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Cyberider

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  1. 12 hours ago, FauxPas said:

     

    I'd really like to make a mango bread - do you have a recipe you could share, by any chance?

     

    Or anyone else? 

    Hello fellow Arizonan!  I do but they're at home.  I'll try and remember to bring one in to work tomorrow to share.

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  2. I got one of the old-style Vitamix's at a yard sale for $10 about 20 years ago.  Used it for milling small quantities of grain before I got a dedicated grain mill. Now use it for occasional blending jobs.  Compared to the cost of the new ones, these are bargains.  And, according to the instruction manual, it's normal to see sparks coming out the bottom during blade reversal!!!

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  3. On 11/14/2016 at 2:14 PM, MelissaH said:

    I'm wondering about that. I'm using Wegmans store brand butter, which is usually plenty good enough for most things. (Other store brands of butter are not sufficient for pie crusts, I've found, but the Wegmans butter does fine.)

     

    I might need to step up to Land O Lakes, or even a step higher to the expensive European ultra-high-fat butter.

     

    Or try using a bit more egg, perhaps?

     

    I was thinking it had more to do with the quantity rather than the quality.  I think I used the regular Challenge unsalted butter.  Bought it on sale and had it in my freezer. 

  4. I made the peanut butter cookies Saturday.  Needed cookies and had lots of peanut butter on hand.  The cookies had more butter than a previous recipe and the nutmeg added an interesting touch, even if I can barely taste it.  They held together better than the previous recipe and tasted better too.  Maybe the butter? 

  5. 18 hours ago, Anna N said:

    Simple answer -- sourdough starters defeat me!  No good telling me how easy it is, no good pointing me to this method or that method. I am sourdough challenged and have no further interest in flogging a dead starter. I have limited physical resources, limited energy reserves but a strong desire to make good bread.  I am quite prepared to leave perfect bread to others. xDxD

     

    I, too, have been less than successful.  When, I am retired and have more time, I will try again.  In the meantime, I need to feed myself, not the starter!  xD

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  6. Finally got mine yesterday and had a chance to page through it briefly.  The photography is impressive with bigger than life photos, some of which are so beautiful as to be mouth-watering.  The text type is of the thin and gray sort but still readable by these aging eyes.  The titles for each recipe are also a thin type but in color and some of these, particularly the light orange ones, are hard to read.  Wish they wouldn't make the print so "artsy" but, instead, make it easier to read.  Some of the photos look pretty appealing, though, and I'll be tempted to try a few recipes when I have time. 

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  7. 42 minutes ago, rotuts said:

    I wonder why BV is allergic to Steam 

     

    they seem close to the top of their game otherwise

     

    but a dry oven doesn't cut is once you've tried Steam.

     

    They also need to make the oven about 3" taller.  Between the two, it would be so much more useful.

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  8. Good find, Andie.  I recently discovered that Jet.com carries a lot of White Lily and Martha White products at what I consider good prices and deliver quickly.  Been eating a lot of corn bread lately and plan on biscuits and gravy as soon as the weather cools off.  I like ordering online and not having to go shopping, especially among "Walmartians."  xD

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  9. I had a mini-infestation a few months ago.  First a few small flies and then more and more but I didn't discover the source until a few weeks later.  They turned out to be coming from a recently purchased (several months previously) bag of dry beans.  I've never had that problem from a bag of beans before but once I got rid of them, the fly population decreased and, fortunately, didn't get into anything else.

  10. My late wife was from Tennessee and we used to pick up sorghum syrup when we visited there.  Ran out years ago and haven't thought of it in a long time but may have to check availability here in AZ.  Good addition to a lot of baked goods!

  11. 18 hours ago, Tri2Cook said:

    Anything can happen, can't rule out the possibility. But one or two cases of something severe happening out of the thousands who eat this sort of thing all the time with no troubles doesn't incite me to worry. Thousands of people ride bikes every day but the news articles only talk about the one or two that get hit by a car or something. I keep riding. I've been eating superhot peppers, purees and sauces for years with no troubles worse than fearing the next day's morning constitutional when the plumbing starts moving. The thing about the superhot varieties is, if you can handle the fire, some of them have a really nice, fruity flavor that I haven't found in any of the more tame varieties.

     

    Agree on both counts.  Been riding for transportation my whole life and am over 200K miles.  Maybe I'll make a quarter-million if I don't get run over!  As for hot peppers, I've only developed a taste for them late in life but put them in anything I can.  Not only that, but they're supposed to be good for us as long as we don't overdo like a few have.

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  12. A consideration when baking cookies is the need to be rotating baking sheets.  The baking pan supplied with the BSO takes advantage of the BSO's depth and there is room for 16 cookies from a 1" (I think) scoop.  The readily available 1/4 sheet pan isn't as deep and only holds 12 cookies.  If I were frequently baking cookies in the BSO, I would consider purchasing a second Breville pan to get the job done faster.  (Breville pan with cookies.  These are oatmeal, wheat germ, chocolate chip cookies I make frequently from a recipe I got online about 15 years ago.  Delicious.)

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