Chillin' in Manitoulin

[Kerry Beal]

 

This mornings offering for rounds - gingerbread - 'tastes like fall' said one of the docs.

[Kerry Beal]

 

 

I've dipped a couple of hundred of Whole Paycheck's brand of Oreo cookies since yesterday - in preparation for the upcoming Luxury Chocolate Show in November. 

 

 

With my leftovers - I made some maple walnut bark - a couple of drops of Loranne Maple flavour for chocolate, some maple sugar flakes and some nice Costco brand walnuts.  

[MelissaH]

 

 

I've dipped a couple of hundred of Whole Paycheck's brand of Oreo cookies since yesterday - in preparation for the upcoming Luxury Chocolate Show in November. 

 

Are they Luxury because the cookies came from Whole Paycheck?

[Kerry Beal]

Actually purchased very inexpensively from the factory that makes them for Whole Paycheck! Wanted the Wegman's brand but they aren't making them anymore.

[MelissaH]

Waaait a minute. No more Wegmans brand Oreos? Or just one specific version? (The "real" Oreos with golden cookies and chocolate creme seems to have vanished, along with those deadly Key Lime ones from this summer.)

[Kerry Beal]

The Wegman's oreos still exist - just being made by another company!

[Kerry Beal]

 

A Manhattan to keep me company while I work on the plans for the Luxury Chocolate Show.

[rotuts]

Wow !

 

the Danger Zone on the Comp !

 

guess you don't have Frisky Cats nor Great Large Dogs  with Impressive Tails !

 

good as any excuse to get a new Mac 

 

just saying

 

in my case  it was only a Keyboard or Two

[Kerry Beal]

Wow !

 

the Danger Zone on the Comp !

 

guess you don't have Frisky Cats nor Great Large Dogs  with Impressive Tails !

 

good as any excuse to get a new Mac 

 

just saying

 

in my case  it was only a Keyboard or Two

Living dangerously!

[Kerry Beal]

 

Apparently I forgot to post my dinner - ramen - had a little chunk of pork belly that I dry brined as per Momofuku then cooked in the pressure cooker.  It's Sun Brand Miso Ramen.

[Kerry Beal]

 

As requested by the ultrasound tech - Butterscotch squares for tomorrow.

 

 

[Kerry Beal]

 

"Everything" eggs - chorizo, pork belly, mushrooms, green onions, cheese and hoisin on the side.  

[Kerry Beal]

 

Not terribly photogenic - but tasty. Caldo verde. 

[Kerry Beal]

Tempered up some dark chocolate last night - dipped some TJ's candied ginger and Tj's crystallized ginger. Then with the remains chopped up a bit of the crystallized ginger and some TJ's toasted coconut for bark.

 

 

 

As you can see I've been sampling a bit!

[Kerry Beal]

 

Attempt to make some coconut rum. Something akin to Wray and Nephew - added at about 55% ABV to coconut and a piece of vanilla pod. 

 

Microwaved for about 50 seconds to get to about 60º C three separate times then closed into mason jar to cool. Strained, ultrasounded for 10 minutes or so then filtered. 

 

Doesn't look like it's going to be clear no matter what.

[KennethT]

Does the hospital have a centrifuge?

[Smithy]

Oh, those chocolate-dipped goodies, and the bark! I adore dark chocolate...and welcome the convenient info that it's rich in antioxidants.

What will you do, if anything, to compensate for cloudy rum? Disguise it with a cream liqueur? Ignore it? Invent a new drink that celebrates the cloudiness? 'Island storm' or 'tropical fog', perhaps?

[Shelby]

Oooooh I like that...tropical fog.  Or maybe something Halloween-ish.  "Fog over the graveyard"

[Kerry Beal]

Does the hospital have a centrifuge?

For sure - but it's in the lab and I know some of the samples that have been in there!

[Kerry Beal]

Oh, those chocolate-dipped goodies, and the bark! I adore dark chocolate...and welcome the convenient info that it's rich in antioxidants.

What will you do, if anything, to compensate for cloudy rum? Disguise it with a cream liqueur? Ignore it? Invent a new drink that celebrates the cloudiness? 'Island storm' or 'tropical fog', perhaps?

It's for one of the nurses who likes coconut rum - so I'm not as worried about the cloudiness. 

[Shelby]

For sure - but it's in the lab and I know some of the samples that have been in there!

*shivers*  That certainly adds a Halloween factor.......

[Kerry Beal]

Couple of skies that I just had to share

 

 

Yesterday afternoon looked out and saw this kind of spooky sky. 

 

 

This morning I caught the tail end of this red sky 

 

 

So this afternoon I saw the results of 'red sky at morning...'

[Kerry Beal]

There is a group visiting from Finnmark - they are setting up a medical program that has a lot in common with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine program up here.  A gang of us went out last night with them to the Anchor for dinner (have I mentioned how much I miss the dinners that we used to have at the Shaftsbury Inn?).

 

 

Can't go too wrong with the fajitas.

 

 

They do whitefish well - one of the Norwegian folks ordered the whitefish taco app thinking it would be a couple of bites.

 

 

Wasn't she surprised two bites in when they brought her burger!

 

They had noticed the prevalent obesity!

[Kerry Beal]

 

Lovely sky this am

 

 

Kitchen not so lovely this am - but I did remember to get the garbage out which is a first this trip!

 

 

Leftover apples, thawed puff pastry - apple galette! So I have another sheet of puff thawed - will have to figure out what to make with it. Hmmm... what other leftover stuff could be put in it.

 

Managed to offload the rest of my caldo verde to the PA student who brought her hubby in to have his ankle xrayed after the bull took exception to his attempts to dissuade him from locking heads with another bull on the other side of the fence. He's apparently spent too much time fixing fences this year! I had them in for a chat and a drink for hubby - then sent them home with the soup and and mixmaster that I've replaced with the little Siemans mixer I found in a thrift store this year.

[Kerry Beal]

 

Pie crust I'd put in the freezer when I made them last weekend, remains of the pumpkin puree - another of the Idea's in Food pies.