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Personally I might just try giving it a good traditional scrubbing and put it in a very low oven to dry....spray it with Pam or something, wipe well and run some flour/water "dough" through to make sure its really dry T

I found one recipe that seems to have much less flour than some others it also has a reveiew of being strangely chewy which I am assuming was a bad thing for the reviewer.... http://www.christmas-cookies.com/recipes/r...mandelbrot.html T

Jesse find someone with a Restaurant Depot membership...Make a friend at the deli where you get your roast beef fix or stand in the parking lot and ask someone to bring you in if you have to. There is one in Oakland. My last cookwear purchase there was a 12 inch nonstick pan with the aluminum disk on the bottom, and rolled aluminum handle for maybe....23 bucks. I wish I had my own membership. tracey

On top of the fridge ...hmmmm catering trays, envelopes, old easter baskets phone books the paperplates and paperplate holders, coffee can with pens, and a gift bag with perfume in it from god knows where (shudder) and I assume, dust tracey

I dont know how much help you can get here but.... http://scanfest.org/CF-food.cfm?vt=foo tracey

What kind of dessert should I bring and what time? tracey

Here its lasagna and....? Used to always be a canned ham with the cloves and the pineapple rings, usually meat balls, sausage and roasted chicken pieces too, then someone started getting a turkey as a christmas gift from work. He changed jobs and the family got smaller but we are back up to capacity and have been doing a stuffed pork loin. I dont remember any apps growing up, it was arrive sit down and eat but husbands family always has them so now we do cheese and crudite platters, puff pastry goodies, and shrimp cocktail. tracey After is lots of cookies and maybe trifle and a cake. Our newest additions is after dinner cordials... I think we cleaned out mom's bar last year though

Alot of the aroma in good aged whiskeys is from the vanillan extracted from the wood barrels....just found that out last week T

Dessert after lunch was cake at work ...cherry filled with an acceptable buttercream...and after dinner I used cream cheese dough to make tartlets filled with pecans apricot jam and drizzled with dark cocolate ganache also made a few ruggalach same filling tracey

Not about the eggs but....I am so glad someone else noticed that when microwaving something like 10 and 10 isnt the same as 20....ie 10 and 10 will soften a pound of butter but 20 and it gets runny. tracey

I have always heard good things about Wine and Spirit World in Wyckoff on Fanklin ave at Godwin ave. T

Hey guys did we every get it straight on reservations for 6 or more? tracey

I am really not sure why, we had food at home and were only running to Lowes for lightbulbs but we decided to try the newish Applebees. I had never been to one before. I now know why. The usual...lets try the wings, hot of course, soda ...beer lets look at the menu. Steak and shrimp combo deals hmmm interesting, two-fer deals, well that works in case something is yucky. So we order the wings and the terriyaki steak/coconut shrimp combo and the "riblets"/BBQ chicken combo The wings were rippin hot spicewise, if only the heat had hit before the flavor..YECH ok what did we do? Steak was fine, shrimp quite edible....the riblet what is a riblet? it had bones but I am not 100% sure it was meat. Now the chicken, the sauce even worse than the wings and I am positive that wasnt chicken. You could see the teeny bubbles left from the extrusion process like in a McNugget. Real mashed potatoes...garlic toast and mushy veg. Uh no I dont want that wrapped to go WHY???? tracey why cant I stop laughing about this ....it cost 50 freakin bucks

Well I still dont know if it will work in actual rugalach but if you take the dough and line a mini muffin pan you can certainly make a damn fine chocolate pecan tartlet. Yummy tracey

Just an aside about the moths and dog food....since the invasion the big old bag of food stays in the garage and a holiday popcorn tin is kept full for daily doggy feeding. Hmmm really cold weather 30 pounds of food in the garage what do you get...Possoms or is that Opossums! Well one took off under some stuff and my husband grabbed the bag of food and hightailed it into the kitchen, oh my the bag is wiggling...threw the bag on the front lawn, thanked the cat for being sooooo usefull and kicked the bag till the possum ran away. I am assuming we still have at least one somewhere between the crawl space and the garage but the one that took off was pretty small so maybe momma is in there too. Fun for Sunday morning. tracey I love living up in the woods, this is funnier than bear poop on the lawn

Greetings....My pictures dont do justice to the food so here is just one showing what kind of damage we can do...notice multiple glasses of Sangria in front of most of the guests. I now must get some dates...and some pork belly and some pork butt and and and go back to Cuban Petes. Just grab everyone you love and go eat here! tracey

After 18 plus yrs in food service just noshing instead of having meals, I have discovered in my new office job that if I have more than soup for lunch my head goes crashing into my desk at about 1:15 ....very embarassing. After a buttered roll for breakfast and a soup for lunch dinner had better be on my plate by 6:30. and they say I dont have hypo(er)glycemia ..I forget which one I think I have. tracey

The real question about the chocolate money is ...did any of our relatives know that was actually for Chanuka same here though orange, nuts and gelt....I still do it too tracey I always got to open the present from my aunt Ni Ni on Christmas eve because it was new pajamas for the pictures in the morning. Oh and the pictures geeze, grandpa had rigged up a light bar to blind us all so the Super 8 movies came out perfect.

How do you do it ??? tracey

Just actually saw a show on the Bundt pan...go figure ... it was designed for a very heavy german cake batter. I think the cake was actually called Bund but the manufacturer added the T for his pan. tracey ahh herehttp://www.nordicware.com/founders.cfm

I miss my electric one, the plastic tube broke after many years. I replaced it with what looked like the same one, but it was Battery operated crap crap crap beyond crap. Sorry. I atually threw it away a few weeks after Christmas with dough still in it. The batteries couldn't push the dough out so I got annoyed and threw the whole thing in the fridge and moved on. Have to climb up to the top of grandmas linen closet and get the old copper set out of storage. Tracey

"Many years ago, Craig Claiborne made Couloubiac of Salmon, which, as I recall, had over 100 ingredients, involved a lot of fiddling and took several days." Isnt this one of Anthony Bourdains favorite dishes espcially when made by a grumpy Russian woman ?? tracey

...They certainly do live in NJ but not in my house anymore!!! I thought I dumped everything... I got the traps, the damn traps get fuzzed up so fast from their hairy little wings.... I threw out more stuff took all the spices put them in a 2 gallon zipper bag and froze them...got more traps Started buying 1 big storage container a week at 12 bucks a pop pasta boxes go into 2 gallon bags...as do breads, bread crumbs and cereal I gave up and threw out everything not in a can...they were in all the jar rims cat ate about 1 moth a week MUST CLEAN nooks, crannies, spider webs, behind the stove, behind the fridge, seems in the counter top/backsplash dont forget the dog/cat/hampster food....20 pounds of infested cat food, she probabley didnt mind but you will win tracey

Found this thread while looking for other ides for my leftover ganache... I have been making hot chocolate out of it. I was really wondering if I could use it as a filling for ruggelach?? tracey

Personally I like Mexico the Beautifull...its part of a series and they are all coffee table books but the recipes look damn authentic to me...who am I ? nobody ...but everything I made from it so far was good unfortunatly I left it at a former job where I was asked to take a few days off till they called back with a new schedule....that was uhhh 8 months ago