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Darienne

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  1. Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm now waiting for PanaCan's cake recipe. And that's not why the dogs have pumpkin.
  2. With gratitude, I accept your offer. Muffins are probably what I"m looking for.
  3. I am even lazier than you though. I had already gotten that far...was hoping for a single recipe...not a challenge to look through a bunch...some of which are not suitable, BTW, to pick one. I have a couple of packages of candied ginger p[pieces. Might work them in as well as walnuts.
  4. Thanks. Can't freeze it...might be able to give it away although not too likely. I was secretly hoping for a full-blown muffin recipe.
  5. While away from home, our dogs have canned pumpkin added to their breakfasts. Long story, won't bore you. So, DH on his last grocery-buying round bought pie filling (sugar, sugar, sugar) instead of just plain pumpkin and this morning I opened the can without checking the label. OK. Now I have this great quantity of canned pumpkin pie filling. What shall I do with it, if any? Anyone have a suitable cake or muffin recipe? Or? Or should I simply upend it into the garbage? Thanks.
  6. I'd go for buying one (or more) and taking a photo of the scone whole and then cut in half or whatever. It does sound delicious. And if you PM'd me the store's name and location, I'd have our next visitors from Ottawa bring us a half dozen.
  7. Our dogs get raw chicken thighs and legs and Ed does chop the pieces into smaller pieces for them. Dogs can digest raw bones. Just not cooked bones. I'll tell him about using a mallet, but he likes the heavy chopping thing. I suspect he would feel the mallet would slow him down.
  8. That is so interesting. Just got my DH's cleaver for chopping the dogs' dinners out of the drawer and it's a #3. Made in Hong Kong. It's stood up very well.
  9. Two for sale on Amazon. $499.00. Not inexpensive..
  10. My hands are not what they used to be, so I always ask DH to juice the limes for me if he is nearby. And often we pop them into the microwave for a few seconds. Yesterday he put the limes into the microwave...I didn't see what time he set it for and certainly didn't ask after. He took them out and cut into one lime and it sort of exploded sending juice straight into his eye. I had to help this temporarily blinded man to the sink to flush his eyes. Quelle surprise!
  11. Darienne

    Dissolving Gelatin

    And just WHY doesn't gelatine dissolve in coconut milk? It dissolves in tomato juice. It must dissolve in a lot of 'liquidy' items.
  12. Those wide mouth funnels have so many uses. I couldn't function without them.
  13. Darienne

    Adios Twinkie

    Twinkies came into the USA in 1930. I don't know when they reached Canada. I've never had one. Nor a Ding Dong. DH can't recall ever eating one either. Life will go on I guess. Actually I've never had a Tastykake either and until gfweb's post had never heard of them either. I've led a very sheltered life.
  14. Sounds like a good time. Eat a few for the rest of us.
  15. Kim, your cake looks delicious. No photos but I've made Morning Glory Muffins and Orange Muffins (my very favorite). And I've made Chocolate Salami, and also Enstrom Copy-cat toffee and chocolate dipped-glace ginger for giveaways to folks who have helped us get settled in our rented condo away from home. Still have to make more toffee. It is such a hit with everyone. Oh right, and a Capirotada. Nothing special but I have been busy.
  16. Found interesting information on gula jawa. Probably not something you can find in East Central Ontario... As for my piloncillo adventures. Finished until we return home to the far frozen north where I can buy incredibly good panela. I'll take home the three different kinds and see what I can find at home and report back. This morning we did a taste test on three varieties of piloncillo. DH scored them from highest to blandest: City Market's Frieda, GJ Mexican Mercado, Moab Village Market no name. I found them all lacking, but also agreed that the Frieda brand was deepest in flavor. Left to right: Grand Junction mercado (darkest); City Market Frieda brand; Village Market no name (The Frieda brand has an interesting background. The founder of the distributing company, Frieda Rappaport Caplan is responsible for introducing to North America a number of exotic fruits, most notably the Chinese Gooseberry (Kiwi Fruit).)
  17. The important question for many of us is: did it taste good?
  18. Hi Tracy, Sunday at Wabi Sabi is a longstanding tradition with us. The year we actually lived for 7 months in Moab, we had to furnish an empty house. It was an incredible experience...and then we had our first ever 'yard' sale and sold it all for what we paid for it and turned the rest back in. I do make a 'Zucotto' type cake for birthdays, a chocolate cake filled with two chocolate mousses, then covered with another chocolate ganache and garnished with white chocolate curls. Fie kinds of chocolate with whipped cream and booze...what's not to like. I make the cake on a cookie sheet and then cut it up and line a bowl. Will this new pan make it easier? Or will it hit the Value Village back home? Have fun with your copper pan.
  19. Sunday once more at Wabi Sabi and the oldsters get 50% off. http://www.amazon.co..._product_top A dome cake/Zuccotto cake mold. $1.50. I don't know why. Picked it up because I didn't know what it was. Very well constructed. I'll have to try it out. A local friend has a birthday on Wednesday. BTW, the Capirotada, made from my (last week's Wabi Sabi prize) bread machine-produced Challah, is delicious. I'll never figure out how such a tiny and impecunious town has so much good second-hand items for sale. Lots of wealthy tourists, no doubt, but tourists don't leave Zuccotto molds behind when they leave.
  20. I've never seen unwrapped piloncillo for sale in the US or Canada. Not a big problem. I have still to check it out in the local groceries to see what they carry. The Capirotada turned out beautifully anyway.
  21. Really no need to ask. Of course I am interested. Beautiful goodies, as usual, sir.
  22. But that's it! This stuff is very, very dark, and quite nothing. I'll check in the local supermarket and see what they have. Two supermarkets, a City Market (Kroger) and a Village Market (Western Family). Neither one of them very pleasing really. Our FreshCo (Sobey's) at home has a wonderful brand. But then it's cold at home and probably snowing.
  23. This is probably a foolish question, but here goes. Are there various qualities of piloncillo out there? I bought some a couple of weeks ago at a well-known Mexican carniceria in Colorado, usual shape, dark brown, in plastic bags with no name on them. This market sells home made tortilla chips and tortillas and pastries which are wonderful! Used the piloncillo today. Making the syrup for Capirotada. Tasted the sugar...of course...and was stunned. Where was that wonderful taste? Sure, it was sweet, but the special tastes which had captured me forever on my first real taste of piloncillo were missing. Back home, brown sugar always tastes like brown sugar and there's no home made brown sugar to be purchased that I know of. So what is happening here, please?
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