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a drizzle of honey with it on bread or crackers will help balance the funk.

If you are so sensitive to nuts that you can't be within 20' of nuts without going into shock, I don't see how you could be on a plane. While you can request, do you actually expect that everyone on the plane is not going to bring any nuts and they will adequately clean every surface and bit of upholstery on the plane? The air on the plane is recirculated so you need everyone, not just the people around you to do this? By that same reasoning, are you able to go into large buildings (where the air is also recirculated)? I'm perplexed.

When I saw the subject I was thinking dumplings, as in asian dumplings, ravioli, pierogies, etc.

I like the idea of the before party. I will be buying/moving into a new house in the not too distant future (hopefully). My previous house never got to a 'done' state so if I wait for that, I'll never have anyone over. Personally, I'm not sure how I feel about a housewarming party because I don't know who to invite. Do you invite people you haven't spoken to in a few years? Or coworkers, and if so, how big of your circle do you go? Is it sad that I'm almost 30 and haven't hosted a party at my home like ever?

I like it without handles. I think it looks better without little things protruding from the cabinets. I seem to snag things on knobs and drawer pulls and I don't really get why people say it looks more finished. If I ever redo a kitchen I would put cabinets without handles.

do you paint the insides of the drawers too?

I would put shelving in, at least up high. Then, depending on what you need/fits your style: small table with stool, plant, shelving all the way down if you need more storage, shoe rack/hanging hooks if it near the entry.

I definitely would not use the envelopes for liquids. Dry ingredients.... eh. I usually use a flexible cutting board for just about everything like this.

I would be less concerned with industrial contamination especially from a company producing envelopes (grease, dirt from processing) vs human contamination (people touching it, laying on the counter, etc). Grease and dirt are just that. No nutritional value but generally won't do anything to you whereas human contamination is more likely to contain harmful bacteria.

Also, there are specific requirements for materials that come in direct contact with food. These do not apply to envelopes that go through the mail. The ink would be my primary concern. Paper is easy to print and this is not a particularly sensitive process so they can use pretty much any ink. It is often an offgrade mix of ink from other, more challenging, printing processes. It's not out of the question for that ink to contain heavy metals as well since this is a non-food grade application.

phoxx - when you turn the machine around the controls are on the far side so you have to reach over or around the mixer to adjust the speed. when incorporating a new ingredient, it is fairly common to need to adjust the mixer speed so this is not exactly ideal. you are clearly a righty and jmorri and jamimess are either lefties or know lefties. you might want to consider the possibility that there might be other people in the world who have a brain and have tried the most obvious alternative and have seen that it doesn't work.

i use it to make a peanut sauce in the jar. Then throw in about a serving of pasta and shake it around so the pasta is well coated and pour it out.