Darienne

I regret that I never enjoyed cooking for the first 65 years of my life, that I regarded it with the same attitude that I had towards making beds and cleaning toilets...something I HAD to do but didn't really want to. It took so much time away from things I was much more interested in. And all those years my wonderful husband did all the short-order cooking, something I am still to nervous to try. All those years I felt such guilt...but not enough guilt to push me into cooking one more thing than I had to. Now I am having a wonderful time, but now I am so much slower to learn what I need to know, and my hands no longer obey my demands.

Somehow came across a recipe for Salame de Chocolate (Portuguese) and made it. Yum. Then looked to to see how it was made in other countries and found a recipe I liked better by Canadian Foodie. http://www.acanadian...ocolate-salami/ Used rum for the liquor. I'd never heard of this confection before and had no idea of how popular it was. Next turned to my current flavor obsessions: lime, Tequila, Grand Marnier, etc, and looked for a lime cookie, one which would supply the needed lime juice to the Margarita chocolate log concept. http://www.howtoeata...a-stewarts.html OK. Made the cookies. Then subbed Tequila and Cointreau for the prescribed liquor and added extra lime zest for good luck. Used a lower percentage cacao chocolate, 60%, and yes, it was delicious. Neighbors liked it too. Hmmm....I love raspberry... Also what could I use for a handy mold instead of trying to get a perfectly round salame shape? Forgot: subbed peanuts for the prescribed varieties and doubled the amount. I googled Margarita and nuts and found the answer seemed always to be peanuts...which I don't usually care for in candy...but which was absolutely correct.

Still confused here. We have cylindrical leather punches and we use them for leather. The separate ones and the variable ones. How can you use them for culinary purposes? What are you making?

In French only in Celcius and in Euros. France it is.

I am drooling. Big time. Love the designation of 'sort-a' Mexican. Much of my cooking could be called by that name. Nothing to show of late. But we'll be back...

I watched just a couple of minutes of the video. Sweet. Oh, so sweet. Lucky you. But then if anyone ever deserved an enrober, it's got to be you.

http://www.soulhealing.com/choco2.htm#Chocolate%20Raspberry%20Jam%20Truffles Truffles by Hank Friedman. I can't speak to any of the recipes except the one for the Raspberry truffles. Raspberry is my go to flavor and I love the ganache this man makes. It couldn't be any more raspberryish. :wub:

Someone is getting an exquisite and delicious gift.

And please, RWood, what is it in your base which makes the mouth feel better?

Looks lovely FP. I've never tried that flavor. I'll look it up today.

Don't stop making fruitcakes. We have a friend who makes them every year...bakes them right in fancy tins...which we ALWAYS clean and return...and I love them. I think she empties the local liquor store basting them weekly. Yummm... :wub:

Wonderful fantasy cake. If we ever get to Ecuador, we're coming to visit and you and I will make little sugar sheep together. And I'll bring you Canadian 7-year old Cheddar too.

Yes, to the Whiskey Cream. Thanks PanaCan. I still have the boozy fruit from three years ago when I was going to make Black Fruitcakes...well, a lot less of it. I have been using it up in a lot of other desserts. Our daughter's BF is from Grenada and I was going to make it for him. Never quite got there. I would love your recipe although it's too late for this year I guess. I still have an unopened bottle of Mixed Essence and one of Caramel Burnt Sugar. Maybe I could make him a cupcake.

Copycat Enstrom's Chocolate-coated toffee is always a winner for me. Candied ginger and orange peels dipped in chocolate is another one. And this year I am thinking of making Chocolate Salami. I found a good recipe by A Canadian Foodie that I have tweaked slightly and really like. I'm interested in copycat Bailey's Irish Cream. We prefer a Canadian product called Panama Jack which is in the fortified wine section and is much like Bailey's except that it has a tiny bit more kick to it. Not quite so smoooooth which I am not really crazy about. A recipe please? Or a place to look? Thanks.

I'm going to try that Thai recipe soon. It sounds like a winner for sure. Thanks, kate.

Next fall will do quite nicely thanks. And then we hope for a bountiful grape season...although not likely.

I'll agree with you about the Kraft Mac & Cheese (although honestly, I was never a fan, not even as a kid), but I'll strongly disagree about the grilled cheese sandwich. When properly made, they were, and are, and will always remain, ambrosial. Ditto for grilled cheese sandwiches. We have them once a week and I still love them as I did when a child. And I still like to have mine cut into 'boats'.

So we were sitting in the living room yesterday, chatting to family, when suddenly there's this large explosion in the kitchen, in the oven. I was cooking beef kidneys and liver for the dogs in an old Pyrex casserole dish when it exploded in the oven. Yes, it was old. Bought at St. V de P in the last few years as I recall. Not scratched...as I recall...can't tell know. Fortunately it was not a covered dish and it split open and apart so the food was not compromised. And I did check it all with the proverbial fine-toothed comb. But it was a mess and it was a shock. Just reporting in. A first for us in over 52 years.

Ed and I recently had Kraft Dinner for the heck of it...the very first thing I ever cooked in my life many decades ago...and we wondered if the product had changed??? It was awful. Simply awful.

I've never done it that way either. I needed apple butter for the dish I came up with for the latest installment of TGRWT from khymos.org and that seemed like the best solution for getting it done during the work-week so I could be in before the deadline. It worked great. Never a day without learning. Looked up Khymos.org and TGRWT. Not my thing, but interesting. I'm still learning how to boil water I fear.

Thank you honda. The recipe looks useful. We don't eat shellfish, but I guess they could be made with some other tasty filling.

Those Crispy Cyclone Rolls look amazing. I googled for a recipe and found nothing. Any ideas?

Never thought of making apple butter in a crock-pot. Great idea, Tri2Cook. Alas, we had no apples this year after last year's bumper crop. We did have wild grapes up the wazoo. I could pick some more...

Hello Rajoress and welcome to the wonderful world of eG posting. I've never had a whoopie pie...must be my wartime Canadian upbringing...but those do look pretty darned yummy. Just might try to make some.

Ditto for me. I have yet to find a 'low calorie, low fat, no fat, etc, etc,' goodie which truly tastes good.