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This one's Ontario only: Mowi brand Norwegian cold-smoked salmon is being recalled for potential botulism. https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/mowi-brand-norwegian-atlantic-salmon-cold-smoked-recalled-due-potential-presence?utm_source=gc-notify&utm_medium=email&utm_content=en&utm_campaign=hc-sc-rsa-22-23

To my eye we've passed the point of diminishing returns, there, and have reached "perverse incentive" status. The cords are now short enough that those of us whose kitchens weren't built within the past decade are mostly forced to use an extension. Thankfully most of my current appliances are of the "vintage" variety and have a cord of usable length.

I was just explaining the Two Tone movement/music to my GF two nights ago, as we watched the designer on a reno show do a kitchen all in black and white. I commented that I'd need to listen to vintage ska in order to cook in that room, and it kind of snowballed from there.

Seemed appropriate to this thread: Amazon's abandoning its aspirations toward "just walk out" technology (because it, uh... doesn't work, and never did). https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/amazon-ends-ai-powered-store-checkout-which-needed-1000-video-reviewers/ On an unrelated note, at a Walmart in NS, I recently discovered that the self-check kiosk now maintains a watchful eye for items which are placed in the bagging area but not scanned (in this case, my bag). A clip of me putting the bag in the bagging area repeated on endless loop until the staffer monitoring the area came and cleared it.

Doing ours today, because the other grandparents had theirs yesterday. Got a turkey because my GF can't eat ham or lamb. Thinking I might break it down and roll up 3/4 of the bird inside its skin as a boneless roast. Got broccoli, cauli and asparagus for veg, and a small buttercup squash that was on sale. Treatment of same, and a final call on dessert, TBD.

It's funny 'cause it's true... https://www.theonion.com/report-saying-smells-okay-precedes-85-of-foodborne-1819579726

Hot-cross pizza buns seem an odd notion, but I guess I can't throw stones. Supermarkets up here haven't hit on that one yet, but they've started making hot-cross buns for every holiday, not just Easter.

LOL "Don't leave home without it..." I'll have to take a look at my local Marshall's. I have no immediate need for anything, but if they have Mauviel at a manageable price I might talk myself into something. On second thought, I should probably stay out of Marshall's for a while. I might talk myself into something.

Well, profit is always a pretty safe assumption. A less cynical view is that there have been a number of massive, well-publicized culls of battery chickens due to bird flu and (probably) other illnesses over the past few years. I'm not privy to the decision-making process here, but I expect switching from "no antibiotics ever" to NAIHM gives them more leeway to deal with illness in the flocks while still maintaining the primary goal of not filling humans with antibiotic-resistant pathogens. ...or at least, in theory. I haven't done the necessary reading to know how well-founded that might be.

Oh, hon... My mom went through a couple rounds of the same ghastly business years back. Now at 80 she has pretty severe osteoporosis, and her jaw is too fragile to support any further grafts. The dental surgeon warned her that she needs to avoid any hard/crunchy foods, because she could break her jaw by doing something as simple as biting into an apple (I peel and slice them for her when I'm there). She always loved nuts, and had a jar of them on hand, but now cashews are the only ones she feels comfortable eating because they're relatively soft. The upside is that the second round of oral surgery has given her 20-odd years (and counting) of otherwise-normal eating. And her jaw initially was very badly deteriorated, for reasons I won't get into as it was a fairly unique case.

My pick as a kid was their mille-feuille. It was a red-letter day when I was able to buy a full carton of them from the PX at Shannon Park with my paper-route money.

Shared this morning on my local mushroom foraging FB page (it's funny because it's true...)

Well, southern Ontario is probably a bit balmier, too. My parents' acreage was in a microclimate that give them a shorter season than they'd had elsewhere, with frosts coming a bit later and a bit earlier. They made out just fine, anyway - my father cut back on the size of their garden because he was growing more than they could eat or give away - but it did cost them a few years' headaches as their "old, reliable" favorites from other gardens around the province failed to thrive in that particular spot. My father enjoyed trying oddball varieties. Aside from the strawberry spinach I can recall him growing walking-stick kale, "rat-tail" radishes (grown for the edible seed pods, rather than the root), and a German tomato that was bizarrely knobby, and could be pulled apart like monkey bread into pieces about the size of a grape/cherry tomato.

It may well be that they develop more sweetness in favorable climates (you're in BC, IIRC?).