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36 minutes ago, ElsieD said:
This happens at my Costco with great regularity.
Our only membership store is PriceSmart and because it is so difficult to bring things in through customs lots of the smaller stores buy things there and resell them. Sometimes they completely clean out an item. Yesterday I saw a man with 18 cases of Kraft mayonnaise in the line ahead of me. I had to go home without any. Next time I'll probably buy four jars and I will feed feel like the food hoarder of the year.
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5 hours ago, liuzhou said:
"People just come in here and empty that shelf I spent 10 minutes filling up. Why can't they just let it be? Don't get that stuff again
We have that same problem here. Sometimes, great products show up, disappear, and are never seen again. When I asked the manager why they didn't get them again, he actually told me, we don't reorder them because people just buy them too fast. I'm like you, if I see it, I buy all I can because I may never see it again.
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What a question! What is my favorite appliance and what could I not live without? To answer that, I reviewed my day. I got up at 5:30 and made coffee in my coffee maker, then I used the toaster to make toast for an egg sandwich and cooked the eggs on the stove. Later I used my instant pot to cook potatoes and boiled eggs for potato salad, (both at the same time). I took some frozen tuna from the freezer and cooked it in the instant pot for tuna salad. I used my microwave to cook some chicken livers for liver pate and used my mini processor to puree it, then I put it in the refrigerator to cool. I used my bread maker to mix up some french bread which I later baked in my countertop convection oven. I used my coffee maker to make iced tea for dinner. The two appliances that I would not want to do without are my refrigerator and my microwave but I suppose that my favorite appliance is always the new toy in the kitchen, which, right now, is my instant pot. I love it because it is so versatile. It does just about everything but feed the cat.
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8 hours ago, scubadoo97 said:
Hunkering down and hoping for the best
Am watching the news and I'm praying for your safety and all of Florida. I know it is going to be horrible but at least it's fast moving and will get out of there soon. Please be safe. Will be thinking about you all day.
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On 8/24/2014 at 5:05 PM, Kerry Beal said:
I think I might have an illness. I have a a number of ingredients stored away that I can't bring myself to use - cause if I use them I won't have them to use anymore.
Why did this topic go dormant? It is wonderful. I am so happy to find out that I am not alone and that maybe there is a cure for me. Just reading it made me think of all the wonderful meals that I have waiting in the freezer for me.
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40 minutes ago, lindag said:
When I didn't have a disposer how I hated bagging up that wet icky stuff.
I did have a garbage disposal here, of sorts. For a while I lived at the beach, and we had an estuary right off our back deck. I could take it out and throw it to the fish. It was kind of a shock coming back and having to bag up that "wet icky stuff" again. But one thing I will never do again is live in the hot, humid, sticky climate of a beach town in Costa Rica. Cooking there was a nightmare. All you could think of was putting something on the table that wouldn't heat the kitchen up to the ambient temperature of an oven.
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On 9/1/2017 at 2:47 AM, Thanks for the Crepes said:
Oh, and today, I managed to ruin a stainless teaspoon that had slipped into the garbage disposal.
Oh how I envy you the opportunity to ruin a spoon in your garbage disposal. Because of the primitive plumbing in the old house that I live in, I can't have a garbage disposal. I probably miss that more then most of the other conveniences I had in the US.
About three weeks ago, my electric pressure cooker blew up. I had meat hanging in the wire basket adjacent to the pressure cooker, broth dripping from the ceiling, and splattered on everything within about 12 feet. Fortunately, I was about 13 feet from it. As I sat there trying to decide whether to laugh or cry, I swore I would never buy another pressure cooker. I always was kind of afraid of them. After thinking, for about 5 days, of the things that I could no longer cook in a pressure cooker (meat in Costa Rica can be very tough), I promptly went to the store and bought another. Some of us are just too hard headed to learn, but I love my instant pot, even if it is just an imitation, but my housemate goes into duck and cover mode every time he sees me using it.
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On 9/6/2017 at 7:13 PM, scubadoo97 said:
Figured I needed to hit the freezer for a protein and hope we don't lose power for too long. To many good things in there.
