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@rotuts are they being pulled off completely? Or in pieces? Black bears will strip the berry completely off. Smaller critters usually aren't as thorough, raccoons being an exception. if you want to try and save some of the berries for yourself, put up a distraction. Old CDs hung so they will spin, silver streamers (think pompom material but shiny) both work.

I sub cauliflower for the potatoes--it's actually really good.

@Shelby Fake potato salad? Is that like fake plastic trees? <music reference/>

@Duvel What a great meal! I want it all. Your wife's pasta dish looks delicious and I want to poke my fork in that deep fried egg. @weinooNice looking tomatoes. Turkey wraps with shishitos, tomatoes and fake potato salad One of Ronnie's daughters made tamales for the first time and brought some over for us to try. So, I made venison taco salads along with the tamales. The tamales were so good. Seasoned perfectly. I was impressed. Fried wings and chicken strips (I have started frying up some strips to use a few days later for big salad night) with salad and squash casserole--I used crushed up pork rinds in place of crackers for the topping. Zucchini pizza boats and SALAD lol Big salad night--I used leftover steak and the chicken strips Last night we splurged again and had BLT's. Heavenly.

Not deliberately funny, but this is the best place I can think of for last night's story. The scene: a Super 8 hotel in Story City, Iowa. I note at check-in that you have to ask for a coffee maker for the room, and ask for one. The clerk notes that there's coffee available 24/7 in the lobby. I ask for the coffee maker anyway, the way I won't have to get dressed for my first morning cuppa. A half-hour or so later, I go back down the hall to ask about the coffee maker. She'd had to send her partner to the storeroom, wherever that is, to find one. She produced it. Me: "What about coffee packets to go into it?" She: "You mean there aren't any in the room?" Why she'd think that, when the coffee maker isn't already kept there, I don't understand. I never did get any packets.

Oh, I didn't realize we were supposed to clean that glass!

This is valuable information, and something I'll try next time I get around to cooking chicken. Thanks!

I had a not insignificant amount of fig leaf cream left over from yesterday so was in need of ways to use it up. I baked off another choux or three and tried an alternative presentation... If I'd have cooked down the cherry juices to make a thicker syrup then I might've avoided the cerebral haemorrhage effect when sliced... Mmmmmm.... brains! Some decent strawberries from the market meant I could break out the extra vecchio... There were a couple of twists of Kampot, and a glug or two of kirsch in there, too.

Post pictures when it's set up! If you have your sense of humor about you, you can also show in-process photos. 😀 (That's probably a bridge too far, I realize.)

That is correct.

My parents grew blackberries, raspberries and blueberries - most years the birds and other fauna got the fruit long before we considered picking...

something I just noticed : the seal for the door is now on the machine , not the door. will make cleaning the glass on the door w rubbing alcohol much easier .

香辣鱼炒饭 (xiāng là yú chǎo fàn), Spicy Fish Fried Rice, The fish are dried rice paddy minnows.

I initially though I got no ' wild ' black berries ' because there was not enough rain. there is plenty of rain so I looked closer : looks like they are being eaten before becoming ripe birds ? can imagine how a squirrel can get to them . I have had 3 , very small ones , still very tart , but ' black ' at least.

@KennethT thanks for those comparison shots . I lust continue to be interested in one , after all , Im on CSO II , at some point CSO III will replace it , or be a Prime Item in my Estate . why not add CSO 500 ? after a Prime Deal .

@JeanneCake not available in the US at the moment , or .... Im pleased to see the CSO lives on somewhere at least. quite the workhorse it is.

I ordered a rolling island yesterday and it will be here next week. Then I have to figure out how I'll wrangle the package 100+ lbs. into the garage until my sis and BIL are here and can put it together for me. I did have a 15% off coupon from Wayfair and used that which paid for their 5 year protection package which will cover replacing various things that might go wrong. So, if the rubber wood top splits or warps, they will replace it free.

I can't wait until I get time to go to TJs. I really wish they'd open one nearer me. I seldom go during the summer anyway--35-40 minutes each way and even with a cooler, I'm leery of buying anything frozen.

The Nuri Pretty good. Nice plump sardines (4 in the tin) with good texture, not mushy but mashable. Clean taste. Skin and bones present but not in the way at all. In my mind the Pinhais would be preferable, but that may just be the packaging and the good times in Portugal I associate with that brand.

I think it refers to the ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 14th dynasty. He was stuck with so many slaves after finishing his pyramid prematurely, that he invented the first bucket brigade, transporting hand formed ice cubes from the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro to his summer residence in Luxor.

2 pints of raspberries tonight (Not including the half pint I ate while picking) we've got company this weekend so these will go into another crisp

why oh why did I start reading this thread..... OK, Black Friday is coming, Black Friday is coming...

I appreciate the kind offer, but I know I have found candlenuts locally. Or, as you said, just remember to mail order some. 🙂

I think we've talked about this before, but if you can't find candlenuts (kemiri in Malay/Indonesian) in your local Asian store, you can find it on Amazon - but it's ridiculously expensive... if you'd like, I can get some locally (really cheap) and mail it to you. To me, macadamias are very different and in a dish which uses a lot of candlenuts, I think would be noticeable.

Interesting - in my initial burn-in / cleaning, it seems as though the steam function works slightly different from the 300N1. The water does not leave the reservoir via gravity - it seems like it's pumped. When you turn on the steam function, you hear a slight sound of a motor turn on and pulse. Also, the water reservoir has an air inlet at the bottom of the tank with a tube that extends near the top of the tank - no more glug glug glug....