Originally Posted by corky (Post 33052926)

Asparagus and Gruyere tart. I couldn't find puff pastry so used crescent rolls. Puff pastry would have been better .

Originally Posted by LapLap (Post 33052940)

Woah! That’s effectively a gigantic cheese and asparagus croissant, isn’t it? I have to go back to eating low carb next week (took a break as I was celebrating my 50th, then Valentine’s, then Pancake Day), just got a soybean powder cookie left to bake, now I want a giant millefeuille... waaaaah! 😫
(I don’t get nearly so excited about puff pastry)

Originally Posted by corky (Post 33052926)

Asparagus and Gruyere tart. I couldn't find puff pastry so used crescent rolls. Puff pastry would have been better .

Originally Posted by gaobest (Post 33053005)

Gorgeous! Will you have any leftovers? How will or would you reheat any leftovers?

Originally Posted by gaobest (Post 33053005)

Gorgeous! Will you have any leftovers? How will or would you reheat any leftovers?

Originally Posted by gaobest (Post 33052800)

Ground beef chili (Kitchn recipe)
big pretzel
leftover steak fries
spaghetti

I want to make a big salad but our child wanted my spouse and me off the floor and upstairs. Our child is video chatting with classmates while eating supper. It’s more important for me that my child consumes supper so I’ll sort the salad later. We brought up our bag of Girl Scout cookies - s’mores and thin mint.

Originally Posted by chgoeditor (Post 33049993)

I haven't been to Fresh Farms before, but looking at the website has me intrigued. It seems as if there are two in Niles -- which do you recommend? Also, I note that the website says that their international food selection varies according to the neighborhood. I'm guessing the one on Devon is more heavily influenced toward Indian/Pakistani/Middle Eastern food, and I'm assuming the other two in NIles might have more Korean and Eastern European products? (Though judging from the Patel Brothers in Glenview, there's definitely a strong Indian community there, as well.) Maybe I'll check out the one on Touhy this weekend.

Originally Posted by LapLap (Post 33053240)

I have a travellers’ tip for reheating baked goods such as croissants (at home I’d use an AirFryer which replicates this).
Pop the pastry into a paper bag and blast the contents with a hot hair dryer for a minute or so.
I discovered and honed this technique in Tokyo where I would pick up half price or less baked goods the evening before in the food basement of a fancy department store and revived the goodies at around 7am next day.

Originally Posted by corky (Post 33053860)

Thanks for the tip but I assume you would need to make sure it isn't a paper bag made from recycled paper as those can leach all kinds of toxic stuff when heated. This tart is pretty dense with all.of that cheese....i imagine it would take a lot of heat. Unfortunately I overbrowned it so I am going to have to be careful .

Originally Posted by LapLap (Post 33053875)

Have always used the paper bags the pastries came with, just assumed they’d be food safe as those same bags are used to wrap both hot and cold foods. But it’s a very good point. Saying that, any “cubby hole” - made with towels, clean (not dry cleaned) robes or duvet - can be used to pep up a staling pastry with some hot air.
Can’t wait to go somewhere where I’ll have to do this again!

Originally Posted by kipper (Post 33053577)

How old is your child? Sorry, but a child should not have unsupervised video chats, even with classmates, where the parents are nowhere near the child. In another room, fine, because then there is the thought that the parent may hear things. On another floor? No, that's allowing the child too much privacy when they can be chatting with strangers, etc.

Originally Posted by chgoeditor (Post 33054220)

Really? I think we're talking about a 10 or 11 year old who has presumably known the majority of his classmates for several years -- you seem to be suggesting that parents or another responsible adult should be monitoring every single conversation their child has. Presuming the parents are comfortable with the technology platform and its security, your reaction seems ... disproportionate.

Originally Posted by kipper (Post 33054231)

There's little to keep the child from ending the call early, without the parents' knowledge, and joining a different video chat.