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Your Daily Sweets: What Are You Making and Baking? (2017 – )
lemniscate replied to a topic in Pastry & Baking
Wow, serendipity. We just had a crepe stack for breakfast layered with sausage crumbles, basted eggs, drizzled with melted butter and dusted with maple sugar. I heartily approve of a crepe holiday. Bonne Chandeleur. -
Impulse purchase, DJ&A Veggie Crisps Tempura with Lotus, Eggplant & Pumpkin , a bit pricey. I love the Japanese tempura seaweed chips, so I gave these a shot. These are wonderful, the coating is light and the veg pieces are crunchy. Not overly salty. I think I like the pumpkin pieces the best. product of Australia.
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Commercial canned is good enough for a tonnato sauce, which is then tasty and versatile. I did it with some disappointing canned tuna a while back and used it mostly over pasta and roasted potatoes.
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I got the "Christmas season is finally over" feeling yesterday when I ate the last piece of the pear chocolate panettone. I have officially changed my mind on panettone, looking forward to finding more pear/choc version later this year. Still don't like the candied fruit version though.
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Julia Child and Jacques Pepin have braised sweetbread recipes on Youtube in various decades. Some from Julia are in black and white.
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Big PASS for me on the TJ's Movie Theater Popcorn. Flavors OK, people seem to rave about it. But there are some tooth breakers hiding in the bags. Super hard pieces that masquerade as popped pieces. BEWARE. I still love the white cheddar popcorn, it's delicious and I've never encountered a dangerous kernal.
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No! No! No! Stop it! The bad ideas topic!
lemniscate replied to a topic in Food Traditions & Culture
Most of the stuff I eat can be described like this LOL 😄 -
No! No! No! Stop it! The bad ideas topic!
lemniscate replied to a topic in Food Traditions & Culture
See now, I'd try this. It's like french toast with cinnamon sugar and bacon slices that I've eaten hundreds of times. I bet it smells amazing cooking. I guess candied bacon has hit the mainstream. also, I am still onboard with the gravy-flavored mayo from a few months back. -
I've been making hot toddies with a coffee bean/cocoa nib infused vodka and a splash of homemade berry liqueur (I don't remember the combo). It tastes like a Belgian truffle candy, except warming. I have also made this with my orange liqueur. Chilly evenings are more than tolerable. I've got a lot of concoctions on the liquor shelves, I need to start a utilization process.
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Help! I've lost my cooking mojo and I want it back!
lemniscate replied to a topic in Food Traditions & Culture
My mojo has taken a hit because I've been a bit over-provisioned by a harvested feral pig that we got in a hunt. That thing has lasted a long time in the fridge. I've divided it into sausages, chops, (something like) ham, stews roasts, etc. All vac packed in portions and sous vided when needed. Every meal is practically made in mind of what part of the that damn pig I can use. I want to use it all the way before thinking about restocking the proteins. There are black cod filets in the freezer, and a bit of ground bison. So there are other options that the pig. I'd say I'm 70% thru the pork but that last 30%............................it's boring. I miss the flexibility of "What do I want to make today?" -
I had the Honey and Halawi. Both were moist. The Honey are very tender, sweet, mild and sticky with an easily dealt with pit. The Halawi were a bit harder and long/skinny but not dry and had a more dense caramel flavor. Maybe this year was good for dates. It was horrible for citrus. I actually ordered a lot more of the Honey dates for delivery. Not cheap, but the household really likes them. Never been a fan of medjool.
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D'Artagnan has a 40th anniversary special going. I bought veal for my Mom, who bemoans that it has been unobtainable here locally for quite some time.
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honey dates from Dateland while channel switching NFL games. I have no dog in any of the fights today, nor any $$.
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I have never been a big fan of panettone, mostly because I don't care for candied fruit. But, at an Italian deli today, I succumbed to this version for ~$12 (clearance). Pear and chocolate sounded OK to me.
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I think craft beer consumption is also declining. Hard seltzers are replacing beers on tap at local places.