explode-fry
through extensive experimentation in my kitchen with some collaboration from my upstairs-neighbor, i have invented a new cooking technique. so far it has proven useful for cooking dumplings and egg rolls: it is both frying and steaming at the same time.

heat enough oil to cover the bottom of a skillet until it conspires to release smoke, but does not quite do so. brown each side of your dumplings in this oil. the inside should still be raw. take 60-75mL of water in one hand, and the lid to the skillet in the other hand. in one swift motion, which you will execute properly if you wish to avoid grease burns, pour the water into the hot oil and put the lid on. you should hear many violent popping sounds from inside the skillet, and steam will spout out from the sides of the lid. when the water has cooked off and it is safe to remove the lid, you will see that your dumplings have a crisp skin, and a not-so-greasy steamed filling
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Cooking for the Sick - From DodyG
Cooking Tips For The Sick

Get a rice cooker. A rice cooker is a multi-purpose cooking device. You can cook everything in there, not just rice. Caseroles, Pasta, Soup, Porridge, Rice, etc.

I've been on a diet of Self Made Chicken Soup for the past 6 days trying to be productive while sick (4 types of onions, ginger, chicken thigh, pasta, black pepper, potatoes, parsley all went to the boiling water in the rice cooker). I hate flu medication because it renders me useless.

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I like ice cream, sway, sway, sway
Yahoo! turns 10 today, and Baskin Robbins is offering free ice cream. Today only.
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