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A few weeks ago I received a slushie machine: (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) This is not to be confused with the shaved ice "slushie" machine that sits next to it. The new machine makes nice frozen fruit juice, but tonight I decided to try a chocolate milkshake from the included recipe booklet. I have to say I am pleased, other than with huge amount produced. As I dispensed the product it looked more like soft serve to me. Since I have so much milkshake I've decided to dispense a good bit of it into containers and blast chill it. Time will tell. Edit: when I went to dispense the remainer of the milkshake, the texture was different. Now it was more like a milkshake than soft serve. If I want to try to do this again, I should freeze the first portion that comes out rather than the last.

Spinach is starting to bolt so I have been harvesting. Is this what they call baby Spinach?

Oh, the La Chamba pot! I look forward to reading more about it! And the salsa: chile and peanut may be marvelous!

So many beautiful dinners and spreads show up on this topic! But then, here I am: I needed to use the herbs before they went off, and by the time I'd finished making tabbouli I wasn't very hungry. I post this to show that non-fancy dinners are also welcome here. Tabbouli in Tostitos Scoops, sometimes supplemented with hummus (yesterday's culinary achievement). Not fancy, but delicious and filling. And the dishwasher is now taking care of yesterday's and today's dishes.

Over here in the Lunch topic, I detailed the menu from the “Supper with Friends) meal at the Rancho Gordo Heirloom Bean Encuentro held this weekend at Alta Baja Market in Santa Ana, CA. I had a little time to shop at the market and picked up a few items: I got a La Chamba soup pot and comal, two bottles of cocktail bitters from Miracle Mile Bitters - toasted pecan and yuzu - and a jar of Taco Maria Chile morita and peanut salsa. Looking forward to trying out all of them.

Thanks for the link. I'd forgotten about that website, but I shouldn't have. There are some good recipes and writing in there.

Lunch was Irish seafood chowder. Cooked a soffitto (Sp.various) in butter, added plain flour, added fish stock, added small cubes of potato. Simmered this for about half an hour then added some cream, milk, salt and pepper, some thyme, brought this all to the boil and added cubes of salmon, cubes of snapper, some shrimp/ prawns and a few shelled mussels. Cooked for 5 minutes till all seafood cooked. Done.

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Thanks, Kerry, but the link didn't work.

I found the one Jo linked to on amazon.ca however $120 more.

I decided to try my pizza oven again tonight as I was making flammekuchen. Well I'll be, it did a great job.

Thank you for going to the trouble to find this for me. It is not available on Amazon.ca. too bad, because that was the price range I had in mind.

I don't have any pictures but recently I have been hungry for ham. That is something that is just not available in Costa Rica except at Christmas time. Then we can buy imported ham but it's usually the pre-sliced spiral cut ham that isn't that good for sandwiches. So I made some with this recipe. It turned out great. I made sandwiches with homemade sourdough bread and homemade Gourmet mustard. The only thing not homemade was the Swiss cheese. It completely satisfied my cravings.

Not in England for the last thirty years, no! As I'm sure, you know. Not in Tesco's for longer. I am however aware of the increasing number of Americanisms creeping into British English. I remain unapprised to what is English about them. Nul points.

This is what I would do too.

Now that's a hot dog! Speaking of dogs, I made 15 beirocks today. DH and I will have a couple with soup for dinner and the rest will go in the freezer to feed our dog/house sitter for a week while we go to Mexico for a short trip. I pulled them out of the oven and pushed them to the far back of the stove top. Turned my back for less than 5 seconds and my granddog Mable had taken a bite. I moved them to the spare room to finish cooling and closed the door. As I was packaging them up, I again turned my back for less than 5 seeconds and Mabel had grabbed one and run off with it. Hard to get a photo of a black lab but here she is, scoping out the kitchen. Her much better behaved sister, Freckles, is in the background.

CS is pretty indestructable. What's the grossness? Just color or crustification? I've done similar and just re-seasoned after scrubbing off the crusts with steel wool.

This is a less expensive juicer that I found works well (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Kuvings specifically says their juicer will juice blueberries. Whether the juicer I linked does blueberries I have no idea. It juices pineapple just fine. If anyone sends me a bushel of blueberries I'd be happy to run tests.

@Tropicalsenior so happy you are pleased with the recipes there, nice variety with different sourdough options. I made toast this morning with the Pullman loaf and I was pleased with the outcome. Tomorrow, it will get a poached egg on top. ETA Your breads are looking wonderful!

back when that NYTime mag Rx was printed I doubt anyone had heard of panko. @weinoo you are correct , a little bit of sweetness . the ones i made way back then were quite nice. and it had to be a fresh box of CFs , as the aroma evaporates quickly from a box.

