Darienne

And always buy a few extra dinner plates. It seems that they are the first to get dropped.

Thanks, both of you. We do have $ramas. And DH will be under instructions to ASK at whatever grocery store he goes to. Plus, for just in case, he'll have a note re Digestives, Arrowroots, Social Teas, etc, ...I can't lose. (I guess. ) And, as per Tri2Cook, I always up the lime juice amount called for in any recipe.

Ah a superior type who will ask. To risk the mod's ire: I have on Ed's wall: Real Men Don't Take Advice: It is far better for a man to go down in flames of his own volition than to survive as a testimonial to someone else's superior wisdom so sayeth Michael Ulmer (I don't know who Michael Ulmer is but he is a wise man.) (And Ed never remembers to call until he's on his way home. What can I tell you? Still he's a wonderful man and has put up with me for over 60 years.)

I'm sending husband Ed to the grocery store tomorrow as part of his in-town errands, asking him to buy me 2 packages of Maria biscuits. He's not the greatest finder of things which I ask for nor asker for help. I'm not complaining...he's doing the grocery shopping... If he can't find these biscuits, what others might easily be a substitute for trying out this cake? Thanks.

I am assuming that 6 pieces of lime means 6 limes? And the photo on Kicking Back in Manitoulin...did you cover the cake with whipping cream in the end? Thanks.

Several years ago we rented a completely empty house for a few months. Amongst the stuff that we bought at second hand stores and flea markets and dollar stores, etc, etc, were a few pairs of what my Mother would have called glass curtains, the sheers which went under the drapes. Brought them home with us and amongst their many uses was just what you are discussing: draining large amounts of yoghurt. You could buy some at a second hand store probably as few people apparently use them any more.

Where is the 'aarrrgghhh!' button?

Fortunately we are not a toast-eating home.

We realize that's all it was...a lemon. But there were no more to be had and life in the heat without a toaster oven was not to be endured for long. We don't have a lot of choice in our region.

OK. I give up. I can't find a meaning for CATO. Thanks.

The die is cast and the large Breville Smart Oven, Best Buy, $110 CDN dollars off at $239.00 (plus Ontario sales tax...arrgghh) has been purchased. The Oster was returned to Costco and none was in stock. We have 30 days to do whatever we are going to do about the Breville and be able just to return it to the store or buy a two-year warranty which Consumers Report says is usually a waste of money and the very first thing is to check the oven against our oven thermometer (which currently at least is more or less accurate.) And thus we go forth.

The best I can say of the Bon Appetit recipe is that it's mainly throwing stuff into a blender.

Thanks to Anna N who is kicking back in Manitoulin, we have found our rocking recipe for 2017...well, until mid-year anyhow: Yotam Ottolenghi's Cauliflower Cake liberally doused in Romesco Sauce courtesy of Bon Appetit. First we ate it pretty warm...and then we ate the rest pretty cold. Loved it both ways. Thanks Anna.

I was about to start a Toaster Oven 2017 topic when I fell across this topic. Hooray. Now that I have read it through thoroughly I am beginning to think that the Oster which we recently bought at Costco (see Kerry Beal's post above, Sept 16, 2016) is simply a lemon. Not that the basic product is a lemon...but that we got a lemon. It takes forever to heat up...if you can even get it to 400 degrees and then after you put in your food item...it loses so much heat and never gets back to the original temperature...implying that you could get it in the first place. So, back it goes tomorrow as planned before finding this topic, and perhaps they'll still have another one in stock which we can try. Obviously it works very well for others...maybe we'll be lucky this time. (Unless someone has something else to add. The Breville Smart Oven is $350.00 in Canada.)

Is it lemon or is it lime? And could you give your recipe please? I'd love to try it. And I've found that I can always sub lime for lemon in my current favorites. Thanks.

Best news, Liuzhou.

Just reporting in that the Cauliflower cake was delicious with the Romesco sauce. Gave some to our dog walking neighbors to try. Quite different. We loved it. Thanks again.

I am delighted to say that we are having Cauliflower Cake for supper tonight. Thanks for the recipe and photos, Anna & Blue Dolphin.

Delighted to report that our model is not among those with the possible cracked blade problem.

We have a new 12-cup Cuisinart FP-12C Series. I have no complaint about how it runs. And I don't know anything about the blade...although I'll Google it now. What I loathe about it...and suspect that it applies to most if not all new kitchen appliances...is the size and weight.

Interesting, but no mention of making the base with cornstarch, our got-to recipe. Skimmed through the ice cream maker section. Yes, we are on a low budget for such things and just amateur homemakers so I looked up the ICE-100 maker which is what we have used for a long time now. It's $49.00 in the States...$89.00 in Canada. Yup. That's how it is. Always. And as for the heat problem...I use two small bungee cords and place two plastic coated ice paks around the machine and it does a fine job. True, I can't make back to back portions of ice cream...but I can easily do one a day and sometimes even two a day.

We have a most amazing crop of Hawberries this year. Never seen anything like it. Hop Ironwood fruits also. I suspect it's a mast year for them.

And so we are off again. Good!

Sorry. I'm from the far frozen north and don't recognize what these are. Thanks.

I also get most of my new recipe from the web. I gave away a lot of cookbooks a few months ago...but it's time again.