I don't know if you are evacuating but we lost power for three days here in Costa Rica from a bad storm and I went to a nearby ice plant and bought all the ice cubes I can get. I filled every inch of our chest freezer and my refrigerator with ice. I didn't lose anything. Please know that you are in our thoughts and prayers.
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Dinner last night was three cheese pizza with homemade Italian sausage and sauteed mushrooms. Oh, with anchovies, with a side salad of tomatoes and avocado. Pizza ready to go in the oven.
And finished pizza with salad.
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3 hours ago, Thanks for the Crepes said:
Don't mind me, though, I'm just a pesky Luddite that actually expects things to work well, last and have helpful instructions to operate them, especially as it seems to me things are getting more and more unnecessarily complicated
My Chinese knockoff pot almost went back to the store the next day just because of the instruction manual but thanks to the hundreds of fans of the instant pot, I have been able to use it and I love it. Interesting, my concern wasn't that it had been made in China (the real instant pot is also made in China) it was that I would never figure out how to use it. I love the time-saving convenience of today's appliances but it seems that each one that comes out is more complicated and more difficult to learn to use. I drive a 15 year old car because it doesn't have to be pre-programmed to get me there and back.
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On 9/4/2017 at 4:06 PM, kayb said:On 9/4/2017 at 4:01 PM, Katie Meadow said:
kayb, thanx! The corn around here has been especially good this summer, so we're eating it like crazy; recipes are stacking up. My rule of thumb for mayo works for about 90 percent of all recipes, at least for me: cut the amount in half. Of course it's Hellman's / Best Foods, depending on the coast. My feeling is that in order to love Duke's or Miracle Whip you must be spoon fed it from birth. What do they actually use in Mexico?
I have no clue if they actually use mayo in Mexico. That's just a holdover from the tomato pies of my childhood.
Latin Americans love mayonnaise. In my experience living here, most of them prefer mayonnaise with more lemon in it. Here in Costa Rica, two of the favorite brands ar Krafts and Hellmans. They also have some local brands that aren't is good as the first two.
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10 hours ago, quiet1 said:
Maybe if I mix some baking soda and water and heat it up in the pot?
As I have said before, I have a Chinese knockoff that has a ceramic pot and I have had it take on an odor a couple times. I go in the backyard and get a lemon and some lemon leaves and cook them on high for 5 minutes. After I wash and rinse it again the odor is completely gone.
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23 hours ago, chromedome said:
She ended up being hired to re-write the manual (she'd previously done technical writing, though in the computer industry).
In Costa Rica, so many of our products come directly from China and reading the instruction manuals can be very entertaining. I think probably one of the funniest we ever found was this, " look at her face, punch her 3 times, and sit on her". That was in the instructions for setting a digital alarm clock.
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On 9/3/2017 at 8:51 PM, Doofa said:
Please do post the recipe. New York cheesecake is my favourite. I have to modify the recipe as I'm a Coeliac
I don't pretend to understand this disease but you certainly have my sympathy. It must be terrible to live with, especially if you love food.
I don't see why this recipe couldn't be modified. Just use any gluten free cookie for the crust and the flour can be left out of the filling or substituted with any gluten free flour. The cake will just be a little more creamy. I have made this cake four times and it has been perfect each time.
Instant Pot New York Cheesecake
Crust
3/4 cup any type of shortbread cookie (crushed)
2 teaspoons sugar
1/4 cup butter melted
Filling
16 oz cream cheese room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon lemon peel grated
2 eggs room temperature
1/4 cup sour cream
1 pinch salt
Sour Cream Layer
1/2 cup sour cream
2 teaspoons sugarCrust
Add cookies and sugar to the bowl of food processor and pulse a couple of times, until small crumbs form. Melt butter in microwave and add to cookie mixture. Pulse until just combined.
Pour cookie mixture into bottom of greased 8-inch cheesecake pan and press the mixture firmly into the bottom of the pan and no more than one inch up along the sides.
Place pan with crust into freezer for 20 minutes while you mix up the filling.
Filling
Blend together cream cheese, sugar, sour cream, flour, grated peels, salt and vanilla extract until smooth.
