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As A Chowhound, What Did You Get For Christmas?
- monavano Dec 25, 2007 07:14 AM
This has been an especially good foodie gift year for me. My DH got me a chinois from Williams Sonoma, and for blogging- a Canon Elph 850 and a tripod.
I'm very excited to make sauces and take photos!
So, what did you get this year?
As a chowhoud 'who has everything', my wife struggles to come up with something useful/unique. This year it is a N2O fired whip cream maker. I'm pretty sure I can use it as a home defense system in the event I'm attacked by an angry mob of pastry chefs, but I'm wondering if I have to register it with the local police.
I tried it. It does whip the cream, BUT - you are at the mercy of the N2O to decide how soft/firm the peaks are (they are way on the firm side) and if you're putting sugar in the cream, the lack of whisking leaves it a bit gritty. When you're done, you only have about 12 pieces of equipment to clean.
It was a nice thought, but I think I'll stick with a whisk and a cold bowl...
On the other hand, my daughter bought me a panini press. I'm not really into items that can only be used for one thing (which can be done with more basic equipment anyway), but I am actually excited about the press. I'm not sure I could duplicate what a press does with anything else, so if I can find a place to store it, it could work out. Anyone else actually use a panini press?
re: bnemes3343
Don't forget you can use the whipped cream maker to also make all those foams that are almost a parody of themselves now ; )
re: bnemes3343
IF you use confectioner's sugar or splenda you can have the sweet but get rid of the grit...
re: kmills9408
I think the splenda would work with the cream. I made the big mistake of using it instead of sugar while 'creaming' butter in a muffin recipe a few years ago and learned a valuable lesson (NEVER do this again). But, in cream, it should be just fine.
re: bnemes3343
Pardon the ignorance, but what happened? I'd rather learn from your mistake than making my own :-)
re: bnemes3343
Make sure you turn the whip cream maker upside down before pressing the handle. I sprayed my daughter's kitchen not 2 hours ago.
Love my panini press. Fun to use at parties. Everyone can make their own. DH makes a mean sourdough, bacon, pimento cheese, tomato and avocado sandwich using ours.
re: Pampatz
I love my panini press too... actually I use it not only for sandwiches, but also for big rectangular pancakes!
re: bnemes3343
I got a panini press (VillaWare) for my birthday about 2 years ago. I love it! It is electric and I can grill with it too, but I don't grill too often. I may not make a ton of panini, but when I do use it, they come out perfectly. My sister visited my for Thanksgiving weekend and we made some marvelous leftover turkey panini the day after thanksgiving. Enjoy your gift!
cool topic. i got:
an egg wedger... (like alton brown, i'm not a fan of single job gadgets but maybe i can try it on mushrooms?)
mini salt and pepper shakers...(i want to pass on them since the holes would call for fine sea salt at best - or gasp, iodized, and the pepper would have to be powder),
a pocket size photo album with magnet closure for organizing my coupons... (brilliant considering my ziploc is probably the worst for coupons) and
a Prepara brand "herb savor" - it's a thing to store your herbs in the fridge, upright, with a reservoir at the bottom. i imagine it's like a mini biophere. thankfully it's not big and i intend to do a side by side test comparing with the glass jar method.
re: dishchrista
I got the book that I got for everyone else this year that I was secretly coveting...My Last Super! 50 great chefs sharing what their last meal would be, what they would drink with it, what music would be playing and who would they share it with....I LOVE it!!!
BTW I do have a panini press and I love it, great for a quick dinner with a salad.
Nice thread! I got a fabulous Kitchenaid Stand Mixer which I can't wait to try out! I'm especially excited to find new ways of using it for non-dessert/baking items, as that seems like the obvious choice for use, but not necessarily the healthiest... haha.
Happy holidays (and good eats) to everyone on Chowhound :o)
Almost forgot... my other daughter got me a chef's mat. It's actually very comfortable when you're standing at the cooktop. I'm not sure if 'real' chefs would use one, but I like it.
Santa was generous in my house:
8 qt oval Le Creuset in Cobalt
Pasta Roller attachment for Kitchen Aid
The Art of SImple Food(Alice Waters)
Rectangular Spring Form pan(never seen such an animal before...will have to think of something to do with it as I'm not much of a cheesecake fan)
1 bottle ea of Grand Marnier, Chambord, and Pama(pomengranate liqueur) looking forward to playing with all of these(use them more for cooking and baking then drinking though think the Pama will make a great variation on an kir royale!)
re: ziggylu
As to your rectangular spring form pan, you can make rectangular tarts with it, or all those funny layered ice cream desserts. It's not the most practical thing in the world, but I'm sure it will be fun to have.
re: alysonlaurel
Heh funny....my sister, BIL, and myself were teasing my now elderly mother about an ice cream dessert she made about 30 years ago....mom has always been a great cook/baker but had never made a box of brownies before....she found a recipe for one of those layered ice cream desserts and made a box of brownies...cooking them until the toothpick came out clean. She then layered them with bright green mint ice cream....
Come time to eat even the electric knife couldn't get through the thing as she'd overcooked the brownies SO LONG. It became a very memorable family history event...
Somehow it came up again tonight and while we were laughing and teasing her about it we did in fact agree we needed to recreate it(making the brownies correctly this time though!) in the new pan! Wonder if bright green mint ice cream is still on the market or was it a uniquely 70s kind of thing?
re: ziggylu
I'm sure it is, and I think that would be so much fun to recreate! And with homemade chocolate sauce poured on top!
re: ziggylu
Pama is sort of my new guilty pleasure. I love a PAMA gin martini with a splash of Rose's. YUM! Think I'll go make one now.
re: ziggylu
As for the rectangular sf pan, I bought a square one with the intentions of using it for lasagna for the presentation factor... also a Mexican layered enchilada will work.
re: ziggylu
zig, bake lasagna in the rec spring form pan-works fantastic! The thin sheet lasagna noodles for multi-layer lasagnas do really well. Also, eggplant parm !
re: monavano
The Disney Store!
I got a soda syphon, which I've been coveting for quite some time, and a Bialetti Brikka, as well as one of those wand things for milk frothing. Also a nice port. So more about the beverages than the foods this year.
re: danhole
That's a mixed blessing danhole... I hope you are feeling better.
I wanted the cuisinart griddler, but DH forgot. :(.
I did get new meat lifters (4 tangs - is that the right word?), dishwasher safe bamboo spatulas, a bamboo cheese board, a silicone coated whisk, 2 regular whisks. I've tried all but the silicone whisk, and they're great. (I didn't really need 3 whisks, but DH and my sister didn't realize they were each getting me them!)
re: jujuthomas
Thanks Juju! I am still under the weather, and it was an odd year since I not only didn't get to cook any of my fav's, and my daughter is a good cook, but not very chowish, so . . . but I did make a tossed salad for Christmas dinner and got to use the new knife. Very nice, but so sharp I had to be very careful!
I did get the other daughter a new blender. She liked my 14 speed Oster, so I was going to get her the same, but they had a newer version, 18 speeds and digital! It also came in black which is what she wanted. I was sorely tempted to keep it! Funny, I looked all over the internet and never saw this one!
re: danhole
I love my santuko knife and i LOVED Ratatouille when i saw it in the theatres !!!
My parents gave my husband a book about cheese from Murray's cheese shop in NYC, the American artisinal cheese collection from Williams Sonoma, and a few boxes of Carr's crackers. Yum.
All gifts were wonderful - a set of red Staub -5qt pot, a square grill pan and a nice baker (perfect for tarte tatin) from hubby, from my daughter Paula Wolfert's "The cooking of soutwest France" (can't wait to use it ,expecially that I also got a bag full of unusual food items from a friend, and a nice jar of goose fat was in it!).
I got some things that I'm pretty excited about. I am trying to stock my kitchen right now, so I got a microplane (finally!), a really cool kitchen timer from the MoMA design store, and a pepper grinder form MoMA. The pepper grinder is really cool, since you can use it with one hand. I tested it this morning, and it's really easy to use and grinds really well.
So far (still have to get together with a few family members and a good friend, all of whom know I love to cook):
A $25 GC to Penzey's, Michael Ruhlman's "Making of a Chef", Archer Farms Key Lime White Chocolate Cookies (my mother knows I'm a freak for anything key lime - hope these are good!), and a small 8-bottle wine cooler. I also bought myself the Ratatouille DVD. :-)
I got:
Ruhlman's newest book
My Last Supper (which is so far VERY entertaining)
A water boiler so I can have tea at school
A cookbook about making your own dog treats (not sure the logic behind that one - probably something along the lines of "She likes to cook and has dogs! Perfect!")
I'm also the "girl who has everything"... so when my friends get that look in their eye I always tell them to get me some fabulous olive oil, spices, vinegars etc.
