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You're killing me.

THAT looks yummy! I forget. What happens if I get the piece with the bean in it? OH and thank you so much for showing the Louisiana cookbook. I bought one for me and one for my mom and stepdad!(My stepdad is from there)

Yipppppie!!!! *sigh* I bet it's like 80 degrees and sunny there. I'm envious!

I do eyeball baking powder when I know it takes, for example 1/4 t., I use what ever spoon I have out and pop it in... But, I see what you mean. Obviously for baking you do measure where as if you're making a stew, you dump. A side question: Will these books be available in libraries?

This is so interesting. Thank you for allowing us to have a peek into this "Jetson-like" cooking. It's so very scientific. Definitely not for a person like me who throws "a pinch of this" and "a dash of that" into a pot. Or, is there a point when you get so used to cooking this way that you can just "eyeball" certain ingredients? Or is that a really dumb question?

What a stunning view as the sun sets. Must. Make. Pavlova. Today. Yours looks SO SO yummy. I don't have any fruit though.... Thanks for the lovely peek into your life, I've enjoyed it greatly!

Lovely kitchen and I like your toys.

Your step-by-step instruction may finally get me over being scared to try sous vide cooking. It looks beautiful.

I've never had that happen and mine are all mixed together. However, by the end of the summer I've normally burned all of my taste buds off from the scotch bonnets lol.

Some knives, once they taste blood, never lose the taste for it. My microplane has a similar predilection. Maybe we should introduce them. Good Lord, NO! They might breed! *shudder*

Some knives, once they taste blood, never lose the taste for it. My microplane has a similar predilection. Maybe we should introduce them.

On Valentine's Day night about 5 years ago I was slicing French bread with a knife that I've since named "The Biter". I dropped the knife and (stupidly) tried to catch it. I sliced the end off of my middle left finger. I didn't go to the hospital, but I guess I should have. That's the closest I've ever come to fainting. I still have no feeling in it. My husband doesn't let me touch that knife any more.

Chris, it's so warm here today...do you really think we're done with winter??? I hope we are! You're way ahead of me already. I never thought of planting peas so early... that's a great idea! Can you plant any other veggies like that? Do the mice not eat the seeds? Where do you order your seeds from? I used to buy from Burpee, but I've been disappointed in the quality. I got a new catalog the other day with a ton of grafted hybrid type varieties. I'm tempted to try a few from there. Since we're growing field corn this year, I'll be making pickled baby corn and canning that. Our garden is mostly tomatoes and peppers. All varieties of peppers--too many peppers, usually lol. We also plant basil and cucumbers. I used to do squash and eggplant, but the squash bugs took over and ruined it all so I'm scared to plant those ever again.

Oh that's such a bummer. Can you garden in a different spot in your yard so that ground can rest?

What a great market! I've always wanted to see/taste Turkish Delight ever since reading that book! I didn't picture it like that...I don't know what I expected lol. Can you describe the texture and taste?

You plate everything unlike anyone I've ever seen. You have SO much talent! Beautiful sashimi.

Oh YUM. I LOVE a good root beer and they are so hard to find these days.

I used to order fresh seafood every once in a while....thick tuna steaks, salmon (sigh), little neck clams, mussels...(lemme wipe the drool off). It was a splurge when I did it, but now, I don't do it anymore. If gasoline keeps going up I will have to buy a good pair of walking shoes, though.

HUGE blizzard here. It's snowing 2" an hour. Supposed to get 16". Sigh. A few meals to look at....I'm thinking of making pizza again tonight because the last was so good. At least my cats aren't bored...... Anchovy Sausage Kung Pao chicken with a cold beer Ribs, tater salad and onion crispies for super bowl

Yummmmmmmm your last supper looks soooo good. Thank you, Erin for showing us a peek into your life! I loved every second!

I'm glad the beef somehow got on your table. It's beautiful!

Awesome, thanks!

I lied. They planted navy beans.

I wondered about the dry bean variety, too. I did a quick scan of the chapter about harvest and I only see them called "beans". In the cookbook, however, there is a recipe for succotash that Almanzo and his family ate during the county fair in October. It says that the beans they would have used were "shell beans" or "pole beans". It says that if you cannot find these then lima beans could be subbed.

I'm hogging this topic lol. I'm to the part where Almanzo scours the hills looking for wintergreen berries. I've never seen these in person, so I looked them up online. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wintergreen I found this quite interesting. 30 mL (about 1 fl oz) of oil of wintergreen is equivalent to 55.7 g of aspirin, or about 171 adult aspirin tablets (US). This conversion illustrates the potency and potential toxicity of oil of wintergreen even in small quantities. Now, I have no idea how much oil is in each berry...so I don't know how much Almanzo ingested, but, he spent whole afternoons hunting and eating these suckers. Obviously he never had any ill affects??? Or, am I looking at the wrong kind of berry?