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@Pete Fred Exactly right . while there are many fruit-pasty desserts , Apple based lead the pack.

A friend gave me some of her abundant apples, so I felt a tart coming on... This might have decided for me that a tarte fine aux pommes is the best thing you can do with a handful of apples (sorry, Tarte Tatin). Even with crummy store-bought puff pastry it was epic: a strong apple flavour, the parts where the edges caught the heat, the soft purée where the apples cooked down, the delicate crispness of the pastry. All that was missing was the butteriness of a decent puff. I'll have to revisit this when the weather turns more autumnal and the kitchen cools. (I might have to improve my layering technique to reach the heights of Alex Croquet, though. And with clementine season on the horizon, I'm curious to try his tarte aux clémentines.)

I forgot that I had this very large cast iron "Mongolian" griddle pan. I hadn't used it in a while. But I pulled it out yesterday morning and made a Mongolian beef style dish for Moe's breakfast and I took the same for lunch. This very heavy large pan is 22" in diameter and doesn't really fit on the stove so I used it on my gas grill. Cooked the onions, garlic and ginger on one side, and the beef on the other and then combined with the sauce and finished with noodles.

Cole slaw, potato salad, deviled eggs are spring/summer-ish dishes. I don't use spoonloads of mayo for other things. So maybe.

Another salad supper. (Weather is finally cooling down today.) I made a little extra bacon so I could have a couple of rashers for breakfast this morning.

I made a Lasgane! It cost a fortune! I wasted 10 minutes of my life when the 18 year old sweetheart at Dan Murphies tried to guide me on the Red Wine for the sauce (he was probably on point, I have no knowledge of red wine, cooking or otherwise) Garlic bread is straight off the supermarket shelf and to be honest, if I wasn't sharing with you guys the "salad" would have stayed in the fridge 😅

https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/certain-pistachios-recalled-due-salmonella-1

Add me to the "dinner planning is exhausting" club!!! Couple meals from this week- Taco salads by request- Mountain lion leg roast with potatoes, carrots and mushroom gravy. (Mtn lion hunted by my partner. There is a quota for them, this was a young male. Meat is reminiscent of lean pork) And elk steak, sweet potato, brazi bites and sautéed mushrooms. (Elk also hunted)

@Tropicalsenior Here you go…I do a bulk ferment first, so my timing is different. https://amybakesbread.com/one-hour-sourdough-discard-burger-buns/ i have also made the “one hour” sourdough discard dinner rolls which are delicious, you’ll find the recipe in the discard grouping if you are interested. i also did a bulk rise first with one s and f at 10 minutes or so . This was half the recipe, the rolls are quite large. I’ve also made it with 8 rather than 6 rolls. I did not brush with egg prior to baking but did brush with softened butter when they were removed from oven. ETA…my discard is half white, half rye and it is not old.

Hot smoked surgeon with its own caviar.

I agree Norm, I like to cook and find it relaxing but the figuring out of "what to make" exhausts me.

Well, @rotuts mentioned it earlier so I was mostly playing along but I’m pretty sure he was referring to the mayo markdowns that show up in early summer around Memorial Day and 4th of July. Lots of stores seem to promote it, maybe as a loss leader, in their adverts at that time but it’s less common, in my experience, to see big mayo markdowns at this time of year.

There's a "mayo season"?

I was @ Tj's this AM. I noted a pile of tote bags https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/trick-or-treat-mini-canvas-totes-081415 I dont know when they appeared , but no one was buying. those other ones created a stampede , and sold out briskly. Odd. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPocGAQDdP_/ https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/trader-joes-halloween-tote-bags/3961309/

Bahn Mi sandwiches were requested for dinner today. I like when I don't have to figure out what to have for dinner.

I'm interested in something like this to get the seeds out of blueberries and some other fruits. But, I'm looking for something in a lower price range. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Oh my! I could gobble that up very inelegantly right this minute and I just had lunch! Carbonara is probably my favourite pasta. I limit myself to a couple of times a year at home but it is also my test dish at an Italian restaurant that I haven't been to. I don't order if it says bacon - I will give it a chance with prosciutto and if it's guanciale, I'm getting it. A local place does a great one using guanciale - it's served with a raw yolk on top.

Carbonara from Six Seasons of Pasta by Joshua McFadden I read that today is National Pasta Day here in the US so I thought I’d celebrate with this decadent treat. I really like this method for carbonara, specifically tempering the eggs gently in the pan after the guanciale is cooked and before adding the pasta. I usually temper the eggs in a bowl placed over the pasta pot but using the pan seems more efficient. I also like the tongue-tingling amount of black pepper. I read somewhere that spaghettoni was the best pasta for carbonara so that’s what I used and it is pretty good. Apparently, World Pasta Day is right around the corner on Oct 25 so expect to see more from this book then!

Bought a few of these to have for quick breakfast or light lunch. This flavor was Bacon, Potatoes and Cheddar. The bacon and cheese came thru flavor-wise. The potatoes were disappointing as they have no browning on them. This is a shelf product to which you add an egg (or 2). I used 2 eggs and added a few grinds of black pepper after microwaving (about 90 seconds total). I wouldn't eat this everyday (or even every week) but I like having a really fast option for a meal when on the run. We are in midst of some medical appts. and home maintenance and often want something fast, relatively light with no clean-up.

Maybe the recently purchased Duke’s was on sale because it’s been hanging out on the shelf for a while, mayo season is over and they need the shelf space for pumpkin pie filling. In any case, you’re potentially comparing products within their manufacturer's recommended “use by” dates. Unless you wait another 10 years 🙃

It looks delicious. Please, do you have a link for this?

Pullman loaf, mini sized. This is a 4” square and I used a small volume of sourdough discard hamburger bun recipe from amybakesbread. I’ve made her discard sourdough dinner rolls which were delicious, so I’m hoping this will be the same.

@ElsieD good points. Im pleased you tried.

I'm sorry to tell you this as I know you are very fond of the IP method, but for me, using the stove top method is much more efficient. It's sort of set it and forget it type of thing. Now, I had 6 batches so it was picking the bones out 6 times, putting the meat through a food mill 6 times and IPing 12 times versus picking the bones out once and putting the meat through a food mill to extract any remaining stock once. So yes, it was interesting but for me, I'll be sticking with the stove top method. I will say that the stock produced by your method was excellent and I'd give the same score to that produced by both methods.