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My Mom, who was an exceptional home cook, roasted a goose one year for Thanksgiving. After that we didn't vary from our traditional turkey....it just wasn't the same without turkey.

In my kitchen it's been canned beets in the past...more than once.

Thanks so much...I'll get started.

I don't like plastic wrap either. But stretch title that I always bought from Costco, is the best of the lot, IMO,

Thanks, you are quite right. All is okay.

OMG, hereI am again. Just now, while putting together the ingredients for a Mac 'n cheese recipe, I grabbed a can of what I thought was condensed milk. You guessed it, it was evaporated milk. Must I star over? I asume it's ruined. Never mind. I read it wrong, it is spossed to be evaporated milk. All is okay...a thank goodness, this has been a trying day so far.

I will never again leave a can of Mandarin orange segments in my kitchen cabinet for so long I can't remember when I put them there. Went to said cabinet to get a box of macaroni noodles and the box was stuck fast to the shelf. It seems the can had leaked (it was completely empty) all over and every package nearby was also stuck. How the hell I'm going to scrape up that hardened goo is a mystery.

I respect your opinion.

I agree with you about her mostly over the top wardrobe...she's way too smart and accomplished for that. The folk at Bravo need to pull their heads out.

My Induction Zo is The 5-1/2 cup model..when I bought it the smaller3 cupmodel was considerably more expensive and it’s size wasn't much smaller so I opted for the larger model. I never make more than a couple cups of rice at a time. Still, I really love mine.

I searched Amazon for some really good smoked salmon but what I found was exhorbitantly expensive with shipping. I then looked in my nearby grocery and found some Tony's wild sockeye (from Oregon) smoked salmon that is really, really good. Crackers, a little thin sliced cheddar and the salmon...wonderful.

The ratings for this rice cooker on Amazon are excellent. I have the Zo induction model and it makes the best rice ever but, of course, it can't do the crispy bottom kind.

Still pretty cold here...5F this morning and about the same tonight. Dinner will be some of my leftover Polish Cabbage Soup with a toasted ciabatta roll. (the soup is wonderful, I'm happy to have quite a bit left.)

Is there an echo in here?

Lazy butt? In my book you're a marathoner!

I though I was the only one who piled excess stuff on the dining room table. We always ate in the kitchen unless there were too many guests for that. Now my table is piled with my ipot(s) with extra lids, slow cooker, granite samples for the future kitchen replacement, incoming/outgoing packages, electric tea kettle, etc.

I often make cranberry nut bars, the recipe on the Ocean Spray cranberry package. Really good and easy to do.

Another oddity is what some cafes/restaurants choose to select for their big wall-mount TVs. My favorite nearby café has golf on all day long. Golf? Kinda like watching paint dry. Even my late husband, who loved golf, couldn't watch it on TV. B-o-r-I-n-g. At least the sound is off...that's the best part. I guess if you're going to choose something innocuous, it's a good option.

My disposer came with a rubber or silicone gasket that is well designed to allow water to flow yet holds back even the smallest items. These gaskets are available online and can be fitted into the opening of most disposers. Baffle.

A few years ago I fell over the open washing machine door (front loader). I leave the door open so it can dry inside and not get stinky. The laundry room was dark and I hit the door and pitched over it and onto the tile floor. Hit my elbow and could feel a piece of bone there for many months. Eventually it went away. There may have been a glass or two or wine involved.

Ditto...my smallest is 3-1/2 qts and that's pretty small.

I actually have an LC Dutch Oven from the 80s as well as quite a few newer LC cast iron pieces. IMO the newer pieces are actually better than the older ones as far as scratch resistance and scuffing.

Just brilliant! You're really on your game this morning!!!

I love sweet potatoes (yams) but not the sweet, marshmallowy kind. Cooks Country provided me with a super simple way to achieve wonderful mashed Sweet Potatoes. Just simmer the sliced up yams in a saucepan with butter and a small amount of cream until soft. Mash and add a pinch of salt....just perfect. A sum much greater that those parts.

For my Irish Coffee I used some Reddi Whip which was almost gone. But then I remembered I had an Isi Whip in the pantry that I got quite a few years ago and had never used! (I'm not a big dessert person.) I added my whipping cream and charged it up and now it's ready for the mince that's in the fridge. The plain cream from the ISI is a bit bland but I have some Torani Vanilla Syrup in the pantry that I usually use for Iced Coffee, I'm thinking it's just the right add-in to sweeten the cream a bit. I served mine up in one of these.