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No, I think it's a pretty universal last-resort method to find what you're looking for.

My GF spotted those products on Amazon the other day. She's keto-ing, so I suspect there'll be some in our not-too-distant future.

I'm an oatmeal guy. The most satiating of the cereal-type breakfasts, according to the limited clinical research that has addressed the subject. In my case, I use steel-cut oats and add a handful of raisins (they plump nicely as the oats cook) and a generous sprinkle of cinnamon. Not the way my Scots ancestors would have done it, by any means, but it works for me. Sometimes I'll add a spoonful of yogurt or some additional fruit to the bowl.

Alberta only, ground frozen veal from The Italian Store has been recalled for E. coli: https://www.inspection.gc.ca/food-recall-warnings-and-allergy-alerts/2020-01-13/eng/1578959926811/1578959932803?utm_source=r_listserv Also Alkanater brand tahini, possibly national, for salmonella. https://inspection.gc.ca/food-recall-warnings-and-allergy-alerts/2020-01-14/eng/1579039733281/1579039739334?utm_source=r_listserv

That, to me, is a "killer feature." I don't know anyone else who cares, but I'm the guy who lunges for the "cancel" button before the last few seconds tick off. My hearing is none of the best, but that piercing beep grates on my nerves. I've had a couple of microwaves in the past that cut the chirp when the door opened, and it was my favorite thing about them.

Something similar is available at Tim Horton's as well here in Canada, under the name "omelet bites." My GF's had them occasionally when keto-ing. No cottage cheese in this case. One version has whole eggs with bacon and cheese, the other is egg whites with spinach and cheese.

Supposedly it makes heating more even in the microwaves that have it. My new/current one (4-5 months) is a Panasonic w. inverter. Just FYI, one of the most common things that goes on microwaves is a simple fuse. Costs a couple of bucks to buy a replacement, the tricky part is getting into the unit (easy on a standalone, less trivial on a built-in).

This guy, and ditto.

I was shooting for the look of the little country churches you'll see up and down the coast here. The brushwork on the walls was an attempt at making royal icing look like shingled siding. It wasn't entirely successful, but it was an interesting effect.

Remember back in the day, when replacing conventional food with pills and powders was a standard sci-fi trope? Well...they're working on it. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51019798

It was spread out over a period of weeks, just whenever I had the time to tackle some of it. The last bit was rather rushed, as it always seems to be.

A few belated photos of the doings: Cookies drying on the racks: Ready to make up some baskets. Lots of different types of cookies, and the little tissue-wrapped bundles in the middle are mini-loaves of various kinds. A basket, with loaves beneath and cookies above, naked and then wrapped. This particular one went to my daughter's best friends/bridesmaids, hence the David's Tea gift card. The Christmas tree cookie covered in Skittles that you'll see in behind was decorated for us by a neighbour's little guy. Multiple views of the village. My plans for the surface itself were much more detailed, but ran afoul of time constraints. The decorating itself is not at all up to professional standards (again, time constraints...final touches went on in the last hour before everyone arrived for Christmas dinner), but this year was primarily a "proof of concept" as I learned how to work with the materials. Lots of lessons to keep in mind for next year.... It's better when illuminated, though the camera in my elderly Nexus 4 struggles in low light conditions. Just FYI, strings of LED mini Christmas lights make it look like there's a party going on inside. The little battery-operated faux tealights have a gentle flicker that nicely simulates a fire on the hearth inside the cottage. The little cottages were made with a cookie-cutter template from the dollar store. Two cuts equals one cottage. For the little church I just cut out a template from corrugated cardboard and ran with it. FYI, a microplane zester works marvels when it comes to straightening and squaring the pieces, or beveling them for a neater fit.

Pretty much. In fact her sheepish comment to reporters after this blew up was "...at least I'm pretty..."

Some of you may have seen this already: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/11/us/family-feud-canada-popeyes-trnd/index.html

I'd read this a couple of years ago and tripped across it again this morning. It occurred to me that it fits well in the context of this discussion, so I'll throw it out here for anyone who's interested. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/plant-memory-hidden-vernalization

I'm guessing that would be some sort of Internet personality who streams live video. Most are pretty obscure, though a few have become "internet-famous" and actually make a buck from it.

That's a shame. I lost my father a couple of years ago to the same cause, and in the same fashion. After the diagnosis he spent no small mental effort tracing his way back to the earliest symptoms, and kicking himself for not having it looked at then. The oncologist told him pretty bluntly not to do that, saying "By the time there's a symptom you might have noticed, it's already too late. The only thing that would have changed is we'd have all felt obligated to take our shot at treating it and slowing the cancer down, and your last couple of years would have been a lot more miserable."

Yup, same here. And gardening stuff going out on the shelves.

FWIW, I remember seeing a recipe for a marmalade-ish jam made with oranges and spaghetti squash...I think it was from one of Clifford Wright's books, and was Sicilian, but I couldn't swear to it.

In the video the big boule seems to take up no more than half the available height of the oven, so there should be room for a good-sized loaf to reach full height. It looks to be good for about three standard loaves in width, too, so it's probably big enough for most purposes. The cast-iron pan the boule was baked on looked to be 10-12" square, and there was a fair bit of room left at either side, so yeah...at least 1/4 sheet by the "eyeball test." As long as it's fully functional without the app, and not ridiculously expensive, they might be onto something.

At my last rental the oven was in Celsius, and I needed to print out an equivalency table and tape it up beside the range. After a year or so I got used to it, but it definitely required thought (unless I was working from an overseas recipe, in which case it was pretty simple).

After following this thread I bought OXO openers for myself and my mom, who has Parkinson's. Both are working well, thus far.

I hear you. I wish I had a dollar for every time I've had to go back into the store for the one thing I'd specifically intended to buy when I walked in...

There've been a few widely reported studies over the past decade in which physicists have looked closely at the behavior of spaghetti. It's not as trivial an exercise as it sounds, because the research has broader applications. Here's the most recent example.