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If you really want pasta starch to thicken something, why not just grind up some pasta and add it directly?

Salmon in the Speedi, along with steamed broccoli and experimental carrots, cooked alongside the salmon for the same time. Carrots were coated in avocado oil and some salt - they came out great.

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When you open a bottle of red for the wife's Bunco group and no one drinks it, what to do? Make beef bourguignon (OK, pot roast) and drink the rest. Made in the IP with chuck, potato, carrots, onion, celery, peas, and corn.

And while it might work, it’s actually wrong. Contrary to popular belief, the grain does not run in different directions in that muscle. (It wouldn’t be much good as a muscle if it did.) Pull the left tip up so it’s about even with the right side tip and you’ll see the grain is all running in the direction of the black line. You can clearly see that on the right side of the black line. And the cut lines are perfectly parallel to the grain on that side. You want to cut across the grain. So the proper way to cut this is to pull that left tip up, turn the meat 90 degrees and cut starting from what was the top tip perpendicular to the black line. Depending on the size of the tri-tip, the cut can get long about 2/3 of the way through, so at that point you may want to cut the meat in half, but you keep cutting along the same line.

Frozen raw from Costco.

Shrimp with pasta and peas in butter.

Sirloin, cooked SV then seared, with broccoli in butter.

Two recent dinners. Wings in the Speedi with broccoli. Having missed out on eating a sausage roll on my recent visit to London, I ordered some frozen sausage rolls and assorted bangers and chipolatas from Jolly Posh Foods. Made the sausage rolls. They were just OK, not bad but not great.

Grilled pork chop with steamed corn in butter, steamed broccoli.

No pictures. We were in London and Paris and I only took one picture the whole trip, and it was of a floor board pattern at Versailles. Primarily because I have pictures from the last trip and things look the same (and the weather was better on that trip).

Char siu soup with cabbage, carrots, onion, celery and ramen noodles.

We hit Borough Market right away and was looking forward to a sausage roll from the Ginger Pig, which gets rave reviews. After a fairly tortuous effort to find out if the regular roll had milk in it, I ordered one. Didn’t bite into it until quite a ways down the road and they accidentally gave me one with cheese. Ended up with decent fish and chips at the wife’s request. We had quite a few good meals there. Dinner the first night was Roast (also in Borough Market). It was part of our tour and I had the signature pork belly. Very good. Next night was at the Drawn and Quartered pub. Also good but I can’t remember what I had! Last night was at Ffionas. Excellent. Had duck breast. Never did get a sausage roll.

Wi-Fi bread?

Pizza with mushrooms, salami and baby arugula. Her half with cheddar, mine with moz.

We’ll be in London for few days on a tour, but lunches and dinners are up to us (except the first night). We’ll be near Tower Bridge. Where should we try to eat?

@Shelby Sorry you're going through this. I had one successful graft and implant, but my second on the opposite side refused to take the bone graft. After the third try I now just have an empty spot there. Pot roast with potato, onion, carrots, celery, peas and corn. Made in the IP.

Chicken noodle soup with carrots, onion, celery, broccoli, peas and corn.

Yes, the one @blue_dolphin linked to is the latest version. You'll find other by searching for cabbage borscht instead of soup.

Chicken fried rice with peas, carrots and broccoli.

Grilled pork chop with hand-cut fries done in the Speedi. A bit over-cooked but still good.

Grilled Italian sausage with reduced stewed tomatoes.

Teriyaki salmon with roasted potato wedges, both done in the Speedi.

A couple of recent dinners. Sirloin - I've gone back to SV with a sear - served with steamed broccoli. Wings in the Speedi again, served with potato wedges made alongside the wings (they came out great) and steamed broccoli.

Welcome back! Been a while!