JoNorvelleWalker

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.

It's in the book! Edit: she also made a video of it.

I have all but the 10 inch.

I have no experience with mango pulp but you should try her chocolate! Now that I have a blender I am hoping to make pumpkin this weekend.

What does this do that you couldn't do in an APO?

Did you find the mango brand she calls for?

Of course not, we invented them in Kansas City.

I'm all out of strychnine.

I found myself surprised how much I love beet juice. I got more beets and carrots yesterday. (And I threw out the almost full bag of carrots from the last time.) For the red beets that amazon sent me by mistake I am thinking about blender beet soup.

Indeed I did really come home to a shrink wrapped case of 20 pounds of peanut butter, thanks to amazon and UPS.

On the bright side it could have been a 2 liter bottle.