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Sartain

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  1. 16 hours ago, KAD said:

    Thank you for confirming. I reached out to Anova and they'd like me to ship mine back.
    But they wont send me a replacement until I ship mine back...:-(.

     

    With all that has gone on since early October, I have left the APO untouched in my kitchen until today.  I have now managed the initial burn-in.  The fan was pretty loud when I had the rear heating element on.  I had the flickering lights too.  How much rattle warrants sending back the oven?

  2. Last night was an attempt at Hong Kong style pan-fried noodles. The topping is stir-fried beef with bell peppers and onions in a black bean sauce.  My first try, so the browning can be improved upon, but I managed to get both sides crispy and I think the right amount of sauciness on the topping.

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  3. Is sweet lotus seed paste red in color?

    Like liuzhou said, different versions of sweet lotus seed paste are usually varying degrees of tan color. But sometimes I've seen the restaurant add food coloring to the paste for longevity buns to make them red, probably for the occasion.

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  4. I love the dessert at the end of a birthday banquet - the "peach"-shaped longevity buns that are filled with sweet lotus seed paste. My cousins and I would fight over them.

    The aren't that different from the lotus seed paste buns one gets at dim sum, but the shape evokes the longevity peaches in the Queen of Heaven's garden.

  5. I would be wary of sliced cured meats left on room temperature for days, but then I am firmly in the "when in doubt..." camp.  A related question: if left whole, how long can a salami stay safely in room temperature?

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  6. My Boss finally (!) approved my summer vacation, so I'll be heading across the pond with my extended family to spend two weeks in London, the Lake District (probably Windemere), Edinburgh, and Dublin.

    I've already made a reservation for my birthday dinner at St. John, but not having been to any of these places before I would heartily appreciate any suggestion from the wider eGullet community. We are a group of 8, ranging from 9 to 74. The kids have been well-trained on long, fancy dinners so that won't be an issue, but we would need some pointers to those restaurants / fish & chips / quick food joints to fit in to what I would expect is going to be a rather hectic touring pace. So really any suggestion, at any level, is welcome.

    Thanks in advance!

  7. Does anyone have a recipe for the peach shaped birthday buns (壽包) that they can share? It's my mom's 70th birthday and I would love to conclude the dinner I'm making her with some of these. I've made steamed buns (Char siu bao) before so I think I'm ok with the dough, but if someone can give me some pointers about the shaping and filling I would really appreciate it.

  8. I've been tempted to give them a try, and that video and the gloves tip may have finally pushed me into it. I noticed in the vid he said 350F oven - that's considerably cooler and more forgiving on those of us without asbestos fingers.

  9. When making a peach pie, I will never again blindly follow the alternate instructions given by an author to "put the [juice of the macerated peaches] into a heat proof bowl and microwave on high" for something like 12 minutes.

    My stovetop with busy with other simmers and reductions, so I happily poured the juice into a pyrex bowl and popped it into the microwave on the other side of the kitchen. Promptly forgot all about it until I kept smelling sugar burning and couldn't figure out where it was coming from. I happen to glance over at the microwave and saw this column of brown smoke pouring out, gathering sinisterly like a death-eater from the Harry Potter. In the microwave was the pyrex bowl ablaze, still turning round and round.

    So, yeah, I'm in the market for a new microwave. Guess I'll pop over to the Kitchen Consumer thread and check that out.

  10. This book stayed on the shelf for a while after last year fresh fig ice cream came out icy. This past weekend I decided to pull it out again and made the basil ice cream and blueberry frozen yogurt. Both came out wonderfully!

    I did tinker a bit with the basil ice cream - I intentionally added more basil (almost 2 cups to the 1 cup called for - I had an abundance of basil) and unintentionally omitted the lemon zest. The resulting ice cream really packed a basil flavor. I didn't miss the lemon zest, but it could be because I didn't know what I was missing.

    I didn't have kirsch for the blueberry frozen yogurt and substituted vodka instead. Worked just fine.

  11. Made the vanila rum-drenched cake this weekend, and the results were quite delightful. I do have a question about applying the rum syrup. After letting the cakes cool and unmolding them I skewered each loaf and brushed on the syrup over a period of time so the cake could theroretically soak the syrup up slowly, but it seems like only the top half of the cakes really got a "soak"? What am I doing wrong? Should I be flipping the cakes over to apply the syrup to the bottom?

    I always do. I make sure I skewer all six sides of the loaves as well.

    MelissaH

    Thanks, Melissa. will do that next time.

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