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  1. 6 hours ago, Fiona So said:

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    First try of Trout and Sprawn Terrein with chrispy fish skin

    Terrines are fun. :)

    That's an attractive dish, and an appealing first post (welcome aboard, btw!). What are the grainy bits in the mushroom sauce?

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  2. 8 hours ago, MaryIsobel said:

    How I wish that I had tomatoes like that to "use up!"

    That's the fun of having members on opposite sides of the planet, we get to envy (and/or revel in) our opposite numbers' fresh produce during out own winters. It makes a break from seed catalogues...

    (says the guy who was poring over his own catalogues 90 minutes past bedtime, until that "hot cinders in my eyes" feeling began to register)

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  3. 21 hours ago, AlaMoi said:

    it's exceptionally rare to find a 220v circuit with an outlet in the kitchen.  the cooktops/ovens/etc are "hardwired"

     

     

    1 hour ago, AlaMoi said:

    in near 50 years of house hunting/buying/building I have never seen 240 "convenience" outlets installed in residential.

    plug in 240 for clothes dryer - all the other 240 stuff "hard wired"

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    Dated Nov 2021:

    "In the case of an electric cooktop or built-in oven, it requires hardwiring to the electric system of the home -- building codes do not permit using a 240-volt outlet in this scenario."

     

    Wow, that never would have occurred to me. Here in Canada a 240v outlet is standard for ranges, and hard-wired is limited only to wall ovens and cooktops, which are relatively uncommon (at least in the 6 provinces where I've lived). When I bought us an upgraded (used) range last year, I just unplugged the old one and plugged in the new one. It took me about 5 minutes, and it wouldn't have been that long if the builders hadn't been complete idiots about the kitchen layout.

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  4. 16 hours ago, MaryIsobel said:

    Perhaps I should get over my aversion to liver - I just always remember my Mom making liver and onions for her and my Dad - we kids got hot dogs on those nights! My Dad liked any kind of meat cooked to death - I thought I hated steak until I had one in a restaurant! I do love paté so maybe time to put on my big girl panties and try chicken livers!

     

    They're quite mild, so they're a good entry point for the liver-averse.

    I hated it in childhood, love it in adulthood, but even now I dislike liver done in the old-school fried-to-leather fashion.

  5. 6 hours ago, Susanwusan said:

    I had a book with that clarification.

     

    The word for clove in most languages is derived from the word for "nail," or so I've been told. Oxford agrees insofar as English and its derivation from older French, at any rate, but perhaps Liuzhou will weigh in once his day starts.

  6. 2 hours ago, AlaMoi said:

    here's the bottom line to that:

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    Pumplin measures success by whether or not a large number of consumers will embrace the health benefits, color and taste of the new tomato.

    "Then it chips away at this negative perception of GMOs and that will enable other products to get out to market that deliver really solid benefits," he says. Benefits that include climate change, sustainability, health and nutrition.

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    'color and taste of the new tomato' - in English, it doesn't taste like /as good as a tomato?

    benefits climate change - uhmmm, er,,,, how? zactly"

    sustainability - it's a GMO hybrid.  it is not sustainable to the next generation.  you want sustainable, go with open pollination.

    'health and nutrition' . . . . eggs are bad.  eggs are good.  eggs are bad . . . mouth music of totally unfounded/unproven claims.

    My interpretations of those were, in that order:

    Color and taste: "Once they get past the idea that it's purple, it actually tastes pretty good."
    Benefits/climate change: He wasn't talking about the tomato here. But if the tomato opens the door to other transgenic products, they could work on things that require less irrigation or fertilizing, for example (there's been some research on giving other plants the kind of nitrogen-fixing capability that legumes have. Or crops that can be grown more intensively, so they require less deforestation for agricultural land. Lots of possibilities. 

    Sustainability: see above. If it requires fewer inputs but can still be produced intensively, that's a long step back toward balancing Big Ag's ledger.

    Health and nutrition: Tweaking plants to be more nutritious, as opposed to being "Roundup Ready" or what have you. I've seen research charting a long, slow decline in the nutritive content of most produce over the past 70-odd years (don't have it bookmarked, but could probably Google it up if you're interested). It would be nice to reverse that.

