Darienne

No cream and no cheese. I emptied a jar of some kind of Classico tomato sauce for pasta...the jar is long gone and I'd never used one before...and a can of Rotel.

There may be science behind it but not much in the way of reality. We are still eating frozen stuff that I froze almost two years just before my condition went south almost overnight. And they all seem fine. However, I'm not recommending the situation. It's a strange feeling, reading all these great posts about planning for surgery and steps to take to get ready for meals post surgery. I made no plans for post surgery and ensuing problems...I had no idea that I'd be sidelined so quickly and so completely...thus the eating of meals frozen two years ago. Since the children left home many years ago, this is pretty much the way we've always cooked. I guess that's why Ed is still finding the odd uneaten meal in our freezers...yes we have multiple freezers. I could add that my wonderful overworked husband, Ed, has pretty much done all the food prep and cooking all this time...although this week I did make a new dish, Unstuffed Cabbage Rolls, and three meals are now in the freezer.

I first heard of listeria when took a food handling course in order to become a chocolatier...oh, does this go back a good many years and no, I never did, but had many years of wonderful fun with my confectionary partner making so many different confections. Plus we had a terrific time taking a chocolate course from eGullet's own Chocolate Doctor, Kerry Beal. Back to listeria...the most interesting and alarming thing about it was that it could take up to an entire month before you get symptoms. Just checking up on google: "It is correct that listeria symptoms can take a month to appear; in fact, the incubation period for the more severe form of the illness, known as invasive listeriosis, can range from a few days to as long as two to three months (70 days or more). "

Yesterday Ed bought some New Zealand 'lean ground beef' on "Special" (aka: on sale) 450 g. 2 packages, total weight 900 g. He fried them on the stove in the normal fashion and the after cooked weight was 573 g. That's a loss of 37.5%. In US terms, that's 32 oz of meat and left with 20 oz after cooking. Of course there's always expected to be some water in the meat...but so much? Was there more because the meat was on sale? Is it ever worthwhile buying meat on sale or is so much loss simply to be expected, no sale or sale? All thoughts on the subject are welcome.

That's it. I'm moving to SoCal and will be your housemate. I could live on salad. We have it 2 out of 3 nights...I mean nothing else besides salads of all kinds. They don't look as good as @blue_dolphin's but I love them.

I really don't understand it. Today makes 336 entries in the contaminated pistachio saga. 336!! Why don't the powers that be pull all the Iranian pistachios off the shelves? The sheer number of grocery stores and other outlets affected by this problem is staggering. And why are we buying pistachios from Iran? How many unsuspecting people have been made ill? Are folks still being made ill? That information is not up online...or I haven't located it. When will it ever end? I'm thinking of calling my MP and requesting some information.

And what about chocolate????

I don't have Bluesky. I don't even know what it is. And if you want to be friends...don't tell me.

...and for the TL;DR version, here's a screencap of her summary/takeaway: Could not access this page.

a) thank you, they are and b) no, we sure don't.

As for the Costco croissants...I put them straight into the freezer. I'm the only one who eats them. Frozen they slice easily. Then I add 4 Callebaut callets and nuke them in the microwave. Chocolate filled croissants!

I've made a hamburger/cabbage casserole in the past and frozen it and never noticed any change in the cabbage. In fact, the last portions we ate were frozen more than a year and a half ago. I think we've just about eaten all the stuff I'd made and frozen before I was sidelined. Normally I would have been in charge of keeping track of the freezers' contents and would never have allowed food to be frozen for an undue length of time. But then just because I didn't notice any change in the texture of the cabbage doesn't mean there wasn't any. added: I tried to delete TdeV's comment when I realized it was not pertinent to my point but couldn't do it and made a mishmash of it all.

Sounds fine to me.

The endlessness of it all sure gives one pause to think...

Me too. I love cooked cabbage. Added some shredded cabbage to our New Year's Eve extravaganza of steamed broccoli. Cabbages are just SO big! And they can last for half of forever!

Do you deep fry your Appelflappen? That one was a Mr. Google lookup along with Oliebollen.

Gosh, we old guys had steamed broccoli with a cheese sauce for Ed and olive oil and lemon juice for yours truly. Yes, that's the entire dinner. We have 'dinner' at noon. My go-to chocolate cake for dessert and we turned out the lights at 10:00 pm. Be still my beating heart. Todays noon dinner is salmon with lime juice and baked potatoes. With newly churned vanilla ice cream for Ed...I make it and he churns it...and a couple of dark chocolate wafers for me.

That first recipe with salami, dates and pecans sounds like a strange one to me...but then I put chocolate, almonds, olives and fruit in my Picadllo which tends to 'freak' folks out. And I remember the first time I fed the young man working on the farm...one of son Ken's buddies... a grilled cheese sandwich and he asked where the maple syrup was.

And I would like your recipe also, Elsie.

Sounds like heaven to me. We are inveterate broccoli lovers. At least twice a month, if not more, a plate of steamed broccoli is our supper. A cheese sauce for Ed and for me an olive oil and lemon juice dressing.

@pattiRG? Rancho Gordo? Hey! I'll eat the misshapen ones!!

My mouth just watered looking at that pulled ham. And that wonderful broccoli salad. And chocolate chip cookies? Look out. Here I come!!!!

Ditto on both counts. My mouth just hung open...

I'm with you. I need a cup of tea and a lie-down. added: and I was responding to @chromedome's earlier post. Now I need a full nap with a cozy blanket.

from the Canadian government: "Veggie Paradise brand Vegan Bacon Slice recalled due to undeclared wheat (new)" Ya gotta wonder!!! Life as a celiac person has must be fairly precarious. And of course, in Canada, the contaminated pistachio debacle goes on and on and on and on.......