Katie Meadow

I am embarrassed to have made several typos. I do use a knife and fork for pizza that is really floppy. I prefer a nice thin crusty dough. Pope's nostrils? I can't believe i actually wrote that. Of course I meant his nose. Did I do that unconsciously?Hard to believe. Has AI infected eG? Auto-correct seems unlikely. Must be drug related, or else pure brilliance. Either way it's creepy.

TJ's does have plenty of stuff that's not often found other places and decent prices. And, at least for me, it has six or seven items that I am hooked on, so I keep coming back. I am a coffee ice cream person. I admit that O'Connell's coffee ice cream is very very good. But TJ's is delicious and it literally cost 4 times less. I am pretty much not interested in the rest of the stuff they sell, and my positive record taking recommendations here has run has not been stellar. But I do appreciate very much the ones that have been great. I realize that many agers do not live close to a TJ's. I have no idea how much those six or seven things are worth to me if determined by driving distance. I'm five minutes by car. And 15 minutes from another. And 20 minutes from a third one. The Bay Area is lousy with them. The NYT recently had an article on the TJ's carry all bag. Apparently you can make good money if you take a load of them to the UK and sell them on the street for a ridiculous sum. Aren't there enough promotional cloth bags that you acquire free? Best recommendation recently: that triple cream Delices de Bourgogne. Worst: Kringles, or whatever they are called. Chacon a son gout, as my father would say in an impeccably bad accent. It's almost midnight here in CA. Why am I writing about TJ's for gods sake. Because I'm on what appears to be a fairly strong steroid.

I love to watch when people are dexterous and elegant eating with fingers. I never learned that, so I don't try. I'm just a white Jewish old lady and did not grow up with South Asian or Ethiopian parents. Without untensils I eat the following: tacos, sandwiches, chicken wings and pizza if it usually pizza. Also I have a bad habit of grabbing the pope's nostrils off a hot roasted chicken. Nothing to brag about there.

Thanks tou you @blue_dolphin for enablement. I found a copy of Nancy Silverton's Twist of the Wrist for dirt cheap in great condition on eBay. I like it a lot. She has a very nice way of recommending specific ingredients and then letting you know what good options are available, and whether some of the ingredients can just be omitted. She's exacting and fairly practical at the same time. I will say this though, many of the recipes have lengthy ingredients lists and complex techniques, so I am not so sure all her shortcuts make things quick. Partly because, probably like you, I rarely use canned beans anymore. I'm trapped in RG quicksand . I look at canned beans and can't do it.

This id almost a reverse of the topic, but in the last few months I'm hearing the use of "cooked" on political blogs. Google definition below. But on these pods it is very specifically political. In modern slang, "cooked" primarily signifies thatsomeone is in a bad situation, facing trouble, or defeated. It can also be used to describe someone as extremely tired or affected by drugs.The term has roots in older slang and is frequently used on social media, particularly by Gen Z, to indicate a dire or hopeless circumstance.

Exactly. I love my ceramic spoons. I just sang their praises on the soup vs table spoon discussion. For wontons and wonton soup I always use chopsticks and the spoon.

Now you tell me! For 77 years I've been calling a tablespoon a soup spoon. I don't think I would want to use a tablespoon for dessert; that seems like overkill for rice pudding, flan or ice cream. For wonton soup or just Sechuan wontons in America those ceramic Asian style spoons are very handy. Wontons are the one thing that challenge my otherwise adept use of chopsticks. I can do it, but I like an assist. For some ungodly reason most of my husband's siblings and parents used teaspoons for soup. That's just weird. And they are all big tall people with big mouths.

Very clever. I hate soggy wontons. Our take-out Viet restaurant packages pho similarly. Broth in one container, noodles and everything else in a separate one. When ordering pho in a restaurant I always appreciate it when they bring the thinly sliced beef on a plate so you can add it in yourself and it doesn't get overcooked.

What is the difference between cream of coconut and coconut cream?

So you want to shave a popsicle without making one first? I wish I was with you and we could get high together. I'll bring the shave-ice machine we gave our daughter when she was seven, which would be thirty years ago. We can mix up a batch of flavored sugar water and freeze it in the provided mold and then shave it, and voila! Now that I think about it I'm surprised I never tried to make real espresso shave ice with that thing. And now I wonder where that thing is. In the cavernous basement? Under the bed? Under your bed? @blue_dolphin we may need your help.

When snag becomes gag. If you keep buying it they'll keep making it. I'd love to see the packaging for the Chinese version. Shelby you kill me. You're such a cheap date. When my husband disappears I grab caviar. The grape caviar is good, but the raspberry is better.

She had me at butter, she lost me at glucose, potato chips and pretzels. I would suggest trying the TJ's version before making your own. It's a labor of love. Or a waste of good potato chips. Compost indeed. I once went to the original Milk Bar and tried the cereal milk ice cream. Fawful, but then I was over thirty. I'm sure my four year old granddaughters would think they had died and gone to heaven. I shudder to think what would happen in the evening when the coffee grounds and the sugar take wing. Christina Tosi doesn't have a sweet tooth. She has fangs.

@blue_dolphin, you did indeed post about the lima beans before, but it was in the succotash thread. I have no doubt that I have repeated myself more than once (haha) in a number o f threads. So, for all of you who know me too well, thanks for not pointing it out. It's only going to get worse. I have a sister-in-law who told the same long boring story twice during one Thanksgiving dinner. Her excuse was too much wine. No one at the table was rude enough to call her attention to it, but we sat in stunned silence the second time around. That was a relatively memorable turkey day.

Did they cook quickly? Did you stop them cooking in time for them to keep their shape? I've always winged it when it comes to succotash; it's one of those things I didn't grow up with. I take corn kernels off the cob and sauté them for a few minutes with a little garlic and basil or other herbs. Mix the corn, lima beans and halved cherry tomatoes and a little red onion and dress as you like. If you are into bacon cook a few strips first, then fry the corn in the bacon fat and add broken bacon pieces to the salad. Would be good with Indio oregano and roasted green chile, you think?

I don't go there either. As a former card carrying member of the SF Mycological society I would never advise eating raw mushrooms, even the white buttons from the grocery store.