Marlene

Costco had sets of stainless steel mixing bowls that came with 3 small prep bowls. I bought two sets and I use the prep bowls all the time for diced veg, minced garlic etc.

Make chicken stock? It's been a long time since I bought chicken in a supermarket, so I'm going to take note of prices when I go shopping tomorrow.

In the oven right now, are molten lava cakes. Edited to add the finished dish with homemade vanilla bean icecream.

Missed you Kim! Blue cheese slaw? Please tell me more!

And I made the lemon chicken from the pictorials. Thanks to nonblonde007 for the help. I also used panko and less sugar in the sauce.

We give each other 1 joke gift at Christmas This was my son's joke gift at Christmas last year. I can't say we've ever used it though. As I recall, he bought me a 4 ft peppermill.

Apple crisp could be baked off in the morning, and if you want to serve it warm, gently reheated at service. Cookies of course, as you say. Mini tartlets of some sort

Thanks for directing me to this thread. I think this will go on the menu for tomorrow!

Thanks Bruce, I was pretty happy with this batch. I used Ann T's recipe but I used a triple folding method advocated by Fine Cooking and I got a higher biscuit than I ever had! Nonblonde007 that lemon chicken looks fabulous. Do you have a recipe that you use? Would you share it?

Tonight was spaghetti with Italian sweet sausage, red peppers, onions, garlic, red pepper flakes, parsley and parm tossed in butter and olive oil and biscuits! Best I've ever done.

Roasted butternut squash, fingerling potatoes and steak au povire.

It's Thanksgiving here, so a traditional turkey dinner with two different homemade cranberry sauces And apple crisp with homemade vanilla bean ice cream. For the topping, I deviated from the usual oat topping and used toasted pecans, butter and flour instead. Dom Perignon 1996 in the glass.

On the other hand, I use All Clad Copper Core and I love them. They replaced my all clad stainless steel pans last year.

I really really like the KA pro 600 and I think you will too. I looked at the Cuisinart for the cottage, but didn't like it enough to try it at the price. And $300 is a great great deal.

I'm sorry, I didn't see this till just now. In St. Catherines, or rather just off the highway before St. Catherines, the Lakeview restaurant is well worth a visit. In terms of moving to that area, or to Niagara, you'd have access to some great wineries. Welland is a pretty town, (my ex brother in law lives there) but I'm not sure it offers much in terms of culinary wows, including restaurants and grocery shopping. Kitchener/Wateloo/guleph on the other hand, opens up far more possibilities in terms of availability of farmers markets and local produce and handcrafts. Plus, Kitchener has one of the best Octoberfests going. Guelph is a lovely city to live in. Big enough for a city, but not so much of a big city feel. A short drive away is the Kitchener's farmer's market, or St. Jacobs markets both of which sell fabulous local produce and other merchandise including some wonderful handmade linens and quilts. Either Niagara or Guelph offer easy access to Toronto where you have the opportunity to buy more ethnic ingredients, but it all depends on what you're looking for! Certainly house prices will be cheaper in the Waterloo region as compared to the Niagara on the lake region.

I was feeling inadequate after yours, Anna! Did you make those and print them yourself, or do you buy them from somewhere. I'm afraid the whole word/excel thing is just not going to happen for me.

Cigs, Dark Lady? I am a list maker. I have endless lists. I have a whiteboard in the kitchen that I jot down stuff I need when I run out. I then transfer that to a paper list to take with me to the store. I make lists of what to bring to the cottage. Not only what I have on hand, but what I need to buy when I get there. I don't think I've ever left a grocery store with only what is on my list though. I think Ive got about 5 lists going right now for Thanksgiving this weekend. I shall try to remember to take pics of them.

I love the Cotton Country cookbook and its from there, thanks to Brooks that I get my recipe for Turkey every year for Thanksgiving. Having made it that way once for a blog, I've never ever made turkey any other way, although the ingredient list is a little "imprecise".

Thanks Wendy!

One of the benefits of ensure is that often you can get a prescription for it from your doctor which makes it insurable under benefits. Ok, that's in Canada, your mileage may vary in the States. My brother drank ensure all the way through his chemo treatments, and my mother drank it when she could not eat because of a huge hiatius hernia. Having said that, I prefer Carnation Instant breakfast. You may want to add a little protein powder to it as well for additional protein. The kind you'd use when you go to work out at the gym. And I agree, chocolate is the best of the flavours.

Wendy, which cheese did you use for this? I'm in the middle of the lengthy process of carmelizing the onions for this soup!

I generally keep mine out, and I buy it, rather than make it. I tried keeping it in the fridge and it was too hard to scoop out properly for use.

Almost. In fact, I picked up a Le Creuset butter bell this summer. Little Ms. Foodie's pic of Bouchon's French onion soup, in the dinner! thread, is inspiring me to go make that next week. French Onion is my favourite soup. Ever.

I didn't say I owned one, just that I know that Le Crueset has a 20 qt stock pot and 15 quart pot!

There is a Le Crueset 20 quart stockpot, but the biggest enamelled cast iron pot I've seen of thiers is 15 quarts.