Vitamins and Minerals for Healthy Skin
Vitamins and minerals are essential for proper function of every organ in the body. especially your skin as it is the largest organ in your body. Experts agree that the best way to get all the...
View ArticleCheese Question
A neighbor dropped by yesterday with a smallish (about 4 oz maybe) wedge of cheese. She was in a hurry and we didn't chat. They left for the UK for the rest of the summer. She had cleaned out her...
View Articlemars bar ice cream?
Sitting here hot and hungry I've asked my lady friend if she fanced making some icecream this weekend in my aged icecream maker (one of those purchases used twice and stored for seven years) So I'm...
View ArticleWhat's a good substitute for canned green chiles?
I posted a couple months ago how it's impossible to find canned enchilada sauce in New York. Well. I found something else they don't sell here. Canned green chiles. I got a craving for Green Chile...
View Articleaem's Spanish Chicken and Rice
I've posted to my website. It was good. I'm not sure I understand the hoopla about saffron anything. it's not worth doing at all."
View ArticlePicky eater with guests
I was invited to a dinner recently and when dessert came around. everyone was served a slice of chocolate cake. except for the husband. who was served some sort of fruit pie with two small scoops of...
View ArticleREC: Corn, Okra, and Tomato Soup
This is a very old Southern US country-style soup with African origins. and has been served in my family for generations. Just 4 ingredients or. crisply fried and crumbled (optional) Combine reserved...
View ArticleI need chili making advice
What's a Russian guy doing trying to make chili. you have to try something different. My past efforts at chili making did not turn out too badly; the results were certainly edible. I actually got a...
View ArticlePasta & beans recipe?
Anyone have a favorite pasta and beans recipe? Maybe a casserole? I looked on Google. but didn't see anything that looked particularly good. Maybe a casserole? My go-to quick summer dish: Penne con...
View ArticleOT: Help! My posts are ugly!
Can anyone tell me how to keep my posts from breaking strangely at the end of the line? You know what I mean (and it's probably happening here)--words fill a line. then the next line contains just a...
View ArticleOT: I will meet Diane
I Am so happy. Diane Brookman called me just few minutes ago on the telephone and I have spoken also with his husband (very nice person)! We will meet in Aosta on the 20th of june (now she is in...
View ArticlePING: -L (vegetarian menu content)
I know how you feel about the fact that i refer to myself as mostly vegetarian even though i eat seafood. So I thought of you instantly when I saw the new menu at a local Mexican place..... They re-did...
View ArticleBrandy snap basket fillings
We are in mid-winter so no fresh berries! I want to fill my brandy-snap baskets with something interesting that will also appeal to the small children. What? Shall I make chantilly cream and use...
View ArticleFried spaghetti again!
I am in New Zealand - but hasten to add that we get fabulous imported pasta and all over Italian cooking ingredients here from Italy (and Australia!) I once was in St Louis and went to a recommended...
View ArticleFefferoni! At last!
It's a couple of doors down from the Callebaut store. I happened to be in the neighborhood. stopped into C's to get a truffle fix. then just before getting back in the car said "what the heck" and...
View ArticleOT: Thanks for your support folks!
I've been calling every place suggested; it's like a full-time job. but I may have some funding for my cancer. May not. we'll see. My doctor friend back on Maui thinks I'm already in stage 4. I haven't...
View ArticleDiscovery: Junk Food Is Good For Health
I stopped taking lunch or dinner. I was just eating indian fast food like vada pav. masala dosa etc etc etc. Sometime just half empty stomach. good for people who need weight gain like you maybe. For...
View Articleblueberry pie
I already posted on rec.food.baking. but my server doesn't like that group today and isn't receiving it. so to you my dear friends. I am making this plea: Youngest daughter. has decided to bake Daddy a...
View ArticleFathers Day Pork Loin with Mushrooms and Apples
The spousal unit requested this for dinner tonight. Though it seems more a fall meal to me? I recall making it for my father's 75th birthday a couple of years ago and it was very well received then...
View ArticleMaking Vanilla.......[my way!]...?
Here's my Vanilla making technique: I just soak plain old Vodka & vanilla beans. which is one the standard methods. ...but instead of discarding the older vanilla beans [let's say 6 months] after...
View ArticleCast Iron Cleaning
On the recommendations from either this group or another cooking group I bought some cast iron frying pans. (I have to blame someone:-) From a cooking point of view I've been very happy. The meats cook...
View ArticleRecipezzar
I like the visuals in that you can see the pics which gives clues to the people. take virtual trips with them. one more step than IRC's :) But it is so busy with so much minutia that my old mind...
View ArticleRhubard and fig jam
I made rhubard and dried fig jam with a little lemon juice (recipe below). Will let the flavors develop for some time. although I am dying to try it. The rests in the pan were sticky. gooey and good....
View ArticleMentos and Diet Coke Ballet
News that Dutch Mentos are a big hit in the USA reached the Dutch madia this week. Then I found this movie posted in a Briths NG and I can see why Mentos has become so popular... Or any other kind of...
View ArticleLunch today
I found some ramen noodles in one of our Asian markets. Not the packet with the flavor packet. just noodles. I bought them. I decided to have ramen for lunch. I put them in a bowl with some left over...
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