Sarah in LA's Profile

I saw this today and just pulled a batch out of the oven - I had almost all of the ingredients on hand. It's raining here so the dough was kind of wet, but otherwise it was an easy recipe to put together. I would have liked more salt - would adding more into the dough affect the baking? I thought maybe sprinkling kosher salt on top might be better....or you know, making a bacon and egg sandwich with one of these babies would do the trick to! They smell wonderful! I would totally make these again.

The Costco I go to has a beautiful produce section now with unbeatable prices. I've gotten gorgeous strawberries, blackberries, mangoes, etc. They have an excellent wine/spirits section with lots of variety. My most recent awesome Costco finds have been two pounds of low sodium deli turkey for $12.00 (the same brand at TJs is $4.99 for a 1/2 lb. package), and 4 lbs. of bacon for $12.00 (it would cost double that at the grocery store.)

The produce you have to make sure you eat because it DOES come in a large package, but the deli meat and bacon you can just freeze and use when you need it.

I love this recipe for a pear and cranberry crostata. It's basically a free form tart that has almond cream layered with pear and cranberry. Delicious!

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/sara-moulton/pear-and-cranberry-crostata-recipe/index.html

Albero also has a soft sparkling white wine available that is pretty tasty - I don't have the name handy, but it's available at Trader Joe's for $4.99.

I love Braeburn. I hate mealy apples and I find that Braeburns are almost never mealy, plus they taste really good. I like Fujis as a close second, and Honeycrisp too!

I have a square le creuset grill pan that i got for free when I ordered a 7 quart dutch oven (nice right!!?!). I tend to use it only for grilling vegetables like corn or squash, because I find that cooking meat or fish on it produces way too much smoke/smell that lingers. It's also a pain to clean. I made the mistake of putting it on my electric stove with the burner on high, and the enamel melted and stuck to the burner until it cooled off enough for me to remove it! I wasn't expecting that....maybe should've though.

I had a very bad experience when my apartment management decided to redo our tubs/sinks, mostly due to the incompetence of the people who did the work, but I second that it is VERY TOXIC and smells extremely bad. AND it gets scratched/nicked easily - it's basically like latex paint that gets sprayed on.