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@Shelby That looks great. Did you just wing it or did you follow a recipe ?

Do you not have one electrical outlet in your kitchen that has a dedicated breaker?

I too tried to make mashed from frozen riced cauliflour and got the same result you did. Very watery.

Oooh, that looks good! What is the chop smothered with?

Thank you, I found it and bought it.

I am a recent convert to okra. The first time I had it, I thought, "Where have you been all my life"?

Sometimes the mainstream stores carry it, sometimes they don't. We live close to a store called Produce Depot and they always have okra so that is where I go. It is a store that sells the regular produce but also a lot of fruits and vegetables other groceries don't. Things like fresh tamarind, seaweed, baby pineapples.

Now I also have The Southern Food Truck Cookbook. I just flipped through it and wow! there are some interesting recipes in there. First on my list is Chicken and Dumplings (Sort Of). One small problem though is that it calls eel sauce which I had never heard of before now and can't, through Google, seem to find a substitution for. The other item is Guilin Chili Sauce but there is a Guilan Style Chili Sauce by LKK.. a trip to my Asian grocery store is called for. What a fun book this looks go be. Thanks, enabler @Toliver. Perfect name for him.

Tonight we had jerk chicken with pineapple salsa. I thought I had taken chicken breasts out of the freezer but when i went to marinate them I discovered they were thighs. Oops. We had them with this sort of stewed mixture of okra, onions, kumato grape tomatoes and corn over Jasmine rice.

We need for it to expand to Canada as parcel delivery by Canada Post is terrible. I ordered something from a third party via Amazon which arrived in Canada before Christmas and I got it in January, courtesy of Canada Post.

Yes you do! One thing I did do was reduce the braising liquid a bit before adding it go the coconut milk/fish sauce etc. mixture.

I managed to find the will power to not buy the SoNo book until today.

Oui, but it only really counts if you do it in both official languages.

Tonight we had the Coconut-lemongrass chicken bowls. So good I would have liked to have a second bowl. Just kidding. About the second bowl. Sort of.

Re: the SoNo book.....i just read the reviews and some people were complaining that the measurement quantities for the recipes had been cut off on the Kindle version. Anyone else have a problem with this? I'd like to get the book but not if I can't actually bake from it.

I've never heard of Canadian Style Seasoning. Montreal Steak Spice yes,Canadian Style Seasoning, no.

Mine doesn't have access to my contacts. At least not that I'm aware of. I'd like to think I just said 'no" when prompted. I'll check later as I have to go out for a while now.

@blue_dolphin as they say....thanks for taking one for the team.

@Smithy If you decide to use Fitness Pal, where you type in the food, you type in the recipe name followed by Cooking Light Diet. Most of the time that recipe will be displayed and you can just press the check mark and it will post it to that day's meal. You can also adjust portions. John, for example, generally gets twice the serving and adjusts his accordingly. Make sure though you dnter the recipe name exactly or it may not find it.

@Smithy there is no calculator. As you know, they give you a daily calorie "allowance" when you first sign up and the daily menus fit into that range, and each menu item lists the calorie content of that item. I found it easy to work with once I got used to it. I hardly ever eat anything resembling breakfast but yesterday morning I was starving and had some yogurt, fresh pineapple and some qia cereal mixed into it. I entered my calories into Fitness Pal which then told me the calories I had left. Do you use Fitness Pal, or some other calorie counter? I find it really helps me keep track of what I eat and the calories I consume.

Tonight we had Seared Cod with Bacon, Braised Fennel and Kale. I couldn't find lacinato kale but I still had fresh spinach so decided to use that instead. By the time everything was cooked, the spinach had turn into an unappetizing blob so we didn't eat it. The dish as a whole was only so-so, but I did like the fennel/pepper combo. The salad was good too. Lunch was a ham and pineapple pita pizza and some Greek yogurt and pineapple. Got a bit peckish in the afternoon and had some grapes. I love grapes. We are well within our calorie counts for the day.

You too, huh?

I just googled Cajun 15 bean and found it. I have never seen it in Canada. Unless it has the dreaded chick peas in it, I'd be all over it if I ever saw it.