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Sam Iam

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  1. PAM R,

    They are sold full on eBay!

    Full, for collectable purposes only, per eBay rules. Some of the older fifths bring some decent money. 1966, $145, 1969, $65, another from the 50's was over $100.

    Plus, there are posters, shirts, lighters, and hundreds of other items. One 3 liter bottle, full, didn't sell for $160. I'm sure that you would need someone in the U.S. to sell them for you.

  2. ly took a dozen times to figure this one out folks...hehe) Put the oven mitt over the handle once the pan comes out of the oven.  Its my reminder that the damn thing is HOT.

    I too have a glass top stove.  Nice and flat and very convenient for the plastic cutting board to sit right next to the pot as I'm chopping and adding ingredients.  I've only done this about 8 times: Turn on the burner that the plastic cutting board is on. SOLUTION: Remove the board and likely you will have to throw it away. Wait for the stove and plastic to cool completely (a couple hours) and then use a chisle to scrape off the cooled hard plastic.  This has also worked with melted grocery bags and plastic veggie bags from the frozen veggies.  (cough!  OK I did this waaaay too many times!)  I now have wooden boards and I don't put them on the stove!

    OK, one question... how the hell does somebody lick a light socket?!?!

    Genny, WAY upthread, I believe I told the story of my unnamed wife who came into the kitchen, saw the mitt reversed on the red hot skillet, and thought "What a dumb thing for Sam to do!" You can guess what she did next.

    I have the Dacor computer glass cooktop (found it on eBay, where I live and make a living), and use a window scraper that uses retractable single edge razor blades to clean off the burnt grease spots and other crud. I suppose that I'll have to use it for other heavy duty stuff in the future. (BTW, thread drift, my favorite cleaner is Bartender's Friend Cooktop cleaner). Try it, you'll love it.

    Sam

  3. Two that are inexpensive that provide a lot of information are

    "The Good Cook - Soups" Time Life series from 1979, available for under $5 including shipping on eBay, and Joe Famularo's "Good & Garlicky Italian Soup Cookbook", ~ $11 on Amazon.

    Both are well worth the money.

  4. Because pet food and bird seed are not regulated and inspected like food for human consumption, they are a major source for these pests. In the retail store and the home, the larve can easily migrate to the human food packages. :shock:

  5. By the way, is there any chance of getting the recipe for those Musician's Tarts?  I'm now wishing I'd managed to swipe some for today...  ;-)

    There sure is! :biggrin: Just head over to www.epicurious.com and search for Musician's Tart. I found it there a couple of years ago, and have made it several times since. Dried pears are used in the paste under the nuts, and I'm having trouble finding them in Toledo now. :unsure: If you find a source in Ann Arbor, please let me know.

    Sam

  6. I think chuck eye steaks are just about the best steak out their -- either grill or sear and bung.

    I'm not sure if that's because of the trouble they have to go through to bone this cut out of the chuck, or because they don't want to cannibalize sales of their more expensive short loin steaks.

    I think that you are 100% right. I'd hate to try to make a living with a custom shop in 99% of America's communities these days. Few will pay for the Top Blade Steaks, Lamb Chops, Quality Veal, Hanger Steaks, anything truly cooler aged, and I won't go on and on. Yes, in very elite areas, but not Lambertville, MI; Toledo; Findlay, OH, Clover, SC; and etc.

  7. Amazon has the 4 1/4 Qt. Soup Pot Le Creuset on sale for $99.99 right now, available in two colors. Includes free shipping, plus an extra $25 off if your kitchenware total order is $125 or more. I love mine, and one is shown the Duck Confit thread. :wub:

    The prices vary from day to day, and hour to hour. :wacko: Sometimes different colors are priced differently, and there are differences in bonus pieces offered. Holidays seem to be typical sale times.

    (Feel free to add an eGullet link)

  8. I'll try to figure out how to upload pictures (many) with my follow-up reply, and will also expand on this tomorrow.

    The easiest way that I have found to flute MRs is to use the single lemon zester that will pull a strip off of a mr in a split second. It's fast, simple, an amazement to my friends on how I can flute so many mushrooms,

    My wife asked me to marry her, partially for my Napolean's Chicken (with jumbo fluted mushrooms). And, she'd never seen anything flambed before.

    (2 B tomorow corected for spling) :wacko:

  9. Behemoth is right about the aryas halabi stuffing, by the way (of course!). I typed kibbe, because I had been discussing raw kibbe with one of the women I met with last night. She is Lebanese, and recommended the raw kibbe at the restaurant we will be visiting Friday night. I had kibbe on the brain.

    The Beruit is one of our six or seven favorite restaurants in Toledo. After a Friday evening at the Toledo Art Museum, we stop there. It's on the way home- a bonus. The raw kibbe is my must have dish! :wub:

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