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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:

We don't eat out much, but our doggies are usually our doggy bags. One exception is a Mexican restaurant in Columbia, MO. The portions are so huge, and we don't order the same dishes, so we can usually eat for three more meals on the leftovers. They do have the best chips I have ever eaten.

Sorry...it was too late to edit my post. I should have added that this plan, at this stage, allows for one meal of 'food' and this is, of course, a concern. No way I could eat like this forever... We do have a raw salad every second night with either some beans, meat or cheese and then every other night is a soup or a light meal. We do eat a light meal at suppertime anyway. Tonight is a raw salad, greens mostly, with an oil & lemon dressing with some black beans. Any real food tastes delicious at this point.

Good topic with lots of good ideas. But nothing since June. Between the Mexican and Chinese...which nobody mentioned...and lots of vegetables, cooked and raw, one could survive very well. For instance, we like to eat Szchewan Hot and Sour soup regularly. I have kept my increased weight steady for a few years now at about 30 pounds more than I need. OK. So I wasn't really going to go for it again. Ever. Then Spinal Stenosis reared its ugly head again and as we all know, every pound carried contributes greatly to hip and leg pain...of which I have a sizable portion, pain, that is. What to do? My chiro tried to convince me to try the meal replacement plan which he sells. No way, thought I. It's all powders and capsules, nothing real or human. And taste good? Not on your life. And we all know that weight off quickly never stays off. But then...but then...the pain is now. And not being able to stand or walk for any time at all. Get the weight off however you can, properly or not, and then one last kick at the can. The short answer is: yes it works. I don't care if it's water loss...it's still pounds off my damaged spinal nerves. Has anyone ever used one of these meal replacement plans and had it work to any extent? Or am I about to be hammered by one and all?

Just rereading this topic looking for information on making swirly multicolored lollipops and found the above message. It's now October, I still have the turtle lollipops, and they are still fine. (Could not produce enough at that time for the organization.) And I could still use more practical information about making swirly pops. We're going to work the PG's big book.

But aren't those roses still in bloom? That's further south than Cape Cod???

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