I was just watching Alton Brown, and learned something both disturbing and interesting.
Arrowroot powder (used for thickening, etc) is made from the devil's own plant:
Kudzu.
When I lived in North Carolina, I developed a hatred for that particular abomination. Especially when it would take over acres of perfectly beautiful forest.
Anyone know of any other culinary uses for this evil plant?
-- "Mogu is a tiny golem wife ... and your best friend ... and your worst nightmare." - Joe Bay
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I was just watching Alton Brown, and learned something both disturbing and interesting.
Arrowroot powder (used for thickening, etc) is made from the devil's own plant:
Kudzu.
When I lived in North Carolina, I developed a hatred for that particular abomination. Especially when it would take over acres of perfectly beautiful forest.
Anyone know of any other culinary uses for this evil plant?
On the nights of the Full Moon it turns into Wolfsbane...
I was just watching Alton Brown, and learned something both disturbing and interesting.
That he weighs 230 pounds and thinks he's fat? He's over 6 feet tall
Or that chives will give bald interns erections?
Tonight's episode [censored] me off. Alton's been whining about how he's fat and ugly for about a month now, and I want to kick his ass, because he's probably the hottest thing on TV that's not animated.
Arrowroot powder (used for thickening, etc) is made from the devil's own plant:
Kudzu is also known as Japanese arrowroot but is an entirely different plant from arrowroot. Apparently, though, it *is* also used as a thickening agent, and is touted for unspecified medicinal benefits. Note that cassava (tapioca), yet another thickener, is also known as Brazilian arrowroot. I found a really good comparison of various thickeners here:
I was just watching Alton Brown, and learned something both disturbing and interesting.
Arrowroot powder (used for thickening, etc) is made from the devil's own plant:
Kudzu.
When I lived in North Carolina, I developed a hatred for that particular abomination. Especially when it would take over acres of perfectly beautiful forest.
Anyone know of any other culinary uses for this evil plant?
Out of lurking - I read somewhere that kudzu jelly and kudzu wine are big hits made by someone in either North or South Carolina. It seems I also read that someone concocted a recipe of sauteed kudzu leaves. No thanks!
A new house has just been built around the corner. Sod was put down in the yard, except for an island of pine straw with a group of trees. They left a strand of kudzu, which has already grown many, many times its size. Every time I pass the house, I want to ring the doorbell and tell them to pull up the kudzu now! They're gonna be sorry! :-) SusanB in GA
I was just watching Alton Brown, and learned something both disturbing and interesting.
Arrowroot powder (used for thickening, etc) is made from the devil's own plant:
Kudzu.
When I lived in North Carolina, I developed a hatred for that particular abomination. Especially when it would take over acres of perfectly beautiful forest.
Anyone know of any other culinary uses for this evil plant?
Last week's home and garden section of the newspaper interviewed a lady who specialized in native gardening. She mentioned you could stuff kudzu leaves as if they were grape leaves.
I was just watching Alton Brown, and learned something both disturbing and interesting.
Arrowroot powder (used for thickening, etc) is made from the devil's own plant:
Kudzu.
When I lived in North Carolina, I developed a hatred for that particular abomination. Especially when it would take over acres of perfectly beautiful forest.
Anyone know of any other culinary uses for this evil plant?
One of my elder brothers took some to relieve stomach cramps. It makes the most awesome upchuck emetic. Spew range was at least 7 foot, I was about 8 years old and was duly impressed.
-- Cpl Madge - Mary Kay Commando - UKAIN battalion Somewhere East of Lubec Somewhere West of Tillamook
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I was just watching Alton Brown, and learned something both disturbing and interesting.
Arrowroot powder (used for thickening, etc) is made from the devil's own plant:
Kudzu.
Caught the same show. They did show an actual arrowroot but the horticultural? anthropologist offered that packaged arrowroot could be other starchy things and not really arrowroot. She also offered that the Japanese make theirs from kudzu.
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When I lived in North Carolina, I developed a hatred for that particular abomination. Especially when it would take over acres of perfectly beautiful forest.
Anyone know of any other culinary uses for this evil plant?
-- "Mogu is a tiny golem wife ... and your best friend ... and your worst nightmare." - Joe Bay
When I lived in North Carolina, I developed a hatred for that particular abomination. Especially when it would take over acres of perfectly beautiful forest.
Anyone know of any other culinary uses for this evil plant?
I've had kudzu soba and rice noodles made with it.
Wiblur the Once had something important to tell us on Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:25:52 -0500:
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I was just watching Alton Brown, and learned something both disturbing and interesting.
