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Margaret Pilgrim

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  1. Margaret Pilgrim

    Dinner 2021

    Beautiful food, good looking group! Beautiful table, good looking group! Happy holidays!
  2. Margaret Pilgrim

    Dinner 2021

    Tropic, the most amazing fresh lard I can source comes from a tiny butcher shop in the deep Mission. It is the by-product of carnitas. Might you have something similar? ( In crust for apple pie....sigh.)
  3. Margaret Pilgrim

    Dinner 2021

    Everything stunning. But this....wow!
  4. Margaret Pilgrim

    Dinner 2021

    Remember the old song, "When they've all gone home..."? It actually was a lovely afternoon and evening. Son and three kids made the croquembouche. Other years' may have been more perfect but this one was somehow less stressful. Practice, or kids growing up. Oohs and aahs and pleases and thank yous and excuse mes. Never thought we'd get here en masse. Standing roast, Yorkshire, roast carrots, plain baked yams, rolls. Lots of butter met its god. Tomorrow they return after lunch to make a Baked Alaska. I'm not cooking another dinner. Maybe spaghettii. Merry Christmas everyone.
  5. If you write elsewhere like you do here, you are not one I refer to. I find your writing tight, concise and your thoughts worth sharing. Writing with the hope of 100% agreement would be a fool's errand, the resulting content not worth reading.
  6. I usually close the tag realizing that here is one more person trying to make a living, word by word by word.
  7. And bread sticks!
  8. I still am! I must have missed Kerry's entreaties. I have almost no appliances. No Intantpot, rice cooker, crockpot, pressure cooker, smart anythings. I did fall to the siren calls of the CSO, and may someday really use it. I do love previously acquired pasta rolling apparatus, ice cream machine(s) and my reach-for Oster mini-processor attachment. For those with an original Oster blender, this is one of the workhorses of my kitchen. For veg of all kinds, cooked or raw meat.
  9. Margaret Pilgrim

    Dinner 2021

    indeed! More info, please, on rutabega greens. Not that I'll ever see them even at my farmer's market. That said, any substitutes in mind? Turnip, perhaps?
  10. One man's gadget is another's major purchase.
  11. I think that the question really regards how closely a recipe needs attribution or substantial change from another previously published recipe. I think there are US guide lines, maybe not same as European or International. Someone?
  12. This would make an interesting eG thread.
  13. Looks and sounds great! I remember many years ago making a similar intense mushroom ragu for a little Friday night dinner party. One guest took a bite and no more, finishing everything else on his plate. The next day his wife explained that he couldn't/didn't eat meat on Friday. She was astounded when I told her that "that wasn't meat!" This is a very substantial dish that will satisfy hide-bound meat eaters..
  14. Because you're a real cook.
  15. I think/thought that was essentially what I said. 😃
  16. Funny re tenderloin for holidays. When I see a tenderloin on the table, I subconsciously think "lazy host/hostess". Easy to cook, easy to slice, easy to chew but little gustatory reward. But, ah, they made sauces!
  17. Margaret Pilgrim

    Dinner 2021

    1-2mm thick. Really? Under 1/8" thick? I can see 3-4mm but 1-2mm seems unmanageably thin.
  18. I am reminded of an older friend who used to save unopenable jars for me to address. I used to take her shopping, and told her to separate items that she would be using immediately and have the checker open them for her. We were at a Safeway and the male checker was delighted to oblige. Except he couldn't budge a lid, twisting and torquing, grimacing and finally turning to another checker for help. With half the front-of-store staff on her case, her jar was finally "ajar".
  19. Yes! Aslo magic with roasted figs. But discretion is the key. A kiss, not an assault.
  20. We've been making this for years. And, yes, black pepper with pears. Glad to read this pie has fans.
  21. Not a bad idea/tool. There was the Thanksgiving at a relative's house at which her husband and I were in charge of mashing the potatoes. Trying to work together, we managed to dump the entire pot of potatoes down the garbage disposal. The two of us quickly looked at each other in horror, then with cold water running. we retrieved the scalding hot potatoes, rinsed and mashed. No casualties that we ever heard of.
  22. Margaret Pilgrim

    Your Pantry

    What to learn on this thread: We get so locked into what is familiar that we have blinders to what can be that might be more convenient. it has taken me many upslaps to the head to admit that stuff I love but never use can be moved. Duh, but hard to admit.
  23. Anna, this is an omen. One of my all time favorites.
  24. Margaret Pilgrim

    Your Pantry

    We were married at the height of Campbell's "make it with soup" era. Husband admonished me, a very novice cook, that he never wanted me to cook with canned soup. So he comes home one day and asks what I'm so busy making. "Cream of mushroom soup. The recipe calls for it!"
  25. Margaret Pilgrim

    Your Pantry

    I think I have already posted about our recent reorganization but will do so again in this apt thread. For a number of years husband has nagged about moving the freezer and grocery backstock up from the basement which is accessible by narrow, steep and almost circular stairs. Long story shortened, we got rid of a piano and moved a huge chest from our breakfast room and into the piano's spot, had movers bring freezer, shelving and binned groceries up to the breakfast foom. While I was the foot-dragger in this move, I can't overemphacize how almost deliriously happy I am with how stupid-convenient this nee arrangement is! Flour, sugar, spices, bottled condiments,etc still in the small walk in pantry off kitchen And 8 feet around the corner, the new "pantry-nee-breakfast-room".
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