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Taking a page out of @Shelby's book and adding a pat of butter as @rotutssuggested, I blanched and bagged 24 cobs of corn yesterday. We will do the same again when the caramel corn arrives. John cut the cobs into small pieces and we now have lots of concentrated corn stock to use in corn chowder, corn risotto and such. We also caramelised 6 pounds of vidalia onions.

Welcome to the forum and I have to ask - is that your kitty as your avatar?

@FauxPas Wow, that was a lot of trouble you went too. Thank you. I found a recipe in the Purity Cookbook that stirred up a memory or two. What caught my eye was dissolving baking soda in water. I have saved that recipe and will make it at some point. When I do, I'll let you know if that is the recipe. It was a very simple one as this one is.

Bob's Red Mill sells graham flour.

I sure wish I had the recipe booklet that came free with flour in the 1950s. All my googling has been for naught. It had the recipe for the best oatmeal cookies. They had shredded coconut in them and they were really crispy. Sigh.

For us, it's Le Cage Buffalo chicken wings.

I had never heard of such a thing until today.

A question for Canadians: does anyone use Windsor Kosher salt? I used to use DC until I noticed Windsor, a Canadian company. I've been using it ever since I first spotted it.

This looks interesting. The book is divided by month and contains recipes for festive occasions occurring in that month. From what i could see, the beginning of each chapter has a history of some (all?) of the holidays in that month. The Kindle edition is $1.99. https://www.amazon.ca/Seasonal-European-Dishes-Elisabeth-Luard-ebook/dp/B00HEQY2IO/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_pl_foot_top?ie=UTF8

I believe he is filling his salt pot, not his salt shaker.

That's right. I cooked the wild rice blend tonight on the brown setting as @chromedome suggested. Delicious. The strange thing is that both last night and tonight I cooked 1 Zo measuring cup of rice. I could have cooked less. When i made rice using my old method, I always cooked 1 regular cup of rice and we had no problem finishing it. I can't figure out why that should be the case.

All righty then, next time I'll try pinhead oats cooked in milk.

Thanks for this, @lindag. I have steel cut oats so i'll try it next time. Do you recall the ratio of oats to water, or did you use the porridge setting?

I couldn't open it.

Our oatmeal was good, but I would not necessariily cook it using the timer again, at least not for 12 hours. If you like oatmeal without texture, you'd like it done this way. It had no "chew" and I prefer to have some texture to mine. When it first came on, there was a fair bit of liquid spouting through the vent though I stopped after a few minutes. Maybe that's the nature of oatmeal? These were rolled oats, perhaps steel cut oats work better?

@rotuts This is a picture of the bag.

I cooked up some white basmati rice ronight. I assumed "white" meant any white rice. In went 1 measue of rice then filled the pot with water to the 1 cup line. The rice is delicious as those with rice cookers know. I'm very pleased with my first batch. Flushed with success, I put some oatmeal and water in the pot, set the timer for 12 hours and hope that we get something edible in the morning. @Kerry Beal You cook oatmeal using the porridge setting, can you tell me how much oatmeal and water you use? I used 80 gm of oatmeal and 560 ml water, which is what I use for stovetop oatmeal

If you use your imagination the oxtail on the left has a face. Big eyes, little nose, little mouth

Can I use a liquid other than water such as coconut milk?

My Neuro Fuzzy has arrived! I bought a bag of Lundberg Wild Rice Blend which contains long grain brown rice, sweet brown rice, wild rice, whole grain Wehani rice, and whole grain Black Japonica rice. Now this may seem like a very, very, stupid question but is this cooked on the Mixed Rice setting? If so, are any adjustments required? Thanks!

I liked #6

If you remember please post how you liked it.

At the house we had a Panasonic combo microwave/convection with Inverter technology. Loved it.

Was your old one a Quasar? That was my first one I bought somewhere around 1981 or 1982

This showed up in BookBud today. It's only $1.99 for the Kindle addition. It might be worth a look. https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B06XDJ8TLJ?_bbid=79246005&tag=bookbubemailca-20