Oh yes! I don't remember all of them but there are a few I can think of to lay blame to! Gwen for the crumbs, Toolgranny Linda for Homespun Stars, Caroline for all those tablerunners and her tute on lattice, Teresa for the Shooting Star and getting me started on scrappy quilts, Mary_c for getting me started making tops for QOV, LindaOH for that thread on Wonky Pinwheels, Rosa is a troublemaker with all the neat things she makes, Vicky's Carpenter's Square and of course the D9P and jars. These are not all of them by far! Ya'll are a bunch of enablers! @:) And I love it!!!! lol SharonG/FL

Rho, I have seen those really expensive machines, and I know that ,beyond a doubt, there are not enough garments or anything else that I could produce in one lifetime to warrant the price of those machines. Just to buy the thread for the embroidery function can be prohibitive. And, I really don't believe that there is any more pleasure to be gotten from them, either. Also, many times, the machines that offer fewer functions are really the best. I wish that I had, maybe, just bought a new sewing machine instead of a serger. Now I sew with my old mechanical Bernina with a backup of an old Singer 401 from the 50s the was my moms and that I learned to sew on. All I want is old school. So much of modern life suffers from what I call "style over substance, and, the style sucks". So, where does that leave the substance? The form is not pleasing and the function is even worse. Much of it is a lose/lose affair, in my opinion. It has become difficult to find just a well made somethingortheother. So many things come loaded with functions that you never knew you needed or wanted and still don't need or want. It is all about upsellling things that are really of little value.

I've not made chili oil, but I might want to try it. However, I would want to use the chilies of my own choice and keep it rather simple and omit some aromatics (particularly star anise and cinnamon), except perhaps the garlic and black cardamom. I do have Sichuan peppercorns that I need to use, however, but I would want to make chili oil with dried cayenne or chile de arbol chilies. I grew and dried the cayenne myself, and I also have dried chocolate Habanero chilies, which I think might make good chili oil - I have not used any of them yet, but I plan to cook with them when (if it ever happens) I do not have other chilies to use. I would be interested in seeing recipes for chili oils other than the Chinese versions, even though I have all the ingredients to make the Chinese versions. I buy garlic sesame chili oil at a Japanese market, and I keep it in the fridge, since it is made with sesame oil, and I use this frequently, but it is not very spicy. I don't think I've ever bought Chinese chili oil, although I've had it in restaurants. I'm not close to a Chinese neighborhood (Chinatown is at least half an hour away), and where I live Japanese markets are more common. There is also an Indonesian market fairly close, and even Koreatown is closer than Chinatown. Thai Town is closer than Koreatown. Anyway, it is easier for me to go to Japanese, Thai, Korean, and Indonesian markets than Chinese markets. The majority of Chinese markets are in Monterey Park, which is 35-50 minutes from here (depending on traffic). I've been there for dim sum, as it is much better in MP than in Chinatown. Some of the Japanese markets here are quite large, and some of the Korean markets are huge. Later this month, I will be more bold about venturing out for more shopping, as my vaccination will be in full effect by March 22.

Its me too, i made a new post about not being able to see anything and having the sentence ”No more posts” display on every single discussion forum. Hopefully this will be remedied soon. However I have noticed that the internet generally is less functional the larger and more crowded with junk content and ads it gets, less useful to me personally and the less likely features or sites are to be fixed when they are down. At this point I would pay for a curated, monitored gateway that refined searches by excluding ads and paid placement and excluding sites not verified by some rubric that determined quality and reliability of content. Any ideas?