Hey Emily~ Here you go! I a made the simple syrup yesterday and refrigerated it. Added the other ingredients to it in the measuring cup, I chilled it in..peeled and chopped the frozen mango (still frozen) threw the chopped mango and poured over the other ingredients into my MINI processor and yummmm... Sol's Mango Sorbet Mango Sorbet 2 mangos, peeled and roughly cut into chunks ½ cup granulated sugar 1 cup water 2 tablespoons honey 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice pinch of salt Make a simple syrup by combining 1 cup water with the ½ cup of sugar in a pan. Bring to a boil, and cook until sugar completely dissolves. Cool slightly. Place all ingredients in a food processor and process until smooth. Chill mixture thoroughly. Then, freeze in ice cream maker, according to manufacturer's instructions.

I do not normally use dried galangal, as I keep a supply of frozen galangal in the freezer, but I have used it on occasion. I was going to write some instructions on how to use it, but did not get around to it before I sent the package. I did not expect the package to reach you until tomorrow! I normally boil the dried galangal and/or soak it for a long time in the fridge (like overnight) and then strain it out. Even when I use fresh galangal, I remove it unless it is pureed into a paste - it has the texture of rope and is extremely fibrous. If you puree it after boiling/soaking it, you may still have to strain out the fibers, before using the liquid. It will give off its flavor when simmered in a soup. I also strain out lemon grass when I cook with that and remove the kaffir lime leaves before serving. Galangal does have a very distinctive flavor that is different from ginger although somewhat similar. Anyway, it will be yet another flavor for you to experiment with. Dried galangal is a fairly good substitute for fresh - at least the flavor is closer than ginger. The lime leaves are probably fresher than what you would find in a store - I picked them on Sunday. You may want to freeze some of them, as Agmss recommended.

Of course, cookebook, I'd be happy to. I'm not as fond of cooked peas as I am of raw peas, so I make this more than I do cooked peas. I don't have a recipe, though, and I've been cleaning out the freezers. So I thawed a bag of peas (they used to be a pound, now I don't know, maybe 12 ounces?) Dumped in a couple of handfuls of roasted peanuts, minced half of a smallish sweet onion and sliced two stalks of celery very thinly. Crumbled up two slices of bacon left from the weekend's breakfast, and put all those things into a bowl. Mix sour cream or yogurt and mayonnaise, about a 50/50 ratio. I used about 1/4 cup of each and the mayo was homemade. The kids like it when I add a teaspoon of sugar, but I like it without. Stir it up and it's ready, but it's better if it sits in the fridge for an hour or two. It gets really watery after a day or two, so I don't make a huge batch, just enough for a meal or two. This is really nice when it's warm outside and a cool salad waiting in the fridge is a good thing, but it's still pretty good in the winter. Oddly enough, neither of my girls like cooked peas either, but they like this and if I grow peas in the garden they all get eaten raw far before I ever get a chance to cook any. It also made a nice combination with the well seasoned chicken, as a "cool" addition to the plate. Annie

Raven, click on either the App Store or Play Store Icon (whichever is appropriate for your devices) that's on the bottom of the 7 Little Words website, and you can download the game, free. You'll get a pack of free games to start with, and 2 or 3 free games every day. And if you miss days of playing, they accumulate so you don't have to miss any of them. I think there is also a paid version, but I don't do paid versions. I don't know what the benefits of the paid would be. Rusty