Recent content by magic823

Hey folks. Its Canon, not Cannon. If you try to take someone's photo with a cannon you'll blow their head off. On batteries, a good proprietary battery should last longer per charge. On my Sony I can take about 700 photos per charge. I got a second battery and only once have I ever had to...

Welcome. Hard to screw up slow cooking (can be done though). Enjoy the journey!

On french toast (along with cinnamon)! Yum. Nutmeg, tastes like .....nutmeg. Nothing really like it. Love the smell (and taste) of it freshly grated. Good on snickerdoodles too.

As to good cook books, I love any of the Alton Brown books (he of Good Eats fame on the Food Network). They teach you, not just the hows of cooking, but also the whys in what you are doing. Plus he's pretty funny. I just got his book on Baking and I'm learning and laughing my behind off.

Good tequila!!!!! Straight or in a Margarita Bailey's in coffee Butterscotch Schnapps and Bailey's (Slippery Nipple)

Get something with anti-shake. More photos are ruined by camera shake than anything else. I love Carl Ziess lenses (I own a Hasselblad); they are the sharpest lenses made. You can get them on Sony. My wife owns a Pentax and it eats batterries like crazy. I bought a Nikon for my grandson and he...

Favs: Alton Brown Alton Brown Alton Brown (Its the chemist in me) Least Paula Deen Paula Deen Rachael Ray

Try Stevia. There is a new commercial product called Truvia that uses it. Its an all natural sweetener used by the rest of the world for decades, but prevented in US (due to Monsanto (makers of Nutrasweet) and the FDA's incestuous relationship). My wife reacts to Splenda and I react to too much...

Ham & I'm also smoking a turkey breast. We do our xmas meal on xmas eve so we can enjoy xmas day with family, instead of cooking.

Browned butter and Mithza cheese spagetti. Yummy.

I used a buttermilk brine on my turkey this year. It was yummy, but the turkey breast I smoked was a bigger hit.

16 degrees, about 3 inches of snow with temps predicted to get below 0 this week with more snow.

Sounds good! I love spagetti with white clam sauce.

Just got Mexicali Spoon Bread out of the oven to go with my Calico Beans for dinner.

Made my first loaf of this yesterday. Awesome bread! It was my first loaf of bread not using a breadmaker, and it won't be my last. I used cornmeal on the towels and didn't have a sticking problem and the roasted cornmeal looks great on the bread.