I decided to finish up my stock of Tj's CR's today , and try to fix a couple of yesterdays short comings : yogurt // green onions added after the pic 1 ) more pecans on the lettuce is a must . Quite a few Campari's also nice I AF'd the CR from frozen 15 min 375 , then 400 until crispy 6 ++ more minutes . I also blotted the CR w paper towels . my conclusion is : for my taste , you have to get the batter very very crispy . as the CR is fully cooked go w max heat of your AF until that happens. further reflection : although I enjoyed the CR , as a previous poster noted : its mostly , maybe 53 % ++ batter. and make sure you plate it w something else that's interesting to eat. if you are a serious student of CR's , either from a local place , or making your own , you might be disappointed w this edition. Ill still get them , from time to time. just not very often , and not back to back.

Rack of lamb (thank you Costco!). Very tender, I marinated 40 hours. Had a flare-up on the grill which burnt off the bones (but didn't scorch the meat). Side is Pearl Couscous salad. Hit 125 degrees after 9 minutes each side. Shut off burners and let it sit on grill as it cooled down for 5 minutes. Another 5 minute rest in house before separating into finger food. Final internal temp when I brought it into house was 137. On the medium side of medium rare and perfect (for us).

With DW (quite successfully) doing low carb at the moment, little one and me opted to forego pizza & movie night for some hot dogs (and a movie) … We got this Feuerwurst from the supermarket, a rather spicy beef sausage native to the state of Hessia, bordering to our community in the north. Of course there are no suitable sized brioche buns available, so we had to make our own (including the egg wash, masterfully applied by LO) … Nice result ! Filled with the works and a self made, mustard forward sauce … One happy camper 🥳 And DW didn’t starve either with a cauliflower bake and some bacon/cheese add-ons … plus a Duvel for yours truly … All enjoyed while watching Venom. Can you tell little one had a great afternoon !? 🤗

Spent a nice (well, other than the Nor'easter) 3.5 days and 4 nights in Provincetown, staying where we normally stay. View from outside our room, as the Nor'easter was leaving, and low tide. And caught some sun the next evening, from the same vantage point. Mr. Wondrich ( @Splificator ) on the bar with me, as I'm enjoying an old fashioned at Ladyslipper. Ladyslipper. They built this bar out from scratch, in 2 months. 3 co-owners and a helper or two...I was impressed, as it's quite lovely inside. We basically ate like townies on this trip, as our dinners were with townies (and one lunch was, as well). The Mayflower - now closed for the season, and the place where my niece mentioned they cook the best lobster in town... Quite good - comes with a side of your choice, and at $34, a relative bargain. Absolutely classic joint, with a good $8 Manhattan to boot! Another dinner was at the Governor Bradford, sadly slated to close in a few months. Huge place, interesting menu, tasty stoner food. Good beer list, too. Lunch one day was across the street from Ladyslipper, at a lunch only place...Vorelli's Restaurant. Significant Eater had a great lobster roll, and my lobster salad on a salad was super too. Final dinner with the niece and husband - we took a drive out of town to The Wicked Oyster, in Wellfleet. I can't tell you the last time I enjoyed such beautifully shucked, plump, shell-filling oysters..the sine qua non of oysters, if you will. A couple of apps... Fried local clam strips on the left, and Jonah crab salad on the right. These were fine. For my main, I had the scallop dish, described thusly: Seared Dayboat Scallops … 35 Carrot-Ginger Puree | Snap Peas | Parsley and Hazelnut Pesto The scallops were great, snap peas replaced by roasted purple cauliflower, and just a bit too much going on on the plate, when you have such beautiful scallops. And seven of them! Most of the dishes appeared to suffer the same fate, just an ingredient or two too much. One night, we did have all 3 desserts from Kelly Fields at Ladyslipper... Top one is basically a warm apple galette, with caramel crunch drizzled atop. And underneath is a PB & J mousse, with a house-made Concord jam - more crunches atop. These were excellent, and go well with the Amaro treats on offer (I had a few Parker Poseys, if memory serves me correctly). There was a little sightseeing on the one nice day... The Nauset Light in Eastham. Nearby are the Three Sisters Lighthouses... Which were in use prior to the Nauset light going into service. Fun, if short, trip. Some gratuitous, random P'town photos: We did manage to get to the OC of course,,,I think it's tilting more than ever. And we also finished a night off at the Little Bar at Atlantic House - which has its own WIKI...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_House. Be careful. Nothing could get me out on this thing. Ever. I actually like the steeple up there.

Ajax (my dog) and I really enjoyed an extra fatty pork steak for lunch today. I bought four at BJ's a few days ago and grilled them today. The trim, or lack thereof , was just like the good old days! Served with potato pave and avocado drizzled with picual olive oil.