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Showing posts with label Grandpa Al. Show all posts
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Saturday, September 19, 2009

Julia Child's "Chick Flicks" (and SOS!)



A Peep of Chickens: Smith Graduate,

Mrs. Julia Child, gives us an amusing -and quirky-lesson!

Presenting Miss Roaster of the Year!!!

[Note: Just in case you actually wanted to view a selection of Chick Flicks -click here to view recent films]


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Oasis Remembers: Recipes



Grandma Alice- my French maternal grandmother-had her own ideas about how to approach cooking.
Cooking is serious business!!!

Pardon et moi





Grandpa Al likes to cook! He is my 100% Polish maternal grandfather-a fisherman for fun...and a baker in the Navy and Merchant Marines.

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I wonder what Grandpa Al thought of Julia Child?

I remember when he gave me a lesson (one of many) on how to make poached eggs on toast. I can see him now in my mind's eye, he would gently lift the egg out of the boiling water and lay it atop the toast-then he'd ladle over the egg a generous portion of a white colored sauce, which I later discovered was a roux based sauce. (Click on the link for an excellent photo based lesson on how to make a roux.)

Grandpa Al was a born teacher-though that was not his profession. (He retired from General Motors.) Often, he would combine the breakfast cooking demonstration to include creamed chipped beef on toast. He had definite opinions on the correct presentation and quality.

What is chipped beef? It's dehydrated beef-or more specifically a smoked and salted meat product. (Is it actually beef? What part is it from?) I'm sorry about your (and my) delicate sensibilities but our creamed chipped beef on toast was once a food popularly know in military slang as SOS or 'shit on a shingle.' My grandfather occasionally used this reference (with a chuckle) but my young ears had no idea what he was talking about. The "shingle" (as in roofing tiles-rhymes with piles) would be the toasted triangles, which are white bread with the edges cut off-and you can figure out the rest of the reference!!

Julia was also exacting in her opinions. A dinner part for 300? Julia suggests making the flat French omelet-NOT puffy.




And that was the recipe my own mother used... Bon Appétit!
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