Posts by siduri

How can there be ONE thing, Robbie - you, in fact, mention two.  But where do you use your pan if not on a stove?  Are you talking about the one unusual thing beyond a source of heat, a source of water, a way to keep food...

Quote: Originally Posted by eastshores  I have a container of "whipped butter" that I just checked and the ingredients listed were pasteurized cream and "natural flavor". From a little research on what natural...

I bake american recipes in italy, where there are not any of the same products (that baking chocolate you describe doesn;t exist here).  I usually just substitute the cheapest 50% - 60% cocoa chocolate that i can find that's not...

Quote: Originally Posted by kokopuffs    Please explain "...I just toss it..."   Sure, kokopuffs.  I have all the crumbly flour with butter rubbed into it.  It's like a pile of...

Whipped Light butter - usually Light means it's got some fat substitutes in there - unless it's just air.  I'm not familiar with the product though.  I remember whipped butter in the states, and it didn't say "light" but...

I agree on the real butter.  But as for the dish you show,  i'm a great fan of butter on my bread, but not when the dish has tomato sauce that asks to be sopped up with the bread.  Not for tradition, or for authenticity...

This might be a whole new forum, actually.  I can imagine hundreds of challenges being begun, unless there is some way to select them and moderate them from the beginning.  In any case, the challenge probably should be...

Quote: Originally Posted by kokopuffs    Siduri:  which kind of rolling pin are you using? You won't believe it.  Years ago, over 40, anyway, my father was doing plumbing in the house with...

Quote: Originally Posted by PeteMcCracken  I use a French pin.   Edge splits are not uncommon, just squeeze them together or patch. I find less splits when I'm careful to roll from the center out....

I only saw this thread now, and haven't read carefully everything else so maybe i'm repeating, i hope not. .  But i would not do something too literal, but consider the four (or five, are they?) tastes as a metaphor of different...