Recent content by HappyAvocado

my mom is making mashed potatoes, i delegated this year. that way i can concentrate on this meat, and the pies. thanks for the help! ive been meaning to invest in a good meat thermometer, mine has to be thirty years old by now!!!

kayelle thats what im scared of! i usually do a turkey, ive perfected that but im bored of turkey. this piece of meat is beautiful!!! i keep on opening the fridge to admire it. i would hate to ruin it. i might even buy a brand new thermometer to be safe.

thank you! its big for a frying pan though, i was wondering about the sear... Béarnaise sounds fantastic but im dealing with allergies in the family :(

hi! oh my goodness its been a long time since i have been here. :smile: im sure that nobody remembers me, thats ok. ive been too busy to read about food as we have opened our own busy lunch restaurant.:chef: but now i have an ingredient that i am fairly unfamiliar with that i need help with...

mine looks just like this.. i bought it at bed bath and beyond for about 90 bucks.

walnuts for cooking, brazil nuts for just eating.

i love saffron, every time i make curry i make saffron rice. i boil some water, and then add a pinch of saffron to the water and cover it... and let it sit until the water is vibrant yellow. then i take out the little red saffron pieces, and use the water in my rice cooker to make rice. it...

my favorite stinky sandwich is toasted potato bread with liverwurst, muenster cheese, and lots of bannana wax peppers. best with potato chips mashed into the sandwich.

andy m, you took the words right out of my mouth. i use pork bones for red sauce for pasta... usually pork necks. i save porkchop bones in the freezer to use in my sauce, too.

i always put salt and sugar on mine.

two foods that i have trouble finding when i leave california are sourdough bread (the good stuff, chewy and crusty and not soft like a hotdog bun) and jack cheese purrfectlydevine, we have soft pretzels here, too... i used to eat them all the time at ballgames when i was a kid. a lot of public...

gosh, reading a couple of these responses makes me want to clarify that i am not "against" the microwave. ive just never really used one and i guess im not used to the flavor of microwaved food. people that i know seem to think that it is unusual that i dont have one, and i was curious to see...

broccoli and feta, my favorite.

uh-uh. so far the poll says that there are two people in the world. me and one other.:lol:

texasgirl, its not that im against it, its just that growing up, in my house the microwave was sort of a novelty appliance that we used to make microwaved popcorn in once or twice a month. and then i went out into the world and found that there are such things as microwave cookbooks!