Kerry Beal

I posted the picture over on the Ladies Who Lunch thread here.

My Sumeet needs a bit of repair to get it back to grinding as it should. Anna and I ran to Markham yesterday to drop it off. No trip to that area is complete without visiting the Korean Galleria and J-town. Lunch was at Niwatei in J-town. I had tonkotsu ramen. Anna opted for chashu ramen. Inari and karaage. An all in one cooker seen at the Korean Galleria.

Anna and I were out and about on the weekend - decided at lunchtime that Indian would suit. Went to the Bombay Grill. Beer for Anna. Onion bhaji. Mixed breads. Beef Saag, lamb madras curry and mutter paneer as I recall.

Yup - PM me and I'll tell you all the details about the shipping. Click on the little envelope on the top R of your screen - then new Compose New. I shall wait to hear from you.

I don't think when I purchased this I was really thinking of it as something to use to preserve food - more as a means produce things I use in other things.

Ah yes - but I buy freeze dried cappuccino bits from Sosa at a very dear price that I then add to bark.

Rotus - indeed we do. I am working today at the hospital which is located on the Niagara Peninsula - that is the area that grows mostly wine grapes now - but in it's previous life it was all orchard. My last house had a Clapp's Favourite Pear tree in the back yard - great pears, lots of wasps.

Welcome Deryn - happy that we can add another want to your list! I know before the freeze drier I was beginning to think I'd reached the limit on things I could possibly need - now I'm not so sure. Where were you living before the boonies in NS?

Good way to store the fruit before you boil it up I'm sure.

Yup - add water - there seems to be some discussion of spraying with water, other times they add to package. Think you can get individual things like the turkey and potato - or a mixed casserole type of thing.

Apparently is is - you can buy things like that for camping.

Possibly a combination of both vac seal and dessicant.

Good question. I do have a question out to Matt from Harvestright about the avocados. Matt has joined eG and I'm hoping he'll jump in to the conversation here before long.

Indeed - this was my thought too.

Will do. Rumour has it it looses it's ability to foam after - but I'm sure I've had purchased ones before.

The batch I started yesterday noon - gave it an extra 7 hours or so drying. Everything was nice and dry with one exception. A few more ice cream sandwiches. Hey I had the space! Apricots that have been in the freezer for quite some time. Very intensely sour and apricoty. Rotuts mushrooms and some lime juice that had been frozen in cubes when I had an excess. It remained sticky - I don't think there is any water left - the wine had the same thing happen. I think for liquids like that mixing with some maltodextrin might be the solution. Avocados. Dried beautifully - tasted a couple of stray pieces after I'd tasted the apricot. I don't know if they were really bitter or it was an effect of the two foods together. Anyway - still trying to get the bitter taste out of my mouth. I've been picturing FD guacamole mix since I put them in.

I enjoy roasted cauliflower on pasta.

Maybe you want to grow your own?

That would be gfron1's shiny heart!

Just had a little taste of it - liquorice, sweet liquorice, caramel, some other herbs that are familiar but I can't put my finger on. Quite tasty actually.

Not bought - but brought to me by one of the nurses - a gift from a family member from Holland. Any thoughts about it? What should I do with it?

I suspect that getting the milk solids in there will add some buttery flavour that you wouldn't get with clarified butter - but only a suspicion. I think I had this idea I wanted to make it since the Morato book calls for anhydrous butter in most of his recipes.

Yup - no water in it.

So here is the anhydrous butter melted. No popping. Added 4% to melted dark chocolate and tempered. Dipped a couple of the ice cream pieces on a stick. Don't judge my dipping skills - I didn't want to shake or scrape too carefully in view of their fragility!

Not sure - will have to melt a little and make sure it doesn't separate into water and fat - but I suspect it did.