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Tropicalsenior

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  1. Gorgeous! So happy to see you cooking again. I hope that 2024 is much better for you.
  2. No, we just need one like @Ann_T. And one that isn't 5,000 Mi away.
  3. Tropicalsenior

    Lunch 2024

    Happy New Year to you Robert. May the coming year bring you as much happiness and encouragement as you give us every day. Thank you.
  4. Just took out a loaf of bread. It's kind of lopsided, but it's a taste that counts. Right?
  5. First bake of the year. Mexican style pulled pork with refried beans and cheddar cheese filling. Also two small plain ones for ham sandwiches tomorrow.
  6. OMG! Been there done that too many times.
  7. There is a lot of local cheese and it is on the order of the queso Fresca that you would find in Mexico. There are two dairies in Costa Rica that make cheddar and swiss type cheeses but they are way overpriced and you might as well be eating greasy rubber. Imported cheeses are very expensive except for the Walmart brand and these are good for cooking. When I want an eating cheese I splurge and buy an imported cheese. I've been here over 30 years so I'm pretty experienced in making do with what I can find.
  8. I agree but living in Costa Rica, Beggars can't be choosers. You take what you can get.
  9. I really have to agree. I live in Costa Rica where in order to buy a really good block of cheese I would have to refinance my car. So I buy good packaged grated cheese. It suits my needs for cooking. Once in awhile I splurge and buy a block of eating cheese. If I really must grate cheese, I have an old box grater that works just fine.
  10. Would love to have that glove, but, I kid you not $13.99 FREE Returns $27.65 Shipping & Import Fees Deposit to Costa Rica Details
  11. I couldn't agree more. My best microplane is one that I snitched from my husband about 20 years ago. I still have it and it works beautifully. If you want the very best quality microplanes at a reasonable price, look in a woodworking catalog.
  12. @liuzhou thank you so much for this series. I am enjoying it immensely. I found it very interesting to read your opinion of Cantonese food. I was recently reading this thread. they talk about the fact that 99% of the early immigrants to the West were Cantonese or Toisanese which would explain why there are so many bad Chinese restaurants in the Americas. Cantonese I am beginning to understand but what is Toisanese?
  13. I would just keep on cooking them. They'll get there eventually. If hubby gets hungry, now is the time for a good frittata.
  14. It depends on how much time you have. The dry white beans that I get here in Costa Rica are not a big so there isn't a big turnover. I've started making them in my oven. I put them in a glass casserole dish and I use a three to one ratio. Three cups of boiling water to 1 cup of dry beans. I put in about 3/4 of a teaspoon of salt and a quarter teaspoon of chopped celery. Put the whole thing in the oven at 250° to 300° and they cook anywhere from 2 hours to 3 hours. You just have to be patient. You might be able to put your beans in the oven at 300° and just keep checking them at half hour intervals. When they seem like they are close to being done go to 15 minutes. Just make sure that they have enough liquid to cover them well. You don't want too much liquid because that retards the cooking of the beans.
  15. I want to know how you got in my kitchen last night.
  16. Tropicalsenior

    Dinner 2023

    Yep! I'm happy with it.
  17. Tropicalsenior

    Dinner 2023

    Well I made my annual Christmas tourtieré today. I haven't cut into it yet but it looks pretty good. I hope so because I hate to make pie crust. I'm not good at it so I only do it once a year. Before. After. I plan to have a simple dinner with just mushroom gravy, sliced tomatoes, and watermelon. I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas.
  18. ╰🌟🌟𝑴𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒎𝒂𝒔, 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆🌟🌟╮
  19. Tropicalsenior

    Dinner 2023

    ╰🌟🌟𝑴𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒎𝒂𝒔, 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆🌟🌟╮
  20. This struck me as too true to be funny. The price of cooking spray has gone up four times what it was a year ago. I have gone back to the no spray cooking stick.
  21. Tropicalsenior

    Dinner 2023

    Just had to Google that. It sounds interesting and delicious.
  22. Irish coffee is really no big deal to make. Take one cup of good coffee, put in one or two shots of Irish whiskey, flavor to taste with cream and sugar. If you want to get fancy, you can whip the cream before you put it on but it just goes back to being cream when you stir it in. It all depends on whether you want to admire it or drink it. I never heard of putting nutmeg or cinnamon in it. Save that for your cappuccino.
  23. I can see it now. The tomato plants that swallowed my house.
  24. My food processor has a blade that produces this type of grated cheese. Very coarse. As for Farm style, even Google agrees that this is something specific to Tillamook. I grew up on a farm and I never heard of such a thing. Grated cheese is grated cheese.
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