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I also suffer from mild depression. Some days I really have to kick myself in the rear to get anything done. Here's hoping tomorrow is a great day for everyone!

We get both here. In fact, we get the yellow ones (my favorite), medium orange ones where the outside is really quite similar to the yellow ones, and very dark orange ones where the exterior can be almost purple. Heck, I don't know - maybe the almost purple ones are a fourth variety, LOL. But to...

Ooh, thanks! I always bake ours, but you've given me something new to try. Those sound great!

Yes, Toots, we are really going to the Le Mans race! It will be my fourth time, and my husband has been one more time than I have. My waistline is always a tribute to the good food and wine (oh my gosh, the cheese) when I return home.... I never quite shed the pounds I gained last year and here...

You are right - that is an absolutely wonderful restaurant. We ate there three years ago and have been trying to get back to it ever since! The trouble is that it's closed on Sundays and Mondays, which tend to be the days of the week we have a chance to escape to the old town. The past two years...

Cool - thanks for all the leads. Regarding tourists, I don't have a problem with the individual tourist but I'm not all that fond of large crowds, be they tourists or locals for that matter! I'll be seeing plenty of crowds at the race track and would rather not encounter "beaucoup du monde" on...

Looks lovely! Thank you! They're on my list. I'm hoping places aren't all booked up already....

Au Secours! My husband and I are going to France on business in June (the 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race, for those who don't know us). I have a "significant" birthday coming up in July and we thought we would use our 6 days off between qualifying and the race to do something really fun. Ideally...

Right this very moment I'm drinking rooibos tea. ;) Earlier I had a Tsingtao beer. Your "GSM" sounds lovely, kitchenelf. Red wines are my favorite, but my husband prefers to spend less than $8.00/bottle on "everyday" table wines so if I want something nicer I have to give it to him for...

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That's pretty much what I do. Although I don't do any deep frying. I can throw a steak onto a naked sizzling hot cast iron pan but I'm too wimpy to deep fry. :rolleyes: Anyway, I keep ordinary EVOO (Star), somewhat tastier EVOO (Colavita) and Canola oil around. (We are occasionally gifted with...

I can't imagine using anything but a gas stove. Have been forced to cook on electric stoves on occasion and they drive me nuts because they don't respond instantly the way gas does and don't have the same ability to fine-tune just the right amount of heat. I remember having to turn on two...

Still working on it ... please do have a look at my Aioli update message in this thread and let me know if anything comes to mind after you read the latest news.... :ohmy:

The recipe said to use it up within three days, but I have to think it might keep a bit longer than that. ?? I hope so because I'm not sure I can use all of mine up quite that fast. Which brings up another question: I made the aioli for lamb panini sandwiches - fabulous - but we're out of the...

Aioli Update Well, I'm still not 100% what is going on with aioli and me. I tried again tonight, and used my blender. It's possible I still didn't get the egg yolk mixture adequately beaten before I started adding the oil ... but I dunno. However, on another BB I got instructions for "rescuing"...

We got the gasket/seal thingy replaced on our front loader and have had no mildew problems since. The technician said they'd improved the quality of the gasket. I make sure nothing is blocking the drain hole in the seal and run a cleansing bleach cycle every once in awhile and it's been perfect...

Not for me. I'm still getting a page with this error message: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: print_portal_output() in /home/cooking/public_html/forums/includes/functions.php on line 4284 I followed your advice to use report the problem via the Contact Us link. I received this...

And the love of my life (after my DH, of course):

OK, I'll play! Here are my beloved kitties:

Give it a try and see what happens!

I adore my FoodSaver and use it all the time but I have to say that in a head-to-head contest, ghee in a butter bell beats ghee in a FoodSaver container - hands down - for super-fast ease of use and cleanup. That said, convenience is a totally subjective thing so if the FS container works for...

I love my butter bells - I have two of them. I turn most of my butter into ghee, and butter bells are absolutely perfect for ghee storage. I make ghee up two sticks of butter at a time and pour into the butter bells while still liquid. I put them in the fridge just till they're solid enough to...

No, I understand we're a somewhat rare group. :) Wow, Boulder Creek - small world! I grew up in Pacific Heights in SF but after college one of my oldest friends (who grew up a few blocks from me) had a house on Potrero Hill for a number of years - until her second child was on the way and they...

Wow - 8 egg yolks, my goodness. I can't imagine ever needing that much aioli! I'm looking forward to trying again now. I'm pretty sure it will turn out just fine when I use the right tool for the job. :wink: I'm sure yours will be yummy, too!

OK, that seems to agree with my original assessment. I hate it when I ignore that "little voice". I think I will use my standing blender next time. It is narrower than the FP so that volume of aioli should reach the blades properly. My "small FP" is not a Cuisinart; I think it holds about a cup...