This year I got an amazing aged Balsamic, that I would never spend the $$ on for myself... some walnut oil... saffron... great vanilla... and a set of Emile Henri ramekins that are going back to Sur La Table (I'm awash in ramekins!).
Any thoughts on how I should spend my $25 credit?
re: Jennalynn
Knife sharpening? ;-)
re: monavano
That's actually a brilliant idea Monavano!
re: kmills9408
kmills, I am incredibly jealous! Though if I got one of those I would possibly never sleep again. Or at least vibrate through the next 7 to 10 days...
Two Ruhlman books;
A rice steamer/cooker;
Aeropress coffee maker;
Green beans from three continents.
re: piccola
I love my milk frother! It works really well. It took me a little while to figure out how long to heat the milk in my microwave for best results, but otherwise it's terrific.
And I don't know why this is, but I found that organic milk froths better for me than non-organic - I always buy 2% milk, so that's not the variable.
re: flourgirl
I use cold, skim milk - that's what I find works best. Now if only I could get soy milk to foam...
re: piccola
And I couldn't get it to work at all on cold milk.
People here will possibly laugh, but i'm thrilled by what my hubby got me this year. It was simple, but have been wanting one since I saw it.
The Pancake Puff. Yes, the goofy, as-seen-on-TV cast-iron pan that makes "pancake-puffs" AKA Danish ableskiever pan. Yes, i'm going to play lots with it, when I get home tonite! ^_^
I'm a simple woman. Give me baked goods, and maple syrup, and i'm good to go!
I love the foodie gifts I got this year:
2 ROSLE whisks
A beautiful box of Fleur de Sel
A box of Maldon Sea Salt
A great stoneware container for my salts
A pretty little Cupcake Cook Book
A bottle of Truffle Oil
An amazing dinner.
Home made biscotti that I absolutely love!
(I was really hoping she'd make 'em again this year)
3 fabulous bottles of wine!
And Matthew is gonna cook his amazing rissotto for me before he moves away!!!
Well, I haven't "celebrated" Christmas for at least 10 years. And by this year I have decreased my gift-giving obligations to exactly 2. Me and DH simply buy "gifts" as "needed." Just when I thought I had everything, a couple weeks ago I "gifted" us with a Wustof 8" carving knife (totally practical) and a Wustof carving fork - $90 and so over the top but SO makes me drool and smile. Merry Xmas to me.
Excellent! I received the book Taste, following the history of England through food. I love history! My husband bought me a Shun knife to replace the one I was given at the cooking school I taught at last year, which disappeared about 6 months ago. Also, I got the new non-slip cutting board Cooking with Amy recommended. I must have been VERY good this year:)
My DH and I always get our stocking stuffers from Cost Plus, so we both ended up with various chocolates and sauces. Unknowingly, we each bought an assortment of Dave's hot sauces in tiny bottles for our son, so now he's set for a while. I got my husband an "Irish coffee kit" consisting of four Irish coffee cups (from cost plus), a box of demerara sugar cubes, and a bottle of Bushmills. And he bought me 3 bottles of various red wines.
My BIL and wife got us both a Henckels knife set--assorted knives and a block, which sounds good but it's the "Made in China" type with only one little guy on it. Previous CH'ers have noted that the quality of the knives is indicated by the number of little guys on them. No gift receipt, but the sticker is from Kohl's. We're debating whether to attempt the return or not--one of those deals where the next time they come over, they'll be looking on the kitchen counter for the knives.
re: coney with everything
DH got me two Le Creuset items for Hanukkah and I have already shown my thanks by creating a stew in the oval casserole and a lasagne in the large baker. He also gave me a cool new salad spinner.
I gave him one of those sci fi looking hydroponic herb gardens and a personalized chef's coat.
re: coney with everything
Maybe you could trade them in for the better set. I'm not sure if they make the better ones (with the two little guys instead of one) in a butcher block, but if they do... I'm sure your BIL would never notice.
As a recent graduate, I don't have a lot of kitchen equipment. This year I got a Lodge cast iron pan, a 3.5 qt enameled dutch oven, and a probe meat thermometer. I'm very excited about the thermometer because I hate trying to time a roast and sticking it with my instant read thermometer several times.
Oh, and I got this great recipe organizer from Hallmark. I usually print out full page recipes from websites. So my desk and drawers are covered with a bunch of pieces of paper. This organizer is a 3 ring binder that has the sheet protectors in it (complete with dividers and labels). It's pretty much perfect for me.
re: Lady Godiva
My hubby did really good this year. He gave me Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa at Home and Patricia Wells Vegetable Harvest, I really was totally surprised.
But truth be told, my favorite "Chow" Christmas gift of all is when my 16 yo nephew goes back for seconds of whatever dish I've brought to the family brunch and dinner.
re: Axalady
I'd be curious to hear what you think of Vegetable Harvest - don't know if you saw the home cooking board threads on it when it was the cookbook of the month.
well I have to say I was pretty darn happy with my gifts.. I got a set of Wolfgang Puck Sakoku knives (a four pack with a block), a 2 pack of flexible cutting boards and a food network cookbook.. so... I'm smiling today
Nice thread.
I got:
A medium Farberware saucepan.
A chef's jacket (clever, as I hate aprons and am forever staining my shirt)
A cooking class at a local Italian cooking school
Jamie Oliver's new book. Looks as good as his other books.
Well, my husband thought it very very funny. I opened a box and there was a Sandra Lee cookbook and Rachel Ray cookbook! NOT. He said he just couldn't resist since they are the ones I love to hate. GEEZ, $40 bucks on those two!. Cracked open the SL one and the first recipe I spot starts out "toast a frozen waffle".
re: josephine
ROFL!!! Awww, come on josephine, you gotta admit that's pretty funny! (I hope he got you anything else food-related to make up for it?) And you could probably recoup *some* of the money by selling the two books on eBay.
ETA: Fixed the word "cookbooks" to just plain "books", as Shamdra definitely does *not* cook.
re: josephine
Return them... even for bookstore credit.
$40 will buy some great cookbooks.
re: josephine
And remember, according to Miss Manners, good etiquette doesn't require you to keep anything. Good etiquette simply requires you pretend you like the gift upon reception.
re: josephine
LOL! My husband did the same thing to me last year...wrapped up a Sandra Lee cookbook and thought I'd love it since I love to snark on her so much.
I made sure to tell him in advance this year that he coudl be sure I had absolutely no interest in the new memoir and perhaps to consider some other books instead this year! LOL
Got for X-Mas:
New England Soup Factory Cookbook (boy do I love soup in this cold weather!) from my wife at my request;
Baking Sheet from my Mother-in-Law;
Best of All: A New Kitchen which was started about 5 weeks ago, new Cherry cabinets, new SS Appliances, new granite countertops, new recessed lighting, new hardwood floor, and because I essentially acted as the GC, we probably saved $25-30K, and it looks great!!
Lucky me! I live in Ann Arbor, so my SO made a trip to Zingerman's...a bag of great booty including Chilean olive oil, fleur de sel, dijon, white truffle oil, agrodolce vinegar, pear mostarda a knife sharpener and meat thermometer. Of course, he'll definitely benefit from these gifts.
And my niece sent me a box of Japanese food miniatures that are crazy cool.
re: houndgirl
Good gifts:
- George Foreman 5-in-1 (Griddle, grill, etc., etc.), in new Bright Red.
- Cuisinart Combination Food Processor and Blender.
- Ratatouille Video.
Bad gifts:
- Cheap, UGLY Snowman Oven Mitt and Kitchen Towels (Target) from my clueless boss.
- Rachael Ray Cookbook (my sister got this, and she HATES RR) from her boss because she told her boss she likes cookbooks, but forgot to tell her boss, anything BUT Rachael Ray!!!) LOL
some sea salt, a snifter for when I am sipping tequilla, a couple of shot glasses, a couple of bottles of tequila.
Also for my bbq's, a Ladder Golf game for down time while the smoker is at work. A game my guests and myself can play one handed since the other will be holding a beer.
A good Christmas.
an herb-saver thingy to save excess fresh herbs from the supermarket - it's a little pot you put water in to keep the herbs' stalks in, and it has a glass housing to keep the humidity up
This year my brother, an equally intrigued foodie, got me a saber to open champagne. It is a chateau laguiole saber and is gorgeous, I have had to increase my consumption of champagne so I could gleefully open the bottles. Great gift for any wine geek!
I had a great Christmas. DH has been doing most, well all, of the cooking for the past few months while I completed chemo. Now that I'm back to cooking, he was generous with anything I wanted.
So, I got:
3-crock slower cooker from Hamilton Beach,
25th anniversary Silver Palate cookbook,
2 new silpat mats,
cookie sheet
various silicone spatulas and scrapers,
2 terrific deep soup mugs,
spices from Penzey's, and
a gift card for new dinnerware that we saw in Guadalajara last summer.
