KennethT
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The family in their temporary new home
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47 minutes ago, JordanB said:
I havent made any batches of Gellatin ones, I was trying to make Vegan Friendly ones using Agar Agar, honey, etc. but I found them to be too Jelly like and crumby
Agar gels tend to be crumbly - but if you add a little bit of xanthan gum, it helps the texture.
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2 hours ago, scamhi said:
grilled hanger steak from Flannery Beef with roasted cauliflower
2015 Roagna Langhe Rosso in the glass no picture
Roagna is one of our faves...
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3 hours ago, Shelby said:
Sort of a puttanesca sauce--lots of olives and capers and hot pepper. Very good and I'll be making more of that sort of sauce over the summer with garden tomatoes hopefully. Roast chicken and salad also.
Got some more shrimp and scallops for the freezer so fried shrimp last night along with leftover scalloped potatoes and bruss. sprouts.
Shelby - you are the Mistress of Deep Frying!!! How do you do it? Specifically, what type of pot do you use and do you constantly reuse the oil? Where do you put the oil between fry sessions? It seems that you're not frying very much at a time - since, like us, it's only the 2 of you. My problem is that every pot seems way too big (meaning that it would use a ton of oil for the amount of food we have).
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7 minutes ago, heidih said:
You have explained this to the kids? They are mentally prepared? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/23/the-intelligent-plant
They've been looking forward to it...
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Getting ready to be moved...
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1 minute ago, liuzhou said:
Dinner tonight was a photographic failure, but tasted fine.
Steak and kidney (- pie) with onions, carrots and rehydrated dried shiitake mushsrooms cooked in the 'shroom soaking liquid with some 'Wooster sauce'. Potatoes added to the same pot after some time.
To compound the felony of the bad presentation and ill-lit photograph, I totally forgot to photograph the much prettier stir-fried cabbage and chilli which accompanied it.
I love the idea of such a UK type dish such as steak/kidney pie served with something so SE Asian - stir fried cabbage with chilli. How did it go together?
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5 hours ago, liuzhou said:
Mutton noodles for three. Local noodle shack cuisine.
Jesus... I know what I want for lunch now!!!
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11 hours ago, patti said:
My husband boiled crawfish. They were worlds apart from the last boiled crawfish we picked up to go, which were ridiculously over salted. These were *chef’s kiss*!
We have lots of leftovers, so you might see lots of crawfish dishes coming up. But I’m also happy with cold boiled crawfish.
You could ship some of those leftovers up to us - they'd last about 10 minutes!!! Drool...
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The curry tree is not looking forward to moving...
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My mint plant is getting old - I was going to clone it - do you think it's better to take a main sprig or root a runner?
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On 3/21/2021 at 3:04 PM, Anna N said:
I wonder if you can dehydrate the sauce and get the salt.
@blue_dolphinI was cleaning out my pantry and came upon an OLD bottle of Tiparos fish sauce (I used it before switching to Squid brand). Lo and behold there was a ton of brown salt at the bottom of the bottle.
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10 hours ago, liamsaunt said:
Chicken shawarma
Wine pairing
I haven't had Turley in years... I don't think we have any more left...
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1 hour ago, weinoo said:
Anyone want my extra Joyva ring jells? Actually, anything more than 1 or 2 is extra. (God, are they gross).
yeah they are. if it wasn't tradition, I assume they'd be out of business!
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1 hour ago, rotuts said:
nice.. I didn't see any in the photo, but they could've been lurking... and Thai food is great at room temp, or as some say, Thai room temp, which is like 90 degrees....
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2 minutes ago, rotuts said:
a friend of mine , who is the custodian of
Penny and Leo
drove out to my area , and even farther
to Thai Noodle , my favorite restaurant.
I haven't been there in over 14 months.
they are still in business
he brought me Tod Man , and Duck s green peppercorns @ line leaves.
asked for extra grpeppercorns.
no [pic of the TodMun , got devoured first but :
N.B.: there were 8 green peppercorn ' clumps ' you see three here. + many loose
I had this w an ice cold Hoponius Union , brewed one town over
that was 15 months old , in my refrigerator. delicious both were together
I did have to be very careful w the Green peppercorn clumps. bit into a clump
one might be sorry.
