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Yeah, I thought it might choke up at the corners but it just happily twirls right around them!

Not sure exactly what you have in mind but @CanadianHomeChef has a nice compilation that I’ve found quite helpful. You can find it here, on his website.

I agree. The seasoning on those cashews can be a bit much but it melted out into the butter and added a nice bit of heat. Knowing this, I'd add some red chile flakes to the butter if I were using unspiced nuts.

Fresh corn polenta with lime butter topped with a crispy fried egg from Ali Slagle's I Dream of Dinner. There were supposed to be pepitas here but they were not to be found so I used some chile lime cashews instead.

The recipe I saw included herbs, lemon zest, garlic, lemon juice and olive oil and the accompanying article suggested olive oil, chile flakes, lemon zest and furikake in addition to the butter and cheese. Didn’t sound bad, though I’d omit the peas 🤣

That was exactly my issue. I find the side-cutter opener preferable to pliers but clearly, there’s more than one way to skin a tin of sardines 🙃

Yes, the side-cutter, aka safety openers work very nicely and I recommend them for this type of can if your hand strength allows. Apologies for the crappy photo. The tin on the left was opened with a can opener. The tin on the right was my pull-tab effort. I can always get them started but that's about the best I can do. The lid removed by the can opener can be placed back on the can. It's not going to seal it or prevent leaks if the can tips but it will foil a cat!

You are most welcome here but given a choice, I’d recommend breakfast with Moe and @Ann_T!

Some of yesterday's creamed spinach on toast, topped with soft scrambled egg

Yeah, that's why I thought it was the wrong one!

That one looks very similar to the ones I've seen on the Rainbow Tomatoes Garden but if you want to fall down a rabbit hole, there are all sorts of vintage porcelain and pottery sardine pots and boxes out there. One could put together quite a collection if so inclined!

I found this on The Kitchn: I Tried the Viral Pillsbury Hack and Will Never Bake Cinnamon Rolls Any Other Way Ooops. That seems to be a different hack!

Could any of these be right?

I've always thought the better advice would be to salt the pasta water to the level of a nice broth. That will be less than sea water but also allows for individual taste. My mom taught us that reaching for salt or pepper before tasting was an unforgivable insult to whoever prepared the meal. Pepper on eggs excepted.

I don't have a go-to recipe but found this online and used it as a general guideline. I used Crystal hot sauce instead of cayenne and grated in a bit of nutmeg. I thawed what was left in a bag of frozen spinach rather than use fresh and left it on the saucy side instead of opening another package. Edited to add that when I was getting the onion rings, I considered buying a package of frozen creamed spinach but I figured I ought to cook something!

Yeah, not sure I understood that either. I went with stacking two rings (I selected the bigger ones) and spooning the quartered artichoke hearts and diced ham into the ‘hole’ in the middle before putting a poached egg on top. I’ll report back if I manage to get to the cafe to try the real thing!

Last night, it cooled down to 74°F. Still about 10 degrees higher than I'd like but so much better than recent nights that I slept well and after reading @Senior Sea Kayaker's post, I decided a celebratory breakfast was in order here as well. A couple of weeks ago, a local woman I follow on Instagram posted about an Onion Ring Benedict she ordered at a breakfast spot in Ventura. It swaps out the usual English muffin for onion rings stuffed with bacon and artichokes, topped with poached eggs and a cream of spinach sauce. Shades of Jessica's Trashy Benedict that @Kim Shook's shared here, no? I've been torn between trying to recreate it at home or heading over and ordering it for "research" purposes 🙃. Since I now had an occasion to celebrate, I decided to give it a go. While I might be ready to crank up a few stovetop burners, homemade, fried onion rings for breakfast weren't happening so I reviewed expert opinions here on eG which supported the use of Nathans's (battered) or Alexia (breaded) frozen onion rings. I considered buying both to compare but they were each $6.50/bag so I went with Nathan's. In retrospect, I think the panko breading on the Alexia rings might have been a better choice for this purpose but the crispness of Nathan's batter held up admirably. Instead of bacon, I diced up some country ham and sautéed it with some of the TJ's frozen artichoke quarters in order to infuse some flavor into them. Otherwise, I pretty much followed the description so there's a little pile of artichokes and ham under each egg. . @Kim Shook, tell Jessica I have Trashy Benedict competition for her 😉

Beautiful breakfast, @Senior Sea Kayaker, and welcome to eGullet! Are you celebrating that beautiful sunrise or is it another special occasion?

I quite like the Thomcords I’ve gotten from my local farmers market. I’ve also bought them at Trader Joe’s. Not as good, but not vile. They aren’t Concords, nor are they truly seedless like their other parent, the exceedingly bland Thompson Seedless. I’m OK with that. Obviously, you’re not 😉 .

You didn’t ask me, but The Magic of Tinned Fish offers this pasta recipe for squid in ink: Calamarata With Squid in Its Own Ink It has a couple more recipes for squid packed in ragu and this Thai-inspired salad that used plain baby squid that I made recently and shared over in the salad topic.

Priceless!

Thanks for the review. I've spied this cheese at Aldi but haven't tried it. I will now!

I used 1 Tablespoon Campari for 1 Creami container For the grapefruit sorbet, I roughly halved a recipe in Deborah Madison's book, Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone. Bash together with a mortar & pestle: Microplaned zest from 1 grapefruit 75g granulated cane sugar I also added 1/8 teaspoon Modernist Pantry's Perfect Sorbet cellulose gum stuff, not called for in the original recipe. Probably not necessary. Juice enough grapefruits to yield ~ 375 ml juice Put the sugar mixture into a small saucepan, add a little of the juice (~ 60 ml), warm to dissolve all the sugar and strain the syrup into the rest of the juice. The recipe calls for adding the juice of half a lemon. I used about a tablespoon, plus 1 tablespoon Campari Freeze and spin.

I mentioned that I order coffee from an LA area roaster, Yes Plz. They sell blends, ship out a new one each week (or whatever interval you choose) and the cost I pay is right about that $30/lb level, inclusive of shipping. I am a micro-consumer of coffee. I drink one cup of Aeropress coffee per day using 20g beans/cup so an 8.8 oz bag lasts me 2 weeks. At $17/250g bag, that's ~ 1.20/day. I get a small amount of fresh beans delivered every 2 weeks and use them up in that period of time so this works nicely for me.

An inexpensive wireless doorbell can be handy, though it takes some advance planning. I put the button part on a lanyard that my mom could wear. I could hear the ringer anywhere in the house or bring it outside if I was working in the garden. That's overkill for @Darienne's cellar freezer trips but a relatively low cost option should the servant call bell system go out of commission at the manor 🤣