Kerry Beal

Like that do you?

I wish! Just a rather inappropriate tapered rolling pin - I really need a straight one for this. I keep sending texts to @Alleguede saying "send up the sheeter"!

Hebrews 13:8

Dinner tonight.

If at first you don't succeed - make another batch!

Arsenic and old lace

Cheese muffins for rounds.

So I took the giant commercial mini-cake pan, that we picked up at Stop Restaurant Supply yesterday, over to the hospital kitchen this evening to bake Kouign Amann - it won't fit in the oven here because it's a full sheet pan size. I had to wait until the staff had gone home, find the key to the kitchen and figure out how to turn on the oven. The girl who works in the kitchen (a new hire) wasn't even aware there was an oven. Some combination of turning it to temperature and turning the two knobs beside that one seems to have got it going. About 30 minutes into the baking - the fire alarm went off. Apparently it was a little girl in the ER who had pulled the alarm, not me in the kitchen, but it was a good 15 minutes before maintenance was able to turn it off. I brought them home, took them out of the cups and put them in this oven for a bit to brown them a bit further. Still not terribly brown and I think I didn't add enough sugar to get a good caramel thing going. But - I think the pan is going to be satisfactory for @Alleguede's new shop and that was the whole point of the testing.

Yup - original recipe called for two 8 ounce packages - I used one

Instant Pot Cheesecake Ingredients 250 grams cream cheese 100 grams sugar 2 heaping teaspoon cornstarch 70 grams sour cream 1 tbsp lemon juice 15 drops lemon oil ½ tsp vanilla Crust 200 - 250 gram graham cracker crumbs, or other cookie crumbs 4 tbsp butter, melted Method 1.make crust and press into 7” springform 2.cream cheese etc in TMX, add eggs at end and just mix in - pour into crust and cover with foil - on trivet in IP - about 1 cup water in pot High pressure for 45 minutes. Source me bastardizing the Meyer Lemon cheesecake from Pressure cooking today Servings/Yield --

We were making "cooked goose" jokes all day - we really did miss the opportunity!

So Curl's posting over on the Sweets thread got us thinking that we needed to make an IP Cheesecake for our Christmas dinner. We had cherries in the freezer we were given the other day (weren't sure if they were sour or pitted though). We had picked up a rather leaky 7 inch spring form pan for $2 yesterday in a thrift store (then saw a new non leaking one at Homesense), and during my various travels about today I picked up a couple of 250 gram packages of cream cheese and some graham wafers. We decided to line the springform with parchment due to it's leaky nature, I made a graham crust with just butter, no additional sugar. I mixed the cream cheese, sour cream, lemon juice, sugar and lemon oil in place of zest, along with a bit of vanilla in the Thermomix. I decided to add a couple of heaping teaspoons of cornstarch because all my good cheesecake recipes seem to have a bit. Then very gently mixed in the eggs to prevent cracks. After I had covered it with foil and set in the IP - and was cleaning up the counter - I noticed one of the blocks of cream cheese still sitting there! DUH! Too late to do anything about it once it was in the crust - I decided to cook it for the high end of time 25 minutes - at that point it was still pretty liquid in the centre - figured since we'd probably have to bin it anyway - there would be no harm in giving it another 15 minutes. It seemed to have set - so I popped it in the fridge and went about dealing with the cherries with some sugar, cornstarch and kirsch. It's really, really good! Not as dense as the usual cheesecake, nice and creamy - very satisfactory for a screw up! And the cherries turned out to be sour and pitted - so life is good - a nice recovery from the unsatisfactory goose.

Some wonderful potatoes in goose grease and braised red cabbage - goose itself needs to fly back to Hungary from whence it came!

Given our trials and tribulations today - it's a good thing there is booze. Eeyores's Requiem.

Driving back from the big nickel - there is construction at the bridge over the Spanish river - a good photo op.

Anna is working on a semi respectable dinner for herself - I'm eating chips and dip! Lunch today at Rose Apple. Spring Rolls Pad se ew for Anna Ramen noodles stir fried with carrot, cabbage an shrimp for me. We visited Re'tail' - the picture doesn't do justice to the sheer size of this kitty - basket is deformed from his corpulence - he reminded me of a mother hen and I kept expecting chicks to poke out from under him.

The Artist's Snap - red currants are in there! We are enjoying this while we recover from our Sudbury day. Need a few minutes before I post more.

Over on the Create my Meal challenge - Anna produced this fabulous seafood chowder with cheese biscuits. Downside of our lovely corelle bowls is the inability to get them to our mouths at the end of the meal to suck the last bits of soup out of them.

Here's what we settled on - seafood chowder using the shrimp and scallops, corn, potatoes and last of the red pepper. Cheese biscuit in place of crusty bread - much faster! I think that means Faux Pas is up again - but she may wish to punt. Photo credits: Corelle Vitrelle from Canadian Tire, cutlery WTFK from the Bibles for Missions

Sartoric - need a ruling according to Hoyle. Can we take one idea from one person and another from another?

I'm boring I know - bacon, cheese and tomato with Miracle Whip.

Forgot to take picture before I left home - but there's still some left

Forgot to take picture before I left home - but there's still some left

Heritage pork with the most wonderful crispy, spicy crumbs all over. Green beans and onions in a light vinaigrette grilled asparagus, tomatoes, eggplant and green olives. Dessert was the summer torte that I made with chantilly cream.

Saw this wandering into town this am - wonder how much the passengers are enjoying the sheets of rain as they head out to the cultural center and powwow.