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  Panna Cotta Recipe Ingredients You only need 7 basic ingredients! 3 Tbsp cold water 4 tsp (12 g) gelatin 3 cups heavy cream 1 cup whole milk 1/2 cup (100 g) granulated sugar Pinch salt 2 tsp vanilla extract Bloom gelatin: Pour water into a bowl, add gelatin all at once and mix right away. Let rest at least 5 minutes. Prepare ice bath: Fill a large bowl with a few cups of ice and enough cold water to come about halfway up the bowl. Simmer dairy, sugar and salt: Meanwhile in a large saucepan bring heavy cream, milk, sugar and salt to a simmer stirring frequently to dissolve sugar, remove from heat. Melt gelatin, pour into dairy mixture: Immediately following heat gelatin mixture in the microwave for 10 seconds to melt mixture to liquid form and then right away pour into cream mixture and whisk for 30 seconds. Cool in ice bath: Set saucepan over ice bath and stir with a spoon until it’s cool to the touch. Stir in vanilla. P...

 Mexican restaurants were a long time coming to Oregon.  Taco Bell opened in Portland circa 1965 - I was totally hooked on tostadas: the crunch of the corn tortilla, creamy refried beans, crisp lettuce, grated cheese and hot sauce. However tame is seems now, it was Yum. My taste for Mexican food broadened during the 80s when I was introduced to Green Chile Pork by a friend who learned to make it growing up in Colorado. Anaheim Chile was the primary green, along with onions and garlic.  It was delicious.  We'd cook up huge batches for parties and it was always a hit.  The recipe morphed into a soup with the addition of cooked beans.  Delicious. Then came 2021 and a weekly CSA share, (community-supported agriculture,) from Gathering Together Farm, an organic farm-stand a couple miles from my house.  Using the various seasonal veggies takes planning.   There were tomatillos, poblano chiles, jalapeños, onions, garlic, and cilantro last week.  The...