Just frost the sides then have fun garnishing the top. Makes a nice centerpiece.
Posted on 12/09/2023 6:14:52 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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Yes, the salt-baked rib roast is utter perfection.
That site is really good. I agree! My Dutch Oven was a deal I got through Food Network - which was probably sold at Walmart back then. I’m sure I’ve had this one for 15+ years...it’s not as PRISTINE as the one she uses for her bread, that’s for sure. ;)
Mom recently gave me a big (14”?) skillet from OXO as it was a bit too heavy for her and she’s not cooking for a crowd at home. She kept the two smaller pans in the set. Score!
Iron Skillets... I am returning to them and wish I had not given my mothers skillet to my daughter. At least she values it, takes care of it, and uses it. When the “no stick” they will get replaced with Cast.
(Off to repair a rusted out rear quarter panel on Mrs. Pete's Toyota Corolla! Sheet metal, body filler, sanding, painting!)
A dusting of conf on the dry fresh fruit gets that “frosty look.”
Thanks for sending the recipe! I will check it out.
We are still debating on Christmas Eve dinner, most likely my daughter will make lasagna (from scratch including the noodles) in honor of her dad’s Italian heritage.
We may end up with Chinese food on Christmas Day in honor of my son-in-law’s Jewish heritage - we will have either the rib roast, dry aged steaks or prime rib the day after. Can’t let the season go by without those things.
Pete - I just showed that recipe to my family - and they’re insisting I make it!
Will try it over the weekend - maybe served with crusty bread and a salad?
Looks delicious.
Bon, its a good looking recipe! I will make it sometime. Let us know how it and the crusty bread taste together!
Sounds good to me already.
Add a jar of raspberry hot pepper jelly.
Surround w/ buttery Ritz crackers.
A favorite around here. Pepper Jelly, for sure! So simple and so pretty on the plate.
We had a party last May and ‘the extended family’ devoured one block of it and asked for another.
I put up 30 jars of jalapeño pepper jelly this year - about 2/3 was already ‘spoken for’ as soon as the jars came out of the canner! Aside from serving it on a cream cheese brick with crackers, it’s a great glaze on salmon & I think it would go well with pork & chicken, too.
Glazed pepper jelly salmon..... a must-try.
Do you make the hot pepper jelly yourself?
I do. I like ‘Mrs. Wages.’ Instead of juicing down all the bell peppers that it calls for, it works equally well with good old Apple Juice, or any combination of pepper & apple juice. You need 5 cups of liquid per batch.
https://www.mrswages.com/product/mrs-wages-pepper-jelly-kit/#instructions
Once I learn of a shortcut - I take it! ;)
I used to sell Mrs. Wages mixes at the Garden Center. I’ve made ALL of her stuff - and we did a LOT of ‘taste-testing’ in the Break Room through the years. Pickles, Salsa (I use 2 packs of her Salsa mix per batch - one mild and one medium and it’s PERFECTION!) - she’s got a great line of mixes to choose from.
Havent seen that brand locally.......but it sounds good.
Excuse me I thought I was checking up on the gardening thread. LOL. But really combining the two topics works for me. I miss the cooking thread still, especially the holiday themed ones. Love the pics and recipes. I just cook for two here and we’ve been on the “aim small cook small” program. I came up with that label a few years ago. And it worked well for us.
Nice weather. Went and picked up another load of firewood today. Was going to do it the other day but I rested my sore feet instead. Once we get the wood off-loaded, I’ll set the truck up as a crane again and get the next tunnel frame in the ground.
Got a decent Christmas bonus. I have a feeling I’m getting an X-420 automation controller for Christmas. That’s the one that will read the wind speed sensor that puts out a low frequency in Hertz/Hz.
Delved deeper into the electrical jargon.
I couldn’t get a wind speed reading on the rocketbombplane because nothing I had access to read it will read a frequency that low.
1 mph = 0.2192 Hz which means 100 mph = 21.92 Hz.
21.92 Hz is equivalent to a 100 mph wind and requires spinning the wind speed sensor at 10,000 rpm.
A web search informed me that the only people reading Hz well below 20 Hz, are audio people and they have special equipment like a really good Spectrum Analyzer.(4 digit price) For non-audio people, there were a bunch of highly technical answers on places like stackexchange(uber smart ppl) that might work.
I got a wind direction reading without a problem and that part of the rocketbombplane is more apt to fail than wind speed which is a magnet spinning near a coil(very thin copper wires wrapped up like twine). It’s the least apt thing to fail.
It’s very likely that the wind speed part works fine. I just need to get the controller that will read it.
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