Posted on 09/29/2018 5:48:07 PM PDT by Jamestown1630
This Month: Raclette! - a fun way to share good food, drinks and conversation with friends and family; also an unusual dump cake; and a little something restful and beautiful to help restore us after an infuriating week.
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Coming into winter and thinking about doing that bean soup.
After having it on my wish list forever, I broke down and ordered “America’s Test Kitchen” cookbook and it arrived yesterday. Sadly, after a quick perusal, I’m not very impressed. The recipes aren’t arranged well. Example - the pork chops are in a different section from pork roasts. I buy pork loins on sale and cut them up any which way so it could be stew pieces or chops or roasts or shredded. I want a PORK section with every cut rather than having to hunt something down in this and that and the other section. The brunch section is a mishmash of everything so you’d never find what you’re looking for if it’s even in there.
Half or so is devoted to desserts and breads so not low carb. Too many breaded meats. Too many pastas and rice. Very few vegetable recipes.
I spent some time looking at lentil soup recipes today. I think I may have found one that I’ll like, after many disappointing experiments.
Watch this space ;-)
Apricot Frangipane Tart
Have an identical Wilton tart pan on the way and found a great recipe to make almond paste from a $10 bag of almond meal from the supermarket. Will have to improvise w/canned apricot halves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qifOtRt2RT0 - Youtube
Also found a recipe for shrimp, veggies and ramen noodles. Will post a link if anybody wants it.
Hope all are well!
PS See I'm out of sync as to topic as usual. Am addicted to recipes then buy stuff at the store or carry out lol.
Cheese. I’m just happy to finally learn that that white Mexican melting cheese the Food Network is always talking about is basically the same thing as mozzarella. That’s as fancy as my store gets.
Thanks
Hi, we bought a nice big wedge of raclette at a cheese shop up north this summer and it’s still unopened in the fridge. Just today I saw it again and thought I’ve got to find something to do with this. Thanks!
I’ve made a similar recipe. Yum. Yes, canned apricots work fine.
You don’t need to buy almond meal. Just dump some whole almonds in your food processor and add sugar. Waay cheaper.
We have a couple of the America’s Test Kitchen cookbooks from the TV show; we bought them largely because we used to watch the show and liked a lot of the recipes.
We’ve never used an America’s Test Kitchen recipe that didn’t turn out very well; our favorite is a recipe for Chicken and Dumplings. I think they’ve done quicker and lighter versions, but this appears to be the one that we use. It’s always been a hit at office parties:
I wonder if there are enough of us birders/birdwatchers to have a thread on here ;-). There used to be an occasional picture thread, but been awhile since I’ve been pinged to that.
As part of an ongoing home remodel I now have a liquor “cart”, Nespresso coffee station, new charcoal Kamado grill and soon to have a nice new convection stove. Need to get back to making more of my own healthy meals. I think the liquor cart make get some cheese accouterments.
Was able to use a discount to purchase some Wagyu streaks. Greatest steaks ever, but I think the taste was actually too rich for me.
What is it like? When I was trying to learn about it I found some articles that described it as rather pungent.
Ooo! You can sellout on eBay.
Also, I,myself, try keep from buying the book until I check it out at the library. If it only has one or two recipes,I just photocopy them.
My local cheese store has “Raclette Night” at the end of each month. Here’s a photo of it one night:
https://milkfarmla.com/event/raclette-night-at-eagle-rock-music-festival/
other photos of Raclette Night and to the right of it:
There used to be a gentleman who posted an occasional thread of his beautiful photography of birds. I’ll try looking back and figure out who it was.
I found Maurice Baker because I was looking for videos on learning to hand-feed wild birds. I’ve been feeding the birds outside my workplace for about 8 years; they all know me, and follow me around now when I walk out. I’ve been hesitant to condition them to hand-feeding, for fear that they will mistake someone else for me and perhaps be hurt - a lot of people really don’t like birds, and are afraid to have them flying around their heads.
But I’ve reconsidered. I don’t think that will be a problem with truly wild birds; it seems to sometimes be a problem with imprinted rescues who are later released.
After birds get used to you as a food source, you can begin putting the food on a glove, perhaps on a long stick, so that they don’t have to come near you, but begin to associate the glove with food; and after awhile, you can put the glove on your hand. But there are lots of other ways:
https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/how-to-get-birds-to-eat-out-of-your-hand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SCTtu2EUg0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC-7Vh-olmI
The bird videos are beautiful. Thank you, for the links.
We’ve bought it before from the same cheese shop years ago, kind of on the smoky swiss side very good.
That Freeper was Swampsniper. RIP but occasionally some friend posts a thread in his honor, could probably search for a thread with Swampsniper in the title.
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