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@PatrickT Im sorry to hear your loaf ' was not your finest hour. I might be able to help : Ill take all your lesser hours off your hands so you can keep your eye on the Prize.

Im going to have to remember to look for the chicken spring rolls. I enjoy the thai shrimp gyoza. .

i like the refrigerated buttermilk ranch dressing.

@gfweb not those . Marzanino . got this far : https://www.casalinga.co/product-info-marzanino Ill try to look for the fresh in the bag.

I did not get a can , and did not study the can for details.

TJ's has marzanino tomatoes its very difficult finding out much about this strain , as searches roll over to san marino's any ideas ?

@gfweb looks tasty might be an improvement over SPAM for my purposes , which are a bit narrow.

@gfweb next time you fry up a slice , a few pics ? Roll ? slice ? thanks.

@MetsFan5 I agree w you re: gristle being awful Ive never had any in the several bags Ive tried. its the include sauce that's terrible .

$ 3.50 a can here.

@gfweb $ 18 / lbs wow .

@gfweb not available locally. might work w Jones Sausage , in the roll ...

@Duvel wow Ive been to interesting food places those that are right in front of me and id turn in . lots of places , id say not more than what they are but the best of what they are doing . but nothing , in the Japanese style of small places that do those tasty grilled tasty stuff . Good for you to enjoy them .

I decided to look into my * currently ) last can of SPAM 25 % less salt version I used to get Tj's chicken sausage ( andouille ) and slice that up brown until crispy , and use in soups , and salads . Tj's no longer carry that version , and the other blends didn't make an effective appeal for BeanwBacon soup etc. the idea was : SPAM is spam for sure and ground up factory chicken is ' processed ' maybe the salt load ( a major ' processed ' sin ) . the Tj's chicken sausage had about 2,000 mg /pack and SPAM reduced 3.500 mg / can Agra-Con made both packages exactly the same weight : 12 0z and I thank them , as i was beginning to loose interest in the project. too bad . I was getting the hang of a single 12 " Fondless pan for one can . chill , and use later .

I finally remembered to look for delice de bourgogny @ TJ's its s fine cheese : very creamy w a bit of a bite. its similar in texture to St Andre which might be a bit more buttery very nice I think I got the idea from @blue_dolphin

@Duvel is it a ' feature ' to almost overfill the sake glasses, yet not spill any ? do y0u then slurp up the little dish after drinking the sake ? how big were those glasses ? did you crawl back to your hotel ?

Ill just add this : the Beer Nuts Ive had in the past possible w beer , or not had the skins still on the Nuts. as i recall thus ,based on the ' beer ' or its equivalent required those skins were dealt with later . left between the teeth . teeth

@Anna N I remember those nuts ! salt and sugar right there ! and deliciously crunchy , but not oily w the ancient advent of ' dry roasting ' nuts you might find a similar item ' dry roasted peanuts w a delicious sweet coating ' https://www.planters.com/product/planters-honey-roasted-dry-roasted-peanuts-16-oz-jar/ or others . ' Planters ' may have been SF based a lot time ago going on the ' 101 ' to SF in the mid to later '50's if not beyond when the car turned to the R , negotiating a hill then San Francisco was displayed right i9n front of you there was a large Planters sign , large that welcomed you to The City. liked that Mr Nut , had a waling stick . that's culture , right there .

over on the TJ's thread https://forums.egullet.org/topic/155097-trader-joes-products-2017–/page/43/#comment-2389904 Ive been taking advantage of the CSO as a sealed oven , conventional bake to bake various frozen items longer than directed and at s slightly higher temp as the items can get very crispy with out drying out.

Ive been using my CSO ( original unit w plenty of patina ) as a small oven that's sealed . on conventional bake . the seal keeps the moisture in the oven from various frozen items , and allows longer cooking times , if not an increase in temp so that the items get to be quite crisp , yet still moist . indeed the CSO tray holds about one package of the various fz items ive tried including the various battered fish offering , etc this is the famous Orange Chicken : right out of the freezer bakes and given a shake plated. the package has two plastic packets of orange sauce , included but its not very good. TJ's has a jared General Tsu sauce , which is better and can be improved. the amount of crispness is up to you . a nice feature of the CSO

@AlaMoi you betcha: scrapple its hard to find. and would be cooked in a certain way where each surface is dark brown , , and crunchy w a creamy porky - corn mush inside. next up for sure .

I had two cans of SPAM 25 % less salt . recent ( compared to the Basement Archives ) purchase @ MarketBasket for unknown reasons well, why not use one can . I liked the idea of SPAM Dogs. thank you @Margaret Pilgrim and for me supermarket hot dogs all have similar nutritional concerns took one can ( forgot how pink this stuff is ) and in the 12 " fond-less , after a dusting off : I cut the tranche into what I though was thin-ish w some ' fill ' they all fit into the Pan ! side one flipped re=flipped , for good measure took them to , let them cool , and refrigerated them ' for later ' I diced one up , cold , and added it to my BeanwBacon soup + amendments it was fine . Tj's had a chicken andouille sausage that I used to use , crisped up in a smaller fond-less . of course , they D/C's it. I do not think one would seek out SPAM but it might wiser something to you , as it did @MarketBasket to me after all , the stuff is near the end cap , with other canned mystery items when I make my first left turn @ MB.

the ATK Casbal seems to recommend what's popular. always a bit late to very late very recently : N.B.: note the watermelon . @Shelby has been doing vac'd watermelon for 10 ? 15 ? 7 tears ?

@Tropicalsenior those look delicious Im betting the edge is the best.

SPAM appreciates something a bit tart to cut the fatty flavours