Darienne

Wonderful blog, Percyn. So far, fascinating, full of new information and looking forward to seeing the photos of the food. We love Indian food but are not very familiar with much of it. It's so huge a topic.

Your slider tray looks brilliant, Lior.

Lots of fresh mint. You can't have it without lots of mind.

I was going to say tabbouleh, until I read Hassouni's post. Yumm. A good Fatoush. Can't beat it. But then I read Peter the Eater's post and thought right: ten best salads. That's it. I am a salad freak, always have been, always will be. I collect salad recipes.

If another Canuck can chime in, my favourite is cod, and then halibut. Sorry, iainpb, but I can't agree with you at all that pollock is either tasty or a substitute for cod. Perhaps in Australia it tastes? I would call Pollack basically tasteless, as in with no taste to it. Probably why they use it in pretend sea food mixes. As for 'fish and chips', here in East Central Ontario, we have lots of really good little fish and chips places. I've yet to eat decent fish and chips on our travels from Ontario to the Southwest USA. We've tried all the restaurants(?) in Moab, UT, and all have had atrocious fish and chips, even the pubs. But then we go there for the red rocks and the blue sky.

Not to mention the huge controversy over the role of fats. There are those who think that no-fat half & half is fine, because it has no fat. And no fat cream cheese. And these are healthy? Some would say so. Some would say not. Who gets to say? I have yet to see any Canada Food Rules that make sense. Can't speak for the USA.

My goodness! What sweet sin is this? What kind of chocolate bar? What kind of bread dough? What exactly are the dimensions of what we are looking at? I think I would like one. Yes, out of the oven, still warm. PanaCan, you are a wonder!

Splendid, Robert M.

The ornate building with the palm trees and horizontal gargoyles on the dome: Victoria Terminus Railway Station - Mumbai Found it through Google. One for the Gipper.

How embarrassing. I was so busy wondering how on earth that cathedral could be in Britain that I didn't notice the trees. I won't quit my day job and become a detective.

I've done a 'swirl' in ice cream with a knife with fruit pulps, but it wasn't for looks, just taste. DL gives a recipe for "Raspberry Swirl Ice Cream', but his directions won't get much further than our discussion, although he does say to layer the swirl mixture as you remove the ice cream from your ice cream maker. No instructions as to the final 'swirl' technique.

I am no expert on European cathedrals, but isn't that fairly ornate for Britain?

There are recipes for making ice cream or sorbet without an ice cream maker and you could use one of those. I've never done it. Then when the mixture is half-frozen, swirl in the syrup I would assume. I'm sure my answer is far too simple for what you have in mind, but it's what I would do.

We use the large frozen yogurt containers which we have had for years now, and empty yoghurt containers, of course, but my all time favorites are the flat margarine containers which I collected from a now defunct little breakfast restaurant. They measure just over 8x11, have plain or red lids and I hoard them.

Nothing works better at encouraging others to do unto you. Oh, maybe except for ice cream...

Seems I never stopped hearing about bacon?

Welcome, Baggy Cat, to eG, and what a shame that driver wouldn't stop.

I have never used Gorilla tape. I do have the stronger red duct tape but it requires scissors. Can you tear the Gorilla stuff with one hand in case the other is wounded? That is what I like about the standard gray stuff (though there are different grades). Nope. And it's not all that easy to cut either. For me, I anchor/stick one end of the tape on something, like a counter, and then get really good scissors to cut through the length I want. But still, having lived with it for over a year, I'd never be without it again in my arsenal.

We have lived in only one state: Utah, and I was amazed at how low the costs of power and gas bills were. Compared to what we pay in Ontario...they were peanuts.

I know little about the various sugars really, but the first time I tasted Panela just last year, I thought there would never be another sugar in the world for me. I was stunned by the complexity of the taste. :wub:

Rick Bayless, Diana Kennedy and Fany Gerson. And they can cook.

And congratulations are headed your way too, jrshaul.

Following the above posts on duct tape..., I wonder how much better Gorilla tape would work? I have given up duct tape for all kinds of household emergencies and repairs (until the DH 'really' repairs it in a true manly fashion, of course) for Gorilla tape which is SOOO much better, heavier, stickier, stronger, etc.

I cannot resist. I have a doggy bag story. Once, many years ago, when we were really strapped for cash always, my DH was on a traveling expense account. We lived in the province Quebec, where people take food seriously and the restaurants are good. Ed had eaten a huge steak out for dinner with his boss and brought home a doggy bag with the rest of the steak he couldn't eat to give to our dog. I ate it. Delicious.

Ditto Viktoria, from me too. :wub: