Darienne

No quarrels with the excellence of the Zo. Would be lovely to have one. Along with a lot of other kitchen appliances that are featured in this forum And some amongst us can find the money to buy them...others, for whatever reason, don't or can't. It seems that whatever extra we have goes towards maintaining two elderly 100-pound dogs. Our rice cooker didn't.

OTOH, I've had a really inexpensive Black & Decker rice cooker for a good number of years now. And it's just fine. Is the bare bottom of options, no doubt, but all I want is cooked brown rice.

Question: why is it that liuzhou and chromedome post all the food funnies? Where do they find them? I have yet to find a food funny anywhere except on this thread.

So the eggs are still available...just under a different name. I could live with that.

Not only are the high end hotels hit...the low end motels are also. We stay with the dogs in Motel 6s (and Red Roofs) all over Ontario and the States and they always have a sort of cafeteria/common room where you can get coffee (we make our own) and breakfasty things like pastries and muffins and cereals (which we don't eat). But Ed has been known to drink one of the coffees and I'll often grab a muffin or two for emergencies should they arise. Well, now they aren't there. Nada. Covid.

OK. I'll get the cornbread mix also. Ed does all the grocery now so I have to put it on the list. Thanks CD. He can go there this coming week.

You click on each picture and it tells you all the pertinent details.

This incredible photographic story was part of my daily download from 1440 website (1440...the traditional year of the Gutenberg press). It's going to take me several hours to look through it properly. Daily Bread around the World

Off the top of my head, I think of a coffee cake as being less complicated to make. It could have icing in my world. I have a binder of recipes for 'cakes' and another one for 'coffee cakes & muffins'. No real thought has ever gone into any of this.

Tried it this morning on my scrambled eggs. The jury is still out on this one. Thanks for the suggestion, @liuzhou added: Lea & Perrins, that is.

We buy large whenever we can find them. Never tried it on eggs...must do so.

That looks delicious. Were the carrots diced or grated, please?

I keep trying to think if there's any little interesting thing that I do...but sad to say, I don't think there is. My Mother hated cooking. One Grandmother passed away before I was born. The other one I loved dearly but knew for only a couple of years when I was say, 7 - 9, and then she passed away. I saw her very rarely. When I got married the only thing I knew how to cook was a white sauce. And I knew how to make a oil and vinegar salad dressing which is now olive oil and lemon juice. And that was it. Ed had to teach me how to cook....and I hated it for decades. Until that fateful year when I turned 67 and came upon that unknown word 'ganache' in a newspaper recipe...and the rest, as they say, was history. Oh, one thing. I keep reading about how if you ever get to the second bottle of Worcestershire sauce (Lea and Perrins and pronounced, if you please, 'wooster') , you are very unusual. Well, we must be on our tenth or eleventh by now. It goes into salad dressing. That is one thing my Mother did.

Rueful laugh....

Shawarma. Probably now made with beef where I live. East Central Ontario, Canada.

Just came across this article in my daily download from the Smithsonian magazine. click I've always wanted a gas stove, but there aren't gas mains where we live and so I've had to stay with an electric stove. Now, after reading this article, I'm not so sure that I would want to switch to gas after all. Sorry. I feel like the bearer of bad news.

I guess I might respond with chagrin...if I could understand what happened to you? I see that Creami is part of a Ninja ice cream making machine, but that's where my comprehension stops. But then...I am very old...

I'm not going to be able to follow all your instructions, but boy was that one interesting post on your part. Thanks.

I would like to try that recipe, please. They look like something I could eat for breakfast with some nuts added.

De nada....

One small problem here, Elsie. The Farm Boy you go to may not be the same Farm Boy as the one in Peterborough which is not part of the Farm Boy chain. We've been to the Farm Boy in Kingston and it's a lovely big store. The Peterborough Farm Boy is definitely not big or lovely. However, I know of some stores which do carry Bob's Red Mill this and that. I'll check it out. I'm just not ready to face making my own flour mixes at this point.

Found Pamela's gf products at a local health food store. Might go and look at them next week. Thanks.

Good heavens. Yes. Duh. That was my whole point. Thanks.

Has anyone tried this gluten-free product? And more to the point, does anyone know which Ontario grocery stores might carry it? Ed has tried a few Peterborough grocery stores with no luck so far. (Yes, I'm living gluten-free in the hopes it might help with the Lyme disease. And while I'm fine making most gluten-free dishes, I thought I'd like to try the gluten-free Bisquik product. Haven't used Bisquik for 61 years, ever since I discovered that I could make biscuits on my own.) Or any other gluten-free quick bread/biscuit for that matter. Thanks. Added: Head Office in Superstore said they are out of stock.