PS This was an unusually good Christmas for me. Last year - robe and slippers.
re: Pampatz
Hey pampatz, welcome back to cooking. I'm glad you're recovering.It is true that when we are ill even the most mundane chores look enticing.
Susan Spicer's Cresent City Cooking and RLB's The Cake Bible
A set of bowls in three sizes (that fit into each other) with spouts and handles (to replace the set that I had and used constantly, two bowls eventually cracked and one is on its way)
And, the one that I'm most excited about, a food mill! I can't wait to use it.
re: JasmineG
How does the Susan spicer book look? I saw it in a bookstore, and after a quick glance, was intrigued.
*Joy of Cooking 1931 Facsimile Edition with a really fun cover
*A book on cheese from 1964
*A mandolin that I'm going to return
*Chocolates from all over the world
*Almond-flour crescent cookies
*Waitress on DVD
Other gifts were just as sweet.
Between my Hubby & I we got: Fleur de Sel, Ratatouille and lots of cookboosk: BLT Bistro Cooking, Morimoto, Jean Georges goes Asian, Wagamama noodles, Culinaria Hungary, few Dutch cookbooks.....
Santa was pretty generous this year. I got a 5.5 qt Le Creuset dutch oven, Jamie Oliver's new cookbook, 'Barefoot Contessa Family Style', Alice Waters 'The Art of Simple Food', a food scale, a wooden cutting board, a journal for my foodie thoughts and observations and my mother gave me an heirloom set of silver that has been passed down through the family.
re: ms. clicquot
What do you think about the Alice Waters cookbook? Should I be putting that on a wish list?
re: danhole
I haven't had a chance to look at it too closely yet but I did make the Green Beans with Toasted Almonds and Lemon for Christmas dinner and it got raves so I expect it will be book I'll refer to often. The focus is on fresh, seasonal ingredients prepared simply. I'm looking forward to sitting down with all my new books now that the family has left and I can rest a bit!
re: danhole
I started reading through the AW book last night(also received it for Christmas). I'm enjoying reading it. I think it would be a great book to recommend to someone just getting started cooking but for those well-versed it's still also an enjoyable book. I love her focus in this book(I have a couple of the Chez Panisse books as well...but this one is different as it's more a "how to" in many ways then a book of recipes).
Snowman Chef ornaments, an apron from Williams-Sonoma, a saucier, a pastry scraper, a mini strainer, a few cookbooks (including one of my aunt's recipes -- v. cool, and I'm not the only CH in my family!), some homemade limoncello, a stovetop espresso maker, a silpat and a kitchenaid mixer attachment pack. Oh, and a waffle maker, which was sadly absent from my kitchen before and has left me craving waffles since.
re: Amuse Bouches
I wonder if you and I got the same ornaments?? I really didn't get anything that spectacular. I got silicone oven mitts that my mother claimed for herself, an assorted basket of cookies and candies, a cell phone to call for take out on those nights I'm too tired/lazy to cook, and the promise of a bigger and better kitchen next Christmas. I did buy myself a Kitchenaid stand mixer as a pre Christmas-gift
It's the thought that counts right?
The Tenth Muse - Judith Jones
Christofle sterling dinner fork and place spoon (now I have four three piece place settings - after 12 years!)
My husband is not a good buyer of gifts for occasions, but bought me two Simon Hopkinson cookbooks in London a couple of weeks ago, and I've been more than generous with buying cookbooks for myself in the past month or so, including Sweet Myrtle and Bitter Honey, Dolce Italiano and Roast Chicken and Other Stories. He also bought 8 oz of Oregon truffles last week, so I count that as well!
re: MMRuth
Oh lovely! (the Christofle). What pattern?
re: clepro
Perles. She got the pieces at Replacements though - much cheaper - about half the price:
She also gave me a pair of "Ove Gloves" since I'm always burning myself - though as my husband said, I really need an asbestos body suit or something!
re: MMRuth
Hahah, my family says the same thing about me, MMRuth! You'll have to post about how those gloves work -- I've been hesitant to get them, since they seem harder to grip things with.
re: JasmineG
The joke in our family is that if mama (me) doesn't get burned making a family dinner, then it's just not good!
Seriously, the Ove glove is a great tool, but it needs to go up to my elbows to really protect me! LOL! I have pretty small hand and they are pretty big, but you can get a good grip with them, anyway.
The kitchen that had everything but a tea kettle got a...tea kettle...a nice red one from Kitchenaid. And a 12 inch Calphalon "Everyday Pan," a Winnie the Pooh cannister set and matching platter, plus lots of Cuisinart utensils. Oh, and another Ratatouille DVD here. Santa was good...now he has to build more cabinets.
Fun thread! Santa was very good to us this year! Foodie gifts: a Zassenhaus manual coffee mill, Taylor remote probe cooking thermometer, and a bottle of Pol Roger Brut bubbly. My daughter gave me a tee shirt that says "Instant Human, Just Add Coffee," my niece sent Asbach (German) chocolates, my parents sent an extravagant assortment of treats from Omaha Steaks, and a friend gave us a jar of her homemade jam, made with raspberries from her garden. WOW! Best gift of all was sharing Christmas dinner with my DH and our recently fledged daughter and son. This is the first year they're both living independently, and it was wonderful to have them home for the holiday.
From Mrs. O, Judith Jones's "My Life In Food," plus two souvenirs from her recent Temecula weekend, a jar of "Ultimate Martini" olives and a jar of alderwood-smoked sea salt, both from the Temecula Olive Oil Co.
From the niece who's at UC Santa Barbara, a $50 gift card from Williams-Sonoma, a bar of New Tree Belgian chocolate with ginger (good!!), and a bag of those lovely Santa Maria pinquito beans.
From the niece who's in New York these days, a jar of McClure's pickles - spicy spears, in this case - and two issues of "meatpaper," which she describes as a "feminist food magazine." She appears to be right about that.
From my wife's brother and sister-in-law, a souvenir of France - a jar of Maille mustard with "Tomates Sèchées et Piment d'Espelette" - and a semi-gag one from Hawaii, the "Hawaii's Spam Cookbook." I say "semi" because I have a history of doing things with Spam. They also found a really lovely wooden ladle at an Asian market in Irvine and figured I'd like it, in which they were correct. Oh, and a $25 gift card from Trader Joe's. And a wonderful Christmas dinner besides, featuring a goose. Thanks!
We had a lovely Christmas. Between all in our house, we received Hendrick's gin and Anchor's Junipero gin, a bottle of walnut liquer, a bottle of rum, a great cocktail book called The Bartender's Bible, a slow cooker, Godiva coffee, a coffee canister, aprons, various kitchen tools, and a few healthy cooking books.
re: brandygirl
I wanna spend next Xmas at your house. <hic>
It was a very good year:
Global Santuko knife
Le Creuset grill pan
Le Creuset panini press - I will also be looking for ways to use this
a couple of silicone poach pods - looking forward to trying these
A bottle of Cognac Marnier which is like nectar for the gods
Jamie Oliver's new book
Jamie Oliver's flavor shaker
re: ctflowers
Santa shopped at SurLaTable this year, so the goodies were great! A 3 1/2 qt. LeCreuset dutch oven, silicone bowls and a collapsable collander, and the 14-qt. Cuisinart food processor to replace the one borrowed (without my knowledge or consent and obviously never returned) by a neer-do-well DIL a number of years ago. Ive wanted another Cuisinart for more than 10 years and now that I have it I cant believe its here and cant decide what to use it for first. I also received "My Life In Food" and "Secret Ingredients", a compendium of New Yorker essays that pertain to food and eating. Delightful read! Mom sent pot clips, a salad dressing cruet and silicone LeCreuset prep cups. There is also $125 gift cert from Amazon, so I will be adding to the cooking toy collection in a few more days.
Running out of storage space after this Christmas...
Vacuum sealer
Kitchenaid 3 cup food processor
Blender (burnt mine out weeks ago doing celeriac puree!)
11" electric griddle (no idea what I'm gonna do with this)
Stick blender
Kitchenaid oven mitts
Donna Hay's Classic Cooking #2
A beautiful set of white serving dishes
A funky 50's afternoon tea set for 2
But best of all, I got an 8kg pork haunch. Free range, organic and local (it's the other 1/2 of my pressie from hubs, which is a local lamb carcass http://www.rutherglenlamb.com.au
20kgs of lovely meat for the wood-fired oven this NYE!!!
(pray it's not a fire-ban day on NYE, will ya??)
re: purple goddess
what do you mean by fire ban day purple goddess?
re: millygirl
I think she means that outdoor fires are sometimes banned when there is a high danger of brush fires, etc. We have that in California sometimes as well.
