"Excellent raita. For the person who can not use cucumbers, try Armenian "cucumber" (Cucumis melo var. flexuosus.) This actually a variety of muskmelon. I grow them in my garden and use them in any cucumber recipe -- including pickles. They're easier to grow and never get bitter."

"I leave milk out on the counter for a few days to sour as my Irish gradnma did, rather than use buttermilk. I checked with a few bakers I know who were raised "on the other side" and this is also their method. I liked it with the buttermilk, but the sour milk works and tastes better to me. Ah, well -- to each his own.

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"to kissmekate322 - just an fyi: I bake at least a half dozen potatoes per week, and have for the past 30+ years. I bake different kinds of potatoes, at different and sometimes differing temps (depending on what else is going on in the oven). I rarely pierce the skin. I have never had a single potato explode. Maybe I'm just lucky, but the amou"

"I wonder if the people who found this too salty used table salt (far denser), rather than Kosher salt. Using the same measurements this would make it too salty.

We love it, and have made many variations on this base."

"As mentioned in the show, for those who cannot obtain graham flour:
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sift together:
84 g white flour (2/3 cup)
15 g wheat bran (slightly less than 1/3 cup) - coarsely ground
2.5 g wheat germ (1.5 teaspoons)

makes approx. 1 cup



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"My family went nuts when they saw this on the show. I didn't have walnuts or enough sour cream, but ... I used pecans and about 1/4 cup sour cream and 1/4 whole milk yogurt. Perhaps I shouldn't review because of the substitutions, but it was FABULOUS!!! A++++. Made it last night, I had one small piece. The other two members of my family demoli"

"Great! First time I made according to the recipes. Second time I added a drop of vanilla and a tiny drop of PURE almond extract -- exquisite. The next batch of mix I made I added 4-1/2 TBSP. buttermilk mix (SACO brand 4TBSP mix +1 cup water = 1 cup buttermilk) , and used water instead of milk when mixing the pancakes. Everyone went NUTS!! I"

"1. The baby artichokes MUST be very fresh and young* or they will be woody/stringy.

2. I always have sour salt in my spice cabinet. You can use this instead of the vitamin C capsules. It is powdered vitamin C. It keeps forever and you can use it anytime you need acidulated water (atrichokes, apples, pears, etc.).

* Baby artichokes are not the"