JoNorvelleWalker

I shall never again make a fresh batch of orgeat and forget to put orgeat in my mai tai.

Could it be a problem with the type of rice? Just for fun I checked some risotto recipes on the anova site. Most call for 2 1/2 - 3 cups of liquid for 1 cup of rice.

Frozen peas are on the menu here tonight. Peas in abundance. It seems I misclicked on the quantity from my last amazon delivery.

What fun is that?

Speaking only about the Philips grill: I used mine tonight. The grate has become somewhat less not stick over time but I have never seen any material come off. I still love the Philips grill though I have no idea how it works with bananas. The only food I have had an issue with is fish.

I'm using 1/4 inch steel in my APO. Perhaps a little thin, but as they say: "the perfect balance of performance and weight." It gets the job done. However I chose to go with highly corrosion resistant stainless steel myself. If cost is a factor this sounds like a good solution.

No experience with either vendor but do they not refund the cost of any unsatisfactory produce as amazon does? If not I see no reason other than to buy from Jeff, or from whomever is running the amazon parade these days.

I am one person. In the kitchen I can't stay out of my own way.

Batch 4 was made tonight. Again 120g almonds and 60g apricot kernels. I increased the water to 350ml and the sugar to 300g. This time I did not heat the almond milk and sugar to the point at which the emulsion broke, so there was no need to homogenize. However I expect the orgeat will separate on sitting. The homogenized orgeat did not.

Under imminent threat of a Rancho Gordo bean club shipment, I boiled up a mess of beans. Most I reserved for fagioli e tonno. For tonight's dinner the rest I baked with leftover duck legs as the apogee of unctuosity. Notable that this was the first actual use of the lovely donabe that I purchased a couple years ago. Salad with Momofuku not shown.

Ha. I learned my lesson a long time ago. Some culinary staple might be stored above the toilet, but nothing goes beneath the bed.

In New Jersey sale of cottage food is illegal so people don't have rules to bother with.

My frustration is I don't have a larger bedroom.

UPS said the freezer was out for delivery. I had kind son lined up to help. UPS just changed the delivery to the 16th. I guess I'll just have to chill.

I'd cook it.

Rip out the cabinet and the unneeded microwave.

For the last week or two I've seen a school bus, that didn't seem to be a school bus, parked near my apartment. Today I learned it is a food bank distributing things like milk to the residents. I said I was OK. I forgot to ask if they had limes.

Most interesting.

Have I mentioned I love anova toast?

Mine is an ancient DLC-7 from the 1980's. One of the few things I use it for is small batches of dough, for example pasta dough. In my experience the KitchenAid is totally useless save for a huge amount of dough.* But then I have the largest KitchenAid. For most dough I use and love my Ankarsrum mixer. Even having the Ankarsrum I'd still use the Cuisinart for those scallion pancakes. *Modernist Bread says the minimum dough amount in the KitchenAid is 1.5kg.

For a small amount of dough I would use my Cuisinart food processor over the KitchenAid. Scallions? Never underestimate Momofuku ranch. (Which as it happens is tonight's dinner, along with Romain and organic Campari tomatoes.)

I shall never again mistake a pomegranate for a red onion.

Nope. Only complaint was sugar dust in places I didn't know I had.

My son's was three days ago -- but 24 years.

I'm thinking of hiring son and grandson but the cost may be more than what I can afford. Why, O why did I ever complain about the broken probe!