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    Chocdoc Linking up in Lancaster

    in Food Traditions & Culture

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    8 hours ago, Anna N said:

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     Lest you think I have posted this not only in the wrong topic but perhaps even in the wrong forum.... When Kerry goes away and visits an expo/food show/airport lounge, she grabs some pens for me. I think she outdid herself this time.

     

    Before anyone gets their knickers in a knot, she had already made the rounds and this was what she called her “pen round”. She was quite open about it to the booth attendants and they willingly handed over pens! I think I’m good for a while —  especially since I have just rediscovered my fountain pens!  No worries. I will make sure some of them find a home where they will be welcomed.

    (It might be stretching it just a little to say they are food related but each one of them promotes a food product being exhibited at the trade show of the PMCA.)😋

     

     

    She was in Pennsylvania.

     

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    Baking with Myhrvold's "Modernist Bread: The Art and Science"

    in Pastry & Baking

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    2 hours ago, Chris Hennes said:

    Basler Brot (KM p. 222)

     

    This is a very simple bread, leavened with a very large quantity of levain (66%), with a small amount of light rye added (17%). It's a high-hydration dough at nearly 80%, so it's a bit tricky to work with, but you get a really lovely open structure to the dough and the taste is terrific.

     

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    Chris, what does "KM" mean?

     

    Gardening: (2016– )

    in Food Traditions & Culture

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    While I was enjoying my evening shower I had a thought:  what about baking the soil capsules?  Or as Click & Grow calls them, Experimental Plant Pods?  There are no dead roots.  This is something close to synthetic soil formed to a frustrated cone.

     

    What time/temperature destroys fungi responsible for damping off of seedlings?  Note we are talking about only a couple cubic inches of "soil".  My most recent pea seedlings were overwhelmed and destroyed by a white fungus.  As far as I can tell the pea plants turning brown was a different problem, which I believe was heat.

     

    Dinner 2019

    in Cooking

    Posted

    35 minutes ago, scubadoo97 said:

     

    Id give it an extra point for the cauliflower. Sweet roasty flavors there

     

    Several of us could divide up the platter and it would make a tasty meal.

     

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    Dinner 2019

    in Cooking

    Posted · Edited by JoNorvelleWalker (log)

    At my age I don't have to justify my dinner:  a pot of Rancho Gordo Moro beans* enlivened with what @rotuts would denominate DAS.  Georgian walnut sauce (because I can), coleslaw, and hexapartite tomatoes.  Bottle of John Wurdeman's Pheasant's Tears Saperavi 2008.  It all came together.

     

    *spoiler alert:  there are no Moro beans in this month's Bean Club shipment.

     

     

    Edit:  oh, and I forgot, a bag of Cape Cod potato chips.

     

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    Dinner 2019

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    10 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

    I don't associate asparagus with Chinese cuisine, but after a tragic misclick on amazon I am desperate to use up as much organic asparagus as I can.  Dinner was Black Bean Asparagus from Carolyn Phillips' All Under Heaven (p292).  Simple and good.  And every grain of rice accounted for.

     

     

    I sort of lied.  I found seven grains while cleaning out the rice cooker.  But I guess that is still "accounted for".

     

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    Dinner 2019

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    I don't associate asparagus with Chinese cuisine, but after a tragic misclick on amazon I am desperate to use up as much organic asparagus as I can.  Dinner was Black Bean Asparagus from Carolyn Phillips' All Under Heaven (p292).  Simple and good.  And every grain of rice accounted for.

     

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    Amazon buys Whole Foods

    in Food Traditions & Culture

    Posted

    @rotuts could you say more about what exactly you have against the Whole Foods -- Amazon business model?  That dry aged rib was pretty good.  And, no, I couldn't find Kool-Aid listed on the site.

     

    Interestingly when I ordered a couple days ago before the price reductions, organic asparagus was $2.99 a pound.  At the moment organic asparagus is $4.99 a pound.

     

    Though a Hass avocado is $0.68.

     

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    Crazy Good e-Book Bargains

    in Cookbooks & References

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    4 hours ago, Toliver said:

    One of these cookbooks came in my morning BookBub, and after going down an Amazon rabbit hole I came across the other two. I apologize if any of these cookbooks have been posted before:

     

    Charles Phan's "The Slanted Door: Modern Vietnamese Food" Kindle Edition $1.99US
    Use the "Look Inside" feature so see the list of recipes.
    There are also 3 recipes from the cookbook on its Amazon info page (as downloadable PDF files).

     

    Molly Yeh's "Molly on the Range: Recipes and Stories from An Unlikely Life on a Farm" Kindle Edition $1.99US

     

    And priced slightly more than the usual sale-priced cookbook:
    Dominique Crenn's "Atelier Crenn: Metamorphosis of Taste" Kindle Edition $3.99US
    Use the "Look Inside" feature so see the list of recipes. However, be forewarned what may sound straight-forward may not be. From the blurb/cookbook description:
    "Even the dishes that sound familiar, like Fish and Chips, or Broccoli and Beef Tartare, challenge the expected with their surprising components and her signature creative plating."

     

    I am a US Prime member and the price you see may vary.

     

    I already had The Slanted Door.  I've cooked from it.  But I was gouged for $2.99.

     

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    Gardening: (2016– )

    in Food Traditions & Culture

    Posted

    I would be sanitizing without plants.  I need to be sure that whatever I use doesn't affect the plastic.  I'm not quite ready to sanitize because one pea plant is currently struggling to produce a pod.

     

    Meanwhile I put my Burpee order in today.  I was a bit tardy this year and zinnia* seeds I wanted were out of stock.  How can you be out of stock of zinnia seeds?

     

     

    *note:  zinnia are edible.

     

    Grocery Shopping

    in Food Traditions & Culture

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    Tonight I needed to go to the pharmacy so I stopped at Shoprite for a couple things.  A girl cannot have too many limes.  And I was short on sour cream.  However grocery shopping after dark around here is ill advised.  Coming home I was almost run over twice, once by a police car in the parking lot.

     

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