Arrowroot powder (used for thickening, etc) is made from the devil's own plant:
Kudzu.
Kudzu and arrowroot are the same thing? That's news to me... somebody was just telling me that kudzu powder makes a good 'binding' agent for distressed bowels when you make it up into a gel with water and consume it. I don't know how accurate that is, but if it works it would be one redeeming virtue for the plant! -- ~Karen AKA Kajikit Lover of shiny things...
Made as of 18 June 2004 - 83 cards, 49 SB pages (plus 3 small giftbooks), 59 decos & more!
I was just watching Alton Brown, and learned something both disturbing and interesting.
Arrowroot powder (used for thickening, etc) is made from the devil's own plant:
Kudzu.
When I lived in North Carolina, I developed a hatred for that particular abomination. Especially when it would take over acres of perfectly beautiful forest.
Anyone know of any other culinary uses for this evil plant?
Out of lurking - I read somewhere that kudzu jelly and kudzu wine are big hits made by someone in either North or South Carolina. It seems I also read that someone concocted a recipe of sauteed kudzu leaves. No thanks!
A new house has just been built around the corner. Sod was put down in the yard, except for an island of pine straw with a group of trees. They left a strand of kudzu, which has already grown many, many times its size. Every time I pass the house, I want to ring the doorbell and tell them to pull up the kudzu now! They're gonna be sorry! :-) SusanB in GA
Kudzu has a natural enemy in Asia but I can't think of what it is.
-- Wayne in Phoenix
If there's a nit to pick, some nitwit will pick it.
I was just watching Alton Brown, and learned something both disturbing and interesting.
That he weighs 230 pounds and thinks he's fat? He's over 6 feet tall
He's not a jock. At 5-11 and 210, I need to lose 20 to look just flabby, and I am a (former) jock.
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Or that chives will give bald interns erections?
Man, did I TiVo this one?
"Love handles." You figure it out.
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Tonight's episode [censored] me off. Alton's been whining about how he's fat and ugly for about a month now, and I want to kick his ass, because he's probably the hottest thing on TV that's not animated.
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On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:25:52 -0500, Wiblur the Once <[email hidden]> wrote: Anyone know of any other culinary uses for this evil plant?
Out of lurking - I read somewhere that kudzu jelly and kudzu wine are big hits made by someone in either North or South Carolina. It seems I also read that someone concocted a recipe of sauteed kudzu leaves. No thanks!
ROFL!! That sounds like something my Dad would do. He'll try to make wine out of almost anything. BTW, I live in SC and you're right kudzu is the devil!
I was just watching Alton Brown, and learned something both disturbing and interesting.
Arrowroot powder (used for thickening, etc) is made from the devil's own plant:
Kudzu.
When I lived in North Carolina, I developed a hatred for that particular abomination. Especially when it would take over acres of perfectly beautiful forest.
Anyone know of any other culinary uses for this evil plant?
Out of lurking - I read somewhere that kudzu jelly and kudzu wine are big hits made by someone in either North or South Carolina. It seems I also read that someone concocted a recipe of sauteed kudzu leaves. No thanks!
Too bad someone can't find a way to use it to generate energy. At least there would be an endless supply!
Sue(tm) Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!
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Wiblur the Once said:
I was just watching Alton Brown, and learned something both disturbing and interesting.
Arrowroot powder (used for thickening, etc) is made from the devil's own plant:
Kudzu.
When I lived in North Carolina, I developed a hatred for that particular abomination. Especially when it would take over acres of perfectly beautiful forest.
Anyone know of any other culinary uses for this evil plant?
One of my elder brothers took some to relieve stomach cramps. It makes the most awesome upchuck emetic. Spew range was at least 7 foot, I was about 8 years old and was duly impressed.
ROFL - I got an EXCELLENT visual of that, Madge. Oh my god!
*still* laughing
kili -- "Beer, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems." - - Homer Simpson
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 22:20:55 +1000, Kajikit <[email hidden]>
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Wiblur the Once had something important to tell us on Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:25:52 -0500:
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I was just watching Alton Brown, and learned something both disturbing and interesting.
Arrowroot powder (used for thickening, etc) is made from the devil's own plant:
Kudzu.
Kudzu and arrowroot are the same thing?
Well, no. What was said that when you think you are buying arrowroot, you may not be. It may actually be cornstarch, or potato starch, or Kudzu instead of 'real' arrowroot. "Japanese" arrowroot is actually made with kudzu.
