ElsieD

@Kim Shook If I lived near you, I'd invite myself over for a piece of that cake. It looks delicious. I'd say the same about the pie but a don't like a lot of raisins in stuff. Some yes, lots no.

That pastry is, I'm embarrassed to say, better than any pastry I could wrestle up. Pastry has never been my strong suit. I buy Pilsbury when I need it.

@Toliver Thanks, I think. I just sprang for the Pizza etc. one as it looks like it has lots of interesting recipes.

That was my first thought, as well.

My next door neighbour must have gone to Montreal today. On my door hung some bagels she had brought for us with a note saying they had been baked at noon.

Nice. I have only had two deliveries so far but I get so much of the same thing I give some to my neighbour. To be fair, I check off what I want, don't want and what I am neutral on. We have the ability to swap some items. This week I got 3! Fat bunches of cilantro, 2 of basil, 1 dill and 1 thyme. Also, some really nice green onions, beans, lettuce, and a big zucchini. I can't remember offhand if there was anything else or not. I'm looking forward to, in particular, beets, potatoes and tomatoes. As I am on a two week delivery, the tomatoes at least, should be coming soon.

@Anna N Quite the car crash. John tells me it's not far from his mother's.

I prefer curly parsley to flat parsley, maybe because that's what I grew up with. I love it minced, with carrots.

I find it strange that for the price of this oven, that the manual would be that bad. If I were in the market for this type of oven, the quality of the manual would make me question the quality of the oven.

Here we go - speculoos ice cream just your basic cream, milk, egg yolks, vanilla, sugar, speculoos cookies, salt, baking powder, spiced rum and toasted sugar. I had mentioned on another thread that I had made and tried toasted sugar in a recipe but I didn't think it was worth the trouble. Since this recipe (Stella Parks, Serious Eats) called for toasted sugar i toasted some up. This ice cream is very rich and tasty.

Thank you! I sprung for the updated Scoop book. I have the original and it will be interesting to see the changes.

There are a lot of similarities between Dutch and German. I (used to) speak Dutch fluently and when I took German in school, i was surprised at how easy it was, due to those similarities. That's really what I was trying to say, and I could have said it better.

Translated, chop knife. In Dutch it is a hakmes

Welcome to the forum!

No, i don't remember the model number. We had it when we had our house and we haven't lived there for over 6 years. I can tell you it had inverter technology, and it could microwave, bake on convect and broil. It also had a combo function. It was at the time, the top model. It did not have a steam function.

Panasonic makes them as well. I had one for years and was very happy with it.

You didn't!!!?

@Shelby My experience shopping resembled yours. At the Asian store, everyone wore a mask. In the non-Asian stores, not so much. This city has now made them mandatory so pretty much everyone wears one now.

Bitter, bitter!

Once you have your crust baked, and removed successfully from the pan, you could make an Itty bitty teeny tiny batch of lemon curd, put that in your little pie crust and then decorate the top with your four blueberries.

I used to use Thai Kitchen curry pastes but switched to Blue Dragon which I much prefer.

I'm going to make speculoos ice cream today. I've never made it, but it sure sounds good.

I did buy the Wagamama book. I did make one recipe from the Slocombe book, it was for a strawberry ice cream which had 1/2 cup condensed milk as one of the ingredients. The ice cream was tasty enough, but i made a note to use less salt should I make it again. The recipe called for 2 teaspoons.

Looked at the ice cream book as I have a couple of recipes from that book ny niece sent me. In reading the reviews, some said the book was sloppy and salt and sugar amounts were off. I can't speak to the book but one of the recipes I have from that book calls for 2 tablespoons of SALT. Just though t I would mention it.

@weinoo Thanks for your reference to Great Atlantic Seafood. I have bookmarked it. If you buy a 10 pound box, I assume the contents are IQF?