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Comment on Back from the deep dark woods by KT

KT — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:57:30 +0000

Wow, totally awesome. What a beautiful place!

Comment on Tomatoes, tomatoes and more tomatoes by opal

opal — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:10:42 +0000

My mouth is watering, just feasting me eyes on those luscious tomatos, and herbs. yumm ee yumm ohhhh!

Comment on Just peachy by Tomatoes, tomatoes and more tomatoes « Diggin’ the Dirt

Tomatoes, tomatoes and more tomatoes « Diggin’ the Dirt — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:27:41 +0000

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Comment on The quest for pear butter by Rebeka Russell

Rebeka Russell — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:51:56 +0000

OMG – this sounds truly delicious. Never heard of such a wonderful thing before, but might give it a whirl. Thanks!

Comment on Totally addicted by Judy

Judy — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:16:36 +0000

Love, love, love the quilt! Love, Love, Love the Cloud9 Fabric!

Comment on Canning quickie by Chris

Chris — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:07:16 +0000

mmmm….pickles

Comment on The quest for pear butter by admin

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:17:48 +0000

I don’t see why not; but part of the appeal of using vanilla bean is the impact it makes to the visual appeal of the pear butter. It makes it that much more special to know it has real vanilla bean in it — that you can see it — and the flavour is unbeatable! While vanilla beans are a bit more expensive than extracts, they are totally worth it. I’ve noticed Costco has a pretty great deal on vanilla beans when they have them in stock. I believe they sell them in sets of two tubes, each with about four or five very large beans, for about $10-$15. In my experience, they were way fresher than others I’ve seen in grocery or specialty stores — large, plump, shiny and full of natural, flavourful oils. But to your question, I don’t think there is any negative impact of using an extract in place of the bean. Most extracts have an alcohol base, and you can make jellies and jams with alcohol (think port wine jam or white wine jelly) so I don’t see the alcohol having any negative impact.

Comment on The quest for pear butter by Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:19:09 +0000

Do you think you could use vanilla extract instead of vanilla bean? Can you even use extracts in canning? I’d love to know!

Comment on Air Canada and YVR, YOU SUCK. by yvr and air canada, you guys suck for biiiig time

yvr and air canada, you guys suck for biiiig time — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:49:01 +0000

It is like a joke, air canada cancelled our flight and told us that we will get another one pricisiley 6 hours later with same stops. Then 3 hours later, all of a sudden we were in another flight which was set on totally different stops and unfortunately there was “no time” for them to transfer our luggages in to new flight. So the luggeges would be in our final destination either a bit earlier than us or latest following day via a earliest possible flight, because they labelled all of the luggages with “urgent delivery” stickers.

here i’m in ankara, the capital city of turkey, though i made them send 4 messagaes to yvr lost luggage services and additionally tried to call them from here myself (both air canada and yvr), the result is no answer, no luggage,and no info at all.

this is the 4th day of my holiday here in a beautiful hotel room in the heart of Ankara and I’m still waiting with same shoes, same pants, and same socks… ohh by the way the word “socks” remind me your performence air canada and yvr… yeah you guys suck, suck for biiiig time…

Comment on The quest for pear butter by Chiot's Run

Chiot's Run — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:42:01 +0000

This sounds like a winner, I generally make gingerbread pear butter, but something about the simplicity of pears and vanilla in this recipe really appeals to me. This would be great spread over gingerbread though I think!