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  1. 5 hours ago, TicTac said:

    Interesting.  I have never seen a peach that has (what appears to be) smooth skin.

     

    Every peach I have seen (and we have doughnut peaches here) has a soft fuzz.

     

    This almost looks more like a flat nectarine!

     

    But for the pink outer husk.

     

  2. 3 hours ago, scubadoo97 said:

    It’s interesting that one can come close to duplicating something that took years to make in the lab

     

    Call me old fashion but there is something I like about the time honored process of distilling and aging in wood and the chemical reactions that occur in the barrel.  

     

    Two barrels lying next to each other in the rickhouse with the same distillate barreled at the same time can be so different.  Yet the position in a rickhouse can in itself create a significant difference if it’s a multilevel structure due to temperature differences.   

     

    Just like people, I like diversity

     

    And then the rickhouse burns down.  Me, I put trust in folks like Takaminine Jokichi.

     

  3. 17 minutes ago, Smithy said:

     

    FWIW in our experience the "no fire" restriction has applied to wood fires. It has not applied to charcoal in a portable grill. It also has not applied to gas-fired campstoves like the Coleman's that you and I both have.

     

    Not that I'm trying to talk you out of another toy, you understand, but you may appreciate full information.  :D

     

     

    On the other hand, our fire marshal forbids gas or charcoal grills.  Probably hadn't thought of banning bonfires.

     

     

  4. 4 hours ago, TicTac said:

    Another dinner post, sans pictures (apologies).  If only there were a 'Post to EG' button from my ipad!

     

    Room temp broccoli soup (garden pesto added part way through).

     

    95% garden grown dish of - Zucchini noodles, served with a sauce of various colors of cherry tomatoes, young garlic, bunching onions and topped with a roasted cashew pesto (a recent find, which I believe might even be superior to the pine-nut version).

     

    Cashews, olive oil, and cheeses - the other 5%!

     

     

     

    I'd be quite surprised if there was not a way to post a picture to eGullet from the iPad.  And if there's not there almost certainly will be when iPad OS comes out this fall.

     

    Meanwhile you owe us the rest of the 1000 words.

     

     

     

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  5. On ‎9‎/‎26‎/‎2018 at 2:33 PM, rotuts said:

    if anyone on this thread routinely from time to time

     

    orders form Penzey's 

     

    consider a portion of 

     

    https://www.penzeys.com/online-catalog/buttermilk-ranch/c-24/p-534/pd-s

     

    now is says it has ' Bell Peppers " in it

     

    Yikes

     

    O.o

     

    however , if it has GrBells in it

     

    and I can tall if a GrB is with in a mile of my house

     

    it doesn't seem to matter in this mix.

     

    Odd , no ?

     

    I looked P's up

     

    they have a Green Goddess dried mixture !

     

    I bought Penzeys buttermilk ranch.  Maybe I am doing something wrong but the dressing overwhelmingly tastes of salt.  And not much besides salt.

     

    I add salt to salted nuts.  I eat salt out of hand.  I enjoy salt.  I do not enjoy Penzeys buttermilk ranch.  I've never been dissatisfied with any purchase from Penzeys before.  I am thinking to complain.

     

    Amusingly Penzeys home page currently features a ranch dressing recipe that is not made from the buttermilk ranch mix.  It is made from Justice and Pasta Sprinkle spice blends, and sounds much more palatable.  Both blends are salt free.  The recipe sounds pretty good actually.

     

    Plus I will point out as a public service that Penzeys Green Goddess contains no anchovy and is therefore not fit to eat.  Unless you want to call it "ranch".

     

     

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  6. 8 minutes ago, Kerry Beal said:

    Anyone else see this on their Facebook feed and become intrigued? I think what caught my eye was the pictures of it's use for Takoyaki.

     

     

    A4 Box

     

    Four different colors, four different temperatures.  Kerry, take one for the team.

     

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  7. 21 minutes ago, TicTac said:

    Mashed, Fried, Baked, Steamed....and even raw!...oh potatoes, how I love thee - let me count the ways!

     

     

     

    raw?

     

  8. 7 hours ago, liuzhou said:

    Slow braised turmeric chicken thighs with shallots, garlic, chilli, ras en hanout. Stiir fried okra. Couscous.

     

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    Looks delicious but isn't that what one might call a leg?

     

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  9. 22 minutes ago, Tri2Cook said:


    While I've learned better than to think I know what you two may or may not get up to, I feel safe saying it won't involve having a hole cut and an upturned bottle of booze plugged in. :D

     

    Too low tech.  Amazing what one can achieve with a chamber vacuum sealer and an iSi.

     

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  10. Even after all this time I'm not sure I understand exactly how the bread function works.  Clearly a big blast of steam at the beginning, but at what temperature?

     

    Tonight I was reheating my five day bread (forgive me) to gelatinize the starch.  Waste not, want not.  As an experiment I used the bread function set at 225F, rather than warm or convection bake.  With the bread setting after 40 minutes the bread was 80C.  This seems far too fast based on previous experience with reheating bread on convection bake, where it might take a couple hours to reach the magic number of 77C.

     

    Does anyone have technology to measure exactly what the bread function is doing?  Regrettably I do not and I am paying off a root canal. 

     

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