Welcome!

Welcome JRose : ) Hope you do join in! Good crowd here, lots and lots of friendly folks.

Sure will be excited to hear about new sous vide recipes and tips. I'm new to sous vide but have taken to it like a fish to water. Have only made Canadian Bacon with help from our Annie_1992 here - amazing! Any recipes and tips on that would also be very welcome. You'll find others who are more experienced with that than myself. And of course, we always like new members!

Sure sorry to hear about the food allergies. But as colleenoz has mentioned, more than a few here have those, so lots of specialty recipe sharing goes on as well.

Such a nice intro...welcome! :-)

Welcome JRose! New information and ideas are always welcome.

Kate

Welcome to the Cooking forum JRose!!! I like that you came out of lurkdom and introduced yourself.

I love, love this forum, and really feel that I know the members here, even though I've never met any.

Any queries whatsoever will get answered, it's a great wealth of knowledge.

You'll see fabulous photos of incredible food, and some real sous vide experts. 2Many said she's a newbie, she's only been doing it for a year, thereabouts, but the food that she can turn out is marvelous!

DCarch is nothing short of a scientist in his cooking.

Welcome, JRose!

Madonna

Welcome to the Cooking forum. You'll find a lot of kindred spirits here with similar interests. I look forward to seeing your posts and hearing your perspective. Unfortunately I have scaled down my cooking lately so don't post much, but someday I hope to start up again, particularly with gardening and preserving food. I used to have a tiny yard and would pick up produce at various farm markets for canning but no time right now. In the meantime I mostly lurk.

Hi! Good to have you here.

Welcome to the Cooking Forum, JRose. You sound a bit like me: from the Midwest, grow most of my own meat, have a big garden, like to can/preserve. My oldest daughter is celiac, lactose intolerant and have diverticulitis, so there are the food issues too.

I've been a member for a long, long time, and another member, Lars (and his brother Kevin), just left my house after staying here with me for 8 days. They are from California. We had dinner with Naturegirl while Lars was here, too, bringing the tally of members I've met to 33.

We're basically friendly, so I'm glad you decided to join us.

Annie

Welcome. I'd love to learn about charcuterie.

Thank you, all for the welcome!

Colleenoz, that would be hard. I'm a good cook for the type of cooking I do. At one point, I would've said bread, but we pretty much stopped using it as a staple as we got older and as one of our girls developed an auto-immune issue that included gluten. I can bake sweets, but don't really love to do so because I'm not fond of sweet things. Hmmm.... Interesting question.

Annie, a daughter has an autoimmune issue (psoriasis) that she's found she can pretty much control with a strict diet. She can't eat red meats, soy products, wheat products, citrus, eggs, cheeses (except very soft ones because of the histamines) and several other things. Her husband can't eat nuts, spicy peppers, poultry, seafood, alcohol, and a few other things because he has something called Mastocytosis and those things are triggers which send him into anaphylactic shock. Needless to say, it makes family dinners challenging. Unfortunately, I've sent him to the emergency room more than once until it was figured out what he had.

Jasdip, I wasn't lurking so much as reading to see if it was a group that seemed like a good fit for me and friendly bunch. And I think it is. I love to learn new things about food and it seems this is a good place to do so. Thank you for the welcome!

JRose, those food issues are becoming more and more prevalent, I think. My youngest daughter had a stroke at age 27, so she's on a "heart healthy" diet, low in fat and salt. My Dad was diabetic until his death, my Mother is allergic to lemon. My stepdaughter follows the paleo diet and we've been trying to keep my grandson on a ketogenic diet to see if it helps his seizures. I'm adventurous but possibly the pickiest eater in the family. We usually cook at home because it's just took difficult to "eat around" the requirements, good thing I like to cook!

I hope we see more of you and hopefully you can find some good recipes here, as well as some really friendly people.

Annie

Hello, hello! Looking forward to seeing you often here!

Welcome to the cooking forum! I, too, am from the midwest -- Kansas.

Hello, I'm from the island of Cuba, but one wrong turn landed me in the Midwest (MI). Not complaining, but, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, adjusting to all twelve seasons, in one day, is trying.

Welcome.

Sol

Sounds like there are several of us from the Midwest here! Annie, I’m sorry about your daughter. That’s far too young to have to worry about such things.

Solsthumper, that’s funny. And so true.