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I appreciate your nudge to make this the proper way. This was probably messier than Vivian's Elbow Lick Tomato Sandwich but after reading the book's note, "Cutting Board Salad," that describes the stuff that falls out of their overstuffed sandwiches, I was ready!

Another repeat. Yesterday's lunch, The Tomato, from Turkey and the Wolf, this time on the called-for butter-fried sourdough

I found it quite an entertaining read and I'd be interested to hear your thoughts, should you decide to check it out. This Buffalo Waldorf Salad is an example of a recipe that has me scratching my head and licking my lips at the same time. Tart apple slices get battered and deep fried, then glazed with hot wing sauce and added to a salad with pickled celery, scallions, crumbled blue cheese and candied walnuts. Who does that??? I wanna try it!!!

After making a version of The Tomato, I read through the rest of the book this evening and I second your A+ rating on the humorous writing which carries right on from the introduction to the headnotes and right through the recipe text . Reading the recipes, I was alternately thinking, "who would do that???" or "I want to eat that!!!," often about the same recipe. Is elevated hangover food a thing? If so, this is it!

I’ve been tempted to try that cookie just to see, but given the time to mix, chill and bake, I’m not sure it’s suited for a true emergency 🙃 Recipe online here: Single-Serving Chocolate Chip Cookie

That’s too bad. I have the Kindle version of her first book, Ruffage. I don’t see page numbers in the text either but I have it set for continuous scrolling so I don’t even know exactly where pages begin and end half the time making that a non issue for me. Edited to add that the page numbers do show up in the sidebar navigator so it’s easy enough to tap and check. All the page number links (I tested multiples from the table of contents, index and within recipes) worked fine. Sad they broke that in a newer book!

Oh, I agree on the bread! I've got some seeded rye sourdough which is good but too heavy, I think. TJ's was out of sourdough. Ditto Sprouts. I bought a loaf at Aldi that turned out to be both dry and tasteless. Meanwhile, the tomato, dill and basil were all ticking away so I decided to let the olive oil-crisped focaccia stand in for the real thing. Hopefully I can address the sourdough situation soon!

Holy moly, so many good things together on that plate! A small-ish version of The Tomato from Turkey and the Wolf That combo of basil, dill, sunflower seeds and a squeeze of lemon juice with a perfect tomato and plenty of mayo was pretty great. The bread is supposed to be thickly sliced sourdough, fried in butter. The author endeared himself to me by specifying to put the toasts on a rack or lean them up against each other so the bottoms don't get soggy. Hate soggy toast! Toasted focaccia was my sub but I'll try the real thing if I can get some good sourdough. It's an excellent sandwich.

The Kindle version of Abra Berens' book, Grist: A Practical Guide to Cooking Grains, Beans, Seeds, and Legumes (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) is currently $3.99 on Amazon in the US. Sadly, not in Canada at this time. I have the dead tree version of this book and like it. She's put together a number of sections titled, "A Week's Worth of ______ Without Boredom," where the blank is black beans, lentils or barley. Other recipes offer multiple variations to mix things up.

Egg salad on toasted focaccia. Same thing 2 days in a row.

This is the recipe I used for the color. Deviled Turmeric Eggs. Pretty sure I did my own thing for the filling.

Now, that sounds truly devilish! And speaking of scary, it's about the right time for: I have done the light pickling for color to make both pink and yellow deviled eggs. The yellow (with turmeric) is a bit less alarming to me 🙃 Yellow:

Murray's has Bucheron listed as available to order on their website. Maybe they can tell you who their supplier is.

I didn’t really get that either. I always cut up dates with a scissors and did so here, even though I only needed a couple for my portion. Seems to me, dates are sticky no matter which side is up!

Thanks! It was good and I’d make it again. Diana Henry has a similar sweet potato/merguez recipe in her book, Simple, without the lemon and dates but with BEANS - two kinds! Luckily for you, I’ve already made that so you don’t have to see it again!

I've never had rum raisin ice cream but I'm curious what makes it so bad. I've made drunken raisins with aged rum, warmed it up, spooned it over vanilla ice cream and quite liked the result.

Merguez with sweet potatoes and dates from I Dream of Dinner. I was going to fry an egg to top this off but I decided to dig right in and have no regrets. Sweet potatoes, sausage, dates and lemon slices get tossed with olive oil and go into the oven together while you make a quick chermoula-ish sauce. I've made other versions of this sort of thing but the combo of charred lemon slices and dates is excellent.

It's been a while! Grains for Every Season: Super Grain and Veggie Burgers p 43. Had this one on a toasted brioche bun with arugula and kimchi mayo. These guys are rather a project, though you do get 12 burgers for your effort. You've gotta cook barley (or in my case, farro) and quinoa, soak cashews, finely chop and cook mushrooms, carrots, onion and garlic, partially mash chickpeas, and, in my case, make panko because I couldn't find the extra package I swore I bought. These guys are all in the freezer: The recipe calls for half a cup of soy sauce. I reduced that to 2T, then ended up adding a little TJ's mushroom umami salt to tweak it. The oats look especially pale in those burgers above because I realized at the end that I'd left them out and by that time, the soy sauce, hot sauce and sherry vinegar mixture had already soaked into everything else. Tasted fine. Not sure I needed 11 veggie burgers in the freezer, but there you go 🙃

Yeah, there was an article in the NYT as well. The Last, Painful Days of Anthony Bourdain (unlocked link) Very sad.

The berry bits are kinda little tooth pullers but I still like them. Had one of the sea salt caramel ones with a cup of coffee and they're very nice, too. I'll see if I can get more this morning. Keep looking at your store, I'm often seeing items listed in their "Aldi Finds" add not showing up in my store until weeks after the ad dates. I also love those St. Michel cookies, too. Maybe a good thing I don't have Costco membership!

I had to look up Bermuda fish sandwich. Interesting sweet/savory combo with the fish, cheese and raisin bread. I can't say it appeals to me but I'll always try a fish sandwich with local fish so I'd surely give it a try! You didn't ask me, but it looks pretty good for Bermuda at the moment.

Saw these French butter cookies at Aldi the other day and picked up 3 flavors. Sixteen cookies/box @ $2.49/box with 4 little packs of 4 cookies. I've only tried the berry flavor and liked them. In my store, they were in the aisle with seasonal-type foods, not the main cookie area so I'm assuming they won't be around for long.

Fried egg, rice & beans Chipotle-tomato baked rice from I Dream of Dinner, Rancho Gordo Negro Santananero beans from Oaxaca

I’m sorry, that is hardly “just toast.” It is the pinnacle of toast perfection, that which all other toast aspires to!

First meal of the day was this pan of Harissa Chickpeas with Feta from I Dream of Dinner: Paratha from Trader Joe's that I excavated from the freezer and a bowl of celery sticks and raw sugar snap peas.