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Indeed. But at least I didn't buy the jumbo chicken wings which you so seldom see. Not yet, anyway.

Today I grabbed some ground Pork out of the freezer. There were two packages so I decided to turn it into chili con carne. The meat was browned, Peppers and onions sautéed, garlic added, then ancho chili powder, chili con carne spice mix, cumin and oregano. That was followed by 3 cans of my very precious Rotel tomatoes (precious because we can't get them here) salt and pepper. We let that simmer for a bit and then tasted it to adjust the seasoning. Bleech! It tasted of old meat. Very old meat. It was trashed. This time I looked in the freezer to see what we had that was already prepared as it was now 7:00. Found some stuffed peppers and they are currently heating up in the oven. So no points for me today but on the other hand, three more items have been removed from the freezer. Almost, but not quite, makes up for the 4 packages of pork back ribs that went in this afternoon.

The BAE spoon by itself is not available, so says the web site. I checked out the shipping costs for the spoon set to have it shipped to my niece in NY state and it would cost $14.15. When I do a conversion to Canadian dollars for the spoons plus shipping, it amounts to around $60 and that assumes no duty charges. So, no spoons for me.

The freezer has been relieved of 1 package of Pork Sausage. With it, we had mashed Potatoes, (thanks, Anna N!), apple Sauce and a mixture of Spanish onion, red Peppers and charred corn. Rotuts, are you keeping track of the points?

@Anna N I didn't read your post as carefully as I should have or I wouldn't have asked the question. @blue_dolphin has answered the question and I don't guess I'll be getting one either. $18 shipping is a lot.

Well now, darn it all, you've got me lusting after those spoons, particularly the egg one. What were the shipping charges like?

@kayb. Thanks for reminding me about those delicious mushrooms. I'd forgotten about them.

@Anna N. I made the spuds tonight following your directions. I'm glad you warned me about what was under the lid. It looked a mess. But wow, are they ever good. Even my non-potato loving husband thought they were great. I do believe that is the only way I'll be making them from now on. Thank you.

@Anna N Next time I want mashed I'll try this. Maybe tonight, depending on what gets pulled our of the freezer. I use 1% milk but I always have whipping cream on hand so a bit of that should transform the 1% into 2%. Thanks for posting this.

I tried cooking potatoes in the IP exactly once and haven't done since as I thought they retained too much water, resulting in gloopy potatoes. Maybe there is a secret to cooking them that way I don't know about?

With the best of intentions, I reached into my freezer and pulled out a package of chicken thighs............that had been placed there last week. I was at the grocery store and they had some thighs on for 50% off (enjoy them tonight! the sticker said). So I bought a couple of packages of thighs and one of drumsticks, came home and plunked them in the freezer. I did not need them, I truly didn't, but I have a hard time passing up a bargain. Because I pulled out chicken that was purchased AFTER the challenge started, I'm not sure if this gets me any points. But, cook them up I did. We had Japanese curry Chicken thighs, with peas and red pepper in the sauce, pan roasted Carrots and a Cucumber salad. The curry was served over rice. Rice and curry were cooked in the IP.

Today I grabbed a smoked pork sausage. I remembered liamsaunt's post showing a beautiful meal that had sausage and perogies amongst many other beautiful dishes. So, we had perogies and pork sausage. Unlike liamsaunt, the perogies were not homemade. No picture because, well, it wasn't picture worthy. The perogies also came from the freezer.

@liamsaunt Is there a recipe for the beet salad or did you wing it? The whole meal looks delicious but I am a huge fan of beet salads.

This afternoon I reached into the freezer drawer that holds leftover cooked meat and out came some Capon Breast left from Christmas. With that we had dressing, Beets, Cranberry sauce, squash and gravy. A rather monochromatic plate, other than the Cranberry sauce.

@kayb Yep, that freezer is half of a side-by-side fridge-freezer. It's an Electrolux. Our fridge died before our freezer died so we have a different brand of fridge. Too bad they hadn't broken down at the same time or we would have purchased the matching fridge. I like the freezer very much.

Actually, it is an 18.6 cubic feet stand up freezer, and nothing but a freezer. The fridge freezer is a bottom mount and is in much better shape but only because I cleared it out at the start of The Challenge and threw out a bunch of stuff that was as old as the fridge. (3 years.)

@rotuts Since you showed us yours, I'll show you mine.

Yesterday I stuck my arm in the freezer and pulled out some beef short Ribs. So today we had Asian Short Ribs with coconut Rice. Nothing fancy but it sure was good.

Thank you. You are right and I fixed it.

I never thought I'd say this, but ATK has not improved with his leaving. It is almost painful to watch.

Looks good. I'd like to see the recipe.

LCHF?

Yeah. There is was one maybe a mile from our place and it was bad. I got a frozen pot pie once, limp fries were the norm and when they changed their dressing (stuffing to some) to use whole wheat bread instead of white I finally gave up. Some things are sacred, at least to me. It finally closed. And yet there is another one a few miles further down the road where the food is actually pretty good. Mostly though, I try my best to stay away from the place.

I missed posting what the condo board got for their end of December meeting but for tomorrow's they are getting Lemon-Poppy Seed cookies.

So this is what we had. I followed a Good Eats recipe for the chicken, sous vide at 165F for about 3.5 hours, then tried to brown the pieces as instructed. The skin was supposed to be crisp, but it wasn't. The sauce while flavorful I thought was thin. So we had Chicken and had Corn with it. As Chicken is Poultry we had twice-baked Potatoes. Thursday I will reach in and blindly grab something else.