Im convinced the H.U. was better after its rest in the refrigerator. I have one more in there
and will save it , and try it w a re-supply of the same
net time I myself go to Thai Noodle.
Yum Yum !
Nice.... I love Thai stir fries using fresh green peppercorns. It's even better when combined with grachai (fingerroot), kaffir lime leaves and thai basil
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1 hour ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:
I trimmed my blueberry bushes yesterday. Not that I expect any blueberries.
It'll be a miracle if you get them before the birds/squirrels do... When I was a kid, my parents had blueberry, raspberry and blackberry bushes... needless to say that if I ever had just a few it was a lot. The birds/squirrels always know when they're ripe the day before you do!!!
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1 hour ago, kayb said:
Which would have been about the time the specialty cheese section in Kroger started carrying the Murray's brand.
Exactly....
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1 hour ago, scamhi said:
We went to Sephardic friends for the Seder
chopped liver (no picture) with the champagne
the seder plate
beef meatballs in tomato sauce with pine nuts
stuffed zucchini with apricots. filled with meat and rice
lamb shanks with a tomato, mint parsley sauce
and my friends with a 1968 Ygay I brought
Please tell me that you used a crappy sacrificial wine for the dropping on the plate!!!
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7 minutes ago, dcarch said:
The first spear, 2021. It says, "The hell with the lock down. I am coming out!"
Found this baby in the garden. Spring is here!!!
dcarch
What does one do with 1 asparagus spear? 😁
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1 hour ago, blue_dolphin said:
This description from thekitchn was definitely not written by anyone who's been to SE Asia and toured even 1 market. There is no simmering involved in making eithre coconut milk or cream. Coconut cream (sometimes called #1 milk) is what is obtained when you take freshly grated coconut and squeeze. Coconut milk (sometimes called #2 milk) is when you take the once squeezed grated coconut, add water and squeeze again.
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Bumping this old thread - for some reason, I just now read that Murray's was acquired by Kroger a few years ago (2017-2018?). I haven't been there since long before then...
Can anyone here who may have been a long time Murray's customer (at the Bleecker St store) comment on the quality since the takeover?
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4 hours ago, Dejah said:
Had apptns in Wpg yesterday, so I was able to grab some goodies at the Chinese supermarket.
Made a cheater Pho for lunch with a Pho spices bag, Vietnamese rice noodles, slices of beef sirloin, yu choy, beansprouts, Thai basil, and fresh green peppercorns. I tossed in a couple of Thai lime leaves as I love the fragrance.
I love the combination of fresh green peppercorns, kaffir lime leaves and grachai - also called finger root.
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I found the Aroy-D in the box to taste and smell most like what I see freshly made in SE Asia. Beware there are several versions - you want the one that says 100% coconut milk - that one has no added stabilizers or gums. I used to use Chaokoh a long time ago (I stopped using it long before I heard their issues) - I stopped when I found a source of frozen coconut milk from Thailand. I don't bother getting cream and milk - I just reduce the milk a bit more before adding any pastes or anything else. And lately I reserve a bit of milk to add at the very end. - it adds the freshness I always felt like it missed.
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Anova Precision Oven: Features, Accessories, Troubleshooting, and "Should I Buy One?"
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I recently tested the tap water in the new apartment with my TDS (total dissolved solids) meter (I use for my hydroponic garden) - it was 53ppm which is ridiculously low for unfiltered tap water. Yes, there's some chlorine in there but that's not a solid and will not create scale. Normal household TDS is like 200-300ppm with some areas being even higher. Some well water can be over 600ppm. What's funny is that the tap water in the old apartment used to be this low, but for the last year or so there's been tons of construction in the area (water mains etc) and the TDS has been about 300 for a while now. My new apartment is about a mile away from the old one.