MGLloyd
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I searched quite a few sites for the pie crust recipe...all I came across are the coconut filling recipes for the Dahlia coconut pie. Maybe I should just add 1/2 cup sweetened shredded coconut to my pie crust recipe? (I use lard.)
Here is the ingredients list for the coconut pie shell. As you can see, a pretty typical pie crust recipe that uses all butter, 1/2 cup coconut and two tsp. sugar. When I make this pie, I use my own favorite pie crust recipe (the one that has some white vinegar in it) and merely add the coconut to it. I like my crust better.
1 cup plus 2 tbsp all-purpose flour
1/2 cup sweetened shredded coconut
1/2 cup (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut
into 1/2-inch dice
2 tsp sugar
1/4 tsp kosher salt
1/3 cup ice water, or more as needed
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The recipe for the Dahlia triple coconut cream pie is commonly available on the Net; do a Google for 'Tom Douglas triple coconut cream pie recipe'. The pie crust is a pretty typical crust recipe, but includes 1/2 cup sweetened shredded coconut. The toasted coconut chips and white chocolate shavings over the top sets the pie off nicely.
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And if you are ever in Woodinville, Purple has another cafe at the Hollywood Schoolhouse intersection, just east of Columbia, St. Michelle, the Herbfarm and Redhook. Although in that same area, my wife and I are partial to the Lowell-Hunt wine cafe, just north of the Hollywood Schoolhouse.
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Somewhere on my bookshelves is a MRE cookbook, containing a number of tasty recipes that you can make with the contents of various MREs, and if necessary, heating them on the engine block of a handy vehicle. Another useful tip is the sealed entree packet fits down the exhaust stack of a HEMTT, a large military truck. After letting the engine idle for a few minutes, you stomp on the gas pedal. The surge of engine power creates a corresponding exhaust surge that blows the entree packet out of the exhaust stack, nicely heated.
But here is the most useful tip: use the small scissors on your Gerber to open the entree packet down the long side. This provides a shallower and wider opening from which to eat, therefore reducing the mess as you try to scoop the contents with the spoon.
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Although it is nowhere near downtown, and I have no connection with them except as a happy customer, allow me to put in a shameless plug for L'Artisan french bakery on the shores of Silver Lake in south Everett. A wide selection of delicious pastries and breads. I am helpless to resist their Napoleons. And at only $ 2.60 each, too.
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[scooby Doo voice] Rut roh! [/scooby Doo voice]
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Tuna melts in the Pacific NW are open-faced.
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I think the Golden Goat has gone way down hill in recent years. My 405 exit is six miles north of Totem Lake, and I am surprised that no one has mentioned the very acme of Totem Lake dining: I refer of course to Old Country Buffet. And so very conveniently located in the 'mall'!
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Bonefish is now in the Seattle area; my family and I have eaten a few times at the Bothell location, which happens to be across the parking lot from an Outback steakhouse. Again, for a chain restaurant, they were not at all bad. Nothing particularly unique or daring, I would characterize them as aiming for 'middle of the road' taste regarding seafood. I have had worse seafood at independent fish houses in the Seattle area.
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Using 'food' in the broadest sense, I would be a pig. Every part useful except the squeal.
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I am giving serious thought to also using mine to sear a steak. Has anyone tried this?
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I use my industrial heatgun to roast coffee beans. Details can be found here
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This thread reminds me of my days back in the chemistry labs, cooking over a bunsen burner..... Large borosilicate glass beakers make wonderful cooking utensils.
I would, however, echo the sage advice above about sterilizing the heck out of any used scientific equipment and flushing the pumps, hoses, etc. thoroughly. I would probably just replace any plastic hoses, fittings, O-rings and the like to minimize the risk of biological or chemical contamination.
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I think the term we are looking for here is 'heat sink'.
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Partial bus strike and not a bad late summer's day by local standards, so I grabbed a coffee after the gym and walk into work. It's not a bad thing when you go past a castle every morning to work.
I am pretty sure that I stood in this very spot with this vista. I recognize the castle above and I believe that is the Waverly train station below. Is this photo taken from Princes or George street?
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Can we beseech you, dear Adam, to part with your recipe for the baked lemon pudding? I make a very similar dish in chocolate.
And to keep this on point, I spent a week in Edinburgh in July 2000, attending my graduation from Heriot-Watt University. Lovely haggis and beer, and never have I seen such thick cigarette smoke in a pub in my life.
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Might be more of a class* issue than a nationality issue.
Lacking a better word for it. I mean income level, education, city of residence, circle of friends, exposure to other cultures etc.
Having co-written a few grant applications back in the day, 'socioeconomic status' is a more common term, and avoids those, er, 'class' distinctions.
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This is a useful thread. I went looking to buy a foie on Valentine's day, and Seattle Caviar was out. I did not know that there were other local purveyors. I ended up buying mail order from the Hudson Valley.
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I do have to endorse the Weekly's choice for homemade ice cream sandwiches, though.
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I like the fish and chips down at Chinook's, at Fishermens Terminal in Ballard, and the cod or halibut fish and chips at your local McMenamin's. I have had many an enjoyable meal of halibut fish and chips and a pitcher of Terminator while sitting outside at McMin's.
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Island Spring over on Vashon makes a wide variety of tofu and tofu products. Some of their products I found in the Vashon Thriftway and no where else.
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Well, I would buy blue cheese potato chips in a heartbeat. I wonder if Tim's Cascade chips of Auburn, WA, reads this website.....
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My favorite rice to use is the arborio rice sold in a box at Trader Joe's.
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The episode in which Homer and Marge meet for the first time when Marge is at summer camp as a child. Homer falls into the lake and washes up on the shore of a 'fat camp'. The counselor/guard tells him that 'no one escapes from fat camp! The exit is up a gentle slope!'
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When you want to start roasting in quantity, don't forget the heatgun/dogbowl method: http://www.homeroaster.com/heatgun.html