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I remember my Mom having a fondness for Pennsylvania Dutch scrapple though I've never eaten it. Wouldn't Spam be quite similar to scrapple? The TV ads are running in this area as well.

Another reason to bless the dishwasher.

I've been messing with my own variation of a pomegranate monitor. (Spellcheck changed this from mojito!) Vodka, pomegranatejuice, cranberry juice, Cointreau and lime juice. I just eyeball the amounts based on previous testing. I like my version which I mix in a tall glass with ice, Again, not authentic but I like it.

Dinner time for me revolves around the cocktail hour which begins at 5PM. After a cocktail followed by a glass or two of wine, it's time for dinner. That's about 7:30 or so. The problem is that after the cocktails followed by food, I'm ready for sleep. I'm always in bed by 9PM. I've always been a morning person so it works for me.

Yes

I bought a set of atractive set of stainless picks from Amazon recently. They look nice but the olives aren't real secure on them. The plastic spears have the barbson the end that hold the fruit better.

Thanks, @Tropicalsenior, I will try your method for my own Corned Beef. BTW, as I mentioned last year, the nearby Catholic church does a big corned beef dinner for St. P. day. They cook the corned beef as you've stated and then they take the meat, smear it all over with a mixture of brown sugar and yellow mustard, wrap it in foil and oven bake for another hour at about 300º. It is, without question, the best corned beef in the world.

After a bit of consideration I finally decided to give up my Costco membership. It's just me here now (with the two dogs) so I can't really justify the big sizes. I will miss the wonderful Costco meat and seafood ...it's better than anywhere else around here. I'll miss a lot of their other items too...too many to mention. TJ's is nowhere in this state and may never be. I now buy the smaller quantities from nearby groceries and find that works better....no more hauling big loads of food home, re-packaging the meats and putting it all away. My freezers are full anyway. When we moved to this state I couldn't imagine living anywhere that wasn't reasonably close to a Costco but life changes.

Funny how the really stupid tings we do seem to be such a good idea...at the time.

Tuna salad sandwich made with Genova tuna, Best Foods mayo, minced celery and onion, Steinfeld's sweet pickle relish and white pepper served on honey whole wheat bread. And an iced mug of red beer. Yum.

But sizes are decreasing all the time on practically every product. It seems that canned foods are the worst. They started at 16 oz. and now some are 13.5. At this rate thety'll soon disappear.

Many of our kitchen accident stories have been posted in the thread, "Never again will I..." in this forum. My worst was when I was also using a mandoline; wearing a cut-proof glove, no less. Trying to slice a rutabaga my knuckle went into the blade, though the glove and I got a big cut and a very deep bruise that didn't heal for a very long time. So much for 'no-cut'. These days I handle that mandoline with great care.

Hey, I'll try that too. Thanks. I don't have any Grenadine but I can probably find some locally.

Sorry, yes., it was Ina. Grenadine...instead of???

Wow, that would be tough. To me, everything is better with onion and garlic.

I made a Pomegranate Cosmo tonight based on a drink Ina Garten made on a recent Food Network show. I'm enjoying it now and it's quite good.

Or a funnel.

Never mind...wrong show.

Yes! I love that about Amazon. I've been saved more than once. I also like that you can find out what you paid for an item previously.

But your IP is a crock pot.

Montana is so far off the beaten path that our grocery chains tend to be small and limited to WA/ID/MT except for the big, national chains. We do have Wal-Mart, Safeway, Albertsons as well as some small chain stores: Super One, Roseauer's, IGA, Harvest Foods. There's also a Good Food Store that might be likened to a Whole Foods on a very small scale. I'd love to have a Trader Joe's but that's not going to happen.

One of my best memories of the Upper Penisula is still the pasties...I simply love them in any form!

Beautiful!

'Sliced up some beets in the Salad Shooter last evening. The beets had been pressure cooked in the IP, perhaps for a bit too long as they were pretty soft when they came out. It was more as a test of the slicing cone because they are so easy to slice with a knife. The SS did a decent job, would have been better had the beets been firmer. Slices a bit too thin than I'd have preferred. I used a few in the Shrimp Louie I made for my dinner. Not authentic but still awfully good if you're as big a fan of beets as I am.

Won't be brewing my morning's K-cup coffee again without first checking to be sure the lid is off the mug! My cleaning woman put the lid on my mug and put it back under the brewer; I always leave it off so it didn't occur to me to check first. Coffee all over the counter and onto the floor. Fortunately it was only a mugful and not a whole pot.