Kerry Beal

Some sort of fund raiser today - the lab techs favourite taco maker

I was just noticing the gold seal on the front with Kimball’s pic on it. Kinda similar to a James Beard award seal.

Need the Goldilock’s temperer!

That's a dangerous offer!

Attendees jbates Chocolot Pastrypastmidnight lambrecht gourmet (a definite maybe) MelissaH* tikidoc Chocomonster Sue PEI and Jane Gwbyls Desiderio curls JoNorvelleWalker (we will find a way) Haley Diana D *God's willing and the river don't rise

Well they were still big in the Charlottes - however in Vancouver that had long since had their day!

You don't see near the number of lumberjacks around that you used to! When I would visit Vancouver from the Queen Charlotte Islands where I was stationed in the 70's I looked like one with my red checkered jackets and duffle bags in place of suitcases. Expo 67 - we sailed up through the Great Lakes to the St Lawrence to Montreal in Canuck II (a prewar Maple Leaf wooden sailboat) - there were a bunch of lumberjacks doing log rolling, tree climbing and tree felling demonstrations - It was quite funny to watch my mother go and greet each of them by name. She'd grown up with, hunted and fished with them all on Vancouver Island.

Realized I need to get rid of the burrata in the fridge as it is reaching the end of it's tenure. No fresh basil but found some freeze-dried at Barney's Bargain Barn.

I think I have - it's been here for a lot of years. Brought it up one of the first years I was working here. I was very surprised at how well it worked for deep frying considering how little of it touches the element. Shall have to see how it stir fries when I get a chance.

Kind of a short day at the Wiki Nursing home today - so got home early enough to get the doughnuts cooked that I made the batter for a couple of days ago, as well as a batch of buttermilk cake doughnuts. These are the Cook's Illustrated Cake doughnuts - here. These have been shaken in the toasted sugar with a bit of lemon oil added. These are the Idea's in Food doughnuts that use about a half pound of butter in 12 doughnuts. here We sent home Kira's sitter with a dozen combined doughnut holes and doughnuts - then I ran the rest over to the ER where they told me they loved me and hated me at the same time.

Variation on last night's drink - we are calling this a Holy Ship

Funny you should mention that - watch for it.

Attendees jbates Chocolot Pastrypastmidnight lambrecht gourmet (a definite maybe) MelissaH* tikidoc Chocomonster Sue PEI and Jane Gwbyls Desiderio curls JoNorvelleWalker (we will find a way) Haley *God's willing and the river don't rise

I have all these recipes from one of the River Cafe Books - it was a baking book - I baked a whole lot from it one summer up here. But of course with the cost of nut flours I don't use a lot of the recipes. However I seem to have around 60 kg of various nut flours right now - so here we go! This is the Pistachio Almond Loaf Cake. And this is my breakfast.

And today is indeed a sailors delight!

That sucks. Does it mean straight dirt on the balcony?

After. Anna opted for a little top up because her’s evaporated. She wasn’t up too long after dinner!

Attendees jbates Chocolot Pastrypastmidnight lambrecht gourmet (a definite maybe) MelissaH* tikidoc Chocomonster Sue PEI and Jane Gwbyls Desiderio curls JoNorvelleWalker (we will find a way) *God's willing and the river don't rise

I usually wait until I see them starting to show signs of crystallizing around the edges before bunging them in the fridge. That is when they are most rapidly crystallizing the the latent heat will be the biggest issue.

Two batches this am of these Blueberry oatmeal muffins - one for the nursing home, one for the clinic Not sure if these pics will float @rotuts boat, but I was barrelling though the grocery store at 5 minutes to needing to meet the sitter at home and snapped a couple.

Attendees jbates Chocolot Pastrypastmidnight lambrecht gourmet (a definite maybe) MelissaH* tikidoc Chocomonster Sue PEI and Jane Gwbyls Desiderio *God's willing and the river don't rise

You have been missed! Funny I was just looking at some old posts a while back and wondering how you were doing.

We were very happy with the result.

The curds are still squeaky!