melkor

The Solis grinders are a good option if your not planning to use it to make espresso.

At the Ferry building farmers market there are a couple of stands that sell whole ducks.

You are reading that right. It all depends how finely you grind your coffee and how your brewing it, but two tablespoons per 5-6oz cup is a good place to start.

So what does that leave in the way of good British food?

Think of the savings!!

The only ones I'd expect to be in really bad shape now would be the Lindemans, the Rodney Strong cab, and the Pinot from Oregon. I'd expect that the majority of the wines on that list are in good shape, but there's only one way to be sure

It all depends on how they were stored, a fair number of those wines could be great but if they were stored next to the oven they are all long gone.

My real motivation is both ms melkor and I work from home and will be able to make as many drinks as we want during the day. I got a set of the Camardo cups, but I'm also in search of the apparently impossible to find illy alien cups. My only remaing coffee problem is the long wait for my new toys to show up.

Lets see... 3 visits to starbucks a year, $5 per visit.... $15 + $15 for being twice as good.... $1200 / $30... The machine will pay for itself in only 40 years! Yeah, but you locked in the price of your machine. The price of Starbucks will continue to go up. Somehow I knew someone would come up with a good justification for me...

I'll second that. A good espresso machine isn't enough; you really do need a real espresso grinder. I got a set of cups instead of the discount on the grinder. I think the ANFIM grinder I've got now will work. If it doesn't I'll get something else.

Lets see... 3 visits to starbucks a year, $5 per visit.... $15 + $15 for being twice as good.... $1200 / $30... The machine will pay for itself in only 40 years!

I've been feeling like this coffee habit of mine isn't costing enough money, and I clearly need to spend more time dealing with coffee related things. I've been home roasting for quite a while, I wasn't happy with the hot air roaster I had so I build a bunch of drum roasters for my gas grill - that's been working quite well and I'm really happy with the current ~1LB capacity drum I'm using. I've gone through the entire brewing upgrade cycle, auto drip, manual drip, vac pot, and french press. I'm on my 4th grinder (whirly blade, crappy burr grinder, solis burr grinder, and now an ANFIM burr grinder). I can't bring myself to go through the shitty cycle of buying a replacement espresso machine every six months so I've taken the plunge. I ordered an Isomac Rituale from chris coffee, along with a reg barber tamper, the kit the plumb the Isomac into a water line, and a few other accessories. My 79lbs of stuff will be here on Tuesday and waiting is driving me insane. Monday when I ordered all this stuff I convinced myself that with a HX espresso machine and all the other coffee junk I own I'd be out of things to buy... Then I found the Illy artist cup collections...

Then clearly it's time to start drinking more coffee.

Wow. That's outstanding.

I love the ferry market, I'm glad you made it over there.

SF's best sushi is at Kiss in japantown. Pim sent us there a few weeks ago and it's spectacular.

That was plan B, but would you believe I haven't been able to find rennet anywhere? I've scoured all my local grocery stores -- upscale, low scale, no scale. No one has it. There's some in my freezer. How much do you need?

You could try making it yourself... I've had good luck with a kit from the new england cheese making supply people and strauss milk. It takes a bit less than an hour.

NapaStyle's store may be the only thing worse than their catalog.

Dean and Deluca is most likely your best bet.

I'd agree with sam, get yourself a 10" chefs knife and worry about the other stuff later.

I'd be happy to enter the non-existant diet contest. We just can't start until after tfl closes since I'll likely gain 5lbs from my newyears dinner.

The starfish is pretty good, it's fairly standard california food but it's well made and they use good ingredients. Other than that I've got no idea.

How did you get a discount. Our truffle tasting menu was $300 per. Bruce I'm going on what they said a month ago when I made the reservation - seems there has been a change

They are doing a truffle tasting menu - 9 courses for $275.