Nick's Rule # 23

Never go anywhere official on a Monday. No bank, no post office. No clinic, no hospital. No driver's license bureau, no doctor, no dentist, and yes, not even the grocery store. Unless you dearly love twiddling your thumbs.

In fact, just stay in bed and watch Bugs Bunny.

Salting Cucumbers

I know it seems counterintuitive to salt cucumbers; you really don't want these limp, salty bits of junk in your salad (or sandwich) but believe me, it works.


The point is to draw the water out of the cucumber so that it becomes crunchy, doesn't go limp in ten minutes, and generally makes for a better salad.


So what I did, according to the research I did on the Web, was to first clean and slice the cucumber (I use English cucumbers because they have far fewer seeds than regular) very thin, with a Japanese mandoline, then salt them in a bowl with about 1/2 to 1 teaspoon or regular salt, then put them in a colander above another bowl, and weight them down with a bowl of water (you can use a Ziploc bag -- I just didn't have any).


You wouldn't believe it -- a drop of water comes out of them practically every two seconds. I watched. I counted.


You leave them for an hour or so, then rinse them very briefly and they'll hold up for hours or even days without becoming limp and slimy.

Hard to see, but I have a plastic bowl full of water pressing down on the cucumbers, which are dripping water at a rate of about two drops every four seconds

 

 

Try it sometime if you like cucumbers.

Fock Caspar Gomez an' the Diaz Brothers! Fock 'em, all!

Say hello to my new li'l fre'n!

40 Followers

What? What's up with that? FORTY followers? You read my random crap day in, day out?

Sometimes I post about food but it's more usually some rant or rave about some non-sequitorial topic. NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH FOOD.

What are all you guys doing? DON'T YOU HAVE A LIFE?

You know I love each and every one of you.

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Let's All Move To Juarez!

Juarez! The new Côte d'Azur of Mexico.

Hey, you fucking thought Scarface with Al Pacino was an exaggeration, let's all vacation in Mexico. Have you ever seen a cockroach or ant-infested house? Things scuttling under cupboards when you turn on the lights?

Well, that's Mexico. The "administrators", and I say that with a laugh, are arm in arm with the murderers.

Cuba was annoying.. But sometimes dictators can prevent anarchy. And hey, I wouldn't be bookin' a vacation to Cancun any time soon.

Lessin' you want to be kidnapped and have your head cut off.

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