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See if they carry Tennessee Pride. May just be regional distribution, but it's my preference among supermarket brands. Of course, Petit Jean is wonderful, and you could order it....

I love this plate. The rest of the spread looks pretty tempting, too.

H'mmm. My to-bake-this-week list may have grown....

I love Pickapeppa. I don't like a lot of heat, and Pickapeppa is a very complex blend. Fine stuff.

I was tremendously fortunate when I lived in Hot Springs. There was an outstanding bakery that made challah daily. And I bought it EVERY Saturday morning, and made up the entire loaf in French toast for a teenaged boy, a 20-something girl, and me. I miss that bakery, among the many things I miss from Hot Springs.

Well, I comfort myself with the notion that dinner tomorrow is country fried steak, mashed potatoes, gravy, lima beans and a salad.

I don't soak nearly that long. Dip, flip, dip, and onto the griddle.

Bumping up an old thread to ask if anyone else has this issue. Went to the grocery (two different ones, in fact; Sam's Wholesale and Kroger). Spent better than $200. Bought a take-home-and-bake-it pizza we later decided we didn't want, so it's in the fridge for early next week. But after bringing all that in and putting it away, what did I eat for an early supper (because I skipped lunch)? A Twinkie. Five of those el-cheapo chocolate-covered cherry cordials. And a single serving bag of generic Ritz Bitz cheese-and-cracker sandwiches. I'm somewhat ashamed, both that I bought that much junk food (didn't realize I was hungry when I went to the grocery, but I must have been), and that I ate that much junk food. Oh, well, I'm cooking a good dinner for the fam tomorrow.

I would be hard pressed to name a favorite soup. I love tomato bisque, and can several pints of it every summer. (Heat, add cream, and you're ready to go!). I love vegetable beef, which is what first comes to my mind when you say "soup" because it was the soup we had when I was a kid. I love Brunswick stew. Every winter I have to make at least two pots of white bean and Italian sausage soup. I love French onion soup. I made a carrot and sweet potato soup with sorghum recently that was pretty good. I love potato soup, and corn-and-seafood chowder. I love miso soup, and pho. I'm not sure I've ever had a soup I don't like.

Oh, those are PRETTY! I love a carrot cake, and have made them by the Silver Palate recipe, which is a good one. But I don't make them often because they make a HUGE dang cake.

I think I want to come live with you. I'll wash dishes.

I contend one can only make GOOD French toast with challah. Specifically, with challah, eggs, and heavy cream. Don't be bringing no cinnamon and stuff up in here. I won the monthly recipe on Food 52 once with that very recipe. "Bell-less, Whistle-less, Damn Good French Toast." Made the cookbook and everything.

I bought How To Cook Everything very early in my getting-interested-in-something-beyond-casseroles-with-canned-soup stage of life. I will always be grateful to that book for his pizza dough recipe and his tutorial on how to make fried rice. It would have been worth the price of admission for that alone. On the other hand, I made a hellacious mess of a steak trying to cook it by his stovetop iron skillet method, and wound up having to reseason the skillet after I scrubbed the burnt meat fond out of it.

Hey, now. I love candy corn. Did you know you can make fudge with it?

It was cold yesterday, with what my eldest refers to as "crunchy rain" falling, and I had no desire nor compelling need to get out, so I dove into the freezer and pantry for the makings of soup. Came out with chicken, a can of black beans, and a couple of sweet potatoes. Sauteed an onion in the IP. Poached the chicken in with it, and while it was cooking, peeled and diced the sweet potatoes and opened, drained and rinsed the black beans. Took the chicken out, dumped the sweet potatoes in the stock, and cooked them. Shredded the chicken breasts, then added them and the black beans in and seasoned liberally with salt, pepper and smoked paprika. It wasn't bad, but a little bland. Next time I would sub chili powder and add a bit of cumin.

I have Amanda Hesser's big book of NYT recipes, and I like it. But I would hardly put in on a top 25 list. And I know it's contrary to popular opinion, but I LIKE Bittman.

I thoroughly enjoyed "Eat My Globe," by Simon Majundar (I believe that's the author's name; it's been several years). Cookwise, by Shirley Corriher, is a good one for some science and history behind the recipes and techniques.

There are Peeps-people and non-Peeps-people. I am a non-Peeps-people.

I love English muffins with butter and honey.

If he had pearls, he'd be clutching them.

Damn. It's their paywall. OK, let me figure out how to download and post it. Fri Jan 11 2019 Finalist for Food Hall of Fame Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/STATON BREIDENTHAL Loretta Tacker, owner of the Shake Shack in Marion, poses for a photo Thursday after a news conference at the Department of Arkansas Heritage where she was named a finalist for the Arkansas Food Hall of Fame in the Proprietor of the Year category. The Arkansas Food Hall of Fame committee revealed the finalists in four categories and the Food of the Year for this year’s Arkansas Food Hall of Fame. Article, 2B

Thought I might pass this on. This is the proprietor of the restaurant where @Smithy, her husband and I had lunch when they came through Arkansas last fall. She's up for election to the "proprietor" section of the Arkansas Food Hall of Fame. clickety

When my eldest, now 37, was in kindergarten, you could still take home-baked treats to school for birthdays. I made and iced cupcakes, set them on a tray on the counter, went to the grocery to pick up juice boxes. Came home to find the Wiemaraner had licked the icing off ALL the cupcakes (and eaten two). Didn't have time to make more cupcakes. Re-iced those, and took them on. Nobody died. In fact, I seriously doubt any child has ever died from eating after the family pet. Damn Weimaraner. Though she was not as bad as her successor who ate, at varying times, a two-pound can of coffee, a bottle of 98 iron supplement tablets, an entire box of fundraiser chocolate bars, a box of shotgun shells, and the back of the bathroom door.

I grew up on fried pies made from apples and peaches dried on a white sheet on the roof of the wellhouse for several days, not to mention hams and bacon hung in the smokehouse over the winter. All that said, I couldn't cure meat in a smokehouse now because it's not cold enough in the winter.

At Aldi yesterday, I noticed they had an Ambiano sous vide circulator for $40. It looks a lot like an Anova, but the head is rectangular with rounded corners. Looks to be a bit smaller than the Anova, but not quite as small as the Joule. I've been impressed with the Anova small electrics I've purchased at Aldi. My stick blender is hefty and has plenty of power, and my little $19.99 dehydrator is plugging away. I'm tempted to go back and get this circulator just to run it through its paces and see.