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I’m more of a breadcrumb guy than a crouton guy but home made croutons are delicious!

What don’t you like about the finishes?

They look very Florida to me.

@Mik

First I’ve heard of espalette pepper. Do you buy them dry or fresh? Where do you get them?

Not exactly soup but we had so many leftovers in the fridge that some of them were going to go sideways if not used up soon.

Leftover fried rice and undercooked broccoli we got at a very bland Chinese restaurant They must have a new chef because their stuff is normally pretty good. Wings leftover from Super Bowl. Whole onion that I used to gauge progress when sharpening my kitchen knives. I already ate the test tomato. A bag of mixed veg of indeterminate age I found in the back of the freezer. Garlic I chopped and froze a while back because it was going sideways as well.

Rice bowl, then. Added fish sauce, soy sauce and MSG. Deglazed pan with chicken stock.

It came out much better than it had any reason to.

Note to self: Work on plating skills.

All the cool kids on Reddit are naming their starters so I named mine. Right now Bad Barmy is serving as a control to see if the 80° water bath makes any difference.

That’s Yeastie Boys in the water bath.

Realtors sell houses listed by other agents all the time.

It’s pretty much how the system works.

Definitely lives up to the hype. I’ll rank it up there with The Food Lab and Cookwise.

Split pea soup for a cold winter day. Cozy cook recipes never disappoint!

It all looks great and the light fixture with the flowered shade is fantastic!

Sounds great!

The trick is to get all of the components properly cooked at the same time. Julia Child famously accomplished this by cooking everything separately and stirring it together.

Doing it in one pot is significantly more challenging.

Laundry equipment came with the house. Kenmore direct drive units some 30 years old and they still work!

Grandson Jack’s room. Minecraft theme. Sharon made the Minecraft drapes.

@AndyD

The previous owner built it from four wall cabinets and did a really nice job.

Ordered a dark stained butcher block top for the rolling island.

Lighting makes the island look a different color but it’s the same color as the cabinets. New sink is a black composite model

The reveal! Part 1

Heh.

That guy should have been locked up in jail a long time ago. I’ll never understand why he isn’t

I have no interest in anything he has to say.

Vote the bums out!

I want to try making Japanese food.

SK, any suggestions for a newbie?

May I suggest that we cut back on the number of political and current event posts on WTF? It’s all overwhelming, crushingly important, and completely incomprehensible. But I go to WTF to escape all of that. It’s that or toss my phone in the commode.

Gardens, cooking, pianos, music, grandchildren,, landscaping, community events, weather, houses for sale, snowblower tips, concerts, household, hints, history, scientific advances.

Jesus!

Anything but the gawdawful mess we find ourselves in. This too will pass. I lived through Vietnam and I know stuff.

Thank you for your attention in this matter.