What is blanching?

It is heating/cooking mostly veggies to a particular degree of "doneness" then rapidly cooling them(ice water bath) to stop the cookig process. The veggies will be re-cooked later by another manner of cooking, generally sauteeing them.

ETA, it is a great way to make it easy to peel tomatoes for other uses. An x-shaped mark is cut into the skin at the "bottom" of the mater, then placed into hot water bath, then cooled, the skin comes off with great ease. It takes about a minute in the pot to achieve the doneness required. Then cut it in half, and squeeze the seeds amd liquid out and you are left with just the flesh of it, chop and dice as needed.

Unblanched garden veggies will take in a funny color in the freezer. Blanching kills parasites, enzymes and shite.

at a very, very young age, i didn't know specifically the reason for it, but i did KNOW that we had to do too damyum much of it.

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Blanching kills parasites, enzymes and shite

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That's a pretty good bonus.

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CITWTT

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I can hear Little House on the Prairie music when I hear some of your stories.

Is it wrong that I read your story and pictured it all in black and white?

Nope, the color stations were just being put out, the color tv was had in '64, and it was good but spent an assload of time in the shop. Three stations were the limits of the broadcasting towers availible.

I remember my pow pow had a t.v. that had a remote with 5 buttons on it.

One to turn it on, one to turn it off, and one for each channel it got.

I think I remember my aunts/uncles/mom saying it was the first t.v. ever with a remote.

When I was a kid, I thought they meant that actual t.v. Ahh, being young was the best.

Opie and I are about the same age (he's 9 months older).

What's this thread about? :Alzheimer's: