How to make a fluffy béchamel?
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Comments (8)Re; Cow manure. Your compost is likly weed free judging from the origional contents. The manure is high in nitrogen which will restart the compost heating , but adding cow manure (fresh,old and crusty or otherwise) will probably contain a lot of weed seed. You would also reset the clock for composting the manure and thereby delaying when it will be totaly finished. Now,back to the unlimited supply of cow manure. It makes very good compost without other additions other than moisture.Just heap it up and keep it damp while turning same as you have been or skip the turning and get same result over a longer period. Back to your origional question about adding manure to incomplete compost made with leaves and kitchen scraps. That is a good idea once the manure has gone through initial high heat and decompsiton kill viability of seeds. Starting with manure mixed with other material is also fine since the high heat stage will occur. If you have room to maintain multiple piles/bins of compostiable material,that can actualy reduce time spent vs quanity of compost produced. As you found when you just let the material sit long enough without turning,it winds up fine compost. Toss every thing togeather in a "NURSE" pile as it becomes available or you can shanghai family and frinds as free labor in bringing it to the nurse pile. Continue with the two batchs as you are doing now paying attention to detail on moisture and turning while the nurse pile quitly go's about it's business with minium attention. When you are ready to start a new batch,pull material which is weeks or months along in the process from nurse pile and begain working it. There will be times when material has been in the nurse pile long enough to be finished and useably with little to no effort on your part other than gathering and moveing material to the pile....See MoreHelp me choose a Fluffy for my Snarky!
Comments (15)I know it's been a while and even the ending has ended, but I just thought that anyone interested in seeing what my 'Martin Frobisher' looks like as a bush wouldn't mind a little thread resurrection. My parents took this on Monday, and the rocks you can sort of make out in the lower left are already about two and a half feet above the ground where MF is planted (the border beds are terraced). I believe the shrub is about five or six feet high. My mother said the blooms have a nice, sweet, spicy fragrance (I'm assuming this means they're somewhat like rugosa); it also isn't terribly armed even by ordinary rose standards, so it's remarkably smooth for a rugosa. The look of the leaves and plant indicate strong influence from something else like R. beggeriana or R. laxa. My mother also spontaneously commented on how the blooms of 'Martin Frobisher' are almost identical in appearance to 'Marchesa Boccella' - which is planted in the bed above. Sorry for the wild color combinations, but this is one of the few places on the property where sun, soil and water make it possible to grow a lot of shrubs and perennials well, so the color scheme is "rainbow" to maximize what can be enjoyed there. It looks much better when viewed overall :) The plant is hardier than a rock in Minnesota, never any winter injury whatsoever. Stefan...See MoreThe Good, The Bad, and The Fluffy
Comments (12)It's great to hear from you Pooh. Very happy to know that you have your son now. What a blessing for both of you. I'm sure he'll do so much better in school and just in general. Plus, he will be a great help to you at home. I hope they will let your boy have his dog soon. I'll keep my fingers crossed. Good news about your mood lifting too Pooh. I'm sure when you start getting more active again, with the weather warming up, you'll start having better luck with your weight loss. The 4-wheeler sounds like a great choice for you. I can only imagine how much freedom that allows you. Best of luck to you, Cindy and your DS Pooh. Please do check in when ever you feel like it. You are in our thoughts....See MoreFluffy Yellow Cake or should I say boat anchor
Comments (25)I had no doubt they do recommend buttermilk powder. (I'm no expert! However, I've used it before and personally didn't care for it, but neither would I sour milk with vinegar and think it particularly good. I don't always agree with ATK's recommendations, although if it's something I'm not sure about they are a good place to start. I'll freely admit Personal Preference here. I always have buttermilk on hand as it lasts a long time and there's so many things to do with it.) On the other hand bbstx, you made me look at pan sizes, as I couldn't quite remember what they said. I'll admit I'm a geek; I always like to know the reason why. Here's what they had to say about pan sizes: For best results when substituting baking pans, surface area, not shape, is what matters. We prepared our favorite yellow cake in two 9-inch round cake pans (the size specified in the recipe), two 8-inch square pans, and two 8-inch round pans. The 9-inch round and 8-inch square pans have the same surface area (see chart below), and the cake layers were done in the baking time specified in the recipe: 20 to 25 minutes. The cake layers baked in the smaller 8-inch round pans finished baking in about 25 minutes, but the bottom of the cake burned while we were waiting for the center of the cake to cook through. These layers were 3/8 inch thicker than the layers baked in the other pans. Our conclusion? If you need to substitute one baking pan for another, figure out the surface area (in square inches) of the pan called for in the recipe, then find the pan in your cabinet that most closely matches the surface area of the requested pan. If you can't find an exact substitute, be aware that using slightly larger pans will result in flatter cakes and slightly reduced baking times and that using slightly smaller pans will result in taller cakes and slightly increased baking times. Surface Area of Common Pans Baking Pan Size Surface Area 8-inch round 50 square inches 8-inch square 64 square inches 9-inch round 64 square inches 11 inches by 7 inches 77 square inches 9-inch square 81 square inches 13 inches by 9 inches 117 square inches On their recommendation, I also added a ruler to my kitchen tools so I'd never have to guess what size pan I was using....See Morefoodonastump
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