Santa got everything I asked for and a few I didn't (but they're still good!):
6-qt Chantal enameled cast iron stew pot (red)-- seems like this was the go-to gift for others this year- count how many Le Creusets you see on this thread!
A new paella pan (I must admit I had been making paella in an old non-stick wok until my husband finally threw it out. It was not ideal for paella anyway.)
New silicone rubber scrapers
Probe thermometer
Tiny strainer
Turkey baster- not that I baste my turkeys, but they're so darn useful!
Can opener
veggie brush
(you can tell lots of my kitchen stuff has worn out recently!)
Santa is at the store now returning a 12-inch everyday pan that we just don't need.
Pepper grinder- husband also threw out old one and I've been living off of pepper cracked in a ziploc bag using a meat hammer! My son loves doing this job...
Speaking of the son (almost 5) Grandma got him a Ratatouille chef's hat and apron. He was quite a sight wearing it over his spiderman jammies all day on Christmas! (I'm getting him an easy-bake oven for his birthday, along with one of those cookbooks with real recipes for the oven. Can't wait.)
What I didn't get that surprised me was a Microplane grater. Husband was asking me about them and I practically gave him a map to the stores that carry them. I think I'll just buy it myself. Can't wait any longer for one!
Oh, and my mom got me a cool clay pot for baking bread. This should be interesting.
I received:
Three... yes, THREE copies of Jamie Oliver's "Cook With Jamie" book. When I went to exchange them, I learned it was a sale book the week before Christmas. A tiny amount of charm let me exchange them for full price and I got nearly $120 towards a few new Portuguese and Brazilian cookbooks I'd had my eye on.
A couple large, beautiful orange and yellow serving bowls, made in Portugal. Love them!
A large sharpening steel - just what I needed.
An early Xmas gift was a new set of knives that I didn't need but wanted for culinary school; a 12" chefs, large boning, two paring and a large bread. All Victorinox with gorgeous redwood handles.
Still waiting for the Le Creuset I ask for every year... guess Santa doesn't want to lug the heavy thing to my place ;)
re: NovoCuisine
Curious to know - what new Portuguese cookbooks are out there? My husband is from Portugal and I am always looking for new recipes. Thanks!
re: Mothership
I suppose I misspoke - they aren't exactly "new" but "new to my collection"; 'Portuguese Cooking: The Authentic and Robust Cuisine of Portugal' by Carol Robertson and 'Uma Casa Portuguesa' by Carla Azevedo.
The latest-published book in my collection (2004) shares its pages with Spanish cooking, and is called "The Food of Spain & Portugal". Admittedly it's only about 1/3rd Portuguese recipes, but it's a book I enjoy a lot.
re: NovoCuisine
Thank you NovoCuisine. I don't have either of the first 2 books you mentioned. I will certainly be looking for these. I have the Edith Vieira book, Portuguese Cooking by Hilaire Walden, Jean Anderson's Foods of Portugal, Food of Spain and Portugal and many cookbooks I picked up in Portugal (some translated and others not - always a culinary adventure). I will keep my eye out for the first 2 you mentioned.
re: Mothership
And I don't have the Walden book.. I'll be looking for that one. Thanks!
re: Mothership
Another excellent Portuguese cookbook is "The Food of Portugal" by Jean Anderson. It's not new, but well worth knowing about if you don't. It was originally published in 1986 but is now available in an updated paperback edition, Lots of wonderful and very reliable recipes.
re: Mothership
My fault. I had typed my message before I saw your answer, got interrupted, and didn't see your message when I finally hit the post button. But it is a terrific book, isn't it? Well worth mentioning twice.
re: JoanN
You're so right, that is a great book! I really appreciate the author mentioning the original ingredients but offering alternatives.. I'm sure when it was published a handful of the ingredients were hard to find, but I can usually get my hands on the stuff. I've made many things from that one that my Portuguese in-laws approve of.. ;)
Patricia Wells' "Bistro Cooking" -Like it well enough, but it's mostly recipes already in my regular round of cookery (well, 'cept for duck gizzards and the like, but...)
James Oseland's "Cradle of Flavor" - lots to read, and am liking it so far, but I'm looking to compare its sambals to some old cookbooks I have to see how they jive ( I know...it's me...)
3 lbs of flour. I have no idea why, as I'm not such a baker. Still, useful.
A pastry brush - from those who give me pastry brushes almost every year.
An absolutely gorgeous ( can I add more of these: !!!!) vintage Arabia Ruska casserole. My favorite pattern ever. (If "pattern" is the right word)
A big bag of dried porcinis. Nuff said. I approve.
My darling Crown Prince, the son, got a fondue pot from an aunt. I was surprised at his reaction of joy. (I never knew 20 year old guys that wanted to cook...) He's planning an evening of fondues and Sinatra songs. The longer you live, the more you learn.
Happy New Year, all...enjoy your new kitchen stuff!
re: cayjohan
Forty years ago, when I was moving into my first apartment, I bought complete place settings for 8 plus a few additional serving dishes of Arabia Ruska at a Dansk outlet store. I had no idea it had become collectible until about a year ago when I broke one of the large mugs and tried to find a replacement. I was absolutely flabbergasted. After decades of daily use, I became afraid to touch it.
I do love it. But there's a reason nearly all those gorgeous food photos are shot on white plates. Upon being presented with a plate that looks like this, my BF is likely to say, "Ahh. Another brown dinner."
Honey from a beekeeping friend
Saffron Shores by Joyce Goldstein--I am looking forward to reading it from cover to cover!
I Like You, Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris (I have another copy and will pass it along to a friend).
Candy: Dots and Peach Rings
A couple of gift cards to chain restautants
and my gift to myself: Sunday Supper at Lucques
DH got a suitcase with three tequilas (Patron)
As a recent college graduate with a degree in culinary arts, I'm in the early phases of starting my personal chef business. I asked for essentials. I recieved a 15 piece set of nice pots and pans (previously I had Mom's leftovers!) as well as a set of bakeware (cookie sheets, muffin tins, etc.) I also was given a set of four mixing splatter bowls, made by foodnetwork. LoL, not a fan of foodnetwork, but they are lovely bowls.
Anybody have any idea what they will request next year?
re: linz_e_moore
A thermal immersion circulator!
Such fun! I got The Tenth Muse by Judith Jones, Moonstruck Truffles, Mariebelle Aztec Hot Chocolate, a set of Reidel Bordeaux wine glasses and a flat whisk because I had worn out my old one!
I bought myself a small Christmas gift during an after-Christmas sale at Williams-Sonoma. It was a set of Williams-Sonoma glass prep bowls in two sizes. I've been making do over the years with various small bowls that are parts of graduated sets (some glass, some stainless) which was OK, but I think I will be much more consistent with my mise en place with this set of bowls that stack and will all be located in the same place in my cabinet.
I got my BF a fancy cheeseboard, grater, $$$ balsamic vinegar and a box of pate des fruits.
He got me a book by Anthony Bourdain.
I also got My Last Supper, and a 9 qt oval Le Crueset dutch oven and a three piece Le Crueset set with a frying pan, small saucepan and smaller dutch oven, so I am also styled out with the Le Crueset (is their marketing campaign working particularly well, or is braising just the thing to do these days?)
I also got an olive wood salt box (and a box of Maldon in my stocking) the Indulge dessert cookbook by the French Laundry's pastry chef Claire Clark, and a magnum of Veuve Cliquot. I usually get a box of Burdick chocolates, but we recently discovered a local brand we really like here in San Diego (Guanni) so the husband didn't bother this year.
re: Alice Q
Wow, the 9 quart! How awesome. I got the 2 3/4 quart and the 5.5 quart Le Creuset dutch ovens, and then took myself to Home Goods to use a gift card on an armful of English pottery (pudding bowls and little prep dishes.)
re: brendastarlet
if you're envying the 9qt...the 9qt Doufeu is currently sitting on the clearance rack at WS near my house...I think it was around $210 marked down from $295.
re: Alice Q
I have a 9 and 7... I've been coveting the 3 to make the no knead bread!
re: vvvindaloo
oh, i forgot-- my best friend gave me "Foodie Fight: A Trivia Game for Serious Food Lovers". I played against my mom, and it was freat fun!
The matched set "Bouchon" and "French Laundry".
A one cup french press coffee maker.
The heavy silicon pot holders in colors so bright DH will never "not be able to find them"
A set of tongs that are short and strong enough to pick up and turn a five pound roast.
And Ratatouille, the DVD.
re: shallots
Oh man, I'm really jealous of the French Laundry book. My old roommate had a copy that I used to use - GREAT photos and complicated preparations. Definitely a great book though.
re: azhotdish
I got it for my birthday in August.
