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From: stern@inmet.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Need help with recipes...
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Date: Sun, 20-Jan-85 00:40:41 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 20 00:40:41 1985
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Nf-From: inmet!stern    Jan 18 16:12:00 1985


[gobble]

I understand your problem.  I'm what's known as an orthodontic failure.
I had braces on for SIX (that's right, 6) years, and I still have a 
nasty overbite.  Nobody notices it, except for the fact that my lower 
jaw is smaller than my upper, and it therefore looks like I have a fat 
face. Since my teeth don't meet, I have to really watch what kinds of things
I eat in resturants, on dates, for lunch at work, etc, to avoid looking 
like a total slob.  

My suggestions:

Make sandwiches on pita bread, not regular bread.  Regular bread is
much too mushy and sticks to braces and the roof of your mouth, while 
pita bread kind of tears easily, and is easy to break into bite sized
pieces using your teeth (as opposed to hands).  Especially if you keep 
it refrigerated.  It might be called Syrian bread, or Syrian pocket 
bread out where you are.  

Go to your favorite pizza place, buy a pizza, and wrap it two slices
at a time in tin foil.  Freeze -- thaw when ready to eat, by cooking
in the oven at 400-425.  Unwrap it before you heat it up, or you'l
have a mess.  However, freezing it tends to condense the water under the
crust, and when you re-heat it, the crust gets much softer!

Despite what Mr. Ortho says, you *can* have corn on the cob.  Just
cook it normally, and then remove the kernels with a fork.  It's
messy but worth it (if you like corn).  Also try this (my favorite
cauliflower recipe):
Steam some quantity of cauliflower to desired tenderness.  In your
case, cut it into bite-sized pieces before steaming.  While the
cauliflower is percolating, fry some onions and mushrooms (1 small box
mushrooms and two onions are enough for 3/4 people) in a bit of butter.
Combine: fried mushrooms and onions, bread crumbs and parmesan cheese
in a baking dish, and bake for 4-5 minutes at 350.  Sorry the quantities
aren't exact -- I never measure anything when I cook.

While you're into bite sized things, stir-frying vegatables (and meats)
also helps those of us who have trouble with the choppers.

N.B. -- put a USENET address on future postings so people can send
you mail.  According to decwrl, decwrl!lipp doesn't exist!!!

--Hal Stern 
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