Pickling salt is a finer grain compared to Kosher. If your following a recipe and its stating an exact measure of pickling salt, and you use Kosher, the amount will not be the same. Pickling salt also dissolves quicker. If you can tomatoes as a sauce or juice, there is a better way with a lot less labor and time. The use of a Roma food strainer will work very well. The tomatoes need absolutely no prepping, peeling or anything else, unless the are to big for the hopper, then you cut them. When I canned tomatoes from 200 plants, it would a have taken days to get them all peeled and mashed. Usually I like thick sauces, as I cut the tomatoes open, dig out most of the liquid and seeds, and run through Roma (Villaware), and the skins and seeds are passed out the end as waste. The sauce is quite thick and doesn't need as much cooking down to get it thick. Instead of lemon juice, I use citric acid. I just don't want a lemon taste in my tomatoes, no matter how small it might be. Also, I add the citric and salt to the empty jars just before they are being filled. In this way, your sure that the acid level is exact as well as salt. Cooking the tomatoes down with the salt and acid at the begining, can increase the acidity and saltiness. For apple sauce or other apple recipes, I like adding an acid blend of citic, malic and tarteric. This can help safety if the apples are overripe or low in acid. Additionally, ascorbic acid should be used with apples as it helps retain color.

She opened yesterday: Unfortunately something was wrong with the antlers on this one & the capsularis who opened at the same time. They were very hard & brittle.. & never split to let the pollen out. Anyone have a clue / guess why? Immature perhaps, or not enough humidity? (it's been dry as heck here- Note all the fires on the news? Yeah..) I'm gonna try & raise the humidity around them today, if I can.. Next bud looks like it *might* open tomorrow. Or next tuesday, if it's in the mood to tease me again.

I bring the water to a boil at just under my stove's highest heat, because somewhere, sometime, I also heard not to use the highest heat.(That seems to be what discolors stainless.) It boils plenty fast anyway. It's the temperature they are talking about, not the boiling. I've called the all clad cust svc # 800-255-2523 several times. They were always great to deal with. They were the ones who told me about Bar Keepers Friend. It is a good friend, takes away anything stuck or discolored. Things do stick if the pan is not hot enough ( let it get hot on a med or a med hi heat) when you are sauteeing, usually it will release on its own. Get the pan hot, then add the oil, when it shimmers add the meat.

A lot of people are suspecting he may be a serial killer and gotten away with it for a long time. I think he may be a spree killer along the lines of Andrew Cunanan (who killed Gianni Versace). Spree killers have poorly hatched plans and robbery is often the motive, though sometimes rape is involved. Spree killers don't make much of an effort to conceal the corpse, and do dumb things that leave a trail (Cunanan used his real name when pawning his victim's belongings.) Spree killers "snap" for some reason and start a killing spree. There may be an interval between the first and subsequent murders and earlier murders are spread further apart, but the murders tend to happen closer and closer together as time goes on. (Towards the end Dahmer was killing a new victim every week.) The video at the casino shows a lot of awkward hand shaking going on AKA 'the pass' for drugs. Note the movement of Jorans hands after he shakes her hand. Note how she does not want to stay. It is likely they went back to the hotel to do drugs together (this is not an uncommon situation and I an NOT blaming the victim). Maybe they just went to do online gambling since they both like to gamble and the casino closed at 5:00. Note in the casino video below the guy in the green shirt on the left who sits down at the very same time as Joran. Joran weirdly shakes his hand with a prolonged clasp before he departs and does the same with another guy he passes who had been "hanging around". Could Joran be buying date rape drugs? Had one of these guys been paid to drug her drink when she was not looking? Something seemed to be "cooking". Money(chips?) and drugs look like they were being passed. There seemed to be a plan of action. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjwxXevlDzA Here is a link that might be useful: Drug Deal??