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Yes, the shrimp are cool, the buns are warm and toasty, creamy mayo, crisp bacon, sweet/tart/crunchy apple. Probably should have used slightly smaller shrimp or cut them up but still very fun to eat together and made me think about other options. Lobster, of course. Maybe a chicken salad with onion muchim, apple & bacon? I always like recipes that give me ideas!

I'm curious too. Carbs, bacon and bacon fat tend to be the main event in that sort of sandwich and everything else is there for a palate cleanse or texture. The prawns and apple seem like they might get a bit lost. The cookbook is well-titled!

That sounds really interesting - I assume the shrimp are cold? Lot of different flavors going on - pickled/bacon/apple... how did you think everything went together?

This is the Bacon Von Branhut from A Super Upsetting Cookbook About Sandwiches by Tyler Kord The main ingredient is shrimp muchim, pickled in the same spicy/vinegar-y brine the book uses for peaches, cucumber, tomatoes, lychees and even poaching eggs. The sides of the split-top bun are toasted in bacon fat before it’s filled with a schmear of mayo, the pickled shrimp, crisp bacon and julienned Granny Smith apple. Tots with roasted tomato mayo (also from the book) for dipping.

It's not for a lack of trying. The big pots disappeared from the supermarkets as presumably they weren't selling, but we could still get single serves at the cinema for a while (watched a few bad movies that were sweetened up by these) but those went after a while as well. Sometimes people have a point about British food. Well, British tastebuds. If anyone does find a source I will do almost anything you want (but I won't do that)

Nice!

Ahh ... local issue. 😔

I looked just now and the knife was still on sale.

I’m a devoted user of paprika, I think it’s great. I use it on my phone, two iPads and a Mac, it’s always in sync. Only downside, and it’s not their fault, is that it’s difficult to get a recipe from a kindle book into the app. That’s why I bought the desktop version

Update: After some deliberation I settled on this knife. The specifications were tight on and the handle fits my hand perfectly. Sadly, I just missed the sale.

Alas, can't get them over here anymore. I think the postman would be upset with me if I ordered some from the States. Might make a mess of his bag.

Another chance, almost, at the sandwich I described yesterday. There wasn't enough chicken salad to make 2 open-faced sandwiches as I'd described, and yesterday that much food was overkill anyway. So today it's the remaining chicken salad on a ciabatta bun, with the bitter baby greens and slices of a tomato. There are dill pickle chips in the shadow of the sandwich. I like 'em but am glad I didn't put them on the sandwich itself.

Yeap … that one 🙏

Yup - that's the Ooni.

Another curiosity from A Super Upsetting Cookbook About Sandwiches by Tyler Kord. This one is called That time Chris Parnell played Benedict Arnold on Drunk History, the sandwich and features an egg poached in that spicy, tangy muchim brine used to pickle peaches for the Suzanne Sugarbaker that I made the other day. The sandwich also involves a toasted English muffin, avocado and red onion. No English muffins in the house so I toasted a crumpet instead and left it open-faced. Grilled asparagus with roasted tomato mayo (leftover from the ALF, also from the book) lurking in the back.

@BaxterBaker that looks like a fine piece of beef .

I like roasts myself. I just cooked one yesterday. 6 hours on low heat in the crock pot. I added veggies on top to steam in the last hour or so. Really, really good. Like beef stew, but better. The meat was so tender it just fell apart and for once I didn't over-season! Not quite all the fat rendered, so I had a bit of picking to do, but it all broke out very easily. Four pound roast will yield two very nice meals for my wife and I. I'm really getting used to this new way of eating. Normally I would have bread with this kind of meal but I skipped it last night. Satiating, whole, clean, healthy and no cravings between dinner and bedtime. I had already taken one plate of food out before I remembered to take a picture of it all cooked. Greg

I measured the width and depth of the big dipper's bowl for @TdeV using my trusty calipers purchased for another hobby years gone past, since precision is important. Sadly, I'm not very good at measuring fiddly things (weird shakes combined with terrible astigmatism) so these are approximately close enough amounts: The bowl is nearly circular, with diameter of approximately: US: 1.84 goldfish crackers UK: 0.0038 london double decker busses French: 0.071 baguettes Rest of the world: ~46mm Depth is ~14mm. If you'd like a picture of it containing certain foods familiar to you, in order to give you a better idea of size, let me know and I'll see what I can do. Free of charge, I've performed the most important test no one has yet requested: put knuckles up against the back of the spoon. It fails at giving me a great bum, however, it does give me a glimpse of what it would be like to have an amazing pair of prehensile knockers. As to what hobby: coffee; the spoons make cupping fancy pantsy coffees more fun! The following video illustrates what I went through when deciding to purchase a set, and is far more accurate than I'd care to admit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlYMZUKoaX8

Excellent flavors! I’ve been known to warm up a little dulce de leche, pour it over a scoop of vanilla ice cream and sip a small glass of bourbon along with.

There are some very nice Argentinean Dulce de Leches available. The local Latino markets carry several that are excellent (and there is some junk out there as well).

Current favorites are caramel whiskey and dulce de leche. Preferably with a really good hot fudge sauce. I used to love "coffee coffee buzz buzz" (with chunks of roasted espresso beans) but I have avoided it after once being kept me awake all night.

I was surprised by that information, so I searched: From B&J, and from other sources as well, neither Cherry Garcia nor Chunky Monkey has been discontinued.

My sweet tooth doesn't really exist anymore, but it would come out of retirement for Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia and Chunky Monkey. They discontinued them 10+ years ago and I could never work out why (I find cookie dough disgusting and Phish food hideously sweet, but they're still going 🤬) These days a mix of good pistachio and cherry gelatos hits the spot. And I always have time for a quality scoop of vanilla. Ooh, almost forgot mochi ice cream. That stuff should be banned.

I've seen a lot of people here mention Paprika. If you live in the Apple world, Mela is a good option that I’ve been using but it doesn’t work on Android.

Does anyone know of a good recipe app, as in a place to store one's recipes? I am currently using Evernote but find it expensive and would prefer to purchase an app. Evernote won't let me print a recipe which I find annoying. I am about to test recipekeeper as they allow you to try it out with 6 recipes. One thing about recipekeeper is that their client support is excellent. I sent them 2 different emails and got replies quickly. What, if anything do you use? I my case, I need something that will work on Samsung, I.e. Android.