Tropicalsenior

Uh-huh, my late husband was as deaf as a post until I tried opening something like this or a potato chip bag late at night.

I made another pretty easy cake today. It's a simple Mandarin cake. I haven't cut into it yet so I will report later on the result. I'm hoping for a little more citrusy flavor than the last Citrus cake that I made. @MaryIsobel you mentioned that you like to make smaller desserts because there are only two of you. These cake pans that I use have plastic lids in any cakes that I make will last about 4 days in the refrigerator tightly covered like this. Any cake that doesn't get eaten in 4 days gets turned into bread pudding in the instant pot.

No thank you. I like chicken liver a little pink inside but I got to have that Mailard effect.

Granted you could make cheaper meals at home. But if we took the price that we would pay at a high-end restaurant and bought ingredients for a home meal we could put on a hell of a spread. That is of course, most of us here in the Forum because we know how to cook. And we can't really figure our rent and utilities as overhead because we would have to pay them whether we were cooking at home or not. But there are a lot of people out there that can't cook or don't have time to cook so there will always be a need for restaurants and people that will pay the prices so some restaurants will survive. My husband didn't like to go out to eat because he said he got better food at home. I like restaurant food because I didn't have to cook it and I don't have to clean up after it. Fortunately it never became much of an issue because there just weren't very many good restaurants in our area. @Kim Shook drives me crazy. I'd love to follow in her footsteps for a week.

Since you've been following us for a long time, you probably don't need any guidance. Please, Jump Right In and start posting. It's good to have you aboard.

Wow. What a great article. It's a great description of the science behind the baking of a good brioche. It also explains all the failures that I have ever had when I tried to make brioche and makes it clear to me that with the ingredients available to me here I can never hope to have any success whatsoever. So for the foreseeable future I will stick to my own recipe for Light Brioche Bread. It's not as buttery nor is it as finally grained but I don't suffer the frustrations that I have had trying to make brioche.

If anyone is interested, the first one would fit into an instant pot and flan can be made in the instant pot quite easily. I'm sure that @JAZ could provide us with a recipe and some times.

I've had beer can chicken a couple times. The Hosts thought it was delicious, to me, it tasted like overcooked shoe leather.

I would hope not! Years ago I worked for a couple that had a big gray parrot. Every night he sat at the table and had dinner with them. He would eat everything except chicken, turkey, or duck.

I'm afraid I kind of cheat when it calls for cream cheese frosting. I've always just made my own version with soft butter, our version of sour cream,(cream cheese here is inconsistent and sometimes a bit too tart) some lemon or lime juice depending on what I have, a pinch of salt and enough powdered sugar to frost the cake. I've never really followed a recipe for this, just kind of added as I went. Sometimes living in a foreign country, recipes are a matter of adapting and bastardizing.

@ElsieD I live in pineapple country so I haven't bought a can of pineapple in years. I cut the pineapple up in chunks and cook it for 5 minutes in my instant pot. I then chopped some of it up in the food processor, drain it, and measure out 10 oz. I then add 1/4 cup of the juice. I would think a 14 oz can of pineapple would be equivalent. Just make sure that you don't have more than one quarter cup of the juice or it doesn't bake right. When you bake it, this cake does not rise too high so it is done when the top springs back and it tests done with a toothpick.

If he gets to share that, lucky Allan!

Looking back through my files, it seems that I have been making this for about 15 years. I do remember that at the time that I made it, I changed the recipe from all white sugar to half and half. I was very skeptical of the recipe at first because it had no oil or butter but I was pleasantly surprised at how moist it is. Leftover cake keeps beautifully in the refrigerator.

I'm so sorry, it seems you had to give my old memory and nudge. I got it reformatted the other day but I forgot to post it. I'll post it later in the recipes but for now, here it is. Simple Pineapple Cake 1 cup flour 1 egg 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 cup white sugar 1/2 cups brown sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda 10 ounces crushed pineapple 1/4 cup pineapple juice 1⁄2 cup chopped walnuts (optional) Mix all the ingredients together in a large bowl. Either use a hand mixer or beat by hand until well blended. Bake in a greased and floured 8 x 8 pan at 350o for 30 to 35 minutes. Icing: a cream cheese frosting is good but this cake needs only powdered sugar. Note: since I baked it in a glass pan, I lowered the temperature to 325° and just baked it until it tested done. That was around 35 minutes.

Actually, I miss judged how high the cake would rise. But I'm not one bit sorry.

For me, this was behind a paywall but I found this on The Guardian

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Just my regular Sunday bread bake. Buns stuffed with a pork sausage and cabbage filling with a rich gravy, flavored with Herbs de Provence. Not a terribly imaginative filling but I went with what I had on hand. It was pretty darn good. The bread was just my usual Light Brioche Bread.

Ah, but each ostrich egg is equivalent to 25 hen eggs so you get two dozen eggs for the price of one egg.

Happy birthday!

I bought eggs this morning at the grocery store. The eggs here are sold by the kilo and are sold in packages of 15 or 30. Figured it out when I got home and I paid $3.44 for a dozen. They aren't free range but this supermarket has pretty decent eggs.

It's something from my personal recipe files so as soon as I can get it reformatted I will post it.

This morning I baked one of my favorite cakes. It is a simple pineapple cake. It's one of the easiest cakes to make and it is so moist. I had just a tiny bit too much batter for my cake pan so I made a tiny cooks treat. It didn't even need frosting.

You don't happen to have a specific recipe that you can share, please?

Exactly. It's like a Twinkie that you could never replicate because it's nothing but pure chemicals but, oh that taste, and the memory because it was a Twinkie.