JoNorvelleWalker

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!

Using the new box to ship back the old freezer is what Vesta said to do. Thing is, after I unpacked the original freezer the box was more or less like confetti. I can't foresee a different outcome this time.

If the recipe calls for quick cooking oats, it won't work so well with regular rolled oats. For cookies that specify quick cooking oats I flock my groats and then pulse them in the food processor.

Or eat the pie and tell your doctor you don't want to take a statin.

Be careful what you wish for. Somewhile back I broke the probe of my BF100 trying to get it out of a batch of ice cream. I am approaching the end of my unit's warranty so I thought I should contact customer support to see about getting a new probe. Turns out that unlike the BF200 and BF300, the probe of the BF100 is not user replaceable. The customer service rep asked for a picture. I sent a picture. Next thing I knew I received a FedEx shipping notice. Vesta is shipping a whole new freezer. That's excellent customer support of course but a nightmare for me. It was almost impossible to get the first freezer upstairs, and now not only do I have to repeat that, but I have to find a way to repack the old freezer and ship it back to them.

Is that good or bad?

I "watched" as the Whole Foods shopper prepared my order. The order completed but it never left the store. I've been told by customer service in the past that sometimes the delivery person, who is an independent contractor, not an amazon employee, never shows up to take the bags. That it is a bitter, icy night with a "freight train" winter storm commencing in the next couple hours may have to do with this. Of course I shall complain politely and of course amazon will reverse the charge. But sadly I do not have my $0.89 Bell & Evans drumsticks. Nor more importantly my critical supply of mai tai limes.