JoNorvelleWalker

I have a Blendtec Stealth. The sound really isn't bad at all.

I believe whether the oven continues to cook after the timer dings depends upon your program.

No. That sounds too much like work. I did cut off any gnarly looking bits.

My first blender soup! Inspired by a recipe I found on the Vita-mix website: https://www.vitamix.com/us/en_us/recipes/beetroot-tomato-macadamia-nut-soup I used chicken stock instead of water, and I added a red onion and a garlic clove. Having no macadamia nuts I substituted red walnuts. Vita-mix calls for cutting the beets in half but I am lazy and I have a good blender. I simply threw the stuff in whole and pushed the soup button. Possibly the best soup I have made.

But you can do that if you have a blast freezer.

Any friends with a spare vaccine freezer? When I was in grad school we had a -80 freezer but I never thought to put my fish in there. I used lab freezers only for ice cream. So much I didn't know back then. Wonder if they still require asbestos gloves?

Enameled cast iron should clean pretty easily.

Note: Norwegian waffle batter is better repurposed as pancakes.

I shall never again neglect to add orgeat to my mai tai. The orgeatless mai tai didn't taste half bad, but I went back and stirred in a bit of orgeat anyhow.

I wanted to try a new waffle recipe.

I received my Whole Foods order this morning. Now they have duck. Now.

Nice spoons.

As you may read earlier in the thread I am fond of the Marion Cunningham recipe. The exercise was to test out the new blender.

Blast freezer is full at the moment and I have other things in line to freeze, namely nice organic blackberries before they rot. Another reason, these waffles I did not like well enough. The cakey batter should be better as pancakes. I hope. Plus, I'd have no place to put the frozen waffles. I was able to fit the blender jar in the refrigerator, but that means I am having pickles for my dinner.

I just finished three cups of hot chocolate made with milk and Rancho Gordo Xoxoc chocolate (70%). Rancho Gordo chocolate comes in cakes that are hard as rocks. No appliance in my kitchen had been able to make a dent in them. Nor would they melt. But I have a new blender! Will it blend? Following the Rancho Gordo recipe I used two cups of milk to one cake brick of chocolate. The poor machine sustained an overload condition twice, but eventually after two soup cycles I obtained the smoothest, most delicious steaming hot chocolate I have made. Perfect sweetness with no added sugar. And I now feel like an Aztec sacrifice.

Waffles today. My excuse is I wanted to try out my new blender. Since the blender was new, I searched around for a new waffle recipe. I came upon this blog with a Norwegian blender recipe: http://apple-of-my-eye.com/2015/11/06/norwegian-blender-waffles/ (Though the author has a disclaimer about her mother being a Japanese with a thing for tall blonds.) I eventually settled on a similar though more precise recipe from Magnus Nilsson's The Nordic Baking Book (p234). Not following the mixing instructions I loaded the blender and pushed the batter button. In about 34 seconds I had waffle batter. Norwegian waffles are not intended to be crispy (Nilsson calls for five eggs) and indeed these waffles were not. And I found them too sweet for my taste. Still, they were waffles with very little effort. The problem now is I have three and a half cups of waffle batter left. Wish I had made half a recipe. What to do? Probably pancakes. Suggestions welcome.

Vesta has 25% off their blast chillers at the moment.

Yes.

Or Rhulman's How to Braise...or eGullet. https://forums.egullet.org/topic/143759-braising-help-needed/ Edit: I notice How to Braise is $1.99 at the moment on Kindle.

Just to add my vote, in my oven aluminum works better.

There were two bowls of salad. One had been sampled. I brought home the unopened one. In addition to the spinach, pomegranate, and feta there were a few apple slices and cranberries, and seeds of some kind. The salad was undressed although dressing was provided. I dressed mine with the batch of blue cheese ranch I had in the refrigerator. There is still plenty of salad left.

My culinary plans for the next few days were knocked into a cocked hat, or whatever the expression is. The Library Foundation provided lunch today. Given the circumstance it wasn't a party per se but the food was catered well. I'm not sure where from. Obviously not Shoprite. Our manager took home the platter of cookies. I took home (and she gave me a ride) six sandwiches and an unopened bowl of spinach, pomegranate, feta salad. Large bowl. No one else wanted leftovers. Back home I stuffed myself with two sandwiches. Good bread.

For the storm that is coming tomorrow the NY Times quotes authorities as saying you should have three days of non-perishable food. They were not sure fruitcake counts.

Yet.

On amazon I still saw Humboldt Fog on sale but no Rogue Creamery Organic Enraptured Blanc which was supposed to have been today's.