Darienne

I am a great vegetable lover. In fact, both parents were vegetarians for a long time. Mother forever. Father until I was born and forced to eat steak (aka burnt shoe leather) every night until I left home. However, I do NOT like winter squash and am not sure why. I'll make squash soup and eat it happily. Once. The second time is not so happy. I don't even like roasted squash more than once a season. I love parsnips and sweet potatoes and suchlike. Turnips...not so much. Please. Hit me with your best squash for squash haters recipe and I'll try it.

Exquisite as always, Minas6907. Today I added one more item to my long list of apple products, thanks to our crazy overproducing Macintosh tree: Apple Cider Salted Caramels, a recipe from Smitten Kitchen. I thought I'd died and gone to caramel heaven. They are delicious!

There are Latino markets in Kensington Market in Toronto. Oh, and I know of one in Ottawa now. You won't find any in Peterborough. Oriental, East Indian, yes...Latino no.

Welcome sartoric to eGullet. I'd love to come to Australia some time but I fear it's never to be... I have a dear friend who lives in Daintree, QLD, and after googling the placenames, I see that you are very far from that area although both are in QLD.

Tri2Cook put it very well. Welcome to eGullet. DH (Dear Husband) and I also love Indian food and cook it together in our home. Being Canadians in Ontario, we are lucky to have ingredient outlets in our area which make it easier than for many living in the USA where Indian food remains pretty much unknown. That is slowly changing however. Looking to forward to reading about your favourite Indian dishes.

andiesenji, my very first eGullet mentor. Taught me how to candy fruits and peels many years ago now.

Our Macintosh tree went into overdrive this year and produced more apples than I believed one tree could ever produce. Besides giving away many bushels of them I have made (and am still making as we speak) the following: apple sauce, apple cider, apple cakes (a few different kinds), dried apple slices, apple leather with and without sliced nuts in it, apple butter, apple syrup, and quarts and quarts of Apple Pie Ice Cream. I have still to try hard apple cider. A friend suggested apple cider vinegar but I don't think I'm in the mood. We've had a good frost and still the apples keep on falling from the tree. 45 just today. When will this end? I think there are still a couple of hundred left at the top of the tree. Our Northern Spy produced about 45 apples in total. It's not a well tree. Actually we have over 20 apple trees on the property, many escapees from one of the original houses, and some of the apples are ones you never see anymore in the stores. And haven't for a very long time. And they are not really tasty by 'modern' standards.

One more step is taken. Found Slow Cooker Liners by Reynolds, 4 13"x21" $3.29 at Super Store which is a Loblaws. Ed is doing the last cleaning on the insert and then we try the insert with the slow cooker bag. No, slow cooker insert hasn't been in heavy cleaning mode all along...Ed just keeps forgetting to get back at it. And, as noted above, we are overwhelmed this year with apples. In fact, it was my second batch of Apple Butter which burnt onto the slow cooker insert so badly. I might even make Apple Butter #3 as the test event. Tomorrow.

My first response was: Sounds awful. But then...I never tried it and along with Ron...won't.

Did not know about the red-fleshed variety. This is a wonderful thread. Thanks for your addition.

Hi Elsie, Carrying on yesterday's conversation, here's a photo of some of our Macintosh apples. Sorry, but they are all bruised now, as all the remaining apples are windfalls. Nor are these polished their lovely red. Still I can see that the line around the core is not red, but rather the visible one is a bit rustish colored. (They are still delicious and are still being turned into a number of different apple items.) So...apparently your apples are not Macs...as you suspected.

Ed is still working on the insert using oven cleaner. Too many other things...like our huge apple harvest...have intervened and he's not finished yet. I think. I now know that Loblaws (aka Super Store in Peterborough) carries 'Slow Cooker Savers' made by Regency, 20"x11", 5 quart capacity. Will pick some up tomorrow and take a look.

My chopper of choice, after trying and wearing out or breaking many in my long married life, is from Pampered Chef. Yes, it is costly, but by heavens, it works and works well. The nut pieces won't be of equal size - is there any chopper which does that? - but miss-sized nuts have never been a problem in our eating life. DH and I are both avid nut fans and where others amazingly leave out the nuts called for in a recipe...I will always double the nuts to keep him happy. :rolleyes: Nothing like a happy husband.

