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https://www.bonappetit.com/story/david-mcmillan-sober

Pro tip: Go to the store and buy more Gruyere. When you open the fridge to put in the new one, the old one will leap out at you and shout "Surprise!" ...or at least, that's how it works at my place.

If you live in Ontario, and have bought Vietnamese "fish mint" from Canada Herb: http://www.inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/food-recall-warnings/complete-listing/2019-02-19/eng/1550634791027/1550634793145

When I was a youngster, working out in Saskatchewan as a security guard, I wandered into the truckstop one night to refill my thermos with coffee (it was -42 C, IIRC, and hot coffee was a must for outdoor patrolling). While I was wandering the aisles, I was startled to see - in among the Playboy-logo air fresheners and mirrored stick-ons of unclad/shapely females - boxes of nylons boldly labeled as "Man-T-Hose." Apparently truckers wore them in the seriously cold weather as an under-layer beneath their more conventional winter warms. I was both amazed and amused.

Note (before trying this at home) that the researchers accumulated quite a "microwave graveyard" in the process.

The meal sounds delightful, as does your attitude. My parents were still very cuddly and smooch-y right up to the end (my dad passed away of cancer in the middle of their 55th year together), and they still spent most of their time alone together very happily in their little country retreat. Their reasoning, as explained by my mom, was "we didn't get married to spend time apart" so once my father left the navy they seldom did.

I'm attempting to, with the caveats that a) I may not always remember; b) I'm sometimes traveling between provinces and won't always do so in a timely fashion; and c) I'll probably post only the pathogen-related ones rather than the allergy-related ones. Anyone wanting to be added the CFIA's email notifications system can do so at this link: http://inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/email-notification/eng/1481653931267/1481654078038

This one actually stood a chance of affecting me, because I buy this particular sweet kale salad occasionally. Listeria monocytogenes is the culprit, and it's possibly national (Canada). http://inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/food-recall-warnings/complete-listing/2019-02-17/eng/1550451685800/1550451687861

I've heard that from other competitive growers as well, and apparently milk does work reasonably well as a liquid fertilizer. Injecting it is probably not that great an idea (why damage your vines and give opportunity for pests/illness), though I'm sure some do it anyway. Serious competitors from what I've read use chelated calcium instead.

Stashing pots and pans when they're not in use?

LOL Yes, as it happens. She did have a hot temper though, and smashed a few of my things with a hammer. Her ex passed away while she and I were together. Went to the hospital after a minor heart attack, and while they were doing an echocardiogram the ultrasound tech noticed a mass adjacent to his heart...and another one in his lung...and another one, and another one...turned out he was riddled with cancer, and died a week later.

Californian, actually. She grew up in Huntington Beach. Though at the time of the infamous chainsaw incident she and her then-hubby lived in the Sierras, if that's any help.

A lot of low-carb breads work on a similar pattern, using something like coconut flour to provide the bulk and then adding vital wheat gluten for structure. It's also handy if you want to play around with adding things like quinoa flour or oat flour to your conventional breads but still have a decent crumb.

http://inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/food-recall-warnings/complete-listing/2019-02-14/eng/1550194496843/1550194499013

My late wife's ex-husband once gave her a chainsaw for Christmas. A powder-blue Lady Husqvarna. That was 15 years before I knew her, and apparently it still rankled. She said the only reason she didn't use it to cut his Corvette in half was that she enjoyed driving it too. It seems he genuinely thought of it as a romantic gift, and had visions of her limbing out the trees he felled. You know...a togetherness, couples kind of thing. Doing stuff together. That's how it's supposed to work, right?

We're just going out to the local buffet, because my sweetie's taking her monthly sabbatical from the keto diet and that's what she's been craving. We're doing the smoked-salmon variation on eggs benny for brunch, though. She and her (now-) ex used to come to my restaurant for it, back in the day, and now it's one of our go-to dishes for special occasions. Back then I made it with house-cured gravlax, instead, but curing a whole fillet for just the two of us would be just a titch extravagant.

As for prevention, take your skillet from the burner for a minute or two before adding the garlic and wine. If the fat's not screaming-hot when you add your liquids, the effect is seriously muted. A spatter screen is always useful in those scenarios as well.

It occurs to me belatedly that these two examples are about the polar opposite of "inexplicable."

My ex was working at the concession stand of our local cinema when she became pregnant with our daughter. She experienced very, very bad morning sickness (basically, "trimester sickness") and rapidly got to the point of tossing her cookies as soon as she caught that first whiff of popcorn. Needless to say, a) the job came to an abrupt end; and b) she couldn't handle the sight or smell of popcorn for years afterward. She did eventually get over that conditioning, but it took a long time. My mom had a similar experience with a nurse bringing her a cup of tea "to settle her nerves" immediately after giving birth to me. My mom was never a tea-drinker in the first place, but she dutifully took a sip and promptly vomited all over herself and the nurse. That was 55 years ago, and the smell of tea still makes her queasy.

Ontario and Quebec residents...products from Betty Bakery and Nancy's Fancy bakery may contain mouse droppings. Ew. http://inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/food-recall-warnings/complete-listing/2019-02-09/eng/1549743046390/1549743046640

There's a historic echo there of an exchange that supposedly transpired between Careme and the Prince Regent of the UK, later King George IV. The future king told Careme something to the effect that "I'll get fat if you keep cooking like this." Careme, who already felt underappreciated in England, snapped that "stimulating your highness' appetite is my job, controlling it is yours." He left shortly thereafter.

LOL A few years ago a deer got into the legislature buildings here and caused quite a stir. I can only imagine that monkeys would be a good deal more disruptive.

Jean Beliveau won a total of 17 Stanley Cup rings, 10 as a player and 7 during his time in the front office. That's fair-to-middlin'. Scotty Bowman wasn't a player, but won 9 as a coach (with three different teams!) and 5 more as a front office guy.

I don't use cream at all in mine, for that exact reason. It adds richness, but mutes flavour. I also find most recipes over-thickened, to my taste. Of course, I hail from Atlantic Canada, which (as we like to joke) is where New Englanders learned to make chowder. (Not offered as any sort of serious historical commentary, or to start a turf war, it's just part of the local humour)

I work from home and she's been upgrading her schooling from home, so we already spend the vast majority of our time together. Admittedly, it's easier to carve out a quiet corner in a big ramshackle house than a (relatively) small RV. I say relatively, because as I told my mom "some of those places were basically your apartment on wheels, except with a fireplace and better appliances." If it starts to look like a serious option, I'll definitely seize on the opportunity to benefit from your experience.