Ho, Ho, ho - What's that in the stuffing? - Rated KV for Kitchen Violence

[Musashi Miyamoto]

Ouch! I can't use my right hand ring finger to type this, cause I cut off
the tip yesterday while helping with a Xmas dinner. Not a big slice, but the
emergency room calls every such removal an "amputation," either to justify
the charges or perhaps simply for the amusement of the patients.
Tomatoes, pepper, and mushrooms had each been separately roasted the night
before. Tree was trimmed, stocking was hung. A crown roast was planned and
blueberry pie (we'd picked the blueberries and immediately frozen them in
the summer) was in the oven.

I'd brought over a "mandoline" that I'd bought myself a month ago. A
mandoline is a French food prep tool. Think "horizontal guillotine." You
slide food along the slippery surface until it meets one or more of a number
of VERY SHARP blades. They say to use the enclosed pusher to slide the food,
but I'M A GUY. I was preparing stuffing. I'd already used the julienne blade
for the carrots and the onion. I had fortunately removed the julienne blade
for the celery, but I lowered the slippery surface for a thicker cut. That
thing is amazing. You wouldn't believe how fast it goes through
vegetables....

Ho, ho, ho. The people in the emergency room were great. I got bandaged up
with an artificial scab and pain killers. My daughter got a ride (I had been
going to pick her up), and we all had a Xmas dinner that couldn't be beat,
including the stuffing.

Best.

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Keep Cool, but Care
Henry Mu