Tri2Cook

I guess I'm celebrating the Mexican side of your restaurant couple's union, we're having tacos tonight.

Sure they do! The local store carries them but sometimes they run out and it takes a while before they get them in again so I keep this in my saved items on amazon.ca and just order a couple bags if I need them. They carry the yellow as well, but I always order the white.

Every restaurant that exists in the tiny town I live in is within 2 miles of home, almost all of them are within a few blocks, and I always know I can make better food at home... but somebody else can make the food and clean up the mess at the restaurants. So sometimes better food doesn't win.

That's generally the case with most critters people complain about. They have the nerve to already be living where we want to be.

Did you like the result? You said you started with root beer float in mind, did it get you there? Just curious because it sounds pretty interesting to me.

I like the way she does those bar inclusions so they show through on the front in some areas.

Maybe @Kerry Beal has more information, I don't know any more than what I posted above. There's nothing about it on the website so far. I haven't actually pursued any additional information, it just sounds like it would be a handy thing to have.

Brave... if it only knew how close it was to Anna and her sous vide bucket.

It does a great job. That's exactly the same one I'm using. While I would put Michael Laiskonis right up among those at the top of the list for people I would consider a solid endorsement of a product, I don't need him for this one. That little machine is awesome. Kerry mentioned that they're making a smaller drum and wheel assembly for the bases which will be really nice for test batches and small amount of nut pastes and stuff like that so it's already going on my want list.

Co-weirdo... I'm 100% with her on the raisins.

That gin bottle will be so good at pretending the humidity doesn't bother it that you'll stop worrying in no time at all.

I like that drink... can't say that I've tried drinking it while eating peanuts but if it's got that kind of endorsement, maybe I'll give it a try.

Lemon and blueberry go together like bacon and anything, it's a great combination.

The problem was at my end. I think I misunderstood where he was going with his question. I thought he was looking for a way to use those things without it showing up on what he wanted to be a clean and natural ingredient list. I read his original post again and now realize that he's actually looking for an alternative color source that doesn't use those things so they don't have to be on the label at all. So basically just ignore what I previously said and things will be back on track.

Gonna have to see if I can have any influence on Kerry... I can't believe she's without some form of a meat grinder.

I understand that. The difference is, you're not saying in regards to having to list what you're using on your labeling "That does seem at odds with high quality direct-trade chocolate and the ethos we hope to uphold." If having to let people know what's in the box is at odds with your ethos then it seems like that same ethos would want you to not put anything in the box you'd not feel good about listing. Unless I misunderstood and he was saying that a blanket listing of the ingredients used without listing out each one individually for each chocolate would violate that ethos. In which case, I don't get it because you'd still be letting them know everything they'll be eating with the blanket statement.

Yeah, some things really are better left to the experts, I'm just a stubborn ass. I once had a piece of wire from a wire wheel on a grinder shoot into the white part of my eyeball and I just went to a mirror, pulled it out with tweezers, rinsed my eye out and went back to what I was doing. Mentioned it to my eye doctor the next time I had to go for an eye checkup and he wasn't impressed. So anything I say in regards to anything medical related is probably best ignored.

One of these years I'm going to have to venture out and get in touch with civilization... I didn't even know going to the hospital to get a hook out was a thing unless it's stuck in your eye or something like that.

Then why not just forego the colored cocoa butters altogether? Just do chocolate shells. Maybe some painting and splattering with contrasting colors of chocolate, maybe even some airbrushing with chocolate thinned with cocoa butter. Combine chocolates for different shades in the spectrum. The 50 Shades of Brown collection. I know that sounds odd in today's world of brightly colored chocolates but it's something I've been giving semi-serious consideration.

Yeah, he discontinued the blogs a long time ago. He put up .pdf files with the information from the blogs and a warning that he was going to be killing them in the fairly near future which was a nice thing for him to do. I did grab them but I already had all the information saved in text files anyway. I followed his blogs closely and saved everything as soon as he posted it. So if Patti doesn't have it, I do.

Is that possible, too much meat on a bbq plate? I always thought that was when you push the bread and sides to the edge of the plate and tell them you'll get back to them later if there's room.

In the Deep South, that "youse" would be a "y'all". "Youse" sounds more Jersey.

If you didn't earn it, I'm in trouble. You've probably done more today than I have and I'm kicking back on the couch watching the recap of today's Tour de France stage as I type this. I got my grocery shopping, laundry and housework done yesterday after work just so I could not have to do it today. I even ate leftovers tonight so I wouldn't have to cook. I'd planned to make peach ice cream today until I realized that the container for my ice cream machine that I always keep in the freezer ready to use, I for some reason did not put back in the freezer the last time I used it. So I didn't even have to do that. I did get another batch of chocolate working in the machine though.

That's the main reason I'd like to be able to make my own. Make small batches that I know I'll use up when I know I'm going to need them and not have to worry about the shelf life of a large container. I understand the space issue. I made room but it may prove to be a bit of a double-edged sword eventually. I'm already realizing that if I'm able to get my stuff to catch on locally, I'm probably going to need another at some point. But that's down the road quite a bit, if ever.

One does as one must when pickles hang in the balance.