It's become a coffee table book. I love to look and read it, but the idea of making any of it is daunting.
Not to mention I'd have to copy each looooooong recipe on paper and bring it to the kitchen. The book is too large to keep safely on the counter to cook from.
Santa let me purchase my own gifts with his credit card early because I"needed" the goodies prior to Christmas:
7 cup cuisinart
Provence salt box
gold tone half sheet pans
candy thermometer (for fudge-thanks Sheila for the great recipe)
The new Alice Waters cookbook
Dorie Greenspan's Baking cookbook
I am thrilled to have received a ton of new cookbooks - Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, Bistro Cooking at Home - Hammersly, The Zuni Cafe Cookbook, Molto Italiano, Bittman's Best Recipes in the World, Dolce Italiano, Molly Stevens' All About Braising and James Peterson's Cooking. I don't even know where to get started.
One daughter got me a nice jar of Fleur de Sel. Her Fiancee ( he proposed on Christmas Day - quite the big moment!), got me a Santoku ceramic knife from WS ( apparently she is training him well already...). And my other daughter got me the Ratatouille DVD.
Prior to Christmas, I finally purchased a food processor - the 12 cup Kitchenaid with every disk and the egg whip (my husband said it would be better for me to order it myself and get what I really needed - smart and wonderful man). It was quite the over-the top Christmas for me and I couldn't feel more lucky.
My best Christmas gift was just to have a lovely dinner at home with my family. Hope everyone else had a wonderful Christmas too and best wishes to all for a fabulous, foodie New Year!
re: Mothership
I also got the Zuni Cafe Cookbook. Christmas is a relatively minor holiday in my very-culturally-and-religiously mixed household, but hubby decided he wanted something for me to open, and after doing research online, and narrowing it down to either that one or one of the Alton Brown cookbooks, chose Zuni because a lot of reviewers mentioned how well-written it was...
The reviewers were right! I enjoy just reading through it. And the threads from last January when it was cookbook of the month have been a great help too!
Yes, of course I started with the roast chicken and bread salad. This will be my new way to roast a chicken from now on. I am not as convinced about the bread salad, but am also not sure I used the best bread for it...anyway, hubby thinks he got the better part of that gift. (though I have already warned him that a trip to Zuni Cafe is in his near future so I can compare the taste of the chicken if actually made in their oven, with my own) :-)
Other than that, not much in the way of food related gifts to report on, though unlike some of the other posters here, my boss is definitely NOT clueless, and perhaps in recognition that it had been a tough year, got me a very, very nice bottle of Syrah....
re: susancinsf
Hey, if I recall you also got a decent bottle of Scotch from yours truly...but of course we managed to drink most of it before you even left our house :-)
I didn't get any Christmas presents from my DH this year. (In our house, Christmas is really more for the kids, who are just about old enough that they don't qualify as kids anymore.) OTOH, if all goes well I will have a new kitchen in two weeks, along with a new house.....does that count?
I got a stick blender, a digital scale, a knife sharpener and a bunch of cookbooks. I'm going to make some soup as soon as I get back home to take my blender for a test drive.
re: Cookiefiend
I got 2 cookbooks Lidia Bastianich and Jamie Oliver's new one, a beautiful bottle of truffle oil, some pomegranite jelly, cheese and shortbreads. The hubby got an 18 year old scotch (sorry don't recall which), a bottle of sherry, couple of bottles of wine, and best of all the gift that keeps on giving - subscriptions to both Gourmet and Bon Appetit. Even the dog got herself some fine foodie treats!!!
After a stunned couple of hours of package opening, I had tons of cookbooks heaped up alongside my chair: Alice Water's latest, Into the Vietnamese Kitchen, Sunday Suppers at Lucques, All About Braising, and The Bread Baker's Apprentice, along with a Lodge cast iron dutch oven, a beautiful big All Clad pot, equipment for making jellies and preserves, and various foodstuffs...truflles, home-preserved citron and cherries, Virginian nuts, an excellent Minnesotan port, Alaskan salmonberry preserves from my partner in the Jammin' Jelly Exchange, and my sister's delicious hazelnut biscotti.
Between the two of us, we did very well!
We got 2 icecream makers (one will be returned to Crate and Barrel, any ideas?)
Stainless Krups coffee grinder (to replace the one my roommate broke)
A chinois
Heirloom popcorn (red and black sable)
Several obscure cookbooks
AllClad sauce pan
Rolling Pin
Just add water- Upsidedown tomato patio plant
Champagne flutes
Wines from our birth years
In fact, I don't think there were any non-foodie gifts at all.....
Except my ENGAGEMENT RING from my favorite chef of all!
re: naughtywaitress
Congratulations! You must have been a very "good" naughtywaitress to have received a ring!
Good thread idea.
A gc to Upton Teas https://secure.uptontea.com/shopcart/...
Several varieties of delicious dates from California http://www.hadleyfruitorchards.com/
Boxes of some of my favorite cookies--almondina, almond butter thins, shortbread, and waffle cookies--enough to last me until spring!
Gift subscription to Saveur magazine
wow, we are loved chowhounds!
Dh bought a food tour/NYC, we'll save it for the spring
Our oldest son bought us shares in a vineyard! He has great gift ideas every year!
A friend sent her homemade vanilla extract. I haven't used it yet but knowing her it will be wonderful. Another gave me chocolates from a shop in Phoenix with interesting flavors like clove...
argh, I've spent the past 15 minutes trying to find it so I could tell you the name of the shop it came from but I can't find it! I set it aside to eat later and now I don't know where it is. Oh brother.
This has been a great thread to read.
re: hohokam
I think we found a location for a PHX chow meetup. :D
re: azhotdish
Heh. Give me about 6 months to master the technique, clean the house, renovate the house, and then clean again. ;-)
re: hohokam
hey! I'll offer my house up for a meetup! My husband has been researching smokers all week and thinks he wants a WSM....looking forward to your reports on your new toy, hohokam!
re: ziggylu
maybe we should set something up in early '08 - i just got a new 8qt Presto pressure cooker for my birthday and am looking forward to trying it out!
A beautiful wine box complete with wine opener, pourer, stopper and a 1989 Tenuta Secolo Barolo. Now I just need the special occaision to drink it!
2 tins of castaing block of goose foie gras with truffles
cuisinart frozen ice cream & sorbet maker
set of solicut steak knives
world of dumplings cookbook
bourdain's nasty bits
We should have Christmas more than once a year ;-)
Apron with a lighthouse picture on the front panel from my best friend!
Greenpans (dutch oven and 9.5 inch skillet with shared lid, 11 inch square grill pan, 2 qt saucepan with lid, from my parents
Calphalon One chef's pan from my spousal equivalent (SE)
6 qt. Rival Crock Pot from my SE
Wolfgang Puck Reversible Electric Grill/Griddle from SE's brother and sis in law
Sunbeam kitchen utensil set from SE's brother and sis in law
I think i gave more foodie gifts than recieved this year. I got lots of Godiva chocolates and liquer, some stocking stuffer gadgets food wise, seasonings etc. A few years back i was given one of my prized possessions, my Kitchenaid stand mixer, and following a year or so later, my equally coveted stick blender. I think i tend to buy my own foodie stuff most times though.
All the makings for Tom Yum soup from a friend
A dwarf kaffir lime tree
A Devil in the Kitchen [Marco Pierre White]
The Art of Simple Food [Alice Waters]
The Middle East Cookbook from my boss, who is Syrian
The boxed DVD set of Food Safari
A fondue set with chocolate molds
And, from my husband, a SS French Door fridge. It is awesome.
My resolution is to be as good as I was last year, cause something worked.
I got a Butter Bell and Julia Child DVDs. I was really excited about these (and I'll be viewing the latter while I'm on the new exercise cycle). I also got a jar of white chocolate raspberry peanut butter, which needs nothing more than a spoon.
Perhaps the best gift was visiting my family and getting to cook Christmas Day dinner with my sister--who, along with my best friend from grad school, is my favorite person to cook with. In fact, those two are probably the ONLY people I like to cook with!
re: nofunlatte
I think that one of life's sublime pleasures is finding someone you TRULY like to cook with. Sounds like your gift trumps everything else.
P.S. The Child DVDs are amazing - the lobster episode is a hoot for the...well, SIZE. Enjoy! C.
re: cmoore618
I got one (OXO mandoline) also. Have you figured out how to put all the different slicers in yet? I have used it for slicing so far, and that works like a dream. Fast, and every slice so uniform. But I can't quite figure the other little slicers, and how to get them into the mandoline...
I got a set of bacon hangers, so I can hang and smoke bacon. I also received a polish cooking cookbook, an 'OVE' glove (which works amazingly well), and a box of dark chocolate spong candy.
