Marlene

I was absolutely thrilled with the way they turned out. I've never had them rise so high before. The one thing I did differently was to rest the batter, which is something I hadn't done in previous tries. Maybe that's the secret? They were delightfully crisp outside and soft inside. I've never attempted a big one, but I think I'll try that next time.

My first real entertaining in the new house. As in pull out all the stops and cook like mad. Sometimes the Kitchen Gods are just there and tonight was such a night. My butcher excelled himself when he cut me this roast. A five bone prime rib roast, 12 lbs: This roast cried out for a horseradish sauce: the finished roast: My triumph with yorkies glazed carrots Dessert. My girlfriend loves to cook. This is a banana raisin bread pudding with a caramel sauce: I'm done cooking We have a tradition with these friends. They were the first people to welcome us to our new homeon our old block with a bottle of amarone. Today they welcomed us to our new home with this.

Since I didn't hear back from anyone, I decided to do the muffin tin thing. You tell me if it was a success!

ok folks. I've got a twelve pound prime rib in the oven. Cast iron pan or individual muffin tins for the yorkies? Help!

Brisket definately rules, and I'd be interested in how that one is made, it looks sooo good. I can't believe you're even up! You must be exhausted.

One further question. A recipe I have, calls for making the yorkshire pudding in a cast iron frying pan in a really hot oven. Is this a good pan for making Yorkies? and I wonder if using convection would make it better or worse?

Call me silly, but what the heck is 1 cup eggs? How many eggs would that be exactly?

It's cool and rainy here this weekend. We've company tonight, so it will be prime rib, but yesterday's visit to my favourite butcher produced two lovely pot roasts. I haven't tried the Zinfidel pot roast yet and as I read through the recipe yesterday, I realized this could be Sunday's dinner. And before you ask, the rule in our house is "you can never have too much beef"

My P-Touch is my best friend in my kitchen

Costco might have them. The one up here does anyway.

' You should see my other cupboards where the rest of my tupperware lives. I'll come help you get organized any time!

Once I get the granite, I'll tell you my contractor stories.

I had the electrician add an outlet underneath the breakfast bar today as well. You can never have too many outlets!

I'm still waiting on granite for the island, but I've moved in anyway. The stuff you see in the drawers and cupboards here will likely change by next week as I get used to using this space. The island sans granite. Yes the ugly thing on the side is the outlet. The side facing into the kitchen. It has a cupboard on one side and a utility drawer and two pot drawers on the other side. The other side of the island This is the cupboard that will become 4 drawers Double sided spice rack. Oh gee, I have room for more. And two pull outs A better view of the breakfast bar. We have new barstools ordered to match the cabinets, but they still haven't arrived. our funky lighting pop and wine fridges micowave and second oven The range again. Just because :biggrin. the contractor took down the valance on the right hand side and shaved a bit off so my coffee maker would fit underneath. Note to fifi. Make sure valances are high enough for coffeemakers and other equipement This is where I store most of my bakeware: The far side of the kitchen. The desk area. The cookbooks are the ones I use the most. The rest are up in my office. The stereo actually has a small tv screen that flips down. So there you have it. I'll post one more pic when ever I get the granite. It should be sometime this century In the meantime, dinner for 8 tomorrow. I've got the most beautiful, 5 bone prime rib.

I've used boxed cake mixes on occassion when making cupcakes for school bake sale for example. If it's dessert for us or when we're entertaining, then I'll make the effort and go from scratch

I rather like KFC or Kentucky Fried Chicken, or whatever you want to call it. I was rather annoyed though when they did away with extra crispy (at least here they did) and I was even more annoyed when they messed with their fries. I used to love their fries.

They're planting zones. ← Good grief. Who knew? Well ok, everyone knew but me.

I'm in Ontario Canada. We do have an inground sprinker system and there is one right near my little patch.

Our backyard is a southwest exposure well shielded from wind, so I should be good from a sun perspective. I'll take some pictures and show you my little space as soon as it stops raining here. What about parsley? No one has mentioned parsley. Is it ungrowable? P.S. what the heck is Zone 4 and 5?

Ok, so I'm the world's worst gardener. My husband will not let me touch his plants because I'm liable to kill them. We have one of those backyards and gardens that are pretty much maitenance free. My thumb is black, not green. In this new house I have this cute patch out back that would be perfect for herbs and maybe a few tomatoes. I'll do my best not to kill anything and I'll try to learn what's a weed and what's not So what should I start with?

I tend to cook - a lot. Stuff that takes lots of prep. Chopping and dicing. Imagine that face under your knife or pounding things like pork chops or veal cutlets. To comfort myself in a situation like this, my go to food for eating is mashed potatoes and gravy. I really don't need anything else with it. It will get better, and there'll be someone better, more worthy of you waiting when you least expect it.

I've been to Carver's, it's excellent! Something else my husband tells me he misses from Saskatoon are Greek Ribs. I have no clue where to get them there, but if you see them on a menu, do try them!

Wendy is correct in how recipes can be posted. However, now that we have RecipeGullet back, we prefer that recipes are posted to RG and linked back to the thread for discussion. Having recipes scattered all over the forums decreases the ease of searchability that RG provides and kind of makes having RG pointless, no? In addition, While simply re writing the method to a recipes is a technically correct way to post a recipe that isn't yours, it isn't something we encourage on a regular basis. We prefer that you take that recipe and make it your own, adding your own tweaks etc. In all cases, you should note that the recipe has "been adapted from" to acknowledge the orginal author. That goes for whether you post the recipe on the thread or in RG. A link to the RecipeGullet copyright policy A paragraph from the policy states: an example of how you can make it your own:

I already have two beer fridges

The island is sitting in my kitchen waiting for the granite. I'm given to understand it will be tomorrow (I hope) that everything is completed. They made one mistake when they built in and put in a cupboard instead of a 4 drawers, but that's an easy fix. The dinner was lovely, but the pics sucked big time so I'm not posting them. I let one of our friends take the pictures that night, and I know this is hard to believe, but they're even worse than the pictures I take. I love the kitchen. Workflow has been a little tricky when I need to plug something in like my KA or deep fryer. The closest plug to my workspace is a bit far and I'm needing a power bar right now to make it work properly. This will be solved by the island when it's ready, as it's an ideal space to work at. In addition, I'm going to have them run another outlet to just under the breakfast bar to help with this sort of thing. The dishwasher is a little small. It won't take my baking sheets which causes me no end of grief and I don't think it will take my stockpot either, unless I can take the top rack out. I find I run the dishwasher two or three times a day, especially if I'm in a heavy baking/cooking mode because it doesn't handle as many things as my old one did. On the plus side, it's whisper quiet. The fridge is also a little smaller than we're used to and since there's room for a bigger one, that is likely on the list of things to replace in the next year or so. This one will go downstairs to act as a holding fridge for food when I'm entertaining. We are planning a housewarming party in early June, and right now, we are looking at having Ruth's Chris cater it. That should be interesting! As soon as the island is installed, I'll get some pictures up of it and the rest of the kitchen now that it's all put together. The one thing I haven't had time to do is test drive the ceramic gas broiler. The book doesn't give a whole lot of instructions, but I think that baby gets pretty hot!