Kerry Beal

I appreciate that Dave - how do you feel about smuggling?

they ship and they are in Surrey

Yup - at a Brit shop

Best get your hotel rooms booked - looks like April 18th is the last day for our special rate. https://www.hilton.com/en/book/reservation/deeplink/?ctyhocn=BUFDTHX&groupCode=CHHTCT&arrivaldate=2023-05-18&departuredate=2023-05-21&cid=OM,WW,HILTONLINK,EN,DirectLink&fromId=HILTONLINKDIRECT Also if everyone could pay the for the workshop by Friday April 21st - it will allow us to start getting the supplies we need.

I swear I'm not OCD but the first upside down N really jars me.

Kerry Beal lironp YetiChocolates curls chocolot patris alleguede tikidoc +1 (maybe Maddie) Sue and Jane Maggie Smith Anniebakes kimmiq Haley + Kelsey + Britney Matcha Wizard - aka Jenna VistaGardens Gwbyls Bernie Mueller (+1 maybe) Eat.Choui - can't believe I missed putting her on the list cause she was one of the first who contacted me

Kerry Beal lironp YetiChocolates curls chocolot patris Audrey Brown +1 (Melanie) alleguede tikidoc +1 (maybe Maddie) Sue and Jane Maggie Smith Anniebakes kimmiq Haley + Kelsey + Britney Matcha Wizard - aka Jenna VistaGardens Gwbyls Bernie Mueller (+1 maybe) Eat.Choui - can't believe I missed putting her on the list cause she was one of the first who contacted me

I've got one of those ones too - not sure if it was tupperware or elsewhere.

The spike plus the plastic knife which prevents the lettuce from 'rusting'

Yup!

I only buy Tupperware at thrift stores these days - and I must confess the only pieces that call out to me are the old transparent/whitish pieces that my mother had. Pretty sure I've still got a few pieces that were hers. Oxyclean does a fabulous job restoring them to their former glory.

Very early in the first year of medical school one of the students had a Tupperware party. I wanted one of those little citrus peeling tools which is one of their giveaways so I attended. Made a batch of sushi (just maki rolls with no raw fish). Not one single person (all female of course - it was after all a Tupperware party) touched it. Took remaining to class the next day and was able to discover there were a few foodies in my class. They were the ones I hung with for the rest of the 4 years.

Kerry Beal lironp tandemchocoPC YetiChocolates curls chocolot patris Audrey Brown +1 (Melanie) alleguede tikidoc +1 (maybe Maddie) Sue and Jane Maggie Smith Anniebakes kimmiq Haley + Kelsey + Britney Matcha Wizard - aka Jenna VistaGardens Gwbyls Bernie Mueller (+1 maybe)

Well - went digging back to the last time I did this and discovered that I had used PayPal.me to receive funds. So @patris and I discussed it and it would appear that if I use use my Canadian PayPal account I'll get charged on the conversion from US to CAN and then again when we purchase stuff on the conversion from CAN to US. So we have decided that we will collect the funds via your choice of PayPal, Venmo, cash app, Zelle sent to @patris. If you PM @patris she will send you a send a link for your choice of payment method. Cost is $225 US for the workshop and $25 US for Saturday dinner - booze on Saturday not included.

Here's the leg of lamb Anna mentioned above - studded with garlic, rosemary and some lemon slices. I really don't care for the flavour of rosemary. But it sure smelled good cooking.

Well done!

I am not a fan of solid 3D bunnies - find them difficult to eat. The closed mold bottoms are made for hollow pieces.

I am not a fan of warming molds. If you are painting with colored CCB I tend to pour it out onto a piece of parchment and work it with the brush until it starts to thicken before painting. When it get's too thick I warm a bit with a heat gun. I don't find that painting on large molds gives a particularly nice result though. Might be kind of fun to just paint some florescent strips ala Suzanna Yoon in a couple of spots. Trimming closer will get a good start - leave enough room around so the clips get good purchase.

You are going to get a fair amount of leak around the edges with that mold I expect - hard to tell how thick it is. See if you can find some binder clips that will get up close to the rabbit. Paint the eyes with dark chocolate - then pour maybe about 2/3 of one of the halves in milk chocolate, clip the sides together and revolve the mold until all the nooks and crannies are filled. Rotate some more until you see the chocolate is starting to firm up inside the mold - then pop in the fridge for 15 minutes or so (until the chocolate separates from the mold).

Likely contamination from tempering machines that handle milk chocolate too.

when you decide you need one - grab one of these martellato minichoc

Wrapped around a rustic breadstick.

Ok - have been running the numbers as best I can without actual access to the stuff we need to buy - but thanks to @patris who is checking prices at her end I think I have a ballpark of $225 US per person which will cover the supplies, the breakfast/brunch and lunch at Tomric for the 3 days and the show and tell night. We are looking at options for an outside dinner on a patio somewhere to replace our usual big blow out dinner - but still undecided if we should make that a Prix fix meal or each person pays their own way. We should have more info later in the week so until we have decided I won't post a link so folks can pay both at the same time if that's the way we go. Give me a couple of days to see if I can set up an intake account that won't cost me 3% to collect funds.

I will leave the experiments to you.

not quite sure what you are asking