Maison Rustique

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.

Thanks--can't wait to try some buns!

Is it still around? For some reason I'd thought it closed quite a few years ago.