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We totally did this over Labor day weekend, husband's idea. Also roasted some hatch peppers with the poblanos. They were great!

I took a cookbook, in which the binding failed a month after purchase, to Kinko's. A few bucks later it has a new plastic binding and plastic cover. It was a paper back, i dont know if they would do a hard back.

UNPOPPED! it takes way tooo long to get the smell of burnt popcorn out of my nose and the kitchen.

I made a gorgeous apple pie, the apples were even a nice texture, not too crisp not all mush, then someone said it looked like Martha Stewart made it... what a way to ruin a nice high. Recently made a Jelly cake with blackberries and black berry jam, looked lovely!

My dad's chicken spaghetti, I can't get it to come out the same

I have 2 dutch ovens, a Lodge Enamel and a Calphalon enamel. No Le Creuset due to the price tag. I LOVE the Lodge, found it at Kroger of all places for ~$40, should have picked up one or two more. No exposed iron edges to rust. It is coated in black flat enamel with a white inside and a colored exterior. We use it almost as soon as we get it clean. The Calphalon is a huge 8qt. had to take the first one back as we got it home and the inside had cracks, so did the next three i opened up at the store. finally found one with no cracks. it doesnt get much use. unless something large is going in the oven

venison roast with red wine sauce, potato gratin (both based on a Jamie Oliver recipe) and roasted veggies

The green husks will open up to reveal the pecan nut in a hard shell, the green part will dry out and turn brown and then generally. They will not continue to ripen off the tree. We pick up a few every time we wonder out into the front yard and crack them open to see what we can find. So far we've had a few good ones but most did not get enough water the end of this summer and are shriveled and not tasty. good luck on finding good ones. make sure you get all the shell picked out of the nut meat, its not good.

The biggest disaster was bran muffins that came out salt muffins. I still don't know how or why aside from clearly there was more salt than needed. They were scrapped and I tried again with success.

There is a place Brenham, Tx -- just down the road and around the corner from Snook, that also does chicken fried bacon. Haven't tired it yet, don't know if i can bring myself do it.

If you ever happen to be in Snook go a little farther West on 60 from Sodolak's and stop in ">http://www.slovacek.com/site/index.php> Slovacek's. They are fronted by a (really nice) gas station but have a full meat counter inside. Armadillo eggs are great, the fresh Westphalia sausage is like none other around.

ooo dark, dark, dark chocolate!

So happy to hear there are more of us out there... I once thought about tossing some of my Cooking Lights after getting an annual. Husband replied to my thoughts with: 'Well are all the pictures in there that are in the magazines?' he had good intentions.