Comments on: Sign of the season: first soup and a quiz!

By: Janet Majure

Janet Majure — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:26:42 +0000

Hey, LisaK, I welcome another mature viewpoint! Better cook up that soup. :)

By: LisaK

LisaK — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:46:33 +0000

I guess that dates me. I was going to say “harvest gold” I had kitchen appliances that color in an apartment once. They almost kept me up at night along with the lime green shag carpet. ;-P

I love my fat separator. I think I got it at a dollar store.

Now I’m really hungry for chicken soup!

By: Janet Majure

Janet Majure — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:58:58 +0000

I obviously don’t have enough *mature* readers, who would recognize “harvest gold” when they see it! As to the fat separator, the scale is wrong. You’ll notice it’s twice as far from 0 to 4 ounces (1/2 cup) as it is from 4 ounces to 8 ounces (1 cup). Guess I won’t have to dream up a prize.

And Joanne, wait till I write up what I did with the quince. I’m very pleased with my results, and it might give you an idea for what to do with those pears next time. No peeling of golf balls for me! Unfortunately I spent a very large part of the day putting up > 10 pints of not-very-good chutney, so that post must wait.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:37:12 +0000

The pot is cumin colored.
# 2: You have a fat separator? Wow. I have no idea what is wrong with it, as I’ve never had one!

Yesterday I canned 8 cups of pear apricot jam and 6 cups of pears in Calvados. That was after making the pear/apple tarte tatin because I was copying you. And? when you have 7.5 lbs of pears, this still doesn’t use them all up. These are golf ball sized Seckel pears. The peeling. Oy. The peeling. It did distract me from my family crisis (thanks for your nice note on my blog) and the professor will not be left with rotting pears when I leave town now.

By: Mercedes

Mercedes — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:56:00 +0000

The chicken soup looks delightful. Soup, sleeping in on Saturdays and fresh snowfalls are favorite treats in winter.
Okay, I am going to take a stab at the quiz.
No. 1: Burnt orange for the pot
No. 2: The fat separator is leaky
How did I do?