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I bought the pre-peeled garlic at Costco about a year or more ago. I'm finding that freezing it causes the cloves to stick together and they're hard to pull apart. Also, they don't seem to have the same intense flavor that fresh has. I've gone back to using fresh.

Please tell me more, I'd love to be able to fry chicken in my PC. Always looking for new ways to make fried chicken.

I am old enough to remember the days when one entered any upscale department store you were besieged by young ladies bearing spray bottles of the latest perfumes; it was hard to get past them without be pressed upon by samples. And in those days those perfumes were quite often very heavy and strong. I stopped wearing colognes of any kind long ago and I'm grateful that they seem to have fallen out of favor mostly (maybe in cities like N.Y. not so much?) It's especially awful to sit next to someone or near someone who's wearing too much scent in a restaurant.

When we were kids, I loved Oreos but my brother's favorite was (of all things) Fig Newtons, which I couldn't stand.

I might eat that lamb with my fingers but the rice? I don't think so.

Much as I love peanut butter, to me the PB filled Oreos are just meh. The plain ones are better.

Here's more information about the differences in yeast and exp. compressed yeast, most interesting! Yeasts

I haven't seen compressed yeast in stores near me for many, many years. My mother used to use it in her homemade breads back in the fifties and I swear that it gave the bread a heavenly, yeasty aroma that you don't get with the dried yeasts of today. I'd love to be able to try it for myself to see if it is true.

I found an unusual use for limes (and lemons too( recently. I am a bit obsessive about my stainless steel sink and like to see it gleam. I discovered that after I clean my sink thoroughly with Barkeepers Friend or the like if I take the used half of a lemon or lime and scrub the surface all around that I end up with a sink that really shines! Now I save all those used rinds!

Where are they? The stores here where I live don't have any other than those that are pre-packaged. I've been looking for almost two weeks now and still don't find any. Is this unique to the area where I live?

I have a number of pressure cooker cookbooks, the one you mention is pretty good but the one that I've found most useful is this one: New Pressure Cooker Cookbook Lorna Sass books are good as is the Cooks Illustrated one.

Thanks for the suggestions! I look for something that can import from LC, I think I saw one or two that indicated that. I'd also like one that I could use from my tablet, something that was impossible with LC.

Thanks to everyone for the valuable advice, I'll let you know if I have success when I try to reinstall on my other computer (hopefully later today). Update: I found my LC program in my C drive under 'Radium Technology'. I removed the program. Then I downloaded the trial version of LC15 and re-entered my license keys. Then restore my latest backup. Voila! Everything is now back to normal and it wasn't the huge disaster I thought it was. Now I'm just thinking I need to find a replacement software for LC since it doesn't seem to be supported any longer. I'd appreciate any suggestions for that replacement would be appreciated. Thanks for you help!

IndyRob, I do have Windows 10 and I also have a couple of backups on an SD card. Many, many people are still successfully running this software, I don't know what there is in common with those of us who cannot run it now. I've tried using a System Restore on my pc and changing back to a point in time prior to when I started having the problem, but that didn't work. Your suggestion to move the software to another pc sounds feasible; I do have a Win7 PC I use as a backup to my other PC.

There have been many requests made to Lee Grainger (owner/creator) over the past many months without any response at all. Amazon had been selling the software but now it shows as 'no longer available'. I have a bad feeling about all this. Seems like Grainger has taken a powder for some reason or other and the subscribers have been left to hanging out to dry.

AlaMoi, thanks for your help, I will give it a try!

What's happened to it? My LC 2015 has stopped working (along with that of many others). Checking with Radium Technology forum, this has happened to others and the creator (Lee Grainger) seems to have gone missing. Anyone know what's going on? If I can't get my LC back and running I'll have lost all of the many thousands of recipes I've store there since LC began many years ago. What the heck am I gonna do?

I'm in.

Iceberg lettuce seems to have fallen out of favor but I still find I want it for certain things like my shrimp louie as well as sandwiches. For a long time I used mainly romaine (mostly because it keeps to much better than iceberg). Now I switch back and forth. What's your preference?

Wasn't sure where exactly to post this but the 'sous vide corned beef' didn't fit. I went with a friend last evening to the nearby Catholic Church that holds a fund-raiser corned beef dinner every year. This was my first time there, however. Well their corned beef was the best I'd ever had! Couldn't believe how the flavor was transformed. What they do is slow cook the meat til tender, then they glaze it with a mix of brown sugar and yellow mustard, wrap it in foil and then bake for about 45 mins. in a slow oven. Lord have mercy, you wouldn't believe how amazing this tasted. I can't wait to cook my own now this weekend! You must try this. They made up almost 200 pounds of this (point cut) and sold out.

I really love CK, after listening to his PBS radio podcasts for a long time I'm convinced the guy is really a genius. And, I find him quite endearing. I know some disagree, however. And, I like all his on-air people as well. I will very much miss Chris.

I have a Keurig that we purchased a very long time ago. I like it a lot for ice tea cups and for Starbucks or Tully's dark roast. I put away my expensive Technivorm Mochamaster which makes excellent coffee simply because the Keurig will do the job in about a minute and the taste is close enough to what I like. It also produces a very, very hot cup of coffee. Its footprint is smaller than my Technivorm so it gives up a bit more counter space. No muss, no fuss; if it broke I'd buy another in an instant.

CI's no-knead is a favorite of mine, I like the flavor that the little bit of beer adds. I make this bread regularly and of all the breads that I make, and there are lots, this one has the best all around flavor and it toasts up beautifully. Just lovely with soups and stews and salads.

I usually bake my own choc chip cookies even though it's mostly from a mix (my favorite is KAF's) but I recently had a taste for them and didn't have any mix on hand and didn't feel like making them up from scratch so I bought some from my grocer's in-store bakery. I was quite disappointed because they had a taste of something I couldn't put my finger on. A friend, who is an accomplished cook, told me what I was tasting was most likely the shortening they used. Anyway, last week another friend brought some store bought cookies to a meeting and said she got them from Albertson's. Well, these cookies didn't have that odd flavor.

It would seem that unbleached flour is pretty much a thing of the past now, I never see it in stores any longer.