Barbecue and gleaning yesterday. What I do when garden produces more than I can keep up with. Guests bring containers to harvest kale, bok choy, green beans, basil and others. Served vegan chili, grilled spice rubbed chicken, grilled vegetable skewers, cornbread, chocolate chip cookies.
The Cake Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum is putting out a special commemorative 35th anniversary edition. I have a first edition Cake Bible. I was making weekly desserts for an event in Portland until 1990. Later made Blazers cakes until security tightened after 9/11. Nearly all came from Cake Bible. My copy lost its dust jacket years ago. It is in three pieces. The pages are spattered with chocolate, raspberry, egg and who knows what else. I don't want to replace it because all my notes are in the margins. But if someone sends me a commemorative edition for Hanukah I won't say no. Do you think Lashanna would get it for me?
Pacific Northwest Best Fish Co. Out in Ridgefield. It’s been around close to 30 years and supplies a lot of the restaurants in the county.
Lemon meringue isn't very shippable. Meringue is fragile and custard perishable. But if you are in my neck of the woods sometime, contact me and we can work something out.
Nice. I always just grab mine from my work. Do you have a favorite? I'm pretty partial to Tidepoints out of Willapa Bay myself.
Willapa bay are good. Kumamoto’s always seem fresh and tasty. My wife likes the more petite ones. I prefer the big BBQing ones. But I like em all. Where do you work that has oysters?
Sent you a message. Don't need the rest of these weirdos knowing where i work and try to get me fired!
I thought of cancelling Thanksgiving dinner, I don't feel celebratory, but a couple of my friends are in a condition where they might not be here next year. And another friend said if I cancel I am giving the evil one a win. So we will celebrate each other. I am a bit late getting started but have most of menu planned. Dessert is a problem because of my wall of cookbooks about half are desserts. I am making a vegan apple crisp with raspberry sorbet for vegan guests and a cheesecake because it's my most favorite. I need one more and can't decide: Pecan maple pie (slight twist on classic), Chocolate Angel pie (chocolate filling in meringue crust with whipped cream) or cranberry pear ginger tart. Thoughts?
That sounds wonderful...we've cancelled the big Thanksgiving and decided to just have an immediate family dinner..and it is hard to celebrate anything this year but we'll celebrate choosing to live in one of the most liberal, tolerant, diverse counties in the country! I think you've got an excellent dessert menu there but you might add some hash brownies to lift the mood! We'll get through this chapter, we got through the last one! Happy Thanksgiving to you and all your loved ones!
