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    Can you eat strawberry tops?

    So I picked the green leafs off the strawberries, and cut the tops off to sugar/juice them, but instead of throwing the tops away, I put them in a different container, to juice those also. I figure I would eat around them, but as I get to doing that, I accidentally ate one or two full tops...
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    Cooking wine with Alfredo fettecinni

    Plan is chicken Alfredo fettecinni, How are some ideas to add the wine either cooking chicken with the wine, or somehow adding wine with the Alfredo sauce. When do you add it. I've got bertolli Alfredo sauce, basic white cooking wine (non-vinager) and lemon juice. How would I combine those...
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    Pizza sauces: Pizza Hut vs Papa John's

    Trying to create a better tasting pasta sauce, i have noticed a great difference between pizza hut sauce and papa johns pizza sauces. I generally like papa johns pizza the best as their sauce has a 'softer' taste where as pizza hut has that sharp tomatoey taste. Does anyone know what makes...
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    Sauce for rotini and chicken?

    Rotini = spiral shape noodles How do replicate the sauce from those lipton chicken flavored noodle... Almost like a very thin, cut short fettuccine.* They come in those tear open pouches.** I am thinking about using rotini and chicken pieces.* Any ideas.* Be prepared to supply plan 'B's as i...
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    Uh oh frozen veggie oil...

    Went to store and got perishables put away but accidentally left veg oil in trunk of car, where that night got down to 5 degrees (F). Now it is an oil slush... So it looks like. Is it lost or can it still be used?. If not is there any cool science experiments that can be done with it?
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    What's with bread twist ties?

    I placed this 'q' here cause i pondered this when grilling cheese Why do bread companies put the twist tie backwards (from the traditional righty tighty lefty loosey).* I'm sure this really drives mechanics nuts. I know this is not what people have in mind originally because when visiting...
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    New sub forum suggestion

    What did i do wrong? - mistakes and questions. One of the main things that brought me here was problems with certain recipes. Many have questions, goofs, maybe even funny stories about things going south in the kitchen. And as many others have culinary epiphanies. (Become experts in a...
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    Cookies for Santa tonight question

    Last weekend i did a trial run on cutout sugar cookies. The result was rock hard brittle cookies. I am wondering if experimenting with a slightly lower oven temp would make them softer . so if the instructions call for 7-9 mins at 375 degrees. What would hapen if i did it at 360 degrees?
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    Cutout cookie problems

    Houston... We have a problem with the cookie mix... Great value cookie mix for cutout cookies has seemed to have misdirected me. So the directions are: - one pouch sugar c. Mix - 1/3 cp butter softened - 1 egg - 1 tbsp flour - Heat oven 375 - stir mix flour butter egg until soft dough forms -...
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    Chicken in a Biskit crackers question

    ChiknBikit crumbs ideas As i snack on them, it dawns on me that they could be crushed up, either as crumbs or a fine powder and used as a topping or raw ingredient to other food. Are there any ideas that come to mind. Or does anyone know the seasonings used in c.n.b crackers?
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    ISO electric stove reset button

    Sorry didn't know where else to ask this. We have a whirlpool 465 electric stove and the power is on but ranges wont heat up. Someone told us there is a reset button but cannot find it. Does anyone know of this?
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    Meanings of abbreviations

    I notice in some threads they start with iso or sos. I mentioned that one help project is for tonight and when it got moved the moderator attached sos to it so i am assuming those have to do with some sort of urgencies. Are there other abbreviations we should know
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    SOS - Using Milk with Chicken Base

    ----- for tonights dinner so quick answers appreciated pls --- Wanting to jazz up an alfredo sauce with a bit of chicken base. Since i would use milk instead of water to fix up a cheese sauce was wondering if i can, in a small bowl, make a small amount of chicken stock out of milk to accompany...
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    Peppermint teargas bomb to repel bugs?

    this is a question mainly about pest control using a recipe as the weapon. here is my backstory... Forgot the year... around 2003 orange farmers almanac had a great recipe for homemade marshmallows... a simple boiled candy solution blended with an unflavored gelatin mold beated together formed...
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    Anyone know about universal remotes acting funny

    sorry to ask this in a food website. i am on a primitive phone browser and it cant get other Q/A websites to work right with it. dont want to join a electronics geek forum just for one dumb question. here is the trouble. i got a vibe axcess 5:1 universal remote. i followed all the directions...
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    Can alcoholic marinade flame up a deep fryer?

    what i have in mind is taking chicken wings or sliced breasts (to make chicken strips) and letting them set in a marinade of pina colada mixed with other seasonings and letting it set overnight or thru the day. then do the breading and setting in a deep fryer. my worry is this... that the...
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    What to pack for long day's drive

    the plan is to scout the deepest back roads in missouri ozarks. will be starting in southern illinois and cross mississippi river (20 mins from my house) and explore roads natural springs creek crossings (some fords). ultimate goal will to explore a preselected area... i spotted on a light...
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    What do New Yorker's call sandwiches

    so if you go to NYC and ask a local where a good place to get a sandwich they will tell you go to a grocery store get a loaf of bread and lunchmeat and make it yourself. heros, hoagies, subs, melts and other products of that nature, if you call them sandwiches referring to thier masterpieces...
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    Want to add stuff to scalloped taters

    so last night i mad 3 cheese scalloped potatoes and they came out really good ( yes the box kind), but something was calling that it could use more add ons. something along the lines of pizza cheese and pepperoni mixed in or on top. i am curious though as to when and where to add the peperoni...
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    Urgent! How do you double hamburger helper?

    getting ready to cook now. i am wondering do you double everything or is there a reduction ratio so some of the ingredients. i am talking about making 2 boxes of cheeseburger macaroni helper
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    How do you open saltines?

    whenever i try to open a 'thing' oof saltine crakers the pack does not open at the seam but explodes in a gloriuous confetti fallout. are there any tips on how to control these ticking time bombs?
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    How do you fry ramen noodles?

    this is an idea i have wondered about for a while. i happened to do a google search and seen that there are recipes. with me only having a sliding phone with primitive intrnet. i am limited on pages i can get. i seen basically two types of fried noodles... that is briefly boiled then...
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    Will Werther's Originals damage a Ninja blender?

    I have an idea of crushing up Werther's originals, first by hammer in a bag, then placing them in a ninja blender, to finely crush them and then putting that results into a rice crispy treat mixture. How fine of pieces will a ninja blender make them into or will it do damage to them? I have...
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    Need ideas for pulled chick and Swiss cheese

    We recently had a wedding and have a leftover of very good smoked pulled chicken and hamburger buns. I am envisioning having something similar to a grilled cheese mixed in with the pulled pork What I want to do have melted swiss cheese (a layer) then pulled pork on top of it in a burger bun...
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    Alfredo Sauce, spaghetti noodles and ground Beef

    I know that Alfredo sauce is normally used with chicken or seafood. We have an extra jar of Alfredo sauce, Brand name in a Jar, and as a low budget family we cant always get a hold of chicken breast or seafood. We do seem to always have ground beef on hand. And we get spaghetti quite often...
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