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Thanks for this. My Costco is not likely to have this but I'm going to look for it.

I wonder if this would work with garlic.

Not available at my Costco, sad to say. We love lamb shanks.

I liked Quality Street.

I have strawberries thawing and since I also have beautiful ripe peaches from last summer, albeit frozen ones, I took some of those out to thaw too. I have a strawberry flavored balsamic that I may use and an apricot one for the peach. I have no peach balsamic but I plan to remedy that next time I'm out.

Thanks. Using one cup of purse in the Creami worked okay?

@blue_dolphin I still have fresh frozen strawberries from last summer. I should give this a try. What was the quantity of strawberries needed per 1 cup of puree?

"Dicing the potatoes, not slicing them as he did all those years. In order to dice them, he slices them into rounds and uses an alligator chopper." @Smithy I had one of those once and it didn't work without a lot of pressure and even then I had to free up manually the bits and pieces that were stuck in the blades. Needless to say, I no longer have it. Can you tell me if yours cuts cleanly with not an excessive amount of pressure? If yes, can you tell me which one you have? Amazon carries a number of different ones. I may be tempted to buy one.

You are right, and I think you mentioned that before. Sorry.

Gluten free, that is.

@Darienne I was at Farm Boy today and they have Bob's Red Mill Biscuit and Baking Mix. They have a store on Lansdowne Road. Maybe see if they carry it?

I'll keep an eye out.

I just looked on the Betty Crocker site and there are 8 different ones. I'm assuming you are looking for the one labeled gluten free?

We're they crispy?

That looks amazing.

That looks great, nice and creamy. Can you tell what you did?

I meant to ask you this before. Is the berry ice cream you made the same one as is in the NYT? It includes powdered milk and buttermilk.

Me too. My machine is a Zo also. The first bread machine I ever had was a Panasonic, in the early 80's. It too called for wet on the bottom, dry on top.

I don't know. I spent part of my childhood growing up on a farm. If we wanted chicken for supper, dad would grab one of the hens, chop it's head off, pluck it, clean it, and send it to my mother to cook. Those hens at least had better lives than factory chickens. They spent summer outside and while inside, they had room to roam. And they weren't killed off at a very young age. I eat chickens so I sound like a hypocrite but the sight of those tiny wings in the supermarket makes me want to weep. I just can't bring myself to buy them.

Not around here. We both prefer the larger wings which we finally found at the Costco business centre. When I'm in the grocery store and see the teeny tiny wings there I want to cry. The little birds those wings belonged to never had a life.

Whenever I buy a bag of onions, there always seems to be a bad one in the mix, especially the sweet onions I buy at Costco.

Incredible. Thank you.

I have one that size (pan only) and use it all the time. What I use even more are 1/8 size sheet pans. I have three of them and I use them pretty much every day.

I tried steaming the smoked meat in the CSO, with the steam 210F setting. A half hour later I went to check on it and while the top of the oven was hot, the inside was stone cold. I re-set it, placed an oven thermometer inside and turned it back on. 15 minutes later, same thing. The dial on the oven thermometer had not budged. I ended up steaming it on the stove. I guess that setting doesn't work on my CSO. I should mention that it is the first time in all the years I've had this oven that I tried that setting.

@Shelby is right - they are supposed to taste like a cross between a pineapple and a strawberry, they have a faint strawberry smell, but taste of nothing. They had the same texture as a ripe strawberry. I did eat the big ones first and if the small ones taste better, I'll let you know. This will not be a repeat purchase.