Kerry Beal

And here we are back again! I arrived around 10 am and took a look around at what @patris had accomplished in preparation for tomorrow, Batches of caramelized white chocolate. crispy cereal marshmallows (Bravetart) - little crispy bits for bark and just munching upon. Caramelized rice krispies (Michael Laiskonis) Batches of vanilla, peppermint and cinnamon marshmallows. This is a small drop in the bucket of work that has been done to prepare!

Not sure - I'll ask my egg go between to check with the egg lady what breed.

Mine is the middle one

Looking back - looks like I got 13,500 lines/inch and double axis.

I chose the slightly more complex version as I recall

Woot Deal on the bigger excalibur today $169

I was visiting a company today to clean up their EZtemper - they were having trouble with colored cocoa butter sticking to their molds - I reviewed all the usual suspect - then saw the one fellow waving the colored molds over the heat gun before he filled them. I don't think he believed me when I told him that was likely his problem.

Kind of pushing it but 34.5 for dark 32.5 for milk

As you noted - the warmer chocolate yielded better results. Having the shelling chocolate as warm as possible increases the success rate I've found.

Kozlik's mustard is a good choice! What province - perhaps a gift certificate for their provincial liquor store?

@Kamilla - where are you located?

Thanks for the primer. That is a very lovely rolling pin!

Yesterday between work and a meeting I dropped in to the Hamilton Farmer's Market (an indoor facility) to see if I could find the chicheron that one of my Mission staff had mentioned. I didn't find what I was after - but did run across Spam Musubi. It wasn't half bad!

Asked the butcher to cut me some sirloin cap and not trim it within an inch of it's life! So quick fry up on the induction and it's was perfect for lunch.

Amazon.ca seems to still have sugar gloves.

I help the ladies from St Luke's church with their bark before Christmas (I talked them into making it) - it helps raise funds for El Hogar in Honduras where a number of them travel every year to work as a service team. They have been making gingerbread houses for a bunch of years and the bark is a quick and dirty break from all the work they have to do on these. And they gave me one this year and last!

Perhaps it’s acknowledging American expats shopping for Thanksgiving where corn will be traditional and you’ll need a carrot as a traditional vegetable alongside.

Perhaps track down said flat mate - judicious application of cast iron frying pan - followed by the return of your stuff! I did see a fellow once when I was living in the Queen Charlotte Islands who failed to share his Coop yearly dividend with the several women who where on his coop account. Serious damage can be done with a cast iron pan!

How about some primary colour powders and melted cocoa butter with an immersion blender. Or perhaps a package of Power Flowers and some melted cocoa butter?

My days of changing my own motor oil are long gone. But I did take auto shop back in high school. Also long gone!

it’s minutes - but they will be dry

Generally rotate at a speed that brings the product to around 10 or 2 o'clock before it falls back down. Air can be a little cooler than 17-18 if you can get it there. Here's the numbers I've used in the past - polishing - 0.004% first charge, 0.002% second then 0.001% any further charges required to get the shine - let each run for 30 seconds to distribute then cold air to polish until dry. shellac 0.2% - let run 5 minutes no air - then air to flash off the ETOH

And then you find out there is a recall on romaine! So far so good though.

Ah sorry - thick, almost cool.

If it’s not as polished as you want after the 0.1% application of pre-glaze - repeat that step until it is