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Okay. Here's an easy treat for camping, if you do a little pre-prep at home.

Buy some cornmeal and some good crackers -- (Ritz or Keebler Club work well). Buy a couple, or three, decent sized yellow (sweet) onions.

Using a mandoline


Slice the peeled onions very thin and place them in a Ziplock bag.

In the blender, whiz about 25 crackers with 1/2 cup of cornmeal until you have a powder as fine as flour. Now season it: use 1/2 teaspoon Gebhardt chili powder, 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper, 1/2 teaspoon ground white pepper, 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder, 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander, 1/4 teaspoon chipotle chili powder, 1/8 teaspoon salt, and 1/8 teaspoon ginger. Add spices to powder in blender and mix well. Pour into a Ziplock bag, roll up to remove excess air and seal bag.

At camp: put 1/2'' oil in the bottom of a cast-iron skillet and heat until a cube of bread comes to the top immediately; while it's heating, add the spiced cornmeal/cracker meal to the onions and shake bag to coat, kneading to mix. Using a fork, drop generous portions of the onions into the hot oil; as each batch finishes cooking lift them out of the oil, let them drain over the pan until they stop dripping, and set aside. Serve warm in lieu of fries.

You own a mandoline AND a Dodge I am impressed. I drive a full tilt boogie 2005 Magnum hemi. I was thinking of relegating the somewhat less expensive V-Slicer to the tear, but I can see that I am going to have to raise the bar for galley equipment with competition like this.

Glad to see you are using the safety handle on the mandoline.

I guess I am obligated to contribute. Zucchini, waffle cut in the mandoline, coated with flour, egg white, and Panko flour can be crisped in a small volume of oil in the Dutch oven over a Coleman. Very nice taste. Some sole or snapper fillets, given the same treatment, can then be prepared in the same oil. Add some tender crisp steamed Broccoli and serve all over brown rice. A nice meal for an outdoor evening on the road.

Thanks,

Tom

We have a mandoline, that thing is soooo sharp that I cringe when I see someone else use it. I don't allow my wife to use becuase it just plain freaks me out, I'm afraid that she'll hurt herself. She is not the most graceful.

San Diegan,
Thanks.

Man that sounds good. We will frying up some onions in a few weeks.

Thanks,
Ross

asianflava wrote:We have a mandoline, that thing is soooo sharp that I cringe when I see someone else use it. I don't allow my wife to use becuase it just plain freaks me out, I'm afraid that she'll hurt herself. She is not the most graceful.

Unbelievable:

I have the same reaction to that thing--scares the hell out of me.

Funny, because my circular saw whizzing toward my fingers doesn't seem to bother me at all.

Laredo wrote:.....Using a mandoline .......

I have one these things (not the same one, but an el cheapo) and I sliced the end of my middle finger off while cutting up a green pepper. You have not lived until you cut the end of a finger off. Until it heals (about 2 months if memory serves me and that's debateable these days) it really really really HURTS to put your hand in a pocket or bump it on anything.

So remember - "DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!" seems to be fitting when applied to such a device

Kerry

i promise you ... shutting the passenger door of a 58 Apache pickup on the tip of your thumb will bring you pain notches beyond imagination.

yes, that is the voice of experience. I was a 3rd grader, and it still hurts if I hit it just right. I was in a hurry to get into the house to watch (the new episode of) Gilligan's Island.

Was that the episode where they almost got rescued?
I think i remember that one myself

ceebe wrote:Was that the episode where they almost got rescued?
I think i remember that one myself

Probably the episode where they almost get recsued but Gilligan messes it up somehow.

Oh yeah!, I forgot about that one

it was the episode where the professor got so sick.

Wear leather gloves,then wear plastic gloves over them...Onions sound good though..shut my hand w/car trunk lid one time...While unloading my drums..geting ready to play...After the blood stoped..2 fingers were twice the normal size...As i remember, whiskey was used for pain killer..still had to sit up the drums,& played for 4 hours....Thanks for all for bringing up that Great Memory once again It was my brother who slamed the trunk down...Used every cuss word known to man ... vinoscooter...

Anybody here ever hav a Garand Thumb?
hat bolt slamming home can really ruin a day at the range

my dad had an old, old, old shotgun with long 'cockspur' hammers.

wrecked anybody's hand who shot the thing.

inherited it. took my USAF gunsmithing skills and replaced those hammers.

life much better now.