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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. chromedome

    Dinner 2024

    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.
  5. 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.
  6. Shared this morning on my local mushroom foraging FB page (it's funny because it's true...)
  7. 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.
  8. It may well be that they develop more sweetness in favorable climates (you're in BC, IIRC?).
  9. My father grew that in his garden for a while. The fruit taste like spinach, rather than strawberries, but that's fine... they're still a pretty cool salad garnish. One thing to be aware of, whether you consider it a positive or a negative, is that it will self-seed and come back year after year. It's only modestly invasive in our climate, but it's worth knowing.
  10. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/tastes-like-chicken-think-again-edible-ants-have-distinctive-flavor-profiles/
  11. Yesterday, on The Platform Formerly Known As Twitter, ag scientist Dr. Sarah Taber wrote a thread (because St. Patrick's Day) unpacking the roots of the Great Potato Famine. You may have heard the expression "crop failures are natural, famines are political"? This is what it means.
  12. chromedome

    Cabbage

    I don't doubt you in the least. Just reporting the facts on the ground, here in my little backwater.
  13. chromedome

    Cabbage

    Yeah, I don't see that in local stores at all. Completely different.
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