Kerry Beal

Impossible Buttermilk Pie - added about an ounce of limoncello to it.

Last ones I got were from Dare Foods in either Kitchener or Waterloo (can't recall which) but it was a favour arranged by someone as they don't sell them. I wonder if nuts.com might have them?

Love those big basins - you can use them for your popcorn - then soak your feet in them!

Jim - I'd start with 1% - then just watch to see how long it takes before you are getting over tempered chocolate - if too soon - drop to 0.5%.

When you come back across the border you can purchase 190 proof Clear Springs. Then just dilute it down to what you need using the magic equation C1V1=C2V2. And they said we'd never need algebra when we got out of school!

Yup - depending on the condition of the chocolate when you start in the Bakon you might want to heat then cool down to 33.5 - take out a quantity of chocolate - add the seed, add that back into the mass. I'd probably start with 0.5% initially and test the temper and see if you want to add another 0.5. Because the Bakon is a wheel machine you'll get over tempered more quickly than with the melter.

Chemically taste seems to be the biggest objection to most commercial limoncello as far as I can tell. I can only imagine how much better this would be made with some really fabulous lemons.

Enjoying a little drizzle of limoncello over ice - yum! Wish I had some ice cream in the house.

The one I have is an older one thought - seem to recall MJX has the same - let me see if I can find it for you online. Here is the one I have. Their newer one looks great too here and seems to be getting excellent reviews. Makes sure you get the smallest blade for it - gets seeds out of all sorts of stuff.

Chocolot - where are you?

Oh yes you do - they are the best! This one is a Rösle - just like the one I have at home - but I only paid a few bucks for it at a thrift store. One of my more impressive finds!

Strained and filtered Added simple syrup - now back into the ultrasonic for a few more cycles to finish it off Pumpkin through the food mill - next time I won't leave the shell on Ate another bowl of pumpkin seed - don't think there will be any dinner tonight!

Not that I know of!

At home I have a big heated ultrasonic - that's the best of both worlds.

No idea how it works - just that it does. Works even with liquor that doesn't have any stuff in it - smooths it out.

Salt and olive oil.

Enjoying a Paper Plane with some roasted pumpkin seeds

Stopped at the LCBO hoping to get a bottle of limoncello - "we used to have it - didn't sell - so now we don't carry it". Apparently it sells in Espanola - 3 brands - but I wasn't prepared for an hour's drive just to get it. So figured I'd make my own. Microplaned zest of 4 lemons and part of a lime. 250 ml of about 120 proof spirit. Into the ultrasonic - 10 minutes worth about 2 weeks of aging. Can you see the U/S action going on in there?

Stopped in at the grocery store on the way home from work - it's fall - half the stuff you want isn't there. Sadly supermarket eggs - the nurse practitioner who has hens is off on maternity leave and is in Sudbury for meetings. I need to work on my connections and get some good ones before I come home. Pie pumpkin almost ready to head to the steam oven.

Yup - cutting off the ass end and squeezing it out that way.

Some of that lovely bread toasted, cheese and red pepper jelly.

I'm probably cutting a little higher even - above the 'shoulder' so that you aren't trying to squeeze it though an opening smaller than the widest diameter of the corn.

I've found that with the corn - you need to cut it above a certain spot to get it to squeeze out easily. And I let it cool for a bit before I try.

Lemon Bliss Cake - they suggested lemon meringue pie - but this was as lemon as I was prepared to go!

Corn was lovely - I had an excellent chat with the fellow I bought it from at the farmer's market. He said being the end of the season I could expect some ear worms. That led to a discussion of corn smut and how he had found a big batch of it the day before - I told him he should be selling it - he seemed a bit surprised.