Kerry Beal

And now time for a cuppa and a Negroni

Today I did some running around - mostly for the purpose of showing you the next thing I picked up at @patris's place. I found Costco with the only purpose to find the Paradise Green uncrystallized ginger that I had discovered at the Fancy Food Show in SFO - it was not there! But look what I found in the drug aisle - Amused me to no end to see the spice aisle moving in to the drug aisle. Left with some peanuts, a couple of jars of Rao's tomato sauce, a couple of pair of pants for the rug rat. From Costco I headed to the thrift store - I had a mission. I only needed only one but for 97 cents each I decided to spring for the lot. Induction compatible Chantal posts - not pretty but serviceable. Also this for $1.29 First up - boil water in a few short minutes for my tea. Beurre Monte Leftover Beurre Monte made a nice Hollandaise. For my cooked in the bathroom hotel room dinner - butter poached lobster tails, asparagus with lobster flavored Hollandaise.

There is a reason you should not walk around naked in your hotel room!

I've been shipping a lot of packages lately - @Tri2Cook turned me on to a company called Shiptime that has connections to Costco. I started using them consistently during the mail strike - and haven't really gone back to using Canada Post since. I've been printing out labels with my inkjet printer and have to trim a chunk off each side before I stuff them in the envelope. Got thinking about using one of my label writing printers to make the labels but discovered that they aren't large enough. I did look at the Dymo labelmaker that would let me make the labels - but then discovered this little Rollo thermal printer.

Got settled in - went out looking for a bit - found a little place around the corner which makes a very flexible scallion pancake and fills it with all sorts of stuff. I opted for the coconut rice, beef steak bits, onions and peppers, seaweed salad, carrot salad, sesame ginger dressing and a bit of salad on the top.

Long drive down here today - managed to catch a picture of the gates to Bucknell University - where my cousin studied civil engineering and where I attended my first concert - Loggins and Messina.

Providence Social for brunch had to provide my own teabag @Valerie B that some may recall from the last workshop

Pennsylvania Manufacturing Confectioners Association Apparently sometime between when I joined and now it has changed it's name to Professional Manufacturing Confectioners Association.

Those of you who pay attention may have noticed that last year I didn’t make it to Lancaster, having been snowed out at the last minute. But I am on my way now so what is going to happen this year. It is the PMCA again - I usually attend just the Monday. I left the house around 8am bound for @patris‘s place to meet up for brunch and to pick up all the things that have been delivered here since the last time I was down - I should’ve taken a picture of the boxes before I started to open them! But I will share with you their contents as this trip unfolds. I drove past the bridge where Canada’s own Tim Hortons lost his life - then off to the Whirlpool bridge to cross the border, which is unfortunately closed until mid-May. A teaser

No minimal - one temp and it’s warm enough to burn me if I leave it on. Exactly - there are no sides in mine so molds can slide freely.

For sure I’ll give it a try at some point - I’m 60 km from my Selmi so rarely use it for molding these days.

Pun intended! Here he is - prepped for travel - tourniquet holding him together

Lol - but he’s already been patched up - we wipe the blood off in the ER before we send them back out!

chocolated down to a piece of plexiglass in the basket - to be wrapped in cello with a tourniquet tying it on the top n

Bandaids

I like Marie Brizzard Apry for apricot - the Luxardo was a reasonable replacement when I didn't have the Apry. Now I'm not sure how apricot they would be in ganache - but they are wonderful in cocktails. I have a bottle of Fragoli which has nice strawberry flavor.

later and tasting for me

Thanks! Now to perfect the bandaids to cover the other little issues!

First attempt - needs work but I’m seeing potential. Wish I had a talent for straight lines!

Ah yes the Pastry Challenge! Remind me to tell you (when we are offline) why I started that.

LOL

Now I'm starting to overthink this - simple sutures, crossed sutures, horizontal mattress sutures...

Interesting - I think of sutures as black or blue rather than white.

LOL

I'm quite taken by Ruth's idea of the ER bunny - seems like a quick and dirty fix. Next thought is what best to make the sutures with? I'm debating painting them on vs making a chocolate clay 'suture material'