Wednesday, July 28, 2010

from the 'no, really, I'm grateful' dep't....


this isn't our stew but it could have been on another night.*



As you know, Marc does most of the dinner cooking around here and he is not constrained by any sort of rules. Last night we were having stew. He hates to brown things so I browned the meat and then fled the kitchen. When he called me to come serve myself, I ladled a spoonful in my bowl and then reached for a second ladleful.

Is that the leftover salad?” I asked him as I peered into the pot. We had had spinach salad the previous night.

Yeah,” he says.

Oh.”

No euwwws allowed.” he said.

It wasn't an euwww,” I replied, “it was an ohhh.”

I was contemplating what cooked cucumber was going to taste like.




*http://stage.apartmenttherapy.com/thekitchn/main-dish/recipe-classic-beef-stew-073262



23 comments:

  1. and what do cooked cucumbers taste like?????? ohhh or ewwwww or ahhhhhh.

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  2. Cooked cucumbers, hmmmm. So, how was it? Did you pick them out?

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  3. Priceless!

    I am glad you ate, I have just been through a stir fry content commentary with some people refusing to eat.

    I am through with cooking.

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  4. PS Cucumbers are good fried but I have never had them in stew. Let me know how it turned out.

    This is a man after my own heart, he knows how to make refrigerator stew!

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  5. i think i just threw up in my mouth a tad bit. ick.

    i have to stop pooldad from doing this all the time.

    just say no. lol.

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  6. Hilarious! That is something My husband would so do! Straight faced! AND expect it to be the most wonderful thing i ever ate!

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  7. My husband occassionally cooked a meal lovingly referred to by the rest of the family as "Dads Slop" it was anything he could find in the 'fridge with a can of tinned tomatoes thrown in!

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  8. Serve salad WITH the stew. Not IN the stew. No peanut butter and jelly in the stew, either.

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  9. Salad in the stew huh? Ha! Well, how did cooked kukes taste like????
    Hugs
    SueAnn

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  10. Whoa. OK. Stew is stew.

    So - how was it?

    At least you didn't waste the spinach salad!

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  11. First time I ever heard of using salad in a stew. And I thought I was the queen of creative uses of leftovers.

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  12. Creative. They put greens in stew all the time on the cooking channel and the texture of cooked cucumbers can't be too different from celery or onions. I applaud his creativity. (Of course I didn't actually eat it). I'm guessing it tasted OK. His mistake was leaving the leftover salad in a recognizable state. I can see where it would make you suspicious of his cooking in the future though.

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  13. Well, the spinach, bell peppers, green onions and tomatoes were good. The cucumber wasn't terrible, tasted a bit stronger perhaps with the texture of, well, cooked cucumber, but the occasional pecan half was a little weird.

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  14. In my house, Hubs is afraid of leftovers...

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  15. The stew looks good, like soup, a few spices and who cares what's in it! We have a system that works for us. I cook, he cleans up--owns the dishwasher. I will share my favorite cucumber recipe--microwave bread and butter pickles.

    http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/microwave-bread-and-butter-pickles/Detail.aspx

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  16. We were wondering the same thing - I had made a little salad with our grape tomatoes, squash & cucumber & we were thinking of putting it on top of a frozen pizza we were cooking. We decided that we were too leary of the cucumbers to try. I always figured they're so full of water that they'd just disappear if cooked.

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  17. Cooked cucumber deserves an ewww :-)
    Bon Appetite,
    jj

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  18. Well, what's the verdict?

    I like the heading, I am all to aware of the "thank you, this is delicious" obligation.

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  19. LOL It could have been worse.. like lettuce.

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  20. That man is very resourceful... no waste there! But I don't know about cooked cucumbers...

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