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Char siu with fried rice and Brussels sprouts.

Grilled British-style banger with steamed Brussels Sprouts with butter. Extra pineapple-bacon sausage not shown.

Carnitas, Spanish rice, guacamole, and chips.

Cold shrimp with carrots, celery, red bell pepper, cucumber and avocado.

Tri-tip, cooked SV then seared, with steamed cauliflower in butter.

Wings in the Speedi again, with steamed Brussels sprouts in butter.

If you really want pasta starch to thicken something, why not just grind up some pasta and add it directly?

Salmon in the Speedi, along with steamed broccoli and experimental carrots, cooked alongside the salmon for the same time. Carrots were coated in avocado oil and some salt - they came out great.

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When you open a bottle of red for the wife's Bunco group and no one drinks it, what to do? Make beef bourguignon (OK, pot roast) and drink the rest. Made in the IP with chuck, potato, carrots, onion, celery, peas, and corn.

And while it might work, it’s actually wrong. Contrary to popular belief, the grain does not run in different directions in that muscle. (It wouldn’t be much good as a muscle if it did.) Pull the left tip up so it’s about even with the right side tip and you’ll see the grain is all running in the direction of the black line. You can clearly see that on the right side of the black line. And the cut lines are perfectly parallel to the grain on that side. You want to cut across the grain. So the proper way to cut this is to pull that left tip up, turn the meat 90 degrees and cut starting from what was the top tip perpendicular to the black line. Depending on the size of the tri-tip, the cut can get long about 2/3 of the way through, so at that point you may want to cut the meat in half, but you keep cutting along the same line.

Frozen raw from Costco.

Shrimp with pasta and peas in butter.

Sirloin, cooked SV then seared, with broccoli in butter.

Two recent dinners. Wings in the Speedi with broccoli. Having missed out on eating a sausage roll on my recent visit to London, I ordered some frozen sausage rolls and assorted bangers and chipolatas from Jolly Posh Foods. Made the sausage rolls. They were just OK, not bad but not great.