Maison Rustique

LOL! For the first time in many years we didn't go "home" to Kansas City for Christmas and they really missed my eggs. My family always does a huge breakfast and I'm the one that makes the scrambled eggs because I make them come out all creamy and nice instead of yucky and watery. Oh! I also do the bacon or it comes out raw in places and burned in others. Low heat and patience is what it takes more than anything for both.

Yes, I've tried fresh--once. I had the same results--too watery and no noticeable difference in taste.

Hmmm.....anyone up for checking it out?

Here's the Brown Bread recipe (We always called it Boston Brown Bread.) that I use. It requires no steaming, but comes out with the same result. You'll notice that there are no raisins in my version. Raisins=blech! Edited to add: Sorry--it seems the brown bread has high-jacked this thread! Old-fashioned Brown Bread 2 c. graham or whole wheat flour 1 c. all-purpose flour 1 t. baking soda ½ t. salt 1 c. dark molasses 1 c. buttermilk ½ c. low-fat milk In a small bowl, mix flours, baking soda and salt; set aside. In a large bowl, combine molasses, buttermilk and milk. Add flour mixture to molasses mixture and stir until well blended. Pour batter into an oiled 5 x 9 inch loaf pan. Bake in a 325 oven until bread begins to pull from pan sides and a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 60 to 75 minutes. Turn loaf out onto a rack and let cool. If made ahead, cover and store up to 2 days. Especially good spread with cream cheese.

Wha?? Please explain. I haven't seen this, or at least I don't think I have. I'm having a hard time imagining canned raisin bread. ← Like this. I haven't had that since I was a kid--make my own now.

Most everything mentioned up there ^^^ plus hearts of palm. And lots of different kinds of beans.

Wow! I think I'll go into lurk mode around here. Don't want to offend anyone by posting a wrong word or term.

The Dough Also Rises.

I have 2 letter-sized hanging-file boxes for mine and also go by food type: Main Courses, Soups, Salads, Appetizers, Breads, Desserts, etc. About every 5 years I go thru and weed out the files. With nearly every other one, I wonder to myself, "What was I thinking when I kept this?!?!"

Gelson's is good, too. And as JFinLA (I think) said above, there are soooo many ethnic markets!

Thanks to all for the updates and additional information/links. This is just horrifying.

Thanks for starting this thread. I'd just sent a message to Monica Bhide expressing my sympathies and not knowing if it was appropriate to start a thread. To all in the affected areas (or with family/friends there), please know that my heart goes out to you.

Kit, thanks for sharing that! I've never heard it before, but now have a new idea for a wedding gift!

Cupboard Love by Mark Morton, a lovely set of placemats and napkins, an embroidered kitchen towel and a vintage embroidered toaster cover. Edited to add: and a Le Creuset tea kettle--Duh!!

Bravo! Thank you so much for sharing with us.

From the website: Edited to add that the bolding in the quote is mine.

Long ago and far away, when very poor my ex and I had our first Christmas tree. We didn't have real decorations, so I made gingerbread men. They looked great until we discovered that all the ones near the bottom were disappearing thanks to the dog and a mouse!

New Crisco

I make one occasionally that goes something like this (no real recipe): green beans cooked but still crispy sliced red onion crumbled blue cheese a nice homemade vinaigrette--use whatever you like You can add other things according to taste: capers, green peppercorns, pimento or roasted red pepper, chopped boiled egg, etc. This can be served chilled or at room temp.

I never added any water and can't remember Mom adding any either. Can't remember any problems or complaints!

A Sicilian friend of mine and his family always call it that.

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Somehow I missed this thread. Wouldn't have been able to go anyway--still not able to get around on both feet. Go to the doctor tomorrow--if I get the OK to walk a bit, maybe we can make this next one on the 22nd/23rd.

Hope you have a great trip! Hopefully next time you're here, I'll be back on my two feet (have a broken one right now) and can socialize!

I ordered a pair of these last summer after reading this thread. I've used them 2 or 3 times. One of them scorched the first time I used it. And this later design with the "snap" fasteners doesn't hold in anything leaky. I put in a grilled cheese the first time and the cheese ran out the bottom. Very disappointing. Edited to add that it took a couple of emails to even get them. I paid via PayPal and it was over a month before I got them. What-his-name (Warner?) said in his last email that he'd send a free gift to compensate for the delay, but (surprise!) it never arrived.