    I started off GMO-skeptical a couple of decades ago, but have come around to the view that it's like any other form of "processing." It's not innately good or bad, it's a question of how it's deployed and to what ends. If it winds up giving us more nutritious food at less environmental cost (and yes, I do recognize exactly how much heavy lifting "if" is doing in that sentence) then I'm all for it.

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  7. On 2/8/2024 at 1:52 AM, FrogPrincesse said:

    I recently got the OXO scale (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) to replace my old Teraillon which was getting very inaccurate. I really like it! It’s a good design, compact, and it works really well. I like the greater capacity (11 pounds).

    I haven't had my hands on that one personally, but had taken note of it because of its very cool pull-out display. I have a really cheap Starfrit, which is fine for my usage on the whole, but irritating when I want to use it with a larger bowl. The pull-out display on the OXO would eliminate that issue.

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  8. This one currently affects Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland and New Brunswick, but of course these can sometimes expand. The product is Rojo's 6-Layer Black Bean Dip, and like the corn salad just up-thread it's being recalled for Listeria (and is related to a US recall).

    https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/rojo-s-brand-black-bean-6-layer-dip-recalled-due-listeria-monocytogenes?utm_source=gc-notify&utm_medium=email&utm_content=en&utm_campaign=hc-sc-rsa-22-23

     

  9. At the restaurant where I worked my way through school, we served a "seafood medley" of sorts (it had a better name on the menu, but it's been 20 years and I don't remember it).

    This dish consisted of a lobster tail removed from the shell, which was then stuffed with lemon-scented arborio rice. The stuffed shell was topped with shrimp and scallops, the tail was cut into medallions and arranged around the shell, and it was served with a creamy sauce based on shrimp broth. All of this, to be clear, was explicitly spelled out on the menu.

    We had a customer one night explain that she loved seafood but had a shellfish allergy, and was it possible to get the seafood medley without shellfish? "Why of course," we grumbled in the kitchen. "Here's your $35 scoop of rice." (The server explained that no, that wasn't a possibility with this dish, and she eventually ordered something else.)

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  10. Okay, Ontario peeps, this is a small one but who knows, right? The summer sausages from Bauman's Country Meat Shop in Dobbinton are being recalled for listeria. Dunno if any of you live close enough that this would be a threat, but better safe than sorry.

     

    https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/bauman-s-country-meat-shop-brand-summer-sausages-recalled-due-listeria-monocytogenes?utm_source=gc-notify&utm_medium=email&utm_content=en&utm_campaign=hc-sc-rsa-22-23

  11. I'm late to the news, but saw a mention on another thread yesterday. I've had on-thread interactions/exchanges with a lot of eGers, but private conversations with only a relative few. Heidi was one of those.

     

    I always appreciated her good-humored (if often exasperated) recounting of her trials with her father and stepmother, and the various health issues and other incidental aggravations that come along in life. She'd have fit in well with my family, where that instinct to find humor in any given scenario is innate and unquenchable (my father joked from his literal deathbed).

     

    Having gathered from one of my comments that I'm a bit of a history/current affairs geek, she told me about her own family's history as Donauschwaben, ethnic Germans in what was by then Yugoslavia. The Nazis considered ethnic Germans everywhere to be citizens of the Reich, whether they would or no, and conscripted them accordingly. Between that, and the generally prevailing anti-German sentiment in the immediate postwar era, and the inevitable handful who embraced the opportunity to join Hitler's war machine, the Donauschwaben had targets on their backs after the war and were the victims of a straight-out genocide in Yugoslavia in the late 40s.

    It was an episode I hadn't previously been aware of, despite my broad reading, and was both fascinating and harrowing to learn about.

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  12. You can check on Facebook for a local Buy Nothing group page, and join/participate that way. I was a bit surprised that you can't just participate through the website, but (shrug) it's their party, they can force the app if they want to.

    I make a very deliberate practice of not installing any app unless I have an absolute need of it and there's no workaround, but there is a local group on Facebook so I've applied to it and will at least lurk for a while and see how active it is.

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