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If you have a No Frills anywhere in your orbit, they sell ducks for $3/lb (recently raised from $2/lb). That's cheaper than chicken (at least in my neck of the woods) so I generally have one in my freezer for when the mood strikes.

I'm with you. Sink 15-20 minutes (never mind 35 or 40) into watching/listening to something I could read in a matter of seconds? Screw that, life's too short.

Impossible is soy, Beyond is pea protein IIRC. We keep it on hand because my GF (and her mom) can no longer eat red meat for medical reasons, and in casseroles etc it's close enough. I doubt we'd buy this faux-chicken product, though, because she can eat real poultry.

Yup. I got tired of burning through the shaker canisters and bought the larger bag to refill my old one with...only to discover that the shaker had been discarded in my absence. Not that it really matters.

That's not entirely correct. Wondra and its equivalents are pre-gelatinized (ie, the starchy flavor is cooked out) and then dried and re-milled. When stirred into a hot liquid it gels almost instantly, like cornstarch. Finely-ground AP flour is still AP flour, and will need to be cooked out.

1) I'm seldom in Walmart, compared to the other stores I've mentioned. 2) When I am, the shelf always seems to be empty but for the price tag. It's not worth wasting my time on another stop. Everyone else's mileage will vary, of course.

That's not uncommon, and typically results from inconsistent moisture during the growing season. It's variable from year to year. Apparently, this year was especially bad in Idaho. https://www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/idaho-potato-growers-brace-for-inferior-crop/article_081809ad-4da3-5aaa-93cd-724119a9033a.html

Oh, geez. I missed that he was in Canada. Unless you're in a super-remote location, it's in a store near you. Shoppers has it, Superstore has it, Sobeys has it. In Shoppers it's (weirdly) over where they keep the supplements and vitamins and homeopathic remedies (don't get me started on the subject of selling snake oil alongside real medicine...). In Sobeys and Superstore it's in the pharmacy, usually (IIRC) near the eye-care stuff. I buy it regularly at all three stores for my GF's CPAP machine, it's just a matter of which one I happen to be in for other purchases.

Look in the pharmacy section, not the bottled water section. At least, that's where the stores up here have it. (Also, of course, pharmacies.)

Not the usual kind of thing, but a fun and amusing story nonetheless. I've seen situations where an order for 2 cases became 2 pallets, and I suspect something like that was what happened here. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/lemons-bakery-thousands-nova-scotia-1.6303984

It's probably still cluttering up a box or drawer somewhere in my storage locker. I'll keep that in mind, next time I see a wooden bowl at the thrift store.

There's a national recall on a bunch of Dole and President's Choice bagged salads, for listeria. https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/certain-dole-and-president-s-choice-brand-salad-products-recalled-due-listeria?utm_source=r_listserv

I was gifted with an ulu several years ago by my then-sister in law, but sadly it's a souvenir-shop item and rather less sharp than your average butter knife.

Oddly, it was a combination I don't recall ever encountering until well into adulthood.

I find his whole Ramsay-meets-Oprah schtick rather weird and off-putting. That being said, I had the same questions about Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. It seems like a strange way for any restaurant to allow itself to be presented.

For members in Western Canada, Save-on-Foods is recalling several prepared meals for salmonella. Details on the link below. https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/certain-save-foods-brand-combo-meals-recalled-due-salmonella?utm_source=r_listserv

Yup, people like what they like. My sweetie's preferred meatloaf consists of ground beef and onion soup mix. That's it, other than the obligatory ketchup glaze.

Looks cool. That being said, given a choice between making a task less onerous/marginally entertaining, and avoiding it altogether, I'd still opt for avoiding it altogether.

My bugbear is scrubbing tile, or more accurately scrubbing the grout between tiles. I have lived in rentals with tile countertops, tile floors and/or tile backsplashes in the kitchen, and none of those things will be in any kitchen where I have any say in the matter. I cringe when I watch renovation shows where the designer puts the stove in a brick surround, or under a hood wrapped in reclaimed wood. Do these people not cook at all? Or do they just "have people" to do the cleaning?

At any such affair here in southern NB, you'll be served sandwiches of cream cheese and chopped maraschino cherries. They may be served as conventional sandwiches with the crusts cut off (quartered diagonally) or rolled up as pinwheels, if the hosts are feeling fancy.

I'm sure I would like their pickles. I'm also sure I would not fry them. Nothing to do with "pickle-flavored" chicken nuggets, either way.

Not gonna lie, I quite liked the ones filled with fruit. The savory ones skeeved me out, though. I just couldn't grasp why embalming chicken and vegetables and (the kicker) canned peas in lime Jello sounded like a good idea to anyone.

Prepared meals at some Asian markets in BC (T&T and Osaka Supermarket) are being recalled for potential salmonella. https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/various-prepared-meals-sold-certain-osaka-and-tt-supermarkets-british-columbia?utm_source=r_listserv