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Canadian online sellers?

American Cheese?

Thanks all. We're still knee...thigh? - deep in snow here, so it's still comfort food season. Mac and cheese this week. And with luck in say six weeks or so spring will be here. Or even summer. Still not counting on the snow being gone by the wedding date (May 25th). Given that we broke the 1957 record. Most snow in recorded history, yeah!

(yup, if you were wondering that was a lame, weary, cold and frustrated "yeah". Winter needs to just...let go. I've even promised that we can still be friends, and everything. Still, he keeps hanging around).

American Cheese?

Thanks all - I guess I'll get some singles and unpeel them all. I want to try that recipe exactly as is before tinkering with it. Although...my sister is in South Carolina right now, maybe she can bring some back. And then bring it when she comes for the wedding. Which just struck me as being a ridiculous thing to do. Kraft singles it is.

American Cheese?

So...I can use, say, Velveeta? If I can bring myself to buy it?

Pricing Cookies

Cost of ingredients x 2.

What spice blends have you decided to make for yourself?

Thanks for the science answers;I still made my own (and the jambalaya was delicious) but I am happier knowing the WHY behind additions to the spice blends.

JulietRomeo: Borenkaas, and a few others from Natural Pastures, and brie and a cheddar from Little Qualicum Cheese works. Cheese choices are better here than when I first moved, but no small local cheesemakers yet!

What spice blends have you decided to make for yourself?

Seconding K Macky - please post the recipe JulietRomeo! And hey BC girl...whenever I visit family on the island, I stock up on BC cheese, ghiradelli chocolate chips and various other things hard to get here. Vico...coming from Quebec it took me ages to figure out what people were talking about. Sounded like a medicine, not chocolate milk!

Need specific Jambalaya Recipe

Weird girl: I'm using the first of the two links - have you made it before? I am worried a bit about the amount of rice. Four cups seems excessive. That's a lot of rice when cooked!

Need specific Jambalaya Recipe

Actually CJ McD, you ended up with the route I'm going! I gave up on finding exactly what I was looking for, and am going to use a chicken/shrimp/ham recipe and put in a half pound of sausage for the ham.

Tdiggitydog: Wish I could get some of those spice blends somewhere other than online. Will look for it next time I'm in a more...ummm...cosmoplitan city. Thanks for the help everyone!

Need specific Jambalaya Recipe

Need one with no ham component. I may just substitute, but still hoping for one that doesn't want ham.
Thanks, though, all help appreciated!

Real jambalaya??

I"ve been told it's tomatoes for New Orleans style, no tomatoes for Cajun style. 'Cept...so many cajuns in Louisiana, how did that come about?

Type 1 Diabetes cookbook

He has an insulin pod injection system. It's an RF device so he gets insulin around the clock, and it changes what he needs at meals, etc. There is a thing like a cell phone that takes a reading and then sends a message to the pod to release more or less depending on what the insulin requirements are according to that meal.

Exercise, we need to work on that. Fortunately - sort of! - we could all add more in. Nice and high in the summer, but this cold weather -30's celcius, and for those in farenheit...we hit minus 40 one day WITHOUT the windchill. Never thought it would get cold enough that it didn't matter what scale the cold was measured in.

Tried finding a hotel with a waterslide, just to get a break from cabin fever but everyone else seems to feel the same way - no room anywhere.

I will get Dr. Bernstein's book, because I do want to understand more about what is going on. I didn't, for instance, have a clue until I met him that stress can affect the insulin levels!

Will still look for specific bookbooks.

Canning Question

Pardon the confusion, but what are you talking about?I preserve with Mason Jars. Two part lid. You can, and as the contents cool the flat part gets sucked in. So I know it's sealed. That's what I give away. The jar with the lid. When you open it if you're going to eat it fairly quickly, then put it in the cupboard (for jams, at least). If you're not, then in the fridge.

There is no outer ring here. Is this an American thing?

ATK Complete TV show cookbook

I do the library thing too - I think I will check out the ATK Family one and the Quick one too. Thanks!

Cookie Baking and Parchment Paper Hate

I buy big pans. I don't waste the paper, and can cook way more cookies at one time.

Roast Goose Help

I think I'll try Gordon Ramsey's version, red wine and date sauce as well. Fingers crossed!

TV chef's. How have they inspired you?

I watched Jacques Torres with the kids...great family fun. And we'd try things, too. With success, even! That's the mark of a good show to me: watchable, and something you can do at home.

Copious Crab Apple Conundrum

I had that problem too (I make jelly, but there is only so much jelly one family can use!)but now...now I make crabapple cordial.

Blueberries and apple in a pie

My baby is 21 on Monday so Sunday night is family supper, with things he likes for the meal. For dessert he wants either a Black Forest cake or a pie with blueberries and apples unless I think that's a terrible combination.

I don't, of course. Think it's a terrible combination that is. But I'm torn as to whether I should add apples or applesauce to a blueberry pie.

On the one hand, the sauce might help my blueberry pie turn out better than it usually does, blueberry being my only consistent pie failure. Other than that I'm a pie genius. Or maybe just a pie smartypants. Genius seems a bit much.

On the other hand, you might not taste much in the way of apple that way. Thoughts?

American Cheese?

Seems I'm frequently running to you guys for answers as to what something is.

I occasionally come across recipes (like the one here for mac n cheese with black beans and chipotle) that call for "American Cheese".

When I looked it up, it was defined as cheddar cheese. But...why not say cheddar, then? It must be something other than just basic cheddar. Cheddar with a gun? Cheddar with some interesting regional addition to it? All I know about your cheddar is that it is SO much cheaper than Canadian is. We must have some very expensive cows!

What spice blends have you decided to make for yourself?

Part of finding spice blends is where I live: Saskatchewan. Yes, it's a real place, truly!

We're a bit isolated. But still,I can get things like Cajun. Except...I just read the ingredients on the back of the bottle? WHH is all that stuff? Why sugars and chemicals and so on? Do dried spices really need that much stabalizing and sweetening? I gave up, I'm going to make my own. What do you guys mix and blend for yourselves?

Need specific Jambalaya Recipe

Shrimp, Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya.

So. I am making jambalaya with my soon to be step-son on the weekend. But...
No ham. I have about one ounce of nitrite free ham left, but a ton of nitrite free sausage. It ain't andouille or chorizo, but beggars with allergies can't be choosers.

Tomatoes are fine, no tomatoes also fine. I don't care. I do care about taking time to cook it. I have never enjoyed recipes that have you shred up pre-cooked stuff. Share a recipe and help a girl out!

Type 1 Diabetes cookbook

I'm getting married (woohoo!) and my hubby-to-be has two kids.

The thing is, his son has Type 1 diabetes. I LOVE cooking. I am very excited to be cooking for more people(my kids are older and mainly on their own).

My library has nearly 30 different cookbooks relating to cooking for diabetics. I could check them all out...or I could poll S.E. readers and look for recommendations to narrow the list down.

Suggestions? Of either books or useful websites?

ATK Complete TV show cookbook

I like some of the ATK cooking magazines I have, others not so much. (Slow Cooker revolution was good, didn't like anything I made from American Classics).

Has anyone bought this book? Liked it, regretted it?

Roast Goose Help

My son bought me a present. He said it was something he could cook, but knowing how much I love to cook he didn't have to if I wanted to do it myself. Lo and behold, yesterday he showed up with an 8 pound goose. (He's in construction, the current site is owned by Mennonites).

I don't want to mess up. Don't know why I'm worried, I do chicken and turkey all the time. Still...want to make this as close to perfect as possible. Suggestions?

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