Kerry Beal

It's more like the food I buy for other people rather than cooking for them.

I suspect if I won - other people would eat better!

My mother used to make a chicken a la king mixture - peas and mushrooms as I recall - in purchased ‘patty shells’ from Weil’s bakery in Hamilton - a favourite meal!

That was my other choice!

Missing @Anna N today. Out to lunch by myself while waiting to take my sister to an appointment. Her retirement home is right next to ‘Saving Thyme’ - a little bistro that Anna and I enjoyed. It was packed with lunching ladies! One empty table upon my arrival. opted for the confit chicken leg - so many options but hard to choose wrong.

Their bog-standard versions are actually my favourite! I have Neapolitan and vanilla in the freezer currently.

Resistance is futile! The mini-max is the one I'd likely get at this point - it's the same size as the medium but lower to the ground.

Better get them shipped before August 1st though.

Whippet - the Canadian version of the Mallowmar - my favourite had the raspberry splotch.

So still won't fit a quarter sheet pan

Curious re inside dimensions

No - for less than $800 CDN - no duty

And they do use imperial measurements!

You are not in the US are you? https://www.retailconfectioners.org/page/2025Caramels

Was there glucose in the recipe?

Everything I know about caramel I learned from @Chocolot

Little crampons and carabiners I'd say.

Did you make the Muhammara?

I bet I will!

Grainless granola seems to be available from a variety of vendors - TJ's has a nice one. Avoids the oxymoron issue. Purchased for someone who has IBS and needs to avoid the wheat (but not the gluten) - but I notice the ingredients include inulin which may just mean that it's not going to be suitable.

Isn't it in the one you just got?

Yes - but I suspect if I had just put the hot pan on the granite for a bit, then put the parchment on it - it would have worked. Actually did mis en place which is unusual for me! Added a bit of water to the soda. Kept the PB hot in the microwave - may have had 3 or 4 X 30 second bursts. Left the pot on the hot element while I added the soda, vanilla and PB. Corrected the recipe to add the butter just before peanuts.

Finally got around to making the Soft Peanut Brittle from the workshop Lots of planning ahead to make it easier - I put a sheet pan in the oven and when it was finished cooking poured it out onto a piece of parchment on the back of the sheet pan so everything stayed warm much longer than usual. Got out the caramel marker that I've had for years and used only a couple of times and marked it while still warm - probably didn't need to be quite that warm as I had to go back over it a second time as the lines collapsed. After dinner tonight I headed down the the chocolate room and drizzled the decent pieces with dark milk chocolate and made a bark from the not so decent pieces.

My recipe grinds up Simple Pleasures Social Tea biscuits - soaks them in the mold with some espresso powder/marsala/mocca compound

No - but I have noticed it a Costco and in the ads that Ninja keeps e-mailing me.