Hey Grandpa, What's for Supper? Part 2

[Blooie]

That's got to be so irritating - and dangerous! I'm sure that this has happened through the years with any kind of glass bakeware. But a few years go there was a story on the news about how there was suddenly a rash of these incidents, enough that consumer protection got involved. I don't remember the specifics (old brain in a rebuilt chassis) but I do remember watching the story on the news and calling my sister about it. She said she had just purchased hers a few months before.

 

[3goodeggs]

Ohh Ohh Ohh ! I have a Pyrex story! I have one!

Imagine if you will,30 years ago. I am a newly wed. In laws were pretty sure this country girl was an idiot. I was from rural Florida, they were from New York. It is a long tradition down here that these two don't mix.oil and water.
We resent being told how to do things, they resent that we are not grateful to be told how to do things... anyway.

Brand spanking new Pyrex baking dish with a lid.

We were at In laws house for the 'day after Thanksgiving' holiday meal. I brought baked beans in the new Pyrex dish.
My father in law grabbed them and said we will warm them up on the stove. I said, 'no, the instructions said not to put it on the burner that it could shatter.'
he said, 'That won't happen you don't know what you are talking about.'
I said,' It was in a warning box on the label..'

'No No No. You don't know what you are talking about it will be alright. '

so... after getting fussed at I stopped protesting.

He heated it up on the burner. Nothing bad happened.
We placed everything on the table.
My husband's friend was sitting in front of the dish.
We were a couple of minutes into the meal when he said, 'those beans look good' and he had not even raised his arm to the serving spoon when...
-suddenly- the Pyrex dish made a small little noise, and instantly shattered into thousands of little square pieces. it just stopped being a vessel. It looked like a slow motion picture of a water balloon popping - the beans held their shape for a moment, - and then baked beans slowly oozed out onto the table cloth.
Everyone was quiet.
Then the friend said, 'Man. Those were some powerful beans."


I will never ever ever forget that. Because he drew our attention to the dish moments before it shattered we all saw it happen.


My father in law returned the lid and never said a word about it.
I still have the lid.
It is my quite silent reminder that I might be a backwoods idiot, but I had more on the ball than he did.

 

[Blooie]

Oh, I could see the whole thing happening!!

 

[donrae]

I love that story!


I think I narrowly averted a shattered dish the other day. I can't remember right off what I was cooking ( Blooie and I share the same brain) but I took the glass baking dish that had been chilling in the freezer and put it in the pre-heated oven. Some little niggling thought in the back of my mind said that wasn't a good idea and after a few minutes I took the dish out, transferred whatever it was to a room temp dish and slid that in. No shattering.

Oh yeah, it was the bacon wrapped jalapenos! Now I remember

Does anyone else go on cooking sprees this time of year, when the weather changes? I've wound up with so much food, I'm having too many YOYO nights to use it up but I'm afraid we're going to have food go bad. The cooler weather just makes me want to cook a lot.....


I have some Italian sausage to use. Probably sausage and peppers and cabbage, the guys seem to really like that.

 

[sourland]

A friend gave me a couple of very nice trout. Since the Princess is in Manhattan seeing a play, I am cooking for 'just me'. I will have baked lemon pepper trout served with baked potato and green beans. I am already salivating.

 

[3goodeggs]

 

[sourland]

I can't believe that I ate the whole thing.

 

[Blooie]

You ate it, Ralph! Take an Alka Seltzer!

 

[donrae]

I cooked my little cockerel last night. I brined him for a few hours first, then butterflied and roasted. I stuffed seasoned cream cheese under the skin, brushed the skin with melted butter with garlic and rosemary. Roasted at 450 for 30 minutes and it was perfect. This was a little bird, under probably 3lbs, so the shorter roasting time was enough. The breast meat was so moist and juicy, and the thigh and drumstick were tender and had great flavor. I thought this bird was 4 months, but from my poor record keeping it looks like it was 20 weeks spot on. It was mostly Ameraucana, not really a dual purpose bird but enough for everyone to have a piece. I roasted a big pack of drumsticks to fill the bellies of The Locusts and made some frozen mixed veggies.

The skin came out very nice with the butterfly and roasting. Unfortunately, just as I was pulling the bird from the oven, a friend called to ask for help butchering his deer. So my pretty bird sat and wasn't quite as wonderful as it should have been

. But that's okay, Honey thought it was wonderful and said I could butcher him a bird anytime

Tonight will be tacos, our faithful standby.

 

[BBQJOE]

Tonight's meal shall consist of a cajun blackened NY steak on molten cast iron (rare) with boiled potatoes, and hopefully some of the last zucchini I shall eat for the rest of the year from our garden.