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Marmish

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  1. Marmish

    Cranberries

    I was thinking the same thing, Rona! Also, there is a cranberry pistacio galette, I think. I usually make cranberry orange muffins or cranberry bread.
  2. Technically, I made this in 2008, but the other thread has been locked. Chicken and Kale I made it at a friend's for dinner on the 28th of December and made it again on NYE. The first time we used a whole chicken, cut up, the second time, thighs only and no potatoes.
  3. Only two for me so far for Christmas: The Essential Cocktail, and Baking by the Yard, which was the most thoughtful and enjoyable gift from my bestest friend on "Girls Christmas" and when I opened it, she told me why she chose it and we opened it and looked at all the pictures and read some of the stories aloud and drooled together. Careful, and thoughtful and shared slowly and joyfully, like Christmas should be.
  4. Ok, Martha Stewart and I are not on speaking terms right now. I tried the chocolate pistachio cookies yesterday. The cookie dough is unpipeable. The filling is waaaay too much for a yield of 15 cookies and too loose, although it tastes yummy. The cookies once baked don't have a nice texture either. Anyone else make these? http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/chocol...stachio-cookies
  5. I made a 1/2 batch of the rum meltaways to test them out and didn't like them. Too much nutmeg I think.
  6. My apologies, sir, no offense was intended, though I certainly understand the negative connotations of the phrase "phoned in" and should have avoided it. I understood that you were without the proper tools to test this potentially delicious admixture and thus required the assistance of someone at the other end of some sort of telecommunications device. That was all that was intended by my poorly chosen words. I can only hope that my praise for the cocktail in question could negate the harm done by my meandering midnight missive. ← KD1191 - That was a very gracious apology. Just wanted to add that I got your intended meaning and pictured Toby, perhaps on an old-fashioned rotary dial, barking orders into the phone before the revelation fled him and all was lost.
  7. Hmm. I have a jar of bacon grease in the fridge and a hankering for biscuits.
  8. http://whatwouldalpanadrink.blogspot.com/ Alpana Singh has a new wine blog. She's currently in Argentina touring vineyards and doing tastings.
  9. I've made my list for this year, I think. In the summer, I got Martha Stewart's Cookies, so I'm working from that. Rugelach fingers - chocolate apricot nuts Chocolate pistachio cookies - two pistachio cookies sandwiching a chocolate filling, then dipped in chocolate and topped with slivered pistachios Magic blondies - baked in mini cupcake liners and topped with dried cranberries and coconut Lemon shortbread (not from Martha's book) and I may make one more old standby because I didn't like the test batch I did of Martha's rum meltaways. Too much nutmeg I think.
  10. Marmish

    Frozen Whole Chicken

    Spatchcock, spatchcock, spatchcock. Sorry, had to get that out of my system. I'm waiting to chaperone the middle school winter dance and all the spatchcocking cracked me up. [/highjack]
  11. I use a 10" cast iron skillet.
  12. Sigh. I love that cole slaw. I'm so glad you do, too.
  13. I'm glad it turned out well! I made the French Pear tart for a dinner party last night. It was proclaimed "orgasm worthy" by more than one guest. There was one extra plated slice that was snuck around the corner and eaten sans fork in three bites by another guest before anyone could negotiate for halfsies.
  14. I used store bought and it was very thick. It's a really good cake.
  15. Ha! I didn't even think about the eyes in the back of the head! That's pretty funny. I found the gummy eyes at Target. They came packaged individually in little plastic eyeball shaped clamshells which were inside a kind of cardboard folder. But most of the folders had come unglued, so there were all these random eyeballs rolling around in the bin!
  16. I bake once a month for school (at least). For October birthdays, I am taking this eye cake. Yellow cake with cream cheese coconut frosting edited to fix pic
  17. Where do Chicagoans buy their orange bitters? None to be found at my Binnys.
  18. This might not be at the level you want, but something like a bed and breakfast with cooking classes might work. One example: http://www.wickwoodinn.com/sample_class.htm
  19. I am so trying that next time.
  20. For chocolate cake, I use Alice Medrich's Fastest Fudge Cake. And I recently made Ed Kasky's double chocolate layer cake from The 150 Best American Recipes © 2006. It was very moist and very chocolately and made a very tall cake.
  21. Thanks for the recommendation. This was just the thing for my sweet tooth. I clicked through to the original recipe and used all flour instead of part cornmeal. I also made small tarts to use up the assorted jams leftover in the fridge and the last of a jar of dulce de leche. Wow, was that one good.
  22. Very nice. And a beautiful dress!
  23. I found out one of our buildings has an 8 oz machine, and one has a 12 oz machine. I think since our building is larger we need a bigger one than either of those. Thanks for all your info and opinions. The yield info in particular is very helpful. I must say I am NOT looking forward to cleaning that thing!
  24. Thanks, that's very helpful. Is the 12oz referring to the amount of corn kernels? How much is that popped?
  25. Our middle school wants to buy a popcorn machine to use at school events and for rewards, ie "Popcorn Fridays" I don't know anything about popcorn makers. What does one look for in a popcorn machine? Have one you love? One you hate? Easy to use, quick turnaround, and easy to clean are key features.
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