Add eggs, one at a time, lightly mixing until just combined. Do not over mix the eggs.
Pour filling into the pan, on top of the crust.
Add 1 1/2 cups of water to the bottom of your pressur cooker and place a trivet inside the pot.
Cover the cheesecake first with a paper towel and then with a piece of aluminum foil and loosely secure the foil.
Place cheesecake into pressure cooker.
Lock on lid and close Pressure Valve. Cook at High Pressure for 35 minutes. Allow a 20 minute natural release.
After all pressure has been released, open pressure cooker and leave the cake the cooker. Remove the foil and paper towel. Tilt the cheesecake pan and dab off any liquid that may have accumulated.
Sour Cream Layer
Whisk together the sour cream and sugar and then spread on the hot cheesecake. Let cool inside the pressure cooker for at least one hour.
Tightly cover and place in refrigerator overnight. Cheesecake can be removed from pan after an hour in the refrigerator.Note: the gentler that you treat the ingredients, the denser the cake will be. If you want a creamier cheesecake whip the cream cheese sugar and sour cream together, but never whip in the eggs. This will cause air bubbles in the cake that you do not want!
As I said, I took the procedure and most of the recipe from this website: https://thisoldgal.com/pressure-cooker-new-york-cheesecake/ and it is well worth reading her instructions and tips at this site: https://thisoldgal.com/perfect-pressure-cooker-cheesecake-tips/
( I have made a change in the directions of this recipe. It noted before in the directions for the filling to blend cream cheese with heavy cream. I have corrected this to sour cream.)
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15 hours ago, chromedome said:
That sounds so much more impressive than "It's all weeds, dude..."
I love it. People with a dry sense of humor just have a way with words.
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52 minutes ago, suzilightning said:
hey... wish I could get Johnnybird to eat beans with rice( it will give me gas) or arroz con pollo (it's too spicy) . Is there NOTHING else to local cusine?
Not much. But you wouldn't have to worry about the arroz con pollo. Here it is not spicy, nothing is. For centuries, the country has had a very poor local population and for some reason, they never did develop a good, rich cuisine. Although there are now more spices that you can buy, everyone seems to prefer something that they call sazon completo (complete seasoning) and they
use it on everything. I have never bothered to find out what is in it, I just know that I taste it in everything they make and I don't like it. For extra flavor, they douse everything in a sauce called Lizano that has a sharp pungent flavor. If I couldn't cook for myself, I would probably starve to death.
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2 hours ago, Shelby said:
Welcome to EG!!
Thank you so much. I've been here two whole days and I love it.
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6 hours ago, suzilightning said:
I would love to hear more about what you DO have to work with.
There are so many herbs, seeds, oils, etc that you may have access to that we in the states don't ..... rather than making a workaround there may be so many things that you can teach us....
Believe it or not, Costa Rica has some of the most bland, unimaginative food in all of Latin America. If I was left to copying their style of food, I would be cooking beans and rice and arroz con pollo. The people are great, the food isn't. However, bird-watching is great. My grandson used to work for a hotel that specialized in bird watching tours. If you come down to do that, you do specifically have to look for places like that because it's awfully hard to find them on your own. Costa Rica does have a bird watching club so if you plan to come down I could put you in touch with them
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10 minutes ago, ElsieD said:
@Tropicalsenior that looks great. What kind of cheesecake is it?
It's a New York cheesecake. I took the initial procedure from this website. https://thisoldgal.com/pressure-cooker-new-york-cheesecake/
I did change the recipe to suit myself because I like the cake to be a bit denser than it turned out the first time. I would be happy to post my recipe if you would like it.
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31 minutes ago, Tropicalsenior said:
Actually, the accessories are appropriate to the product because my instant pot is a Chinese knockoff supposedly by Telstar. But it has nothing to do with Telstar it's just a knock off. I love it anyway. It has 15 settings plus manual and I haven't even figured out what three quarters of them do. I got it just because my old Oster pressure cooker blew up and I needed a new pressure cooker. I didn't realize what I had until I got on the Internet to try and figure it out how to use it. The manual that came with it was written by some poor Chinese person who had a limited knowledge of English, and apparently no knowledge at all of the product he was writing about. Since I've learned to use it, I use it almost everyday. Right now, you can see that I have a cheesecake cooling in it.
