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    Digital Cameras - thoughts?

    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...
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    New to Forum... and to Cooking!

    Welcome. Hard to screw up slow cooking (can be done though). Enjoy the journey!
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    What's nutmeg like?

    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.
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    How do you learn to cook?

    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.
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    Your favourite liqueurs/spirits and mixer with them!

    Good tequila!!!!! Straight or in a Margarita Bailey's in coffee Butterscotch Schnapps and Bailey's (Slippery Nipple)
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    Digital Cameras - thoughts?

    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...
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    Favorite and Least Favorite Food Network Stars

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

    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...
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    Christmas Eve 2008 - What's everyone having for dinner?

    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.
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    Anyone Cooking Dinner Monday, Dec 22nd?

    Browned butter and Mithza cheese spagetti. Yummy.
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    My Ex used to make the best fried chicken...

    I used a buttermilk brine on my turkey this year. It was yummy, but the turkey breast I smoked was a bigger hit.
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    What is your weather like right now?

    16 degrees, about 3 inches of snow with temps predicted to get below 0 this week with more snow.
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    Dinner, Thursday, Dec 11th!

    Sounds good! I love spagetti with white clam sauce.
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    What are you baking today?

    Just got Mexicali Spoon Bread out of the oven to go with my Calico Beans for dinner.
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    NY Times bread recipe--what FUN

    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.
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    Dinner Tuesday, Dec 9th

    Calico Beans & Mexicali Spoon Bread (beans are in the slow cooker and the bread is in the oven as I write this.)
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    Vanilla extract

    You can use Vanilla Bean Paste. I buy it at Williams-Sonoma.
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    Sunday Dinner - 9/21/08

    Smoked 2 chickens, made creamed corn and cornbread stuffing. It was my first experience with my new smoker. Very Yummy!
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    MSG? Good or Bad?

    I'm also sensitive to the saltpeter they use in corned beef - it gives me migraines. The trouble is I love corned beef, but I can not longer eat it unless I make it myself.
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    MSG? Good or Bad?

    Based on how it works, I agree with him. It causes the nerves in your taste buds to fire. Sounds like drug to me.
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    MSG? Good or Bad?

    The information comes from my son, who is a biochemist and working on a MD in NM.
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    MSG? Good or Bad?

    I'm allergic to it. Not a pretty sight. Also its a drug. It works by making your taste bud nerves fire. Food should taste good because it tasts good. Not because of drugs (brownies excludes - just joking).
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    Foiled Chicken With Stuffing Recipe

    Made it tonight for dinner (used mushroom soup). Family loved it. Can't wait to try it on the camp coals.
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    Trivia 1/24

    I was about to disagree with the Jodi Foster answer but I see Barbara beat me to it.
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    Trivia 1/25

    Tuffy. I only got 3 (and my friends won't play Trival Pursuits with me because I know too much trivia)
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