@sandyf wrote:
I've got to get out there and find some flour. I had 2 bags of it only to find the pesky moths had gotten into both sealed bags, one of them was sealed inside of a plastic container with a tight lid. I do not know how the moths manage. I thought I had conquered them but they keep disappearing and then a few months later a new but much smaller crop appears out of my food closet. I have pheromone ? traps that actually caught close to 35 of them within an hour of my putting them out about 6 months ago. It was like a magnet, amazing.
But I too just eat the whole loaf within a few hours when ever I make bread.
@sandyf wrote:
One of my dog's favorite treats is what I call Pasta Water. I have no idea if it is unhealthy for a dog but just save the water by putting a bowl or pot under your colander to catch it and let it cool down before serving. I have to ration out the portions as my dog would lap up an entire gallon of this stuff if I put it in her bowl. I found this especially useful after her surgery a few months back when she would not drink. Gave her pasta water and all was well.
@JustForFun wrote:
@sandyf wrote:
One of my dog's favorite treats is what I call Pasta Water. I have no idea if it is unhealthy for a dog but just save the water by putting a bowl or pot under your colander to catch it and let it cool down before serving. I have to ration out the portions as my dog would lap up an entire gallon of this stuff if I put it in her bowl. I found this especially useful after her surgery a few months back when she would not drink. Gave her pasta water and all was well.
Love this. Curious; do you salt your pasta water or no?
@Madetoshop wrote:
Sandyf, are you sure they are from outside? DH's friend in Texas told him he had "Pantry Moths" once he informed building maintenance. He told DH that they were in his cereal, in all of his kitchen cabinets and flying around him as he sat on his couch and they spoke on the telephone, etc. I just asked DH for more details and he has a memory problem. That was all he could recall. I hope the problem goes away for you!
@sandyf wrote:
No, I never add salt or oil and have never had an issue making pasta. Too much salt is bad for dogs so if you add extra salt to what is probably already in the pasta, I would think it not a good idea to let your dog drink it. Thanks for asking that as it did not occur to me that lots of people salt their pasta boiling water.
@JustForFun wrote:
@sandyf wrote:
One of my dog's favorite treats is what I call Pasta Water. I have no idea if it is unhealthy for a dog but just save the water by putting a bowl or pot under your colander to catch it and let it cool down before serving. I have to ration out the portions as my dog would lap up an entire gallon of this stuff if I put it in her bowl. I found this especially useful after her surgery a few months back when she would not drink. Gave her pasta water and all was well.
Love this. Curious; do you salt your pasta water or no?
@JustForFun wrote:
I usually don't add salt to the water either but occasionally might if the resulting dish would require it anyway. I know many people think they have to salt the water because most pasta boxes (until recently) instructed that you do. In "home ec" class we were told it was necessary...boiling point / specific gravity, etc. I knew different because my father had health problems and years prior had been told to stop salting the water. It always cooked just fine.
@sandyf wrote:
The only time my pasta was bad was a camping trip my Camp Fire Girls took to Staten Island in NY back when it was a mostly uninhabited island. Neither the troop leaders nor any of the girls (age 9 or so) had ever been camping. We had cots and brought bedding but cooking was outdoors on an open fire pit with wood we had also brought. The leader had secured a huge pot from her church and brought enough pasta for the 12-15 or so of us. The adults started the cooking by throwing pounds of the stuff all at once into the very cold water. It took forever for the water to heat up. At the end we had one big giant piece of pasta that weighed 5 or 6 pounds. There were no grocery stores or electricity or anything to help us. I think out of all of us I was the only one who ever went camping again in our lives. I don't know if they had thought to salt the water but I do not think it would have mattered.
That is a story from the old trenches.
Just for Fun, thanks for clarifying that I am not batty. These days I just don't know.
@JustForFun wrote:
I usually don't add salt to the water either but occasionally might if the resulting dish would require it anyway. I know many people think they have to salt the water because most pasta boxes (until recently) instructed that you do. In "home ec" class we were told it was necessary...boiling point / specific gravity, etc. I knew different because my father had health problems and years prior had been told to stop salting the water. It always cooked just fine.
@HonnyBrown wrote:
Wow, we have sunk to making our own bread.
@SteveSoCal wrote:
We really need a recipe for toilet paper....
@sandyf wrote:
The media told us that tp and paper towels would be available soon after that first week when everyone went overboard. I was sitting pretty having bought a huge pack from Costco just weeks before the outbreak here. Now I am not so sure my tp will last and so far even tho it has been weeks since they said tp would be back in the stores I have not seen any. I still have a couple of weeks worth left but now they are saying we will prob not get to go out freely until at least the end of May.
Are any parts of the country getting toilet paper...I mean in some quantity, not just a few rolls for the sprinters among us who can run fast from the front door of the store to the tp aisle and grab some?