Comments on: Vanilla-Loves-Chocolate-(and I love them both)-Biscotti http://beckyandthebeanstock.com/?p=430 Eating my way through a year's worth of heirloom beans Mon, 22 Nov 2010 01:49:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.5 By: Jessica http://beckyandthebeanstock.com/?p=430&cpage=1#comment-6456 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:58:52 +0000 http://beckyandthebeanstock.com/?p=430#comment-6456 Poor Simon!!!! Christmas tree in the eyeball? (Poor you too of course, with the oven and all.)

]]> By: Elaine http://beckyandthebeanstock.com/?p=430&cpage=1#comment-6455 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:57:42 +0000 http://beckyandthebeanstock.com/?p=430#comment-6455 Hi. I’m a lurker here and have been reading devotedly since April, but your oven near-tradgedy has inspired me to say hello. I felt your distress, believe me. I can’t imagine a harsher thing than the oven or fridge going out just before a big food holiday. Of course here in Montana its been cold enough to use the front porch as a freezer but you still. I’m glad it was a crisis averted.

]]> By: gilda http://beckyandthebeanstock.com/?p=430&cpage=1#comment-6431 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:29:01 +0000 http://beckyandthebeanstock.com/?p=430#comment-6431 Happy New Year Becky

May all your troubles evaporate in 2009. Just 10 years ago I could have wept and said, “Me too!” But the physical problem was solved and the personal troubles dissolved. I hope that is your case too.

I haven’t bought a new oven, but I did buy a new cooking toy: a Zojirushi thermal cookpot. Perfect for soups and beans!! and a lot cheaper than a new stove.

Best
Gilda in Cold, Windy, London Ontario Canada

]]> By: chumpman http://beckyandthebeanstock.com/?p=430&cpage=1#comment-6420 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:39:27 +0000 http://beckyandthebeanstock.com/?p=430#comment-6420 wow its the first time i see how the vanilla bean looks like. the biscotti looks delicious and not too hard to make. great for festive season or just a small gathering too! Great recipe!

]]> By: Carol O. http://beckyandthebeanstock.com/?p=430&cpage=1#comment-6404 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:18:25 +0000 http://beckyandthebeanstock.com/?p=430#comment-6404 In re: your oven. I recently bought a new oven from Sears by going online. Not as frightening as it sounds. But the Sears store here doesn’t carry all their models instore, so it would have had to be ordered online anyway. By by-passing the sales person, because there was really no one available to help us when we went into the store, we saved money. And it was delivered within two weeks to our home, by Sears men who brought it into the house. It’s a wall oven. My husband slipped out the old and slipped in the new. Simon sounds like he could do it. It’s a Frigidaire with a convection option. I reallllly like it. We also have a separate induction cooktop. I never cooked induction before. I wouldn’t go back. It’s a Kenmore Elite. I would not recommend getting the Kenmore Elite stove/ oven. My neighbor continues to have problems with her convection option and it takes 20 minutes to heat the oven to the required temp. Her coils are sealed beneath the oven floor. And when the convection fan runs, it sounds like a hamster wheel. You know how hamsters will run fast, then slow down, then pickup again. Then the baking temperature fluctuates, but the repairman, who has been out many times, says it’s just the way the model works and he has many “complaints” about it. She is very exasperated with it. Good cooking and baking. I enjoy your blog.

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