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It looks quite similar to the one that I bought in the grocery store the other day for $3. I used to have one like the first one that you showed but every time I finally got it set up, I realized I was too scared to use it. For the amount of cooking that I do, the cheap little Supermarket version suits me just fine.

Only if the recipe is from Neiman Marcus!

I've had a super benriner for 20+ years and love it. I used to use it a lot (especially when I used to make a lot of green papaya salad). Easy to clean, and takes up only a little amount of space when not in use.

Wait 'til you guys do my Marry Me Veggie Sando, Cowboy-style! You'll all want to make it over and over!

Central Java style chicken soup (soto ayam).

Perfect for dauphinoise. You can probably flog the Matfer for more than you paid for both of them!

I've had this Matfer Bourgeat mandoline for 20+ years (and I can't believe how expensive they are now)... If I've used it more than twice a year in that time, I'd be overestimating. It's semi-annoying to set up, and more annoying to clean. So yesterday, this arrived... And I plan on using it a lot more.

Guilty! Sorry. Sometimes it seems appropriate to me although I don't know how frequently I use that word rather than "vegetables".

I agree " A [ fill this in ] with veggies ] might be tasty . Yet It suggests the specific collection of V's on the plate don't matter , and are an after thought . best sides on a plate Ive ever had were carefully though out vegetables . cooked specifically for the Main. several times , they out shone that main , and that main was very very very good.

Veggies. I know it's been mentioned before but I was googling for something the other day and I didn't see the word vegetables at all. Everywhere I looked i saw "Here a veggie, there a veggie, everywhere a veggie. Old MacDonald etc. I hate the word veggie.

that's one way of looking at it . my first RC'r is a 10 Cup National//Panasonic. . Purchased when https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Rice-Cooker-Cookbook-Porridges/dp/1558326677/ref=sr_1_1?crid=20GM4UI8IO14&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.olvh8UAU9ujo-3pG7b_-_JzfDeboad6cwI75s2KVrJNQ8Gwlx0VQAn4y61cBm6yP90xx9SHzoTVw06oEheZbYW1A0wCNfpyAyxmBErezPfg55k4zHy34edjgw8l3qZ-ZNvaLZ8u7-XtV__XjZcl592AwLhL8kzD73qdECh-mIQEFcEdlQJ-crB_ENHbfsYK5b2cpUii-7HFrlgNJ349SaAc1OT5Q8CCpp7n0NOzOcww.XzCfxVvFjTBmdRIDa_PiIMNIUs3iBf-w4XpnqMmmOjM&dib_tag=se&keywords=ultimate+rice+cooker&qid=1755449322&s=books&sprefix=ultimate+rice+cooker%2Cstripbooks%2C120&sr=1-1 was brand new. bowl is flat bottomed , as this is just Fuzzy my 3 C Zo and now 5 C Zo ' Flat-top ' have thicker rounded bottom bowls , a pleasure to use. I dont think these sizes would do well as slow cookers. maybe a 10 C . dont know why a slow cooker would muck up a quality bowl , though

But the Zojirushi is not sold as a slow cooker, is it?

Wow - that logo, while not exactly the same, sure reminded me of Jeremiah Tower's Stars restaurant.

I am embarrassed to have made several typos. I do use a knife and fork for pizza that is really floppy. I prefer a nice thin crusty dough. Pope's nostrils? I can't believe i actually wrote that. Of course I meant his nose. Did I do that unconsciously?Hard to believe. Has AI infected eG? Auto-correct seems unlikely. Must be drug related, or else pure brilliance. Either way it's creepy.

They're for sale here, too, at our nearby supermarket. They're certified by the Hatch Chile Association, therefore grown in the Hatch Valley in New Mexico.

Over the last week or 10 days during the heat wave, I didn't do a lot of cooking in the evenings. But I did make Moe a number of dinners for breakfast. Chinese Chicken and Broccoli, Salisbury Steak, Grilled Pork chops with green beans and potato wedges all done on the grill, buttermilk fried chicken with double fried fries, Steak and eggs and this morning,I made a pot of Potato Leek soup with homemade chicken broth, that I put on to simmer over night. Baked a batch of mini baguettes Friday morning when it had cooled off enough to actually bake.

Yes that was the potato. He said that the inside was extremely creamy. He was worried it might be overcooked when he saw it, but it was actually perfect. The outside was crispy and the inside was tender. The bathroom is very nice. I will say though, that when we renovated our baths at home we put beautiful freestanding deep soaking tubs in both the primary and the guest suite bathrooms. Neither has been used once, and it’s been three years. If I was redoing it (which I am definitely not!) I would opt for an oversized multi person shower with steam jets and a heated floor and heated towel racks in the room instead. Big bathtubs seem like a good idea and look nice, but showers are just more practical. Maybe it’s just my personal preference though.

Wow - I could live in that bathroom!!! On your husband's steak/lobster - what is the cube next to the lobster - is it the potato rosti? What was the center like?

It's appreciated! And I hope the steroid works

No recent pix from me either. Like @liuzhou, I simply don't feel like eating much when it is this hot. I eat a lot of fresh tomato with cottage cheese or just a small cheese sandwich. Weather is supposed to cool down a little next week so in anticipation, I bought some baking potatoes to eat with various toppings. I did pick up my first fresh peaches of the summer yesterday (only 2) which I will likely eat with some brie, either a cold plate or a grilled cheese. And one of our oldest Italian restaurants in the area are having a take-out special on Tuesday with around 20 entrees available for $15 each. I am planning to pre-order an eggplant Parm and go early to pick it up so I can sit in their friendly dark bar with a glass of wine to wait for it.

You've reminded me of an episode of (forgive me!) Gilligan's Island, in which the castaways discover a Tarzan-ish wild man living on the island. Harvard-educated millionaire Thurston Howell III (Jim Backus) believes setting out a meal and silverware will establish whether, in childhood, this ape-man was raised by Brits or Americans. Brits, he explains to his wife, hold the fork in their left hand, Americans in their right. The wild man looks back and forth at the fork and knife, than grabs the food with both hands and chews on it savagely, grunting and growling. "Good heavens!" exclaims Howell. "A Yale man!"

Restrooms! I'm not much of a Safeway shopper, but I've lived in the area for more than fifty years, and during that time I've visited all of the local Safeways and have used their bathrooms several times. There has not been a single time that I can recall that a Safeway bathroom has been clean and pleasant to use. The TJ's rest rooms have always been clean and acceptable to use. There are any nmber of older women who, while not actually shopping in the store, come in to use the bathroom. Sweetie had done that when she was in the area of the store, although she was a TJ's regular, and several of her friends and others that I know have done likewise. Trader Joe's has cleaner and better maintained restrooms than Safeway.

I've never heard it called the Pope's nostrils, only the parson's nose. You learn something every day!

I'm not really posh, so I use the fork concave side up for peas and baked beans. If I'm in posh company I would most definitely use concave side up to stay true to my working class roots. Welcome to the British class system. The overhand grip on the knife is the generally accepted technique in the United Kingdom. The "English hold from below grip" sounds like a pen grip? It's not standard in the UK but people do use it. I would sneer at this grip, and acknowledge my horrible bourgeois programming. While continuing to use my fork upside down.

I found it weirdly frustrating. I felt like I should have 'grown into it' sort of like how my Ma would serve vile leather and onions when I was young, but once I tried a flash fried piece of liver with onions on toast I was converted forever. There are very few foods I won't or don't eat*, so it feels like a personal failure on some level. *Coriander isn't food!