I got aching feet from doing all of the cooking :)
Actually, I think my friends and family are uncertain about what to buy me, so they just bring wine or brownies or other consumables.
My husband and I gave each other a little trip to Paris for Christmas. We left on Christmas night and arrived next morning, on my birthday. I can't think of a better Chowhound gift than that! Besides, while my NYC apartment kitchen can't possibly accommodate another new appliance, there's always room for delicious memories.
This was a food themed Christmas for me! From BIL got assorted Godiva chocolates (ho hum) but with a bottle of Graham's Tawny Porto (woohoo - never had this before). From sister1, Friday Night Dinner Date for 2 at the Natural Gourmet Institute. From brother, new magnetic wine charms (those clasps are usually such a pain) and a microplane grater. From sister2, a class of my choice at the Viking Cooking School (yes, on all their equipment). From mom, a class of my choice at the Natural Gourmet Institute.
And best of all, from DH, my very own seltzer maker (soda club.com). I've been wanting to a) cut down on the plastic bottles and b) stop paying for grocery delivery with the cases of club soda. So voila! My own home seltzer. It's very cool. I just have to remember to completely screw the bottle in before pressing the CO2 button (oops - but at least it's only water that sprayed all over the kitchen!).
re: LNG212
I just used my brand new ISI soda syphon for the first time last night and had a similar experience with the CO2 cartridge. The dining room tablecloth will be fine, but I'm not sure if this week's Entertainment Weekly has finished drying yet...
My wife and I gave ourselves a wonderful little trip to Los Angeles (we live in Washington DC) for the holiday, complete with 5 days of perfect weather and great eating. breakfasts/brunches at Bread Bar, BLD, 3-Square Bakery and Cafe (Venice); picnic lunch on the beach courtesy of Malibu Kitchen in Malibu Country Mart, and seriously great dinners at Pizzeria Mozza, Osteria Mozza, La Guelagetza, and Happi Songs. And let's not forget the ice cream sundae and smoothie at the little "diner" inside the Beverly Hills Hotel!
My wife also gave me a jar of dulce de leche, as a sweet reminder of a recent trip to Argentina.
Now, if I could just bend over far enough to tie my sneakers, i'm going out to exercise.......
I got great stuff- attachments for my Kitchen Aid Mixer (grinder, juicer and pasta extruder-- which was the waste of time that CH posters led me to expect), Aunt Sally's Pralines (http://www.auntsallys.com ), Jacques Torres Chocolates (http://www.mrchocolate.com/ ), Wen Chocolates (http://wenchocolates.com ) and Truly Wize cookies (http://www.2sweetkidz.com/)
I gave my most Chowhoundy friend a Chantal enamelled cast iron pot and a jar of lard that I rendered. She was thrilled (and is one of the few people I know who would have thought that was the best thing ever and not the most disgusting thing ever!)
Last year I got a Country Living Products grain mill. This year I got a Caphalon pan, and now I know what all the fuss is about. But the real food related gift, one of the most special of my life, was a large donation my brother and his wife made in my honor to Heifer International (www.heifer.org). I've lived in Kenya and know that a gift of this kind will keep on giving for generations: not just food, but also an income that will help provide access to education. I am deeply grateful.
re: Father Kitchen
That's terrific. Heifer is a great organization. We've done the "flock of geese" for people a couple of years in a row. Food that keeps on giving - absolutely right. :)
re: LNG212
This is the first year I've done anything with them - bought 3 flocks of chicks for my sister and BIL, and my mother bought them one-third of a sheep or a goat, I think. :-) Definitely something I'm going to continue.
re: Father Kitchen
We are big fans of Heifer International in my family. We have given various gifts through them over the past few years.
re: lexpatti
No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach by Anthony Bourdain
Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter by Phoebe Damrosch (currently reading and excellent so far)
A good year for me, too!
DeLonghi Magnifica ESAM3300 espresso machine
20 qt stockpot
ceramic pie plate
cute ceramic terrine from Le Creuset
The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters
Pure Dessert by Alice Medrich
Dolce Italiano: Desserts from the Babbo Kitchen by Gina DePalma
Canon SD1000 for blogging
Meyer lemon olive oil (I've had a hard time finding it)
Ratatouille cupcake liners
Cake stencils (I love baking and decorating cakes)
Homemade raspberry jam (wild raspberries... yum!)
Food-related gifts I gave:
Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian (thanks, Chowhound, for the rec!)
Omnivore's Dilemma
block set of Wusthof Classic knifes
high-heat resistant silicone spatulas
A lot of wine/beer
An 8.5 quart Le Creuset dutch oven. I had the smaller one which was starting to feel problematic for larger meals.


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Teacher quality
Principal leadership
Parent involvement
This is our third year at this school, and each year is an eye opener, to the way the kids blossom. With parent aiding comes the responsibility of getting to know every child, the school philosophy and developing a deep understanding of what makes the kids grow self esteem, confidence, develop a sense of community and collaboration while developing academically. Teachers are very focused on each child's unique needs, and small groups allow for diversity in learning and emotional levels. Parent-teacher meetings are not limited to scheduled ones, every conversation with the teacher is enriching. Very recently, middle schoolers took ownership of changing out our school's old flag, debated how it should be properly retired, educated every class from k -8, and the new flag hoisting ceremony had a huge voluntary turnout with many tears expressing the profound emotion befitting the stature of the national flag. Those who doubt parent-teacher-administration-student respect and care in this school only need attend the school site council meetings and hear the student members share, opine and debate at ease with the many adults around.
YMMV but my experience is that the day to day practices at McAuliffe fall short of their stated ideals, the training is good but inadequate, grounds supervision and teaching (outside of the evaluated subjects) is almost entirely delegated to parents and thus there is little individualized feedback in those numerous areas, and the constructivist style learning is not nuanced. If this sounds like Greek to you, then simply ignore this review. If not, then you may want to visit the school outside of its normal tours to see how the children spend their time during field trips (read the school newsletters for upcoming public sightings), and how the parent aides and children act both during and outside of school hours on campus. Nothing controversial but a good reality check. I think it would also be good to get a sample breakdown of the weekly activity schedule to better understand the frequency of transitions, the amount of teacher vs aide involvement in your child's day, and balance of academic, to social, to co-curricular lessons. All that said, if you want a progressive education for your child and public schooling is your only option, this one is probably a leading institution.
I went here as a child. Favorite teachers are Steve and Ben. Wish they were a little firmer on standard practices like deadlines. Their Pass / Fail / Mastered grading system could use an update. Most valuable characteristic i learned here was collaborative team building. Now making over 100k, so it worked.
There is a new principal there now; I hope they can turn things back around. First time through we had a great experience, second time through it was completely different; the best teachers left, the previously friendly teachers were not friendly anymore, and some didn't even teach anything at all, not at all the same experience.
My two children have attended this school, once since 1st grade and the younger since kindergarten. My children are very different, my first being very math & science focussed, my second being very drama & story telling-centric. Both have blossomed and been lead to their best in each classroom they've been in. My first born is extremely gifted & has always been stretched & celebrated by each teacher. He has not been bored. We don't do any outside classwork, beyond things based on their interest, & this may make school seem exciting as opposed to students who do an after-school academic day care, or school-work at home. However, my son purchased & worked through an algebra book in 4th grade on his own after school, & still found in-school math fun. A key difference is that this was his choice & he loved it. He was never moved to 'the next level' in math, however, but was given deeper & more subtle challenges within the grade level. I'm very glad this was the approach taken. Both of my kids don't see academics as a 'to do' item, but as a passion.
Also to the parent that complained about the contribution: What is mandatory is that you do a tour and attend an information session about the school. When you do this, you become aware of the many extra's you get at McAuliffe that include: field trips, supplies for the classroom, supplies for art, science, math, literature, PE, gardening, cooking, two part time librarians and instructional aids for ALL classrooms. You also become aware of what will be asked of you when you VOLUNTARILY come to McAuliffe. That includes a monetary contribution, aiding hours in the classroom and driving/chaperon hours for field trips. If you do not like what is being asked of you, do not choose to leave your neighborhood school and come to McAuliffe. IF you make a choice to have your family attend this school because of the many field trips, unique learning opportunities, small group activities, etc...you need to participate and fulfill ALL your commitments to the school. Please keep in mind that we do not ask you to sell popcorn,cookies, gift wrap, candy nor do we ask you to wash cars to raise money for all the items I have previously listed. We ask for a contribution, not fundraising.
To the parent that complains about the contribution. The payment is not mandatory!!! This contribution pays for the instructional aide for every classroom, field trips, cooking class supplies, classroom supplies and much more. if you go to Stokelmeir there is 1 instructional aide to 5 classes. Please go to your home/local school if a contribution to your school community for an instructional aide in each class and other ammenities is not what you want.
