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Important Reminder - Read the Recipe - DFen911 - 11-03-2013
Been cooking for years! And still I do stupid things like - not properly reading a recipe.
Therefore would like to remind everyone to read the reciped, get your ingredients out, read the recipe again, get your equipment out, read the recipe again.
So making my sausage today. All the meat is cut up and seasoned. Grinder is out, cleaned and chilling. All my liquids are chilling, hog casings soaking and smoker is prepped. Now in my head all I need to do is grind the meat as instructed, stuff into casings, put into the smoker for a few hours...wait..what's this step here I didn't see before... "Allow the links to set at room temperature for 3 hours..." WHAT? As it is it will take me hours to smoke all the links in batches, since my smoker isn't that big, I really don't need this 3 hour delay.
That being said, I will leave the casing in the water and stuff my sausage tomorrow, hang them and then smoke them. Arg. And yes I'll read the recipe again tomorrow
Re: Important Reminder - Read the Recipe - Gourmet_Mom - 11-03-2013
Bless your heart, Denise! If it makes you feel better, I've made Chilli for years! Today at the store I felt like I was missing something. When I went to start it, it hit me! I forgot the dang tomatoes! Really?!??
Re: Important Reminder - Read the Recipe - luvnit - 11-04-2013
I've been there too Denise...
Always reminds me of the scene in M*A*S*H when they are defusing a bomb: "Clip the red wire, then the black wire... but first..."
Re: Important Reminder - Read the Recipe - cjs - 11-04-2013
First rule of the kitchen, yet we've all been there!!
Re: Important Reminder - Read the Recipe - Harborwitch - 11-04-2013
Oh yeah! We all do that Denise. It's worst when you have forgotten an ingredient . . . .
Re: Important Reminder - Read the Recipe - Mare749 - 11-06-2013
Been there, done that. I run into trouble when I zip through a recipe too fast and don't pay attention to some important detail.
Forgetting an ingredient is the worst, especially when it's the seasoning.