Kim Shook

Made HS cafeteria taste good!

That IS beautiful. The turntable is genius, though. I never thought of that.

I used to get in trouble for eating raw french fries. My mom would peel and slice the potatoes and put them in the fridge in a bowl of water before leaving for work in the morning. I'd start sneaking one or two when I got home from school. By the time she came home, many times there would be only a few left. I still nibble on them when I'm slicing raw potatoes. Crisp and moist and starchy.

Welcome, Mark! Just jump in - looking forward to your posts!

One of my favorite memes is that one where the friend mistakes someone's sonogram of her baby for a lasagna. 😂

Leftovers tonight along with some Hanover tomatoes: PS - Thank you, @Shelby, for your hint about how to peel a tomato more easily. I scraped it with the back of my knife and it came right off!!! Open faced Yorkie/beef/gravy sandwiches, potatoes, Brussels sprouts, and corn: Having a CSO makes leftovers SO much better. The potatoes, the Yorkies and the sprouts were all done in it.

Toasted Italian multigrain bread, ham, and scrambled egg with cheese.

I found a sirloin tip roast on sale and was unsure how to cook it. Got some good advice on another thread and went with sous vide. Out of the water bath: Seared: I had home made beef stock and some beef fat in the freezer, so I was able to make very good gravy, Yorkies, and roast potatoes. Without gravy and with: Completely unseasonable, but really good and really satisfying.

I agree. This happens a lot with all kinds of reviews. I detest "reality TV" and never, ever watch it. It wouldn't be fair for me to review one that is for folks who do like it. I've seen reviews where the reviewer admits that they don't care for something and they will often include what their dining companions say about it.

Afternoon tea is my favorite meal in all the world. And if cream tea is included, well, then. Thanks so much for sharing with us.

This link keeps sending me back to this thread.

I bought an attractive and inexpensive graduated cannister set - the kind meant to store flour, sugar, coffee, and tea. I like the graduated sizes for different utensils. Make them easier to find.

I like the looks of that cheesecake (?) - lots of graham cracker crust and what looks like canned cherry pie filling. A trashy treasure!

It worked great! I pulled it at 7 hours and temped it through the bag. Took a chance that it was tender enough. It tasted good and wasn't overly chewy at all! Thanks, @rotuts Out of the water bath: Seared: Carved:

Found a box of one of my guilty pleasures at Publix – frozen Chicken Kiev. Served with Charleston rice, broccoli, some wonderful corn, and Sister Schubert rolls:

One of Jessica's co-workers was getting rid of a bunch of cookbooks. I was tempted by many of them (almost all were good ones - not one celebrity book 😁). I picked Flour and Mr. Kim got Charcuterie: $7 a piece.

It is actually still pretty well "sucked" (sorry - that's how we refer to it - we also call it "the suck machine"). It's just that a lot of juice has collected. It is still perfectly sealed.

Didn’t really go with dinner, but needed to be cooked, so I did some mushroom and yellow squash for Mr. Kim: Salad with some croutons I made with the black Russian bread from WF: Topped with French dressing which I’ve inexplicably had cravings for recently. Brunswick stew and Sister Schubert rolls:

I'm cooking this tomorrow, but I put it in the vacuum bag yesterday: Do I need to open it and drain it before cooking? Thanks!

This. My mom was a single mom from the time I was 5 until she married my stepdad ( @Ted Fairhead) when I was 10. We lived in a one bedroom apartment (she figured it was more important to live in a nice place than for us to have our own bedrooms). We ate a LOT of hot dogs and spaghetti and fish sticks. But butter was the spread she used.

Well, I took one for the team. I tried a BK taco today. Now, I am not a big fan of BK anyway. Once every couple of years I crave a Whopper (my SIL calls Whoppers "the burger that keeps on giving" since you end up tasting it for the rest of the day) and its fake smoke flavor. I'm sure I would like their fries if I EVER had one that was hot. And Mr. Kim and I have a shameful love for their original chicken sandwich and indulge every couple of months. I am not ashamed of liking fast food, but BK just doesn't appeal to me. Be that as it may this thing was horrible: See that oil slick? It was just a grease bomb. And the edge that wasn't greasy was NOT crispy - it was just hard. Another nauseating view: It was greasy, it tasted bad. It was seriously too bad to be drunk food. Keep in mind that I love Taco Bell tacos. These were nothing like Taco Bell. Horrible. You're welcome.

And there's Himself's toast!

@rotuts - I can certainly do 8 hours. @gfweb - how do I get a hot roast back in a vacuum bag if I need to cook it more?

@rotuts here is a picture of the sirloin tip roast: The four inch measurement is how thick it is. I'm going with your method (probably Wednesday). A little salt and pepper and then bag it? 130F for 6 hours. Anything else I need to know? I have beef stock and beef fat in the freezer and plan to make gravy tomorrow and roast potatoes, sprouts, and Yorkies to go with dinner.