Alex

You're welcome. I agree with SSK. I much prefer scratch or instant, although the tube can do in a pinch, especially if you brown the rounds in some olive oil.

Here's a vegan shakshuka recipe from Tahini and Turmeric. The authors say it freezes well. I double all of the spices, and sometimes add more garlic. I take the skins off the chickpeas, but that's just me. You can use precooked polenta or make some from scratch and just plop some on top -- or use it as a base, which is what we do, if we feel like it. Feel free to put some goats cheese on top for you and/or Ed, if you like. vegan shakshuka.pdf

And again...the gas industry followed big tobacco's playbook.

Today's Pearls Before Swine:

Here's one I put on hold earlier today:

"Exterminate!" is my candy corn default setting.

From a Washington Post article one year ago today:

I love the end-over-end 360: https://www.borninspace.com/hot-dog-hot-wheels-cars-launch-wieners-onto-grill/

I had to look up "Grauniad." And I'm a reader/supporter.

Full story Her website

Good idea. A straight Google search showed it to be Kagoshima.

The hiragana at the top reads "[o]shima bas(u)", with that ostensibly kawaii (cute) whatever it is on the left acting as the "o". The hiragana at the bottom is "noriba" -- bus stop. The kanji in the middle is clearly a place name, but sad to say I've lost most of my kanji over the past 35 years.

Totoro and Nekobus! This is great! Here's our wind-up Totoro: And on my car: And on the other side of the car:

A sixth basic taste?

Michigan hosts four major food festivals and a cornucopia of minor (and amusing) ones. There's the National Morel Mushroom Festival (63 years!) ...the National Asparagus Festival (50 years) ...the National Cherry Festival (97 years!!) -- including, of course, a pit-spitting contest ...and the National Blueberry Festival (60 years) Then, of course, there's the Fungus Festival. Because what would a fungus festival be without golf?

"The Pumpkin Spice Latte Is Designed to Make You Feel Death" Full story in The Atlantic

That would be nice. I've yet to taste one that would be even shouting distance from "reasonably pleasant."

So does Ted's Bulletin, in the DC area. Ms Alex is a fan.

Please allow me to discourage you.

Our Costco just got in these outstanding Siete g-f Mexican wedding cookies. Target sells them, too, but even on sale they're way more expensive than Costco -- $4.49/4.5 oz vs $9.89/16 oz.

New to me, too, at least in the ready-made version. I don't eat Biscoff any more, but Ms Alex is a fan -- especially with a schmear of Soom dark chocolate tahini with sea salt. We get ours at Costco -- currently on sale for $3 off a box with four large sleeves, total weight 1 kg.

Fun article in the New York Times

I met him once, after he had left Citronelle. Very nice guy.

As gfweb said, the chosen focus of the brief and undoubtedly highly edited article was how Batali's behavior affected someone vis-a-vis their friendship -- which is a perfectly valid topic. I mean, what if you were in a situation in which you learned that a trusted friend had been doing similar things? Highly inappropriate behavior, whether or not it's deemed criminal, can affect a variety of victims, obviously with varying degrees of severity. How can you assume she's unsympathetic to the abused women when that topic wasn't even addressed in the article?

Goo Gone?