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An update to the cucumber recall: https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/sunfed-brand-field-cucumbers-and-slicer-cucumbers-recalled-due-salmonella?utm_source=gc-notify&utm_medium=email&utm_content=en&utm_campaign=hc-sc-rsa-22-23

Putting this here because I can't think of a better place. Seen on Bluesky, without source attribution: I mean... It's basically just a variation on an ice cream sandwich, but it lacks a certain something from the marketing perspective.

(I've often joked that the temptation to do this kind of thing would make me the worst person in the world to own a fortune-cookie business...)

The US recall on whole fresh cucumbers for salmonella has extended to Canada as well. https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/sunfed-produce-llc-recalls-whole-fresh-american-cucumbers-due-salmonella?utm_source=gc-notify&utm_medium=email&utm_content=en&utm_campaign=hc-sc-rsa-22-23 ETA: Now that I've rubbed the sleep from my eyes, I see that no-one had posted the American version of the recall. Here's the FDA link: https://www.fda.gov/food/outbreaks-foodborne-illness/outbreak-investigation-salmonella-cucumbers-november-2024

We'd had a run without an enoki mushroom recall, but that has now ended. https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/o-ya-hoho-brand-enoki-mushroom-recalled-due-listeria-monocytogenes?utm_source=gc-notify&utm_medium=email&utm_content=en&utm_campaign=hc-sc-rsa-22-23

There's an update to the carrot recall here in Canada: https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/various-brands-organic-carrots-recalled-due-e-coli-o121?utm_source=gc-notify&utm_medium=email&utm_content=en&utm_campaign=hc-sc-rsa-22-23

If you draw a Venn diagram of software engineering and sourdough breadmaking, this is the place where they intersect. https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/11/flour-water-salt-github-the-bread-code-is-a-sourdough-baking-framework/

Not a phrase I'd expected to type this morning (or ever), but... VR flavors, anyone? https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/11/licking-this-lollipop-will-let-you-taste-virtual-flavors/

Ah, now I get it. I thought it was the cumulative carb count you'd objected to, not the "special requests" aspect. Disregard previous communication...

Mac & cheese and sweet potato are also starches, no?

I've had it that way in the past, and honestly I didn't especially care for it. Also, where I make a 5-day batch each time, I'd be concerned about spoilage. I do add milk at the time of consumption, but it's primarily to loosen the texture.

I don't put milk in mine when it's cooking anyway, but yeah... no scorching, no boiling over, and more to the point if I forget about doing my several days' batch until bedtime (also a common occurrence) I can just set it up and it keeps my porridge at a foodsafe temp until morning. Very convenient.

If I were to venture an uninformed/cynical opinion, I'd guess that the next-gen of each product will either outright require the app or offer crippled functionality without it, and that a subscription will be required to maintain full functionality.

I have to confess to a rather belated epiphany. As I was scouring scorched-on oatmeal from the bottom of a pot last month (ADHD is a handicap when cooking sticky stuff*), it occurred to me that the Zojirushi rice cooker I'd owned for 2 or 3 years has a porridge setting. Duh. So yeah, that's how I'm making my steel-cut oats now. ETA: *I'd set an alarm on my phone, but then left the phone in another room on its charger. Because that's just how I roll.

I saw that. Two of those companies are headquartered here in New Brunswick, and one (Cavendish) is owned by our local oligarchs.

I sometimes have whole weeks like that...

There's a photo of me at about the same age in my grandmother's white-enameled "potato pot." Years later that pot came to me, and we took a photo one day of my son in the same pot at the same age. At first glance (until the details of the clothing register) you'd think the new photo was a colorized version of the old one. Hypothetically I have them both in a box somewhere, though I haven't seen them since my divorce 17 years ago.

A look under the hood at the work going into improved plant-based eggs. They're one of the hardest things for people with allergies to replace, so there's a potentially big market for this outside of the vegan world. https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2024/creating-the-perfect-plant-based-egg

I just got the official Canadian notice for the carrot recall. https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/various-brands-organic-carrots-recalled-due-e-coli-o121?utm_source=gc-notify&utm_medium=email&utm_content=en&utm_campaign=hc-sc-rsa-22-23

I leaned on my freezer for that, when I was newly widowed myself (10 years this spring, around the same time I came back to eG after a few years' hiatus). I never really adapted to "cooking small," so instead I would cook a normal batch size (2-4 portions for some things, bigger for others). I'd eat one meal that day, keep one in the fridge for a day or two later, and then freeze the remainder in single-size portions. After a few weeks of doing this I had a nice variety in the freezer, and could pick and choose if I didn't feel like cooking that day or was busy with other things. "Cooking days" eventually gravitated toward the day or two after I hit the farmer's market and/or went shopping, so I could use up perishables quickly.

There's a big carrot recall going on Stateside, for those of you who haven't seen it yet. Dunno if it'll impact us here in Canada, but I expect so. https://www.npr.org/2024/11/17/nx-s1-5194470/carrots-recall-e-coli-organic

That's a really great cookbook, and I'm going to gift myself a copy one of these days (though like you, I've been culling my shelves, this one's well worth owning).