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	* Exported from MasterCook * Quickie Hints from Martha Wells Recipe By : Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00 Categories : Miscellaneous Volume 4, Jan. '99 Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -------- ------------ -------------------------------- *see below* I usually keep cornstarch in the cupboard. I find I can mix it with anything and make a gravy better than a flour and fat gravy. The liquid out of a can of asparagus makes a dynamite sauce this way. (Try it over steamed new potatoes!) Or, this is odd and good: a can of pitted black olives. cook a pot of rice or bake a potato warm the juice from the olives and stir in a little cornstarch. When thickened slightly, slice a few olives and add to the gravy. Serve this over the rice or baked potato as an unusual side dish. It tastes a lot better than it looks.. (the juice turns a dismal gray color). Onions keep quite a long time w/out any attention at all. Occasionally, I'll peel a large one and cut an X in the top. put butter in the X, and bake in the microwave till it's very soft. (Put it in a bowl first). Bread! I've recently gotten a bread machine, so we've got quite a lot of extra bread now. I make soft garlic croutons with it, bread pudding with it, and if I've made cornbread too, will combine it all into a stovetop dressing. No recipes, I just toss and go with what is in the refrigerator. For bread pudding to be really good, I like to soak raisins in a little spiced rum and add them with the rum. Warm out of the oven with a buttered rum sauce, and it's even better! Eggs, if you have several folk to feed, and only 2 eggs, what do you do? Beat them with a little water or milk and cook like you're making an omelet. If this is a dinner nice to add some diced mushrooms or garlic chives to the eggs. Let the whole thing set and cook and dry on all sides into an egg pancake. Flip out and julienne slice into matchsticks. 1/4 lb of some leftover cooked meat (ham is good), the rice again, and maybe some canned vegetable French cut beans would be ok, tho I don't like canned beans. Sprinkle the egg slices over the dish, toss with a little oyster sauce or, failing you don't have that, soy sauce for instant Oriental. I also keep 'instant' flaked refried beans in the cupboard. Add a dash Poste on FareShare 1-99 by Martha Wells <flylo@txcyber.com> PatHanneman <kitpath@earthlink.net> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -