baked goods, but I wouldn't consider any food high end or gourmet unless it's served immediately hot out of the pan/oven. Unless it's a lot cheaper, I think it would be better to just get the meal at a high end establishment and cut out the middle man.
 

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Some folks have a bucket list. What Food product is on your bucket list that you want to make?
Mine is: a cream puff tower with webbed sugar surrounding it. While I have made cream puffs before it is the Sugar Web would be my challenge.
2nd one is a simple Jelly Roll. Just have not done it, should be able to.
3rd is Puff Pastry from scratch.
That is it.

So what is on your food challenge bucket list.???

My foodie bucket list is endless lol, but one thing on-top of the list is an A5 Wagyu steak from Israel.. they feed the cows olives to fatten them up. Apparently it's even better than A5 from Japan. It would be a once in a lifetime experience almost impossible to achieve.
 

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