Darienne

Greweling is a great book. My first book was Making Artisan Chocolates, Andrew Garrison Shotts. I would recommend that one. Much smaller book, and easy to follow.

Even though I have stopped buying cookbooks, I have recently acquired 5. A friend, who is a Personal Care Worker, was begged this week by an elderly male client to take his wife's cookbooks. She passed away 18 months ago and it was time now to begin to give away her belongings I guess. My friend kept about a dozen for herself and now on my dining room table I still have at least four dozen cookbooks which I promised to dispose of. My friend is in the process of moving and I'm even keeping her allotment until after the move. If only someone lived within easy driving distance of us. I guess they'll go to my library for the stacks and the next book sale.

Wonderful to relive some of our long ago trips through your blog. But those horrible evil Goat Sticker Thorns. I could write a short story about the h*lls of those things and our dogs and our wagon which we used to pull our old handicapped pup. Hate them with a passion.

Choux-Fleurs? In New Mexico?

Well, now that makes sense. That means that About.com no longer exists? I do get The Spruce although I have not known why. No, I am not very computer savvy. Don't know of Verywell. Thanks chromedome.

Exactly. Thanks, kind sir.

Gladly JohnT, my South African food mentor. I'll pm it to you. Don't recall the exact legality of putting a recipe up in public. I am giving its source totally, even if I can't locate it now.

Close, but no cigar I'm afraid. I've typed in the heading every which way, but just can't come up with the original recipe. Mine has more bacon and no vinegar or bread crumbs...but then it's the kind of recipe which has so many variants to it. Thanks, Anna.

This is the amazing dish that I found on Aboutfood.com. Can't find the source anymore no matter how I type it in. Just keep on getting FB sites or Pinterest (which I loathe because of the way it has usurped so many other sites...just prejudice on my part no doubt) but I do have the recipe. It's a Polish Cabbage-Bacon-Cheese casserole baked in an iron skillet and it probably couldn't be any worst for the digestion if it tried...but oh, is it delicious. DH keeps asking me to make it again and again.

I'm with Soupcon on this one.

Dear Ice Cream Mentor, I would be delighted if you would share your recipe with us. I could use a new go-to dessert. Thanks.

Just to butt in here. Canadian condensed milk comes in a 300ml can. That's 10.1442 oz to the American cook. Why? I don't know. It has been known to make me quite riled at times, mostly because I can't remember the number of ounces in 300ml and have to work it out each time. Of course, this means to make an American recipe which calls for condensed milk, I have to open two cans. I know. I know. It's silly. But it still makes me angry...

I just remembered my Margarita pie. It's an easy one too and talk about pleasing the crowd! Whipping cream and booze...you can't lose.

I have my go-to lemon cheese pie (which also works as my lime cheese pie) and is very much like kayb's Lemon Icebox Pie....or AmyD's cheat key lime pie...or even the Not-Robert-Redford pie. My point is that on top of these pies I then add a dark chocolate ganache. Basically 4 oz chocolate, 1/2 cream (heavy or half & half) with a dollop of butter. Now that IS a crowd pleaser for sure.

Leftover potatoes? No such animal in our house.

Fought with DH for many years to get him to eat any brown rice, no matter how it was cooked or served. Then we bought a rice cooker. Now that's all he will eat. Why? I have really no idea.

Good to read your post, pistolabella. It's been so long since the Mexican section has been active. Good luck with the mole.

Another Ontarian here. (Well, actually a native Quebecoise). What we do have is a freezer still well stocked with apple cider from last fall's harvest: Macintosh and Northern Spy. Lovely flavor. Plus a few imported bananas for DH. And commercially frozen blueberries, mangoes and raspberries.

I'd be grateful for some useful recipes. I've never noticed any head changes after eating the chocolate, but I have a couple of boxes stored and should really use them up. Alas. The stuff is SO gritty.

OMG, my Father used to sing that song to me when I was a little girl.

Lindag, we have four freezers. Two are fridge freezers...we have a second second-hand fridge from when one of our children returned home for a couple of years many years ago...and two big chest freezers. Our cellar freezer just wouldn't hold both our food and the dogs', so we bought a second second-hand freezer. We have 2-100pound beasts and one month of food takes up a lot of room. Plus the dogs' freezer holds the ice cream and the apple cider from each fall's harvest. More than anyone wanted to know.

Gosh, I'm just pleased at the generosity of the Venerable Bede. I could not live without pepper I fear.

Our favorite meatball recipe has a very unsophisticated heritage. Taco Meatballs Recipe by Peggy Trowbridge Filippone on About.com (except that I can't find the recipe online now). And of course I have changed some of the ingredients, added some and left out others. And I triple the recipe and make the meatballs very, very small. What I like best about the recipe is that meatballs are not fried, but rather just baked in the oven on cookie sheets. I loathe standing there for half of forever frying little things and turning them over and over. That's the territory of the DH. The meatballs are frozen separated in the dog food freezer (coldest freezer), dumped into a big bag and into the people freezer for use (not as in the recipe).

And so...tell all...did you slice your hand or fingers? Ouch. Horrors. I try to be so careful of slicing thingies.

Not exactly intellectually challenging, but nonetheless interesting. The series is British, by Ann Cleeves, the heroine/detective is Vera Stanhope, the stories are set in Northumbria. Detective Stanhope is, according to the text, fat and ugly, unloved, but brilliant. The books have been made into a series but I've never seen them (and don't want to). Rather just keep it all in my head. Have to say that the mysteries are rather of the so-called 'cozy' variety. My DH has spoken to me on many occasions about my predilection for reading in the kitchen which is basically a dangerous thing to do. Fortunately last night's adventure did not ruin any library books. I am a voracious reader and cozy mysteries are only one slice of what I read.