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We've been having fun with paella too. I bet there might be an Artisinal Spice to compliment our next paella adventure.

I am now ready to make a really good paella.  I tried this recipe from Bon Appetit (Epicurious site) and it is easy and totally awesome!  http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Roast-Chicken-Breasts-with-Garbanzo-Beans-Tomatoes-and-Paprika-242113

grrr....it looks like something's wrong -- not sure if it is google or me.

...because I opened yet another Etsy store for my spice blends. Friends kept asking me for the recipes, so I realized some are good enough to sell at http://artisanalspice.etsy.com

Opened last week, already have a few fans and sold 4 blends. 

Most of us "Pills" have a good collection of spices and herbs in our kitchens, but for most people, recipes calling for 17 or 11  spices isn't economical if they have to by a whole bottle of an esoteric ingredient.

The blog, http://artisanalspice.blogspot.com, supports the Etsy store and has some recipes to illustrate how the blends are used.

Hi Critter, what's your favorite chow?  Gracie wants to know.

Added this terrific loquat and peach salsa. The combination of the fruit sweetness and succulent juice with the jalapeno chile pepper punch make a fruit salsa so great. The texture of the loquat fruit in this salsa is similar to the fruit of a ripe pear (also a perfect ingredient for a fruit salsa variation).

Thanks, this did work for me. YEAH!

Although it brought up another question... I cannot seem to edit in the Ingredient field after the first save. I went in to correct the recipe in question with the duplicate ingredients and could not update in that field successfully.

So to try it another way, I went on to enter a new recipe with duplicate ingredients, it worked, but then after the first save, I had edits (spelling errors) in the Ingredient field and it would not update. I can update in the quantity and units fields successfully, but not the ingredient field.

I am really trying to use this system, I have a big project to do and I am truly interested in having your website work for me :)

Thanks again.

nunzio04,

As mentioned, we've gone ahead and put the fix in to allow duplicate ingredients. You should be good to go.

Let us know if that works for you.

Thanks for the answer to this...next question:

How do I list repeat ingrediants in a recipe that has Filling, Crust etc. I know how to breatk out the ingrediants based on the post I read here on the forum, but it does not mention repeats. I worked around using abbreviation, but is there a better way?

Thanks.

nunzio04,

yes, duplicate ingredient descriptions within the same recipe are not currently allowed. An update that will be coming out soon will allow this. In the meantime, we usually suggest appending one or more asterisks (*) at the end of the description to differentiate similar/like ingredient entries such as ...

• extra virgin olive oil *
• extra virgin olive oil **

It's not ideal (and not exactly beautiful), but a workaround for now. Your workaround of changing the description is fine as well.

Which brings us to the other more annoying issue. Whenever you change or update an ingredient, currently it will cause the order in the list for that ingredient to change. A frustrating side effect. This will be fixed in the upcoming release, but in the meantime, we've just added a new column in the ingredients list that will allow you to re-order the ingredient list.

It's a tad clunky, but we really do need to provide a way to re-order the list before we're ready with the next update release, so hopefully this will help.

Notice the new 'item#' column. Let's say you want to flip item# 4, "coarse salt" with the  last ingredient 'fresh ground black pepper'. You would change the item# for 'coarse salt' to 7 and the item# for 'fresh ground black pepper' to 4 as follows:

Then save the recipe to save your changes to the ingredient list order.

See if that works for you.

Sorry you had trouble adding your first recipe. What was the title of the recipe?

The system log recorded 2 recipes that you added this morning.

• Aunt Betty's Surprise saved at 8:45am PT
• Forgotten Cookies saved at 10:06am PT

You should be able to access both from  "My Recipes". I do notice that Aunt Betty's Surprise only has a description, missing the ingredients and instructions section. Is this what you're referring to that you "lost" the recipe? Did you key this recipe in and then lose the ingredients and the instructions?

Also see that you added a cookbook and both recipes do appear in the cookbook.

Please provide more details so we can help.

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Terrific, I'll contact you by email and get things setup so you can help us with testing the new features.

As I mentioned, new features will let you have ...

• front and back covers with full page images
• inside cover page(s) that can also include full page images
• divider or section pages that can also include full page images
• additional pages in between the recipes for stories, content, images, etc.
• insert additional images into the text areas on the recipes
• and more ....

So you should be able to accomplish what you've described.

Look for an email from me and we'll get you setup, might be a couple of days. In the meantime, keep going, you're doing great!

Thanks,

Bob
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