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Thanks. That looks good. However, I don't remember using eggs and the amount of liquid seems low. I'll pick up beer when I'm in town Thursday and give it a try. I'm definitely with you on the English Muffins but they must be Bay's That's fine; I have some in the refrigerator.
Thanks. That looks good. However, I don't remember using eggs and the amount of liquid seems low. I'll pick up beer when I'm in town Thursday and give it a try. I'm definitely with you on the English Muffins but they must be Bay's That's fine; I have some in the refrigerator.
Well, here's a "Classic Welsh Rarebit" recipe, the kind you'd make in a double-boiler* to keep it from burning, and it uses eggs. But yes, it looks like it uses twice as much beer proportional to the microwave recipe.
No worries, I'm just happy to help whenever I can.
*For those unfamiliar with the term, a double boiler is an arrangement of one sauce pan inside a slightly larger sauce pan, in which water is placed in the larger pan and boiled to indirectly heat the contents of the smaller pan. The point of a double-boiler is to avoid burning delicate food items, like sauces and chocolates, or thick porridges, because the inner pan never exceeds a temp of 212 F.
Well, here's a "Classic Welsh Rarebit" recipe, the kind you'd make in a double-boiler* to keep it from burning, and it uses eggs. But yes, it looks like it uses twice as much beer proportional to the microwave recipe.
No worries, I'm just happy to help whenever I can.
*For those unfamiliar with the term, a double boiler is an arrangement of one sauce pan inside a slightly larger sauce pan, in which water is placed in the larger pan and boiled to indirectly heat the contents of the smaller pan. The point of a double-boiler is to avoid burning delicate food items, like sauces and chocolates, or thick porridges, because the inner pan never exceeds a temp of 212 F.
The recipe calls for stale beer. I'm not sure if that just means the beer needs to be free of carbon dioxide or that it need to sit long enough at room temperature to have the house smels like a skid row bar. I love the smell of a home or eatery when dry vermouth is used in cooking but I'm not so sure about stale beer.
It's possible to make an ad hoc double boiler with a couple of sauce pans. This is what I use, however. I'm sold on Cuisinart Triple clad Multi-Pro. The insert fits their two, three and four quart sauce pans.
A double boiler (bain-marie for us pretentious gourmands) still requires attention to prevent the eggs from curdling. After all, some folks prepare scrambled eggs in one.
The recipe calls for stale beer. I'm not sure if that just means the beer needs to be free of carbon dioxide or that it need to sit long enough at room temperature to have the house smels like a skid row bar.
It means flat beer, with the fizzy gone. I'm certain it's specified that way to keep folks from using fresh beer and having the mix froth up.
On the subject of micros: ours is only 9 months old and kicked the bucket this morning. I am so Pi@@ed!! I don't care if it is under warrentee (or however you spell) I don't care if we have to buy a new one, I don't care any any of it, I am just upset stuff is made so poorly today...
Wow! That is a pretty short time before it goes kaput!
I use my microwave for cooking frozen vegetables, red potatoes, the 90 second rice mixes (I know, nothing with that many ingredients can be good for you) and microwave popcorn. My husband also does "baked" potatoes in it, and oatmeal. And I use it to thaw meats sometimes.
I'll never forget our first experience with a microwave. We brought it home (took both of us to carry it), set it on the counter, and my husband popped in a leftover dinner roll and hit the dial!! It might have been a good idea to look at the directions first because of course it "burned" to a crisp quickly and stunk the house up something fierce!!
My RV came with one and I ripped it out and replaced it with a small convection oven ... works much better for the foods that I cook from scratch while traveling.
Convection ovens seem much better and healthier. They just make more sense, to me. Several friends of mine opted for convection ovens rather than microwaves.
Convection ovens seem much better and healthier. They just make more sense, to me. Several friends of mine opted for convection ovens rather than microwaves.
Why "healthier"? That's just superstition at work. There is nothing at all unhealthy about microwave ovens.
And why, oh why, would someone buy a convection oven only, when in the same space they could put a combination convection/microwave oven, with the advantages of both?
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) and microwave popcorn. My husband also does "baked" potatoes in it, and oatmeal. And I use it to thaw meats sometimes.
