Darienne

All best to you Liuzhou and an early release. In the meantime I'll follow your adventures. Hospitals are my least favorite place I can think of to be.

Reading this thread sure reminds me over and over that we don't live in the USA. American prices on some items are just SO much less expensive than in Canada.

We are only two and have an executive membership and find it worthwhile. DH gets our gas through their outlet. And we have lots of storage space which means paper products, etc, can be stored easily. And their cheese is good. Cream, whipping cream. Ed's favorite things...my favorite things.... Meat, although we eat very little...but then the dogs eat a huge lot. Seven years membership for us. It's been good. My biggest complaint (really?) is that as soon as we find something we really, really, really like...they stop carrying it.

Now that sounds like fun.

And I was just about to say the same thing. Imported, of course...

It's June 9th and we have nada. A penalty of living in East Central Ontario. However, the apple trees are loaded with teensy beginnings of apples once again and we live in hope. Just finished the last of the frozen apple cider from last year. And I have one more frozen applesauce and can make two more loaves of the delicious cake recipe which Arey sent me.

Mind-boggling to say the least. Thanks for the tour.

And you are where?

I am a chaotic cook and my kitchen always looks like a cyclone hit it when I am cooking. Even when I do a complete mise ahead of time. And that's that. If folks are here for a meal...I try to keep the mess to a minimum...but then I seldom actually cook an entire meal when company comes. Pretty much it's something thawed which I made when no one was coming. Sorry. That's the way it is. I have very limited energy now and we still have a lot of company. DH is far more organized when he's cooking. And he does all the short-order stuff like bacon and eggs, etc. And he is the only one allowed to load the dishwasher. End of story on that one. Oddly enough, I am super organized in the rest of my life...and DH is the most unorganized person you could imagine (which drives me crazy with regularity). Now you all know more than you wanted to know...

Yikes? Try buying avocados where I live and have never ever seen them 4 for a dollar. Cheapest ever was probably 79 cents a piece.

You, sir, are amazing.

Gotcha. Not looking forward to ever being in an institution. It's often one of those decisions over which the affected party has little if any influence.

Wow! This is really something. I wasn't counting peels and core and egg shells and coffee grounds. And canning. A rendering. ChocoMom, I salute you.

Save a place for me in this home for when I 'age out'. (I & DH are both War Babies, a small generation so I understand.)

Nope.

I'm not at all sure why...but we have very little throw-away in our family. Two large dogs which are fed basically raw and human grade food help. So a bit of leftover cooked potato might go into their breakfast. Any elderly vegetables get roasted and go into the freezer for enchiladas. I'd have to think about it for some time to figure out why we don't have waste. Right now my brain is too tired.

Aaarrrggghhhhh!

Just what generation is this???

....but still....

I would have to say that most, if not all said by liuzhou, holds true for both of us. Bad falls? Oh yes. And now I never wear sandals anymore to comfort and please my DH. I was reading a novel recently in which the young heroine (in her 30s) takes her vacations at the same spot as her much older friends. Her much older friends were in their 50s. I gagged slightly. The book went back to the library unread. Well, not because of the age thing...it was basically just a piece of pap. As for our eating habits...they get more adventurous with each passing year. Mushy vegetables be damned!

I'm with Tri@Cook on the fig issue. My Mother made Date squares continuously and I hated the filling. Loved the top and bottom...it was just those horrible sweet dates that I loathed.

I am curious. At just what age does one become 'elderly'. I shall be 76 next month with DH at 77. Are we elderly? Not in our own minds. But apparently in the minds of the young whippersnappers (love that word) we are. We are evidently 'old', although much of the time that is hard to accept as a branding. And I hate mushy vegetables. So there.

I'm sure you are correct Kerry. For me the book as a raw beginner was more approachable. Greweling is a wonderful book, but rather intimidating for a beginning at that time working completely by myself.

Greweling is a great book. My first book was Making Artisan Chocolates, Andrew Garrison Shotts. I would recommend that one. Much smaller book, and easy to follow.

Even though I have stopped buying cookbooks, I have recently acquired 5. A friend, who is a Personal Care Worker, was begged this week by an elderly male client to take his wife's cookbooks. She passed away 18 months ago and it was time now to begin to give away her belongings I guess. My friend kept about a dozen for herself and now on my dining room table I still have at least four dozen cookbooks which I promised to dispose of. My friend is in the process of moving and I'm even keeping her allotment until after the move. If only someone lived within easy driving distance of us. I guess they'll go to my library for the stacks and the next book sale.