What Ottawa store carries them? Maybe I can find them here in Peterpatch. Thanks, Elsie.

Depends where I buy them. One of my favorite whole food stores buys walnut pieces and walnut halves. We've found bits of shell just too often in the pieces to buy them...so I buy the halves and chop. ...but I don't like it...

Thanks for the hug anyway. Had a ceramic insert...it quietly cracked right into two. Don't know about the Instant Pot...I'll google it. As for replacement parts...I don't think so. Aroma seems to be an American only brand at Target which we don't have. Too bad I didn't wreck before we went to Ohio last weekend. No, I'm not attached to it.

rotuts...the video says nothing about a removable insert which mine has. I looked on the bottom of the outside container to see if I could tell where the heating element is. And I can't. Oh, just checked the manual...which I downloaded and may not be exactly correct to my model...says there's a 'ring of heat' surrounding the side wall.

I don't anything about the Aroma line. It was $5 and I bought it at our favorite Utah second hand store...the source of so many of our 'goodies'. And Target came last year to Canada and now has left I believe. Certainly the one in Peterborough has. YES. My Aroma Roaster has an insert as do most slow cookers. It's discreet, (ruined), removable, metal, coated with enamel, like your grandmother's roasting pan. So here I am, looking for a graphic representation to explain the removable liner...and lo and behold!...I come upon images under "Slow Cooker Liners" https://www.google.ca/search?q=slow+cooker+liners&biw=1536&bih=707&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMIi6nE-Pa_yAIVghY-Ch3moQlw Hooray! Hoorah! No, oh, wait a second...they are not available in Canada. Quelle surprise. They were for a while...but now are not. But no doubt will be again. But at least I know where I can get them next summer and in the meantime, I'll buy the heavy large aluminum foil at Costco (no tomatoes please) and use it as a 'lining' in my 'liner.' I think. Meantime, I'll make Apple Butter on the stove or in the oven. Thanks again.

You are both a scholar and a gentle person. Tell, if you can, do you mean by the 'pot', the insert liner or the actual container which holds the insert? Many thanks.

So the insert to my 6-quart (second-hand) Aroma Roaster Oven is finally ruined. It was enamel covered and the last Apple Butter was just too much for it. Ed is still using oven cleaner just to get the burnt sugar off, but it was well on its way to ruined long ago. How stupid I was to make Apple Butter in it a second time. I've read the 2013 eG thread of Slow Cookers: Slow Cooker Quality & Recommendations and it was all very depressing. I have a couple of questions: - has anyone tried lining a somewhat destroyed insert pan with large-size heavy aluminum foil and would that work? - has anyone tried using a slow cooker with a different 'non-slow cooker' pan inside it and how did that work? Apparently you are supposed to be able to do it. None of my larger pyrex dishes will fit...but a smaller round one will...which basically is pretty useless for a large pork shoulder. Please don't bother with 'use the oven'...I know that one and can do it. I want a slow cooker of 6 quarts. Sorry. Or has anyone since 2013 found the ideal 6-quart slow cooker/roaster pan? ...please do let me know. Thanks.

Deryn, this is terrible and we shall think of you while we eat our turkey, etc, etc, tomorrow.

Fortunately DH and I are not big on appearance...but very big on taste. So, Shelby dear, if the dessert tasted good, it's fine by me. It's also Ed's favorite all time dessert...but not with the regular prescribed cream filling. Oh no, his Mother was a butter-happy baker and so the filling must have w-a-a-y more butter in it. Of course, they did live right beside her Father's dairy farm...

Hello Sandy and welcome to eGullet. It's a good place to be as you will soon find out. And welcome to San Diego, a beautiful city. My parents spent about 20 years there and I loved visiting them. So much to see and do. (I live in East Central Ontario.) All best, Darienne

Bravo, liuzhou.

Googled LEM and came up with sausage makings...surely some kind of problem here for a cake. What is LEM?