| herbwormwood 2005-01-07, 4:08 am |
| On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:51:42 +0000, J wrote
(in article <41DD96CE.776A0DBB@execulink.com> ):
> herbwormwood wrote:
>
>
> eww..dates..i threw mine out after trying everything I had including a
crowbar
> and hammer. It was a date bar (square). Somebody said to soak it in water,
> somebody said to drop it in boiling water, nothing softened it up enough to
> chop
> it up.
> Aren't raisins as good?
There are dates and dates. I get organic pitted dates from the wholefood
co-op and they are really sweet and tasty. They are much sweeter than raisins
and have a different taste entirely and also different nutrition. I snack on
them as finger food. The block kind are only any good in cooking. It is like
the difference between cooking chocolate and the best luxury chocolate box.
Iranian dates seem to be the softest and sweetest but I can only get them in
the asian grocers and they are in a box and coated in syrup, totally fresh
and juicy as if they have just been picked from the date tree. If your dates
were hard they were probably old and not worth buying in the first place.
Don't let them put you off dates entirely! Try fresh ones, if possible
organic or imported. They iranian ones are called sun dates and come in a
cardboard box.
>
> I've had a "chopper" for years now. I spray it with a sprayer and hot water
to
> wash it (most times).
> It looks like the one at the top (sort of)
> http://shopping.kelkoo.co.uk/b/a/ss...r_moulinex.html but nothing comes
> out
> smooth that wasn't to begin with unless I add a bit of water and sometimes
> even
> that doesn't. It works for small tasks, like grinding up crackers or onions.
> Just
> press on the top. That one looks like it's got buttons, mine's only
one-speed.
> J
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