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Checked Abe books Canada. They don't seem to have it.😒 thanks to @Kerry Beal's post I checked the US site. Given the shipping costs, it is marginally cheaper to but the Kindle edition from Amazon.ca.

Cinnamon

How convoluted is the cheesecake?

I'm so sorry your Sweetie died. My sincere condolences.

@Smithy. Where did you buy that book? Looks like something I might enjoy.

You enabler, you!

I scour the thrift stores for cookbooks too, but only when I'm out by myself. 😄 Last time out I bought a couple of annual editions of Cooking Light, where they have gathered all the recipes for any one year, and Gordon Ramsey's Healthy Apppetite. I can't remember what I paid for them but it wasn't much. I leaf through them and if I think i might make a recipe I photocopy it. The books get recycled back to the thrift stores.

Last year our local grocery store sold a lot of turkey bones during our Thanksgiving. My husband bought "a lot" of these bones to make stock. I thought I'd never see the end of them. At any rate, they were duly roasted and turned into stock. After straining, the resulting broth was vastly reduced. This was poured into ice cube trays and chilled. The cubes were so solid you could stick something in them and it would stand straight up. Cubes were then frozen. They are wonderful, full of flavour. I'm happy to have them but I'll never make that much again.

I'm guilty of buying them too. I still enjoy flipping through them.

Both Compiments and President's choice are on the list. Off to check my carrots.

A little background to the garden: My SIL and her husband always had a garden. He died this past August and knowing how much they liked to garden we decided the three of us would garden together. She loves going through seed catalogues in the winter and she and I will keep up a running commentary on what we will grow. She will order the seeds. John already prepared the beds for spring planting and we will go out in the spring and throughout the summer to plant, weed and harvest. But, we can't hop out to pick a little something during the day. The drive to her place takes anywhere from 1 1/4 hours to 1 1/2 hours each way so that won't be happening. But the main thing about all this is we wanted to do something to possibly ease her pain at his passing. I love her dearly and we hope this might bring her some comfort.

Did you try making crumpets?

I find that as I'm getting older, my interest in cooking has diminished. Not gone, but it's less than it was. And yet, if I get interested in something, I go all in with great joy. For example, I recently purchased a dehydrator and hardly a day has gone by that I haven't dehydrated something. Yesterday it was cilantro, although I think I'm finished with dehydrating stuff for now. Next year we are going to be growing vegetables and herbs with my SIL at her place in the country so the dehydrator will likely be running 24/7. Just before that, I read something about the Creami and made (and ate) a lot of ice cream. But things like making dinner? The routine stuff? No thank you. To alleviate that "I don't feel like cooking feeling" I've started to start dinner prep earlier in the afternoon. I do the chopping ahead of time. If I'm making a sauce, ingredients are measured and, if suitable, mixed together. What can be done ahead of time, I do. That way, the actual cooking doesn't seem so onerous. Baking, though, is another story. I have always loved baking and still do. Yesterday I decided I wanted to make a gingerbread cake, and I enjoyed making it. Today I am making the batter for cannales which I'll bake a couple of days from now. I'll enjoy every minute. Dinner tonight? Meh.

Sure. Start drafting the rules. Anyone care to join us?