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It might also be good with a mixed milk/dark chocolate ganache. I think a white shell or a dark shell decorated with white/orange/green would be a worthy experiment. Confectionery partner, Barbara, and I are making the ganache tomorrow along with Greweling's mixed color hard candy from the big book (a la Minas6907). Busy day ahead. Probably won't get the ganache dipped though. Barbara is bringing the white chocolate. Of course all of this depends upon whether or not we get the threatened freezing rain!!! So?!? Results please! Alas, we got the freezing rain. If the school buses are cancelled...then you don't bother. We live about 45 country minutes apart. Rats. I need a cooking/baking/etc next door neighbor. I will report back when we get it done. In the meantime, did you try your own recipe? Tastes would be better than photos, but photos will have to suffice.

Sounds as if you are having a good time. Maybe it's time for another chocolate lesson for the three chocolateers. I'll ask.

And they often have nuts in them or on them. ...think I might have to go and make a coffee cake right now...what kind?...O, what kind? ...and with a streusel topping, I think.

Totally anecdotal and I would add: - you can eat coffee cake for breakfast - you can make the recipe into muffins added: I usually prefer coffee cakes over 'formal' cakes

It might also be good with a mixed milk/dark chocolate ganache. I think a white shell or a dark shell decorated with white/orange/green would be a worthy experiment. Confectionery partner, Barbara, and I are making the ganache tomorrow along with Greweling's mixed color hard candy from the big book (a la Minas6907). Busy day ahead. Probably won't get the ganache dipped though. Barbara is bringing the white chocolate. Of course all of this depends upon whether or not we get the threatened freezing rain!!!

Your Margarita ganache sounds like a good bet, lebowitz. I'll buy some white chocolate next time into the city. Thanks.

Is that aluminum foil lining the burners on the stove? Thanks.

Googling Margarita truffle or ganache does not seem to yield a plain Margarita ganache. Can anyone direct me to one? No extra fruits, please. Preferably in dark chocolate (I never keep any white or milk on hand). However, I'll buy whatever I need. Thanks. ???Perhaps Margarit's lime, tequila, etc go better with white chocolate???

Thanks Minas6907. I have both Greweling books in my pile currently to find 'the' recipe which we'll make. I'll look in C&C next. Your confections are wonderful!

Had forgotten about those. I do mine a bit differently. Butter & sugar both sides. Cinnamon too if you like. A long piece of chocolate at the bottom of the roll-up procedure. Into the oven 375 degrees for a few minutes. Yummm :wub:

You'd be surprised and it may seem counterintuitive, but those don't really go with a meal like this...to a group like this. A few pumpernickel bagels might be in the mix, but they will be left at the end. We secular Jewish New Yorkers eat sesame bagels, onion bagels, poppy seed bagels, plain bagels, everything (gasp) bagels and bialys (and I may throw a bulka and pletzel into the mix). Now, if I was to make some tuna salad and or some egg salad, it would be a totally different story. Hmmm.... The great joy of my childhood in Montreal was real dark pumpernickel, torn to pieces in a bowl with cottage cheese and sour cream, salt and pepper on top. My Poppa (what my Mother called her Father) ate that and so then did I. Needless to say, pickled herring was not one of my favorites. | Can you still buy real pumpernickel in Montreal now? Is there out there a recipe for the real stuff? A small round loaf, with cornmeal on the bottom, very moist, very dark, almost sweet...my mouth is watering. I'll eat a bagel as noted above in your post, but they are only pale commercial attempts and fall far short of a Montreal bagels...but then we've been there before. Have a joyful party. You are a good son-in-law.

Real pumpernickel.

That's what Barbara and I will do this week. Pull sugar. Those look lovely. The recipe comes from where, please?

I ate a rattlesnake that I caught. Probably wouldn't do it again...either the catching or the eating.

How did it taste to you?

Nanaimo Bars are truly Canadian and go back to the 50s. I've always found them too sweet but DH loves them. They are a big hit in Canada!

Seeing as I am mid-Margarita obsession, I would welcome such a recipe also.

"Mexican Mornings" by Ruth Harkness, 1947 & 48, published in Gourmet magazine. Absolutely delightful reading. Haven't been so entranced by anything I've read for a long time. Thanks go to EatNopales for posting about Harkness' writings in the Mexican forum yesterday. I all to partake of this wonderful series.

That recipe looks like fun. Must try it. Thanks.

Great idea, Jaymes, and wonderful list, Andie. Thank you both.

I've had the time (sneaked from duties) to read two of the entries in Harkness' "Mexican Mornings" journal. Wonderful. The writing style is so lively and the content so interesting. I'm going to read them all as soon as I can. Thank you so much for finding this, EN. Also Googled Harkness to read more about her. Fascinating woman.

We have this group of dog folks plus dogs stay over at the farm every August. This has been between 6 and 26 people and 6 and 25 dogs. Yes, it is busy. Dogs can certainly complicate the feeding of humans. And each year I say that I'm not going to do as much work next year and it seems to me that casseroles might help although I've made to date only one Mexican casserole. I make Lasagna and Moussaka...I guess these are casseroles? The thought of many casseroles I've read about makes me just about gag. There's just something about the concept which doesn't appeal to me. Must be some childhood memory...

To all: thanks so much for all the useful information.

Oh my! I think that covers it all, PanaCan.

And the answer is Voila! Thanks, Anna. Looked up the site for fun and was surprised to see that I had seen one of these outfits for sale in Moab. Took it up to the front to ask...but no one knew what it was or what it was for exactly. Didn't buy it.