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Post by Clipper on Jan 20, 2019 16:32:26 GMT -5
www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/30-dinners-you-can-make-with-a-jar-of-tomato-sauce/ss-BBS16zk?li=BBnb7KzI was scrolling through these recipes and I see many of them are easy to make and look delicious. PB, you like your "zoodles" with sauce. I still haven't purchased a spiralizer. I want to do that and make some of that zucchini zoodle with sauce and parmesan cheese. The recipe in that link includes topping with mozzarella. The quick ratatouilli looks pretty good also as do many of the pasta dishes. Looks like a good source for quick and easy suppers on cold winter nights.
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Post by Clipper on Jan 21, 2019 8:37:33 GMT -5
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Post by clarencebunsen on Jan 21, 2019 9:02:31 GMT -5
I picked up an inexpensive spiralizer a year or 2 ago and use it frequently. Zoodles work best with thick sauces. Watery sauces don't get absorbed.
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Post by kit on Jan 21, 2019 9:08:39 GMT -5
After a month in Florida eating my sister-in-law's outstanding southern cooking (she's from Alabama) I put on 10 extra pounds. As I was already a bit overweight, this isn't acceptable. My doctors are going to shake their fingers in my face telling me to lose weight, I just know it. So, Clipper, the above website, for which I thank you, is going to help me avoid some of these harsh reprimands. In browsing through the selections on the website there are a few that look quite tasty and may just help to remove some of the extra corpulence I carry around with me every day. Now, all I have to do is DO IT (fat chance of that - pun intended).
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Post by kit on Jan 21, 2019 9:32:06 GMT -5
As for the spiralizer (and this is just my feeling) since I live in a small apartment it would just be another gadget that would get used a few times then get put on a shelf in the utility room. It's much easier to slice or chop zucchini and other veggies with my trusty chef knife and enjoy the resulting cuts, than to mess around with and have to clean a spiralizer that perhaps only has a shelf-life of a couple of weeks in my little kitchen. I don't mean to poo-poo a spiralizer entirely, it's just something that doesn't float my boat.
My oldest daughter is a Kitchen Consultant for the Pampered Chef Co. and they sell a real nifty spiralizer so she's pushing it big time. It's a very nice machine but it's quite expensive and I think many folks might feel the way I do, that if I want noodles I'll buy noodles... and continue to chop or slice my zucchini. To me, the spiralizer is just a trendy thing like the hula hoop. It's only temporary. A good chef knife however...
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Post by Clipper on Jan 21, 2019 10:00:56 GMT -5
You are correct in the assumption that the spiralizer may be relegated to the linen closet shelf, seldom to be used. The top shelf in our linen closet is where those devices go to die. As of right now there is a device for cutting "blooming onions" that was used about twice before we decided that they were a greasy treat that took too much labor to prepare, not to mention the fact that the huge onions that Outback uses are not available around here. We now order a blooming onion only when we go to Outback. It has been in the closet for about 5 years. There is a Black and Decker electric jar opener that I bought for Kathy a few years ago. It took up too counter space that could be better used for something else. She simply has ME open the jars. There is also a George Foreman grill, my brew station coffee maker ( just in case I get sick of the Keurig, and a deep fryer that we used twice for blooming onions and once for donuts. I really need to put all that stuff up for sale on the local online garage sale site.
However I have always been a sucker for Ron Popeil's latest gadgets. Even though he has passed on, I still fall for the TV hype when it comes to buying "gadgets." YES, I WILL buy the spiralizer, and yes it may very well end up in the kitchen gadget boneyard in the linen closet, haha.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2019 11:20:56 GMT -5
I picked up an inexpensive spiralizer at Walmart. www.walmart.com/ip/1-Spiral-Vegetable-Slicer-Chopper-Shredder-Spiralizer-Veggie-Pasta-Maker-Fruit/126961621It is very handy. I spiralize zucchini and carrots since no knife could ever get them cut into noodles. This thing is small can easily be kept on a shelf in one of my kitchen cabinets or even go into my drawer with my spoon, knife and fork. I use it every Sunday since I always make sauce either with Italian sausage or healthy chicken/turkey meatballs. Vieni a mangiare al mio tavolo! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2019 11:29:57 GMT -5
The one I bought at Walmart was white and did not cost that much. I think it was $2.97.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Jan 21, 2019 11:30:19 GMT -5
I might be in the market for the jar opener. Both Barb and I are having trouble with that lately. So far I have been getting by with using a screwdriver to pop the seal on the lid and then one of those rubber grippers.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Jan 21, 2019 11:31:14 GMT -5
Yep, mine is white and I think that was the price.
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Post by Clipper on Jan 21, 2019 12:38:21 GMT -5
CB, I imagine that you could buy the jar opener up there cheaper than I could ship the one we have to you. If you haven't bought one before we come up this summer, and you can remember to remind me, I will GIVE you the one we have. When I come across a jar I can't open I have a cheap plastic strap wrench that my mom and dad had in their kitchen drawer that I use. It has a rubber strap that grips tight and has never failed me yet.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Jan 21, 2019 13:51:11 GMT -5
OK I did a search, let's see what pops up.
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Post by Clipper on Jan 21, 2019 17:36:41 GMT -5
I saw some of them for about $39 on ebay and amazon. Black and Decker is the model we have, and that price seems to be about right. I think I paid about $29 and we have had it for quite awhile. I was surprised that there were some similar for up to about $150.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2019 20:34:17 GMT -5
$150.00  ? I'll just use my hammer to tap around the rim. Only jars I buy are pickle bottles which seems to stick if not used for awhile when left in frig and my baby food jars of strained carrots. But I did find a variety of strained carrots in plastic containers with pull plastic top which can be a problem to open so I use my pliers. |
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Post by Clipper on Jan 21, 2019 21:31:04 GMT -5
You are looking at a different model. That model that is $150 is not the one that I bought. They make more than one model. There is no way I would pay $150 for one. I would break the jar with a hammer and strain out the glass first. I only paid 29 bucks or so. For $150 I would expect to have a body builder open my jars. They could come by every grocery day and loosen all the lids I would need loose for the week.
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? I'll just use my hammer to tap around the rim. Only jars I buy are pickle bottles which seems to stick if not used for awhile when left in frig and my baby food jars of strained carrots. But I did find a variety of strained carrots in plastic containers with pull plastic top which can be a problem to open so I use my pliers.