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This is great!

@Kim Shook Wonderful! Thank you!

Does anyone have/Has anyone tried a recipe for making brioche in a bread machine?

I sent my niece an e-mail after I read your post to ask her to please unwrap it and plug it in to make sure it works. This was later last night and I haven't heard back from her yet but when I do, I'll post. Thanks for tghe heads up, but I am sorry yours was damaged.

@BetD That sucks.

@rotuts I await your report with bated breath.

Yay!

Glad to see I can drop the baking powder when browning my steaks. I too could taste the baking soda.

109.99 on Amazon.ca

I am not a chef, but as an eater, #6 drives me bonkers. Why do chefs serve food in these things?

Welcome back! I too had been wondering where you were. The food sounds ghastly. Powdered eggs? I wonder why they use those. When my dad was in a nursing home I was there at meal times a few times (I lived 350 miles away) and the food was real food, served at the appropriate temperatures. It was government run so I don't know if that made a difference.

I tried a couple of different browsers and Bangkok was priced at over $30 for the Kindle version at all of them. I did check the other book again, and it directs me to Amazon.ca where I can buy that one for $2.99. The Bangkok one is not offered on .ca.

Hmm. I don't see the cheap price for Bangkok book but I do see it for the other one, which is why I asked. Bit of a bummer as I would have liked the Bangkok one.

Is that pricing for Prime members?

Getting closer..........

(I heard from my niece last night. The unit arrived last Tuesday. She forgot to tell me!!! @rotuts I did not get anything remotely like the shipping notification that you got. I did get a memo type thing saying a split shipment had been shipped. It had a picture of the pots and pans on it so I ignored it thinking they were telling me about a shipment I had already received. I feel like a trout, as the saying goes in these parts. So, it's in Syracuse and we will either go and pick it up Tuesday or she will bring it up at Christmas. It will get it's first test between Christmas and New Year's as I will make some oliebollen and maybe some appleflappen, two Dutch staples served New Year's Eve. Sure hope it works as advertised.

A man of excellent taste - I love pickled herring!

I'm not posting this here for it's looks, but John came across an interesting (to us) recipe for an Asian style rack of lamb. We had it tonight and it was very good. The link to the recipe is here: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/holiday-guide/holiday-recipes/recipe-asian-style-rack-of-lamb-with-sticky-risotto/article22176798/

Congratulations! Do they give an estimated arrival date? (I haven't received mine yet. Boo hiss)

Yes! Wonderful!

Are you planning to ship to Canada? (She asked, hopefully.)

Indeed. I hate b.s. so when I got the old "trying to send this week and it's Chrismas and so busy" crap I decided to write them a pithy but polite note. If nothing else, I got a reply from someone higher up on the pecking order. We'll see if it does me any good.

8 Good story, great hat. It wasn't until I scrolled down a bit that I realized you were not talking about the hat with the rose.