It is supposed to be a public school, though there is a m-a-n-d-a-t-o-r-y "contribution" (donation!), to be paid, 1k per child, and it is right down annoying if you are late at paying. Also, they want you to pay checks in advance if you don't pay the full amount at the beginning of the school year. This is a public school that demands this payment. As a donation I wish they would be more flexible as to timelines and not remind parents, it is your "commitment" (which alternative do you have if you want your child/children to go to this school?)... Maybe all parent associations are like this, but, kind reminder, this is a p-u-b-l-i-c school. And 1k per child is a significant amount.
Our 8th grade daughter has been at McAuliffe since Kindergarten. We are very pleased with the education she has gotten. As a member of MENSA, she has been academically challenged sufficiently without the stress or threat of grades. McAuliffe offers her the opportunity to explore her interests deeply in the context of student driven projects. Through these projects she has developed valuable critical thinking and researching skills that are usually addressed in high school.
Describing a school is like the blind men describing an elephant: there are so many different facets, they are all true, and none is exclusively true. My experience has been that my son is flourishing, and having rich experiences that friends at other schools aren't. And, I enjoy the heck out of working in the classroom and feeling part of the school.
Dogmatic adherence to their stated philosophy results in a curriculum dumbed-down to the lowest common denominator. This school offers little differentiation to match the amazing variation in curiosity, drive etc across its students. If you believe your child has average intelligence and curiosity and want your child educated at a mediocre school, send them here-you won't be disappointed! If you want your child to retain the twinkle in their eye that emanates from a genuine love of learning, look elsewhere. And, if your child has top decile+ IQ-this school will almost certainly be a disaster-your child will likely be extremely-bored. Further, if you are a parent of a boy please think even harder before enrolling here. One of this school s many weaknesses is its inability to celebrate boy energy. Parent participation is terrific in theory; as practiced at McAuliffe, it can be downright intimidating to some kids. The training parents receive is not remotely enough to effect fundamental change in, say, temperament; many 'parent-volunteers' have absolutely no business being around children (some parents do not realize the scarring that can result from yelling at 5 year olds).
Excellent school --- lessons go beyond classroom; students take ownership of their learning --- critical thinking, research, creative problem-solving, teamwork --- students develop desire for lifelong learning, not working for a grade or a reward. Excellent teachers who care and teach meaningful concepts, not rote memorization and worksheets.
Too much horsing around. The parents build a universe around the kids, and they act accordingly. The kids show little curiosity outside of play time. This is too far of an extreme from traditional schools, and very few kids every get their outside assignments done.
Very special program with great students and parents!
It is like a Montessori school. The parents and teachers are very tight knit community who are very helpful and the teachers are great
Christa McAuliffe provides my grandaughter with much more than the 3R's by providing hands-on learning experiences, exposure to the arts, development of communication and decision-making skills so important for life in the real world.
I love this school because the staff and the teachers are great and very friendly.
I have never seen a school program that teaches children to think for themselves and problem solve at such a young age as well as Christa McAuliffe Elementary. I am amazed at how much excellent out of classroom experience the students receive, that obviously creates an atmosphere of excited learning. My niece constantly surprises me at the level she can think, communicate and confidently speak her mind.
Without this school's participation, 'Their Future is Now' Campaign wouldn' have raised the 3 million it needed to save 115 teacher's jobs! The parent involvement in this school is phenomenal!!!
Heard good reviews about the school; nurtures kids and lets them be kids
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SemVer or Semantic Versioning is an important tool to help us build large modular systems. Most modern programming languages have a package manager of some description to go with them. This lets you install dependencies easilly, and it allows those dependencies to have their own dependencies and so on. The advantage of this is that modules can share code, which saves time and speeds up bug fixing.
OK, so lets imagine your building a large web-app and you've got lots of dependencies because you know that's better than re-writing or copy and paste programming. You have broadly 3 options for how you lock down your dependency versions:
Option 1 is bad news. If you use option 1 then every time someone changes their module, yours might break. It means you automatically always get the latest version and you don't keep any information about what version your app was actually tested on.
Option 2 has two issues. Firstly there's a false sense of security. You may have used exact specifiers for your dependencies, but the dependencies of your dependencies probably haven't, so this doesn't really fully protect you. The other problem is that you won't automatically get bug fixes. You'll only get bug fixes if you explicitly upgrade.
Option 3 is usually the best option. If you write your version specifier as ~1.0.0 you will get the latest version that's been released and begins 1.0. This means that if the versions that have been released were:
You would get version 1.0.5. The key to this semantic versioning is that the first number represents large or breaking changes, the second version represents new features that might cause minor backwards incompatabilities, but probably wont. The third number represents bug fixes. As such, this specifier leads to you getting all bug fixes automatically, but forces you to manually update if you want new features.
As a library author the rules are simple:
You might ask yourself, "Does it really matter that much?". The answer is that it does. If you break things without incrementing the correct version number, then other software that relies on semantic versioning will break. If you frequently increment too high a number, your bug fixes will be slow to propagate and people will run into errors that have been fixed for ages.
There's one problem I keep seeing from people who normally follow SemVer. What happens when you realise your back room project has become hugely popular and that your hastily concoted API just isn't cutting it anymore? You decide it's time for a total redesign. You're going to create a totally new version and everyone's code will break unless they manually change things to be compatible with the new API.
When you're faced with doing this, you have to be prepared. You will get users who get stung by the change. There will be people who used * as their version specifier when they depended on your library. These people have never learned about SemVer so they just feel cheated that you broke their module. Expect to have to patiently explain SemVer to a few people in a couple of GitHub issues. Perhaps link to this, or another, blog post.
When faced with this prospect, I see lots of library authors going "why not release it under a new name?". This is what @mishoo decided to do with uglify-js. Instead of publishing it as firstname.lastname@example.com he published it as uglify-js2. The long term problem with starting out this way, is that there are still a number of modules that depend on the uglify-js2 version, even though he did ultimately switch back to publishing as firstname.lastname@example.com. You might argue that this was a problem that could have been avoided if he just stuck to his original plan of calling it uglify-js2.
There are 2 key problems with this:
Discoverability is a problem because all the people using your old version may never find out about the new version. Tools like gemnasium and david won't report the version as out of date, because it won't know about the new version. This means people will miss out on awesome features. Perhaps worse though are the newcommers. They may find the old version and stop there. For example, a google search for uglifyjs displays the original github repository for uglify-js before the new one for uglify-js2. This is because @mishoo still hasn't fixed the mistake of creating a whole new GitHub repo for the new version (rather than making use of branching). Many newcommers would just see that first result and use it. Even the ones who see the second result, might see that the first is more popular and assume that the second is some botched attempt at creating a better copy of UglifyJS and just use what appears to be the original, more popular, official version.
The second problem is that I envisage uglify-js being one of the most popular JavaScript minifiers for at least another couple of years. It's fully possible that if we keep using JavaScript, and uglify-js stays up to date, it could end up being the most popular minifier for another 10 or 20 years. That's a long time for us to live with adding a 2 to the end of the name. It might not seem like much, but everyone adding a 2 to the end forever more is a definite pain, and can definitely be avoided. The small pain of breaking a few apps/code briefly now vs. slowing down software development forever is, in my opinion, not a tough choice.
It's important to use SemVer, even if those around you sometimes get it wrong. If we don't, then people won't learn. If you're writing a library, and you don't let people get stung because they didn't follow SemVer, then those people will never learn the valuable lesson about how to specify version numbers. Most of the people who get stung probably won't be big professional developers, they'll be people just starting to learn, and it's better that they learn now than later.
If your consuming a library, you should use SemVer, and trust your unit tests (make sure you always write some). This way you'll find out, and can teach the library authors about SemVer when they publish versions with breaking changes.
I break this rule myself, for two reasons.
Other than this, if you see a library of mine that doesn't use SemVer, it's because I wrote it before I knew about SemVer.


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2011 Economists Letter on Clean Car Standards and Oil Dependence
On June 7, 2011, over 100 economists sent a letter urging the Obama administration and California officials to set strong global warming pollution and fuel efficiency standards for new cars and light trucks through 2025.
In the letter sent to three agencies charged with establishing the standards for new cars and light trucks built between 2017-2025, 114 economists from across the country—including Nobel Laureate and Stanford University economist Kenneth Arrow—said that setting strong standards would provide a defense for drivers against volatile gasoline prices, noting that the United States sends $1 billion every day to foreign countries for oil.
The three agencies released proposed standards in late 2011 that would reduce U.S. global warming pollution by 290 million metric tons in 2030, the equivalent of taking more than 40 million of today's typical cars and trucks off the road for an entire year. They would also nearly double fuel efficiency standards to around 50 miles per gallon.
