Darienne

My mouth is watering. You, sir, are a genius chef.

You beat me to it, @teonzo

The gianduja I bought was in milk chocolate...Guittard if I remember correctly...but I loved it. And our local dealer (of Belcolade) once gave me a piece of a Barry(?) milk chocolate and it was amazing. My more intense relationship to chocolate and confections in general has somewhat fallen by the way over the last five years...Carpal Tunnel Syndrome amongst the reasons...and so I'm not producing much any more at all. However, I do thank you for the information.

We do have them in Canada...we've just never purchased them. Now that I look up the ingredients I'm not in a hurry to buy them. We don't like milk chocolate and loathe Nutella. Yep, both of us. I did however once purchase a slab of Gianduja while in Utah, which was of course milk chocolate, and loved it...but not the jarred Nutella. I expect it tasted quite different going back a few decades. Still I expect Kerry's would have been quite wonderful.

Truly, I have never had one.

It may well suffice for most, but I have no idea what they are. Can you give me some kind of insight or recipe? They do look delicious.

Not eating any chicken recently...no particular reason why.....

It's the reason behind the reason... I remember the Maple Leaf problem quite well. And the one machine in particular, overseen...overseen?...by an inspector and the machine had not been cleaned...not once...in five years. And one thinks of one's own life, the constant cleaning and concerns for safety and health and so on. The never-ending-ness of it all. And five years not cleaned? Where does that sort of thing leave the mind? Not good stuff. Sorry. It just can't be dealt with easily. But then life is full of that...

It's actually quite staggering. Does any person/institute/etc write about why this is happening?

Great. Hotels, Restaurants, Institutional. Your elderly Mother in some long term care facility. Your brother in the hospital. Travelers on the road. Just what we needed next.

I 'knew' that listeria could take 30 days to manifest...but this article says up to 70 days. It would be pretty difficult to chase back one's eating more than two months to find the source. OTOH, a friend's brother died from mad cow disease some years ago and they were told that the illness could simply live in the body for decades before it showed up. The brother had lived for some years in Brazil and Argentina many years ago and eaten much beef and the medical staff said that would have been the cause. It was a terrible story.

I hope that your 'local farmers' are more honest than some in my area. The city has just been through a horrendous brouhaha over that very thing....farmers misrepresenting the source of their wares.

I would say 'freeze'...but then we freeze just about everything. Ed eats a lot of peanuts and the cellar freezer has a big bag of peanuts in it.

This is not encouraging for American consumers. On the other hand, it's not surprising either. From my current Consumer Reports e-download. https://www.consumerreports.org/food-labels/seals-and-claims?EXTKEY=EE993PMAC&utm_source=acxiom&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190926_cromc_engagewkly I'd like to know what the current labeling standards are in Canada. Next research project. After dealing with the bumper crop of apples...

No, but I am interested. Been making magic shell for years, but the a 3:2 chocolate to oil mixture. Even grownups love to watch the liquid suddenly harden. Also...have no cognac in the house.

I dried them in a dehydrator this time, but I've also done them in the oven. They are reconstituted by being basically thrown into whatever I am making that calls for chopped onions. With some small consideration given for liquid measurements. In so many recipes it would make no never mind.

Looks lovely. I'm so tired tonight I can't recall if I already posted about our ten pounds of onions which were sliced and dehydrated for winter cooking use. I still can't slice very well, and so I just dip into my dried source.

Processing the apples. Not wall-to-wall fun. Mostly because there are so many, even after giving some away, and it seems as if it will never end. Apple juice (kinda ciderish straight from the apple), apple sauce, apple slices dehydrated, apple leather, with and with sliced almonds, apple cake (freezer). One strange thing...the apples seem to have no fruit flies either in the garage awaiting processing nor in the cellar where Ed is doing his part...including leaving peels, cores, spent pulp from juice making, etc. Any ideas? I've long thought that the fruit flies come with the fruit from the grocery. Could this be true and that's why even the 'leftovers' don't have flies. OTOH, while picking falls this morning, I got stung, again. Never saw the varmint, but the melody lingers on....

Well, BD, you sure belong now!

I do recall an male eGer in NS, near Halifax, but it does go back a while...

Awww shucks... Had to add more 'w'.

Told you so. And yes I did. But not nearly as badly this time. Will I never learn? Probably not.

Today, over morning coffee in bed, I asked Ed...have I ever spoken about 'epiphanies' occurring in eG in the last years? Neither of us could really recall "ONE" outstanding event of recipe which overrode my basic reaction to my joining eG. And it's the people on the list, the many mentors whom I have had, the help I have gotten...sometimes way out of what anyone would have the right to expect. I hated cooking until into my mid-sixties. Ed did so much of it because I hated it so much. My mother never taught me anything about cooking. We scarcely got along. And I was a learner, a scholar, if you will. I don't mean that I was of a higher level of intelligence...just that my interests were not in my home as far as taking care of it, cleaning it (still loathe that one), cooking, and so on. I loved to learn (well, that's obvious). Ed taught me how to cook as much as I did know. Then one day I looked up a word which I had never heard before 'ganache' and I was away to the races. Came across eG by accident and the rest, as they say, is history. Of course pretty much everything was new and exciting. Nope, it's my relationship with the members. And it's been truly amazing to me. I won't go into any of it, or I'd be tearing up immediately, but the folks who have helped me, not only with cooking, but also with medical and family problems...this has been a wonder to me. It's been a great time. And I trust that I've been able on occasion to pass it on.

It all makes me gag and determined never to buy processed foods at all.

The grape jelly is finished. I didn't keep a close count but I know it's nearly 40 cups in the end. The grape mess will be cleaned from stem to stern and now it's time to do the apples. And it's a bumper crop again. One of the branches is touching the ground. But at least it's not breaking off as one did a couple of years ago. And yes, we are having the backyard apple trees professionally trimmed, but it's too late for some aspects of it. The Mac just grows too high and they can't trim it with their equipment. Thanks again to all who helped me so much in this endeavor.