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I'm interested, too!

Welcome to the forum, Michael.

@RWood Gorgeous! You do fantastic work.

@Pete Fred i just watched the video with an eye to jotting the recipe down but measurements were not given for some of the items e.g. baking powder. Where did you find the actual recipe?

I have ordered rice from a company called Floating Leaf and am wondering after cooking, how well the cooked versions would freeze. None of them contain white rice, and with the exception of riceberry, they are all blends. For example, one is a Jasmine Thai blend which contains riceberry (purple jasmine), red jasmine and brown jasmine. Another is a Wild Rice Blend containing red jasmine, brown caltrose, riceberry and long grain brown rice. There are also a few other varieties. I'm thinking that when I want rice for dinner I would cook up a double batch and freeze one of them. The question is: how well would they freeze? I have a chamber vacuum sealer which I would use to seal the bags. If it is okay to freeze, would I just zap them them in the microwave to re-heat?

I made canèles and baked them today. I used Calvaldos as thhe liquor. I did a couple of rests with baking times so the coloring is different on them. The two at right in the back were done separately from the others. They are delicious. Crackly on the outside, creamy in the middle. Gosh, we love these things. @Pete Fred how do you clean your copper molds both inside and out? Mine are Mauvel so made of copper which i think yours are also?

That is one fine looking menu. Enjoy!

I have a dehydrator and the booklet that came with it it says to dehydrate small peppers, use a temperature of 125F to 130F to get them to the brittle stage. They say it takes 10 to 15 hours. I don't see why you couldn't use the CSO to do this once the oven registers this temperature with the door slightly ajar. Piercing a small hole in the pepper prior to dehydrating will help speed things along.

I have been a long-time subscriber to Health Canada's food recalls , if that's the right word. Day after day, the recalls seem to be for pistachios. I did see somewhere where the recalled pistachios were from, there were a couple of places, but I don't remember which ones.

This may or may not help. We had some fresh shishito peppers pop up in our garden this year and John brought them home. Some were left on the counter for days where they shriveled and dried up. Whether they dried enough for long term storage I can't say, but they had zero mold. You could try drying them in a very low oven with the door ajar to let the moisture escape. Other things can be dried this way so I don't know why it wouldn't work for chilies.

I tried this but the texture was off,. I'm going to try it again

The Pistachio warnings from Health Canada, as far as I could see, started in September. I just did a quick count of the alerts and there have been over 50, which is why I was so surprised to see so much of it on the Costco shelves.

I was at Costco the other day and saw a lot of edibles with pistachios. With all the pistachio warnings, I wondered who was buying the stuff. The warnings against pistachios have been unrelenting, and I trust no pistachio products.

I need to read this topic as the older I get the more interested I'm becoming in batch cooking. Not to make piles of any one thing, but one meal for dinner and at minimum make enough for another meal which i then freeze and preferrably 3 meals. The other day I made an Italian sausage cream sauce for pasta, had one for dinner and froze the other three.

Thanks for this. I have a Jaccard but it never occurred to me to use it on duck breasts. I will next time.