Download a PDF of the 2011 Economists Letter on Clean Car Standards and Oil Dependence to view the letter with the full list of signatories.
For more information on the benefits of strong auto pollution and fuel efficiency standards, visit the Union of Concerned Scientists' Clean Car Standards Resource Center.


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The Massachusetts Office of International Trade and Investment will hold a briefing on its State Trade and Export Promotion grant program from 8:30 to 10 a.m. at the New Bedford Area Chamber of Commerce, 749 Purchase St., New Bedford.
The STEP grant program offers financial assistance to eligible Massachusetts small businesses seeking increased export sales of their goods and services. It is intended to help offset international business development and related marketing costs for small businesses. Grants issued will be capped at $10,000 per business to reimburse for costs associated with projects, activities or services undertaken between Sept. 30, 2012, and Sept. 30, 2013.
Each grant recipient will be required to provide a match to cover 25 percent of the total approved cost for any project, activity or service. Representatives from MOITI, the Massachusetts Export Center and the Small Business Administration will be in attendance.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Harrison Tsopelas, MOITI manager of business development at (617) 830-5409 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Andrea Bocelli, the world's most beloved tenor, is making his cinema debut this Valentine's Day, as his new Love In Portofino concert is released for a limited engagement at cinemas around the world.
Love In Portofino - which arrives in cinemas as Bocelli releases his new studio album, Passione - was recorded in August 2012 as Bocelli hosted an intimate and truly romantic outdoor concert in one of the most beautiful settings on earth. The cinema event also features a world exclusive interview with Bocelli filmed at his Italian home.
Playing to a specially invited audience at the Piazzetta in Portofino, Andrea Bocelli: Love In Portofino allows cinema audiences to experience the most successful classical solo artist ever as he covers the most famous love songs in the world. During the evening, Bocelli shares the stage with a sensational ensemble of supporting talent, including Caroline Campbell on violin, German star Helene Fischer and Brazilian singer-songwriter Sandy on vocals, Chris Botti playing trumpet, and Bocelli's fiancée Veronica Berti joining him for a duet of Something Stupid, all backed by a 40 piece orchestra & rhythm section.
The intimate and romantic occasion was captured live and produced by a host of award winning talent, including 16-time Grammy Award winning producer David Foster, and will screen in select cinemas around the world starting in February, in pristine digital cinema quality and full 5.1 surround sound. Full details of cinema listings, and links to book tickets, can be found at http://www.andreabocelli.com/loveinportofino
The world premiere of the cinema release, with David Foster hosting a live Q&A with Andrea Bocelli, will take place in London on January 21st.
Filippo Sugar of Sugar Music says "Watching the world's most amazing tenor perform at such an intimate occasion, against the stunning backdrop of sunset over Portofino, is an experience not to be missed. The cinema screening allows audiences to enjoy some of the most romantic songs in the world, performed by some of the world's best artists alongside the iconic Andrea Bocelli. With the opportunity as well to hear Andrea's thoughts on love and romance in an exclusive interview, it's a special date not to be missed."
Andrea Bocelli's new album, Passione, released globally on January 29th on Sugar / Verve Music Group, is a stunning collection of Mediterranean love songs featuring duets with global pop stars Jennifer Lopez, Nelly Furtado and the late Edith Piaf. The album is also produced by David Foster, who produced Bocelli's 2006 release Amore, which sold more than 4.2 million copies. Passione includes several beloved classics such as Love Me Tender, Girl From Ipanema, and Sarà Settembre (better known to English-speaking audiences as Neil Diamond's September Morn). Jennifer Lopez is featured on the soft and sensual track Quizás Quizás Quizás and Nelly Furtado joins Bocelli on Corcovado. The album also features a duet with the late French chanteuse Edith Piaf on the song La Vie En Rose.
The trailer can be viewed here: http://po.st/32WOOq


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The Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control Board opens a public comment period October 21, 2011, on amendments to District Regulations 5.20 Methodology for Determining Benchmark Ambient Concentration of a Toxic Air Contaminant and 5.23 Categories of Toxic Air Contaminants which were proposed on October 19, 2011.
Written statements will be accepted by the Board Secretary-Treasurer, Rachael Hamilton, Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control District, 850 Barret Ave., Louisville, KY 40204-1745, until 5:00 p.m. November 21, 2011. Written statements will also be accepted electronically until the same deadline via the Internet at the e-mail address "airregs @ louisvilleky.gov".
A paper copy of the proposed regulations may be obtained from Monica Little, (502) 574-6000, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. An electronic copy of the proposed regulations may be downloaded from the District's website at "www.louisvilleky.gov/APCD/Docket.htm".
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text: Hi, I have approximately one month's worth of backup file "sets" kept on a 2 Tb drive configured as a CIFS share using the UFS file system, all this housed on FreeNAS 9.1.0. The backup software used is the Microsoft Windows Backup and Restore utility which is provided as part of the Control Panel running on a Windows 7 Ultimate host. The backups were done daily, and appeared to work just fine. The host machine used to run FreeNAS is an old Dell Vostro 410 machine with 4 Gb of memory. Because it has so little memory, I didn't try to set this up with ZFS-based storage. The Windows 7 host was kept current with all the updates provided by Windows Update. The Windows 7 host became malware infected. The infection was so extensive that I reinstalled Windows 7 to that machine. Now I want to restore the files that were backed up to the FreeNAS host. I can map a network drive to the FreeNAS host with no problem, but Windows 7 Backup cannot "see" the backup sets that were built. It keeps issuing a dialog stating that no backups were found on the drive and I should try a different location to find the files. Researching this more seems to show that the hard drive which receives the backup has to be formatted with the NTFS file system. Microsoft's own documentation seems to say this is true for a system image. I believe the name of the system image is "WindowsImageBackup". However I simply want to restore data that represent user data, not perform an actual restore of the operating system. It is unclear to me whether the user data is kept under folders named "Backup Set YYYY-MM-DD HHMMSS" (for example, "Backup Set 2013-05-10 064123". Some individuals state that the backup sets have to be stored on the root of the hard drive, as well. Windows 7 Backup itself doesn't seem to configure backup sets this way. It seems to set up a folder named the same as the first qualifier of the computer name being backed up, and under that one can find the backup sets as multiple different folders. My question is, has anyone successfully restored data from FreeNAS 9.1.0 using the Windows 7 "Backup and Restore" software that comes standard on Windows 7 Ultimate?


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Chef Justin Beckett suggests dishes for Easter brunch.
Beckett's Table
Deep Fried Deviled Eggs
Makes 12
12 hard boiled and peeled eggs
1/2 smoked red onions or caramelized onions
1/4lbs. cooked and chopped bacon
2 Tbsp chopped parsley
2 Tbsp Franks RedHot Original Cayenne Pepper Sauce
2 Tbsp sour cream
1 Tbsp Dijon mustard
1 tsp garlic powder
Pinch of salt
Pinch of white pepper
2 cups corn meal
2 cups panko bread crumbs
1 cup flour
6 eggs
Oil for frying
1 cup mayonnaise
1 tsp lemon juice
1 Tbsp Dijon mustard
2 Tbsp Franks RedHot Original Cayenne Pepper Sauce
1/2 clove garlic (minced)
Pinch of cayenne
Combine all the aioli ingredients until smooth
Chill up to 1 week
Cut hard boiled eggs in half
Remove the yolks from the whites and place into a bowl for mixing
Mash the yolks till crumbly and smooth
Add in the sour cream, Dijon mustard, Franks RedHot Original Cayenne Pepper Sauce and mix till smooth
Add in the remaining ingredients and mix well
Spoon the egg yolk mix back into half of the egg white (try to create a mound of filling)
Repeat final step for remaining eggs
Place flour in a bowl
Crack raw eggs into separate bowl and whisk until smooth
Place corn meal and panko bread crumbs in a large third bowl
Roll the assembled deviled eggs in the flour
Then place into the whisked eggs
Remove and place into the panko and cornmeal mix
Roll in mix until coated
Place eggs on a cookie sheet till ready to fry
Heat the oil in a sauce pot to 375 degrease
Slowly place the eggs into the oil and cook till golden brown
Remove and place on a paper towel to cool slightly
Yogurt, Fruit & Granola Parfait
serves 4
2 quarts plain or vanilla flavored yogurt
1 pint blueberries (washed)
1 pint strawberries (washed and quartered)
2 cups granola
1 cup homemade jam
1/4 toasted nuts (pistachio, pecan or other)
1/4 cup toasted shredded coconut
4 amarena cherries with juice
mint sprigs to garnish
Layer all the ingredients in a clear glass or jar, like a mason jar.
Spooning a scoop of jam on the bottom of the glass, then alternate the granola and fruit and garnishes.
Top the dish with the coconut, cherry and mint.
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