Okanagancook

I did not realize there is a free option for EYB. I will let a few friends interested in EYB know that. With the great search features it is easy to find what you are looking for. I wonder if the new website can match all the information and articles provided at EYB. I go to the site daily to read their new articles. Also, the membership is very active at making comments about recipes they have made. I always check the notes section of recipes I am about to make to see what is said about it.

https://www.amazon.ca/More-Than-Gourmet-16-Ounce-Packages/dp/B0010ON2AK/ref=sr_1_2?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1523217956&sr=1-2&keywords=More+than+gourmet Yikes, $330+Cdn or $21/oz.

https://m.wikihow.com/Peel-a-Soft-Boiled-Egg Probably wearing glove would help with the heat.

Oops chillis are pretty cheap

Another variable in stock making is whether you use filtered water or tap water. Filtered water yields a cleaner stock.

Ingenious

Could of had some cucumber slices on the side.

Thanks, I was searching for this awhile back. your bread is truly drool-worthy.

I too am interested in how these turn out. Just bought some coarse sea salt!

Using @gfweb's idea of bread crumbing a battered item, I made a couple of test chicken drum sticks. Used the soda water-flour batter then coated them with fine bread crumbs. I forgot to spray oil the basket so of course they stuck. They certainly turned out very juicy and the coating was 'quite' good but not as good as the real thing. I will use this method again. Served with cauliflower in cheese sauce; baked okra, onion and mushrooms accompanied by @Shelby's Cowboy Candy.

I have a Cadco and it is simply an incredible machine. Noisy but worth it. Mine needs a dedicated circuit....they recommmend this.

‘My dinner tonite was lentils and rice in the IP lentils are still a lil crunchy ‘ batten down the hatches! meals look lovely. sorry about your weather

Get yourself some larger plastic tubs with lids so you can stack them in the freezer. Label the lids numerically. Take everything out of the freezer and sort into categories that work for you. Ie, beef, lamb, poultry, premade food, etc. Make a list of what and the number bin it is in. Make this into a spread sheet. Use different collars for each bin. If you have an upright you can do the same thing with smalller baskets, numbers and colour coding. then try to be Religious about marking the ins and outs. now is a good time if the weather is lousy and cool. this works very well for me.. Obviously I made omissions, etc., but generally speaking I was able to empty a freezer’s worth of food from three freezers because I knew what I had and where it was. good luck.

At my suggestion he bought a meat grinder and makes his own otherwise it is quite costly to feed a 60 lb doggie. They add other stuff. The reason for the raw diet is allergies so they are slowly introducing more variety.

@gfweb your meal looks amazing! All my favourites. Beautiful dessert. I had made a dessert but we were too full and my overnight guest had it for breakfast

It is indeed probably one of the prime areas to live in Canada. Growing zone 7 to 7 a. The wine industry is amazing and is just getting going. A Chardonnay from here just won best in show at the LaMonde Chardonnay competition and many other wines have won international awards. There are two big wine festivals in the spring and fall attracking thousands of people for each. We also have fruit. Mainly soft fruits now like peaches, apricot, cherries. Apples have become uneconomical to grow due to the competition from Washington State apple growers and the Chinese who have very large mechanized farms while here it is mainly small growers working hilly landscapes. Many, many apple orchards have been taken out in favour of grapes vines. It is also very warm in the summer with a beautiful 120km long lake which is used for water sports. We have miles of mountain bike trails as well as good road biking roads.In the winter, which is Mid-November to March we have great skiing in the surrounding mountains. we moved here in 2005 and have seen tremendous growth in tourism. Luckily we chose to live in Naramata which is 15 Kim’s from Penticton. It gets very busy in Penticton in the summer and we can hang out here away from the hustle and bustle. Even so, Naramata has 3000 full time residents and swells to 5000 when everyone who owns property here comes for vacation. the farmers market is absolutely amazing...not like California, but for Canada it is special. Many retirees from cooler climates like Alberta are looking to retire here and those in Vancouver are cashing in their high priced homes for a place in the sun. Real estate prices are rising quite quickly. anyway, it is wonderful here. All visitors are welcome!

Well, here in the Okanagan I have my arugula peeking out of the soil and the garlic is about three inches, but it is still a little unseasonable. My old home town, Edmonton, was around -15C yesterday with new snow. This is why we moved here for retirement.

Yes, I do remember those wretched coconut thingies. Not my taste as a child and I would have trouble liking them now also. I wonder why are around anymore.

Well, there are 2 1/2 pages of errors. i think the instructions for cooking are missing a “1”

I would agree that most lentils take 15 minutes at the very least and are not usually soaked prior to cooking because that would lead to mushy lentils once cooked. However, the small red lentils you mention first MAY cook that quickly. Have not used them in a salad....more in soups, curries and in the microwave cooked with rice because they cook at the same time.

My friend who went to Japan recently wanted to make black sesame ice cream in my machine. It was quite the experience. Made from the Serious Eats website. One has to make the sesame paste from scratch.

I also think that might be the way to go. I just wanted those earth shatteringly crisp onion rings to work in the air fryer. Best onion rings ever. When I deep fried them I needed to drain them for a long time because the oil got trapped inside the ring. I cooked them all in the fat then reheated them in a 400 degree oven for about 5 minutes and they were perfect.

I would take the wine nicely wrapped. I am a say like it is kinda gal so I would say something like “you probably have your wine and cheese pairs done so this is for later”. Wine is never a bad gift especially it seems these people like wine. You can start the conversation about how you decided to bring wine. If these are people worth getting to know you will find out with such a conversation. The other ideas presented are also all excellent .

We started with homemade sausage rolls...no picture but they were really good. Seared scallops on a bed of spinach with a butter sauce. Bistecka, sautéed mushroom with a touch of truffle oil, onion rings (from the air fryer topic); air fryer frites which I over did so they were a bit toooooo crunchy; and a salad to finish, no picture. I have not eaten that much in a long time. It was good. My friend ate some of the black sesame ice cream we made earlier in the day...I was way to full.

After bragging to my brother about how I emptied a freezer he reminded me that there needs to be quite a bit of room for his dog's frozen raw meat....we are dog sitting for three weeks so I will have to fire up the older freezer! But that's ok, the dog get grated vegetables with the meat and I happen to have 9 bags of zucchini from last year's garden in the freezer