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Unless I'm grilling the corn for a recipe where I want to make sure it stays more tender, I grill it completely shucked, I like that caramelized flavor that you get on the edge of the niblets!

Bet someone handy - I'm looking at you, @dcarch - could rig something up with a hand planer - then you'd avoid the dreaded "unitasker" tool!

Picked up a melon at Wegmans tday, it was called Lemon Drop Melon. Size and skin similar to canteloupe, flesh and seeds like honeydew. It tastes like honeydew with a lemon spritz, pretty tasty, although I probably prefer regular honeydew.

5 large tomatoes, $5 from the farm who sets up a table at my YMCA on Saturday mornings. They had giant scallions, eggplants, yellow squash, cherry tomatoes (red and yellow), beets, potatoes, basil, ground cherries, and some other things I am forgetting.

toasted wheat bagel, open face. One half hummous with ET bagel seasoning sprinkled on top, the other with cream cheese. Need to replenish my tomato supply, hoping the co-workers start bringing their overage in to the office soon...

Jewish Soul Food.🥰

This, what @Orbit suggested. I don’t do take out, but I observe people in my office, and the biggest man gets the most extra condiment packs thrown in with his order.

Have a bunch of veg in the fridge so I will be making a thai-inspired slaw, maybe some fridge pickle english cuke slices. Prepping other veg for the grill later...sweet potato, corn, summer squash. Marinating chicken breasts.

Another use for freezer pesto...if you freeze some in small "blobs" then put them in a container for storage...when you make a soup like minestrone or tomato, drop one in to your bowl and swirl it in!

Ben & Jerry's Americone Dream

today's breakfast was sustenance...Bob's Red Mill multigrain hot cereal with some protein powder mixed in. Rather concrete-like. A small mango (Altufo?) that was pretty good. Thankfully there is some of that mozz leftover in my office fridge so I can look forward to Friday's breakfast.

I have no desire to eat a "faux meat" vegetarian burger. I enjoy vegetable patties, and in fact as @paulraphael notes, mushroom is excellent for the umami flavor. I buy a frozen mushroom and cheese patty/"burger" from Shop Rite (house brand), it is really tasty and has a pretty firm texture from the minced mushrooms. I can microwave one on a plate for a quick snack, some ketchup on the side doesn't hurt. It would probably do fine on a small bun if you wanted to go that route.

Whole wheat Portuguese roll, heirloom tomato, mozz from Whole Foods.

@Shelby, that plate (meat 'n 4) looks pretty appealing for "life got in the way"

I had a mango filled donut ar Voodoo Donuts that had Tang dusted vanilla frosting. The sourness played off the mango filiing. That was probably my only time eating Tang, since I know my Mother would not have allowed it in the house when I was a kid😉

@Darienne, that carousel might be similar to one you would find today for art supplies. As someone who used to toil at a drafting table, I seem to remember having something like that.

Not actually ice cream, but I made sorbet out of latte today. About 2c liquid, added 2 tsp alcohol, might have needed a bit more to inhibit freezing solid since I didn’t add sugar. Will see how it looks after dinner.

A local farm is setting up a table in our YMCA on Saturday morning and I believe also 1-2 nights during the week. Various items, some are 2/$5...I picked up a bulb of fennel and 5-6 beets (some red, some golden) for $5 - going to make a raw salad with them. They had full pints of blackberries for $5, but I have so much fruit in the fridge right now I had to pass.

Slate is pretty soft compared to other stone. I have granite counter tops in my master bath, quartz in my kitchen. Quartz, when I did my research, was more resistant to thermal shock than natural stone, and it is stain resistant. You don't have to treat it/reseal it like you do with natural stone. I've had the quartz counters for about 5 years and no complaints.

Kitchen related, I got a pack of 2 stick up LED puck lights for under my kitchen cabinets. I have dark quartz countertops and at night the overhead light doesn’t do enough. They are rechargeable via usb outlet, as I hate the waste of disposable batteries.

There is an Acme near me, in Hamilton Square. It doesn’t get nearly as much business as the ShopRite which is a 1/2 mile away, smaller store, higher prices.

I used the Live Chat last week on a Business order shipping to our office and wound up getting the whole order credited, I have no complaint about their customer service from that perspective. BTW, a member of my extended family is in management at one of their "hubs" and he was sent to an "under performing" location to help with order processing. All hands on deck.

Bought something (not food/kitchen related) for DH that he needed, was a good price but the promised "same day delivery" was changed to 2 days later on my email order acknowledgement. Last Prime order which was supposed to be next day was pushed to 2 days. I know if I complain I may get some credit (probably not during Prime Days due to large order volume) but it is annoying. At this point the benefit of Prime membership other than free shipping is the discounts at Whole Foods (which I do use pretty often). I know I've made back the cost.

My Sicilian BIL insists on putting lemon juice on all fruit, drives me crazy. If the fruit is ripe, thats what I want to taste. When he is cutting up fruit for dessert I have learned to ask for a portion to be set aside, plain, before he drowns it.

Pizza...local joint, we have an abundance of good pizza in our neighborhood. This one is called the Brooklyn, it has fresh mozzarella and crushed tomatoes, fresh basil, olive oil instead of cooked sauce.