Darienne

The new dish we liked the best was Mafe (needs an e acute but I don't know how to do one in this format). In fact, we are having it for family tonight and friends tomorrow night. Best desserts are for tonight: Capirotada and tomorrow: Margarita Pie. There you have it in a nutshell.

Is there something that can be wrapped around the handle to lessen its heat?

Well, they look wonderful to me. Good for you.

Sounds delicious. But no photos? I wanted to see a photo of a Mud Hen Bar.

I'm with Emily R. Last night we had green lentil and spinach soup and it was 'arf'n'arf'.

Lovely Kim. Do you have little elves to help sprinkle all that sugar so nicely?

Brilliant!

I'm with Chris Amirault here.

Wonderful, PanaCan. We should all have a friend like you...or Kim Shook.

Saw Thai jasmine rice in the local supermarket today but didn't buy it as it was 'jasmine'. Is this the Thai rice to which people refer? If so, I"ll buy it next trip and try it.

Good topic, Liuzhou. Radtek: just how do you rinse your rice? Our daughter is giving us a 7 cup rice cooker for Christmas and so another piece of tech enters our lives. My DH does not like brown rice in any form. Once he tasted white Basmati rice, that was his rice for years. Now I have converted (pun?) him to white Jasmine rice. If ever I've had Thai rice I don't remember it. Oh, he doesn't like rice pudding either. Probably grew up eating it. My Mother never made rice pudding so I like it, but there's no point in making it. I need a REALLY GOOD recipe. He loves Capirotada (Mexican bread pudding) the way I make it, so perhaps we could work a rice pudding into our lives also. I'll look for Thai rice in our local Oriental market and give it a try.

Found this neat recipe for ginger and chocolate (http://choclogblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/ginger-chocolates.html) and thought how good they would taste. Alas, I am far from home with no little molds to use. Then in the local market I saw this large pan of small molds, Wilton, $11.99 on sale doe $9.99. Should I? Don't be greedy, you have those pans at home. You can't always have everything you want. Put the pan of tiny molds into my shopping basket. Took it out. Two days in a row. Grow up, Darienne. BUT THEN...we went to Wabi Sabi, our favorite second hand store in Moab to find a vacuum cleaner nozzle and what did I find in the kitchen section? The VERY pan for $3. It was a sign to buy the pan and make the candies. We didn't find the nozzle.

This came to my inbox today. Some of you might be interested. http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=3456528dadb5a20fba1f09213&id=3d8fb0bf93&e=f8a9c9cfb4

Thank you FrogPrincess for posting. Reminds me to post. I've bought one cookbook since coming to Utah this year and paid an Amazon price: Muy Bueno (the jury is still out about how useful it will be) and from second hand stores: 7 books. (Also 5 Bon Appetit cookbooks for a friend who is collecting them.) It's hard to resist a good cookbook at $.50 or less.

One day late from my promise...sugar burn...ouch, very big ouch. Delicious muffins from the recipe from PanaCan. Thanks again. Oh, I doubled the walnuts, but I always do that sort of thing with the nut measure.

The catalog from Tomric, http://tomric.com/ , gives complete dimensions for every mold. Very helpful.

I forgot. I apologize. It was sweet of you to send the recipe and I shall make them this very night. And shall call them Pumpkin PanaCan in your honour. You can relax now. Tomorrow is Tuesday. :wub:

NO...NO...just send me a muffin recipe. A real recipe. Nothing else. It's come to that. :laugh:

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm now waiting for PanaCan's cake recipe. And that's not why the dogs have pumpkin.

With gratitude, I accept your offer. Muffins are probably what I"m looking for.

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.

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.

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.

You could use it in a bread pudding.

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.