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I’ll have a car in Niagara as well.

I have had good luck with this one, and the price seems reasonable. For full disclosure, it’s the only pectin I have ever used for PDF, but the texture seems similar to others I have tasted. http://www.lepicerie.com/Yellow-Pectin.html

Gorgeous!

Put me down for a kilo please

Where can you get more of the canisters?

Oh look, my comment is gone too.

Sweet: Desserts from London's Ottolenghi

I just signed up to Instagram to comment. ”Looks very similar to the EZTemper, which has been out for a couple of years in North America. Indeed, the description is virtually identical. I love my EZTemper. http://www.eztemper.com/purchase.html”

And Kerry is the ultimate enabler.

If you have a local Asian grocery (especially Thai), you should be able to get coconut cream powder.

I’m with Nick on this one... as someone who HAD to eat them, I have no desire to consume them now. Although I understand that they have improved quite a bit since the late ‘80s when I ate them. They used to be pretty rude. I did find them useful for one thing - bartering. I spent 9 years in the Army National Guard, much of it in a medical company. During that time, I went on several trips to Central and South America, where we set up free clinics and provided care to locals. Very often, the locals found the MREs to be a novelty, and I think the sheer number of calories in a pack was attractive, so I was able to barter for local meals and goods. I ate on the local economy whenever possible, and traded away my 2 daily MREs (we got MREs for breakfast and lunch, and hot meals for dinner). I came home with all sorts of hand made items, including some lovely alpaca sweaters from Bolivia.

American here, who had to look it up. For my fellow Americans, courgette = zucchini. And the muffins look delicious.

I think a mix of apples tends to work well. I use predominantly tart firm apples like Granny Smiths, but with a portion of a softer apple like a jonagold thrown in, as these tend to cook down. I love Honeycrisps for eating but they are super juicy, as others have mentioned. Precook to reduce the liquid (Granny Smiths tend to hold up well to precooking) and add a small amount of thickener. Like Martin, I use a little reduced apple juice (in the form of cider jelly, which is just super reduced cider) to add more apple flavor, and I go very light on sugar because I like my pies tart. Precooking also prevents that huge air space between the top of the filling and the crust, and allows for more apples! As as far as the crust, others have said this but it’s worth repeating. Get the fat worked in well (I use a food processor for his and it works well) before you add any water. Once the water goes in, any working of the dough will result in gluten development, so just bring it together. I also use a trick from an old recipe from Cooks Illustrated - substitute vodka for about half of the water. Alcohol does not result in the development of gluten (water does) and it burns off in the cooking. So it helps the dough stay tender and flaky, since you end up having less water in the dough.

I’d be happy to bring some up, Kerry. I’m not sure if I’m going to swing by Jim’s on my Kentucky trip or have him ship them, but I’m driving to Niagara, so bringing them up is no problem.

I’d be interested in a few. Will you be going to Niagara?

We put in a LaCanche when we redid our kitchen a couple of years ago. We have been very happy with it. We have a gas cooktop and electric ovens with convection, one full width, and one narrow one. Four regular burners plus one large one for a French top that also doubles as a wok burner, which gets super hot. The smallest burner does very well at the low end. We have the Saulieu, which is 43 1/2” wide. The electronics are super simple. Bonus, it comes in lots of pretty colors.

Yum. Me too.

Thanks!!!!!!

Do we have an actual recipe with amounts or ratios (for pb fluff)?

Yes, this.

My chocolate tastes lean quite dark as well, so I pretty much only use white as a base for fruity ganaches, so I am looking for a fairly neutral base. I am a hobbyist and I mostly do chocolates for family and friends, so I don't need to worry about making something for everyone's tastes. I find Felchlin Eidelweiss to be edible (which is as far as I will ever go as far as white chocolates). I recently got my first shipment to play with, so I have only sampled and have not worked with it yet, but my Albert Uster rep says it is easy to work with and quite fluid. It's not cheap, but not super pricey either, and since my rep drops off at my office, I don't pay shipping. It is pretty milky but not nauseatingly sweet. I'll post again once I have had a chance to play with it.

Worked for me! Workshop and dinner for Maddie and I, master class x 2 for me.

Kerry, I had been on the list for both master classes but mysteriously dropped off the last version. To be clear, I want to take both. ETA thanks for fixing!!!

Jim, that’s not mine, so not sure about the crisscrossed item - that’s the photo I found online that I used as a guide. I am pretty sure it is the exact same plastic mini-shed. I have a hole with a household air filter hung in front of the hole, and a cheap box fan hung behind it. I have not yet had to change the filter, but I don’t produce nearly as much as you do. It does seem to pull enough air to keep things pretty clear in the basement when I spray. I don’t do it outside because I have a work area in the basement. We have a dehumidifier down there, and the humidity stays low enough that I can do chocolate work even on rainy days. Which is good, because I prefer to spend nice days with my horse.

Similar. It's this one, but I got it on sale. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Suncast-2-ft-3-4-in-x-2-ft-8-in-Resin-Vertical-Storage-Shed-BMS2000/203702004