Okanagancook

The use of a water spray bottle works really well for adding moisture to doughs.

Beautiful beef...hopefully there was a bottle of red in between the bubbly and the dinner. Happy New year.

Lamb dumplings, salad and a cup of instant Dashi.

Bacon Sandwich, yum

Chang and Myers surf and turf Shanghai noodles. Didn't care for the flavour. Too Sweet.

I have had a few woks over the years. The two I use is a cast iron wok for Curries and the el-cheapo carbon steel wok for hot stir fry. It is light and is virtually nonstick from all the cooking that has gone on. It is easy to clean between dishes...I use a bamboo brush and it reheats in a flash.

I will never again set the snack filled air fryer basket on the counter without looking....turned around....CRASH. Yup. Of course landed upside down dumping the snacks all over the kitchen floor. 🤕☹️ Fortunatley the plastic basket survived with only a chip missing.

A reasonably priced carbon steel wok from Chinatown, seasoned properly is a thing of beauty. I agree no nonstick coated wok.

It’s a PITA sell

This soup has so many variations. I used to use Bolt’s Mulligatawny paste for the base with only onion, tomatoes, chicken or lamb stock and cubed lamb. Cannot get that commercial paste anymore so I have a spice mixture that is close. But no Apple, celery, etc in my Mulli-soup.

Tonight, seeing we are both still off our game from Xmas Influenza, will be DH’s go to dish...macaroni tossed with grated cheddar, topped with baked beans and a fried egg😢. This he makes whenever I ‘let’ him ‘cook’. 😎 He lost five pounds with the flu so whatever he wants.......just poured another Knobb Creek....damn flu is hanging on.

What a thoughtful gift. I love that. Most of our friends are at the age that they don’t really need anything so similarly I made 18 egg yolk pasta for everyone and put in fancy tins. Chucked them in the freezer until it was Santa time. Everyone was very happy.

Back home and have just poured myself a nice portion of Knob Creek to help my ailing body. On day 8 of the flu...ache, chills, head ache and a bad cough....I learned today that a friend who has a post cancer tracheostomy was in the hospital for two nights with this....the blood work came back positive for influenza A. He had a close call but thank God his daughters insisted he go to the hospital. We have not eaten much like you. Zero energy. Lots of good stuff to eat, ashame really. All I can say, there are better days ahead!

Sadly brother doesn’t have bourbon BUT his Scotch Whisky collection hit the spot...must be 40 bottles in the cabinet.....there is a Santa😍

My DH and I are visiting my brother. My present to everyone was a bad cold. Everyone is sick and not just a runny nose. We are sleeping 12 hours a day, bad cough and fevers. We were supposed to go out to a friend’s for a tapa style Christmas but we had to cancel that. No one is hungry. So we made some pizzas last night and about half of them are left. There is so much food in the fridges!

I use those deli containers only now. Easy to stack. Come in 1, 2 and 4 cup sizes plus the little 1/2 oz, 2 oz and 4 oz containers for sauces, small amounts of stock, compound butters......very handy. Thye wash up well and they do seem to last forever...plus the giving away of leftovers. I get mine at a local "superstore' type grocery store.

Beautiful looking jerky!

Thank you! Wonderful animation. I love the part where she has to put more filling in him!😃

They are fun. Well, if you get it right they are crunchy and tender. Get wrong and be prepared to go to the dentist. I have played with them a few times after a chef friend told me about them.

@ElsieD speaking of popping grains...try wild rice.

Thanks for replying @blue_dolphin. Mystery is solved as I looked up from the well and found where the little thing fits. There are three holes on the side of the machine where there are screws and they are covered with these little 'plugs'....I notice now that it is not hollow. It must have fallen off the side of the machine into the well where the tank fits the last time I was filling the tank. It is back in it's place and no water was spilt! Sheesh. Thanks.

@TicTacYeah, I hear you but better than just an oven....retrofitting an existing kitchen. 😥 We did have some char on the crust.

I took the tank off to fill and there was this little black hollow piece in the well on the machine. It is a small round plastic part and the only place it fits is in one of the indentations on the bottom of the tank. There, it doesn't really seem to fill a purpose but I don't see where else it fits. Anyone know.

Nice looking meals everyone! A couple of recent dinners. Pork medallions with green beans & bacon and corn & barley. Curry: shrimp, lamb/barley, zucchini/pea and dahl with raita and a chapati (not in the picture). Mostly from the freezer :-))

We went to the new Italian restaurant which opened in space at our gym. I know, sounds weird. It seats around 45 people and they made a separate entrance for non-gym customers. The owners are Italians from the Milan area. The moved to Canada a few years ago...to the Vancouver area. They wanted to open a small restaurant there but the rent was so high...$25,000 a month for a tiny place. They were visiting friends in the area and decided to relocate. The husband builds gas pizza ovens and he installed one in the restaurant. They have a fancy Italian coffee machine with two grinders. The kitchen was quite well equipped otherwise. There were four of us. We had two 12 inch pizzas which were very Italian...not too much topping, simple tomatoes under the cheese and toppings. Made to order. They brought us fresh Parmesan chunks to go with our wine after we ate the pizza and then offered some little pastries. The owners were very friendly. A supplier came in to deliver some custom beer pitchers and they asked him if he would like a coffe...did that a few times. We really hope they do well and we will be supporting them probably once a week for a post work out snack or meal. The big problem is the location. They need to work some social media. One of our group is bringing his hockey group to have pizza and beer next week...25 people. That will be a test for them..