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Baking Cookalong
"kilikini" > wrote in
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> Sarah Gray wrote:
>> "kilikini" > wrote in
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>>> Janet Baraclough wrote:
>>>> The message >
>>>> from sf contains these words:
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>>>>> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:44:59 -0500, "Virginia Tadrzynski"
>>>>> > wrote:
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>>>>>> PS: Little secret ingredient I found. When baking a pumpkin pie
>>>>>> and the recipe called for evaporated milk, substitute cocoanut
>>>>>> milk, gives it a slightly different flavor that no one 'can quite
>>>>>> put their finger on' what is different.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I have to try coconut milk in pumpkin pie sometime. I love
>>>>> coconut milk (in biko aka "sticky rice") and pumpkin, so why not
>>>>> combine them?
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>>>> Me too, it sounds a great combination.
>>>> Coconut milk is also a great "secret substitute" for cream in
>>>> many
>>>> soups.
>>>>
>>>> Janet.
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>>> I've used coconut milk to steam mussels. For the broth, I put
>>> together coconut milk, lemon grass, finely chopped celery, minced &
>>> cooked onion, garlic (of course) - I can't remember all what. When
>>> I couldn't finish all the mussels that night, I made a chowder out
>>> of the remaining broth the next day. It was wonderful! Here are
>>> pix of both.
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>>> http://i16.tinypic.com/6nu7d3k.jpg
>>> http://i9.tinypic.com/81gd3z9.jpg
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>> Did you post those on abf? That looks fantastic!
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> Yeah, I did. I can't remember when I made this. Had to be about a
> year and a half ago.
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> kili
Ok, I didn't have internet access then. I'm still thinking about mussels
now, though
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