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That is a load of books! You brought them with you? @liamsaunt

I have this one handed battery operated mill. Its great. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00069KSYI/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Thanks for all the covid concerns. Both people who were coming but caught the virus are doing fine. My household remains, amazingly, covid free for three years (or whatever it has been). I cannot explain that. We have been careful, but not at all isolated.

I've seen the automatic salt drench time and again in diners. Invariably its a fat guy in a tee shirt with a pack of Camels in his pocket.

Very silly because it will have no effect on sea levels. It makes them feel better though I guess.

Silly Dutch.

Looks like a cherry tomato. Sweet 100 is great...What's the benefit to MM? Should I grow it?

BlueStar doesn't have any beeps and laughs at power outages

BlueStar would use the old Western Electric designs. Maybe not a bad idea. We have an old princess phone t hat still does fine.

My dad was an engineer. He was always scratching his head at pointless features. "One more thing to go wrong" he'd say. But at least once he was talking about power windows in cars.

Cheese graters and mandolines could have all the warnings in the world, but do indeed seem to require an injury to make one careful. If these instruments were available to Solomon he'd have included this in Proverbs.

Engineers need to be suppressed sometimes. Marketers too. Simple is good.

Hold the veg down on a cutting board and peel with the right hand. No blood that way

Henry loves to hit the back of my knee as I go down stairs. He's a turd

And what food is more "processed" (whatever that actually means) than faux meats?

Having a few people over for dinner today. Until both households came down with covid. Anybody want some pulled pork, slaw, beans, tomato salad and a plum-cornbread dessert?

Completely agree. Its the distributors and retailers that jack up the prices. Because they can. At this point I have no reason to go to Costco except parmigiano reggiano. I'm to the point of going to overpriced butchers because at least there I can at least look the thief in the eye.

I know how you feel. I swore off NY strip halfway into Covid because of the price gouging. It hasn't gotten better even now. Costo had fairly priced beef at one time. Not any more.

Consider flat iron steak

RE QR code menus. I reject them. They aren't an advance. And they avoid a minimal covid risk at most (esp compared to eating maskless)

Eating Ultraprocessed foods, defined as industrial ready to heat products (more or less) show increases in some cancers. Beware, correlation is not causation. I still find it hard to understand why processing itself is risky. Plant-based fake meat is as ultraprocessed as one can get, yet it is supposed to be a good thing. Is a diet of t his sort the cause or merely the marker for other cancer risks? https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj-2021-068921

I find a lot of breads need salt. Likewise sweets. Sauces need to taste a little too salty on a spoon so that they will be just right on a plate. I salt meat before cooking and at serving.

No, foraging wasn't involved in this case. But somebody who thought they knew what they were doing put that stuff in the spices. And that's what scares me about foraging. People who don't know what they don't know.

This is what scares me about foraging. You are at the mercy of some guy who claims to know what he is doing. This year we had an invasion of hemlock in the mid Atlantic. Toxic as hell. Was used to kill Socrates. New York state asks people to have the state take care of disposal. Its that bad. Looks like a nice salad green. My field had about 20 plants.

I love refinishing. Nail holes add character. Careful who you get to do it. There are butchers and artists out there. If you can, find a hidden area to see what stain looks best.