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5 minutes ago, Tropicalsenior said:
Here are the toys that I found for my instant pot. Because I live in Costa Rica, I can neither find things for it here nor can I order them from Amazon. I found these in my favorite little Chinese supply store. It's a double Chinese steamer that I paid $12 for and each rack was a dollar a piece.
Actually, the accessories are appropriate to the product because my instant pot is a Chinese knockoff supposedly by Telstar. But it has nothing to do with Telstar it's just a knock off. I love it anyway. It has 15 settings plus manual and I haven't even figured out what three quarters of them do. I got it just because my old Oster pressure cooker blew up and I needed a new pressure cooker. I didn't realize what I had until I got on the Internet to try and figure it out how to use it. The manual that came with it was written by some poor Chinese person who had a limited knowledge of English, and apparently no knowledge at all of the product he was writing about. Since I've learned to use it, I use it almost everyday. Right now, you can see that I have a cheesecake cooling in it.
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On 6/7/2017 at 6:31 PM, palo said:
On amazozon.ca it's $45, but they have the 4 tray model for $25:
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Here are the toys that I found for my instant pot. Because I live in Costa Rica, I can neither find things for it here nor can I order them from Amazon. I found these in my favorite little Chinese supply store. It's a double Chinese steamer that I paid $12 for and each rack was a dollar a piece.
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On 8/17/2017 at 1:29 AM, Thanks for the Crepes said:
My copy of Joy is copyright dated many times, but the last date is 1997. I mean there are about 20 copyright dates. I've had good luck with many of their microwave reccos. In fact it became a habit to nuke corn on the cob when I started cooking for fewer people just because of their advice. I was trying to save a dirty pot washup, but I'm going back to my boil or steam method from now on. My version of Joy has microwave directions for many vegetables, and I've never gone wrong with it before. I don't like broccoli nuked, and always do it in plenty of boiling water as per Marcella. I don't blame Joy for my asparagus fail. It's possible I set the lid of the casserole dish slightly askew, which would have allowed the steam to escape. I can't recall microwave instructions for anything else but veggies in my book.
It was sad to see that much asparagus ruined. It's also sad to me to see a couple or three spears served at obscenely expensive restaurants as a garnish. I would want more. Much more.
That asparagus was not your fault. I have been cooking with a microwave for many years. Yes, cooking with one. I learn to use them many years ago when I was working in restaurants, and I love mine, especially for vegetables. But, saying that, I have found out that there are two vegetables that you cannot cook in a microwave. Asparagus and green beans. For asparagus, I put them in a shallow skillet with a little bit of water for about 3 minutes until the water evaporates then put in butter and lemon juice for about 2 minutes and they are done. I do cover them with a lid.
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2 hours ago, liuzhou said:
My son decided one day that parsnips were definitely inedible if not actually poisonous, so for years after that I only ever served him "Chinese white carrots", which he loved. They were, of course, the same parsnips.
In a similar vein, one of my younger brothers decided as a pre-teenager that he hated onions. One day, we were eating dinner as a family and said brother exclaimed "What is this soup! It is wonderful. Can I have more, please?" The rest of the family, me included, fell about laughing, to his utter confusion. Yes, it was onion soup. He is now head chef of a large New York restaurant (I won't say which but there can't be too many with British head chefs) and hates anyone telling that story.
Sorry, bruv!All his life, my father had a "delicate" stomach. He only ate meat and potatoes, salt no pepper, "it would have killed him". Butter only on his sandwiches, " condiments would have killed him". After my sister married and left home, she used to bake a chocolate cake for him and loved watching him eat every bite. It was a mayonnaise cake. She was a mean woman! but oh how he love that cake and not even a twinge in the stomach.
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I hope you have changed your mind and you are getting out of there. it sounds worse for you all the time. definitely thinking and worrying about you. Hope you are alright.