Hello, a recipe and a variation

[atilla_thehoney]

Hi I am new to this particular community. I LOVE food...I would be 400 pounds from eating if it wasn't for all the wonderful kitchen gadet stores. Anywhoo I thought that I would post a Pampered Chef recipe(a perk of being a consultant is you get free recipe books every now and again...plus the discount on kitchen toys) and a Variation on it that I

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[anastasiabegins]

Welcome! :o)

Those artichoke cups sound great!

[phylsfrills]

I have a few "toys" myself, and really like the Pampered Chef stuff. My next purchase will be the egg slicer. I do lots of cooking with fresh mushrooms, and was really impressed at how well it sliced the mushrooms. I have quite a few of their stoneware pieces, and use them lots. Also, I have a few of their cookbooks and when I travelled to Ottawa to visit my daughter and son-in-law at Christmas, I took my new All The Best cookbook. Since she just had a baby, I did all the cooking, and every day they would pick out something new from the book for me to make. I left her my copy of the book when I left and have since gotten a new one for myself. I really like the rings and my favorite dessert in the book is the Chocolate Macaroon Pizza. I love coconut and brownies so this was the one for me.

[atilla_thehoney]

We live in Japan right now and saddly we can't buy fresh strawberries on base. The egg slicer is really good at slicing the strawberries (even when you forget to thaw them all the way fisrt). My Mother in law was the one who actually wound up getting me into Pampered Chef stuff cause of how well her stoneware baked things that would normally burn in my house.

[prosodic]

I sympathize with you about the commissary. We live in a small military community in Germany (about 3 hours from the huge Kaiserslautern community), and our commissary gets all the produce nobody else wants. And it's usually half moldy and rotten. Luckily, produce is cheap on the economy. I imagine it's not that way in Japan.

By the way, I am a Pampered Chef devotee. ;)

[atilla_thehoney]

5 apples are about 5 dollars here. They are local produce but it costs. things like berries have to be frozen and shipped here so yeah everything is expensive. Some things aren't but most of it is. the nice thing is you can get really nice authentic Japanese table settings at the 100yen store (which is the equivelant of a Dollar tree).

shoot me an email if you want to hold an online party Prosodic. I can't exactly hop to Germany from japan (lol the husband and kids would kill me) but I can at least help you get some stuff for free. My email is theresa.michael@universalopera.net

[shbarbra]

Is the recipe for canned/bottled artichoke hearts (drained of their oil) or boiled artichoke hearts (drained of water)?

[atilla_thehoney]

Canned/bottled and drained. The recipe says that they would be canned in water, but I know that they were not boiled.

I love Pampered Chef, too

[snobahr]

I've been to shows with 3 different consultants (who weren't my best friend, who sucked me into PC in the first place), and they were always astonished at how well I knew the products, offered alternate, not-necessarily-kitchen-related uses (model-making, wood-craft, leather-crafting), had a couple of anecdotes on a few items, etc... and have absolutely, utterly, completely no desire to be a PC consultant, myself.
I need to find where my stoneware lasagna dish went to, because I've found that to be the best dish for making the taco ring, a favorite of a friend of mine who can't eat corn but likes mexic-oid flavors. It's been used for the taco ring so many times that it's very strongly seasoned around the bottom corners/edging :)
I really like the look of the Cups! I think that will definitely be a hit at my friend's twice-monthly soiree (she's the one that likes taco ring)!

Re: I love Pampered Chef, too

[atilla_thehoney]

hehe I love using the Bunt stoneware for the pull apart bread. The ovens on base don't exactly cook right and when you cook on metal it winds up burning one side and undercooking the other. Stoneware is a godsend!

Okay, dumb question.

[snobahr]

My best friend (the one who had been a PC rep) gave me her bundt stone. It had never been used, because with the weird food dynamics of family, there was never any reason to use it.
So, it's unseasoned.
Can I season that bad boy with a batch of pull-apart?

Re: Okay, dumb question.

[atilla_thehoney]

OH yeah. I love pull apart in the bunt. Also a good thing is to take a can of the pillsbury cinnamon rolls and cook em in there.