MaryIsobel

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Agreed - the Hendrix looks lovely. Unfortunately, here in BC, Canada, our antiquated liquor laws prevent Costco from selling booze!

I made pistachio/cranberry biscotti for our local hospital's ER team. I've had the pistachios in the freezer for 6 months or so. Husband and I have sampled the biscotti with no ill effects.🤞

Your "little one" and his friends have very sophisticated palates - good on you for introducing them to such a variety of foods and not a chicken nugget in sight!

Had a blackberry gin jam in London - loved it.

That is one of my easy comfort meals, pretty or not!

That looks delicious - I make a potato & green been salad with pesto as part of the dressing - my family are not big mayo fans so this is popular. Next time I will add sund-dried tomatoes - thanks!

Not gourmet by any means but I made 18 - 6" sugar cookies and a dozen 4"x4" squares of rice krispie treats. These are for a bake sale at the high school tht my daughter teaches at. Proceeds going to the musical theatre department of which she is in charge. In researching best sellers at high school bake sales, it seems that the parameters are "big" and "sweet." I think I filled the bill. My daughter is going to label the RK squares "Grinch Treats" hence the intense green colour!

That sounds like a lovely, homey, warming meal - well done! Our Christmas dinner guest count has grown from 11-16 in the last few days. Since that number includes 5 twenty-something guys who eat like they haven't had a meal in days, I decided that the two smaller turkeys I bought wouldn't be enough. Bought a bigger bird and donated one of the smaller ones to our local meals on wheels. When I called to see if it would be accepted, the woman told me that they charge 9.95 per meal but with rising grocery prices, their cost to prepare and deliver a meal is almost 18.00 so they are delighted with donations.

Your breakfasts always look like a symphony of flavours and I iamgine a breakfast like that would keep one going for a good long while.

I would be happy with this too. Sadly my husbandis not a fan of any kind of curry, so i save recipes like this for when he is away on a fishing trip.

We're far from Kansas - Pacific Northwest in fact but our sunsets were very similar. Looks like a body of water but it's not, just clouds on the horizon just after sunset.

I have tried draining my home made salsa before adding to burritos but it still gives off a lot of liquid so we tend to add salsa or pico de gallo and sour cream at the table. I have read that adding a couple of tablespoons of "almost cooked" rice to burritos helps to absorb excess liquid. I haven't tried it but it makes sense.

My husbands's mother had a huge tablecloth that her mother had crocheted. It was brought out for special occaisions for my husband's family of 10.(two parents and 8 kids) At about age 5 my husband took scissors to it - little brat that he was. He recalls being sent to his room by his teary-eyed mother. To this day, he remembers the shame he felt. Not for destroying the tablecloth, but for making his mother cry. This was over 60 years ago. I still tease him when I put a tablecloth on our dining room table and say "please don't cut this!'

I have been tasked/volunteered to contribute to my daughter's Musical Theatre fundraising bake sale- I volunteered. The bake sale is aimed at the high school students, rather than say a church bake sale where there are pans of cinnamon buns and bundt cakes. So, I'm looking at individually packaged treats. I'm going to do a dozen 6" frosted and sprinkled sugar cookies as in searching ideas, apparently kids like huge cookies. I'll either do big brownie squares or chocolate chip cookies using red and greem M&M's. Just wondering if anyone has any better ideas. Since I will be making 24 pieces, I don't want to go too crazy on decorating.

I often enjoy this same type of salad for lunch or dinner

That would definitely be annoying.

Mine doesn't start screaming til about 30 seconds of nothing on the burner; plenty of rim to flip or swirl.

Maybe egg salad sandwiches? I like my yolks runny but egg salad on whole wheat (with some romaine or spinach or sprouts is a pretty healthy lunch or dinner. Those and some carrot, pepper strips on the side?

I took FoosSafe years ago - it was required to do hot dog days, cupcake sales, etc., in our school district. It was a very quick course and if you already knew safe food temps, it was very easy to complete.

I believe in a full belly for every child, filled by the village.

I haven't tried my Instapot for rice. I cook big amounts of white or brown rice using the pasta method.I then freeze it in 1 cup portions flattened in freezer bags.

A long standing conumdrum. Home made sandwiches vs. eating out of dumpsters? When trying to donate birthday cake kits to our local food bank, I reached out to two local ones with the question; "can I repckage bulk sprinkles into baggies?" One said yes, one said no.

I'm noticing more and more "pop top" cans here. I think it's a great idea - espeecially for donating to the unhoused.

That salad sounds great. One of my daughters is allergic to penecillin so any blue cheeses are out for her. So now I put out a couple of bowls; one with blue cheese and one with chunked up brie so - to each their own!