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    Kitchen Scale Recommendations, 2011–

    in Kitchen Consumer

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    I bought a new kitchen scale a few months ago from KAF.  I found it to be too complicated for daily use.  Most of my weighing needs are very simple and this scale is just too fiddly with charts and charts of codes for different ingredients...the average home cook/baker doesn't need all that.

    I ended up putting it away in the pantry and using my old $60 Salton scale that I've had for ages.

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    Supermarket Promotional Leaflets

    in Food Traditions & Culture

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    I have learned over time to ignore the ads altogether.  There are scads that come with the Sunday paper and I wish there was a way to opt out and have them left  out.  I go through and pull all of them out of the paper and throw them directly into the trash.  I don't need to 'stock up' on things and so buy only what I really need.  I've also learned that if I buy extra of some items that I do use, that the time often comes when a better product comes along or I decide I no longer want to use that particular item and then I have stock I need to get rid of.  Tossing the ads makes life simpler.

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    McDonald's 2013–

    in Ready to Eat

    Posted · Edited by lindag (log)

    nah, we're the last to get anything.

    This state is really huge with a total population of barely one million.

    We don't get the new or the high-end stuff until everyone else has it, and maybe not even then.

     

    21 hours ago, Toliver said:

    Not available at McD's...yet.

    There is a small fast food chain called Rubio's (click) that started in San Diego. They were the first to feature fish tacos (we're talking 30 years ago) and fed many a starving college student (back when their fish tacos were far less expensive than they are today). I see by the Locations section of their web site that they're in Colorado and Utah now. Not sure about Montana. 

     

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    Supermarket Made-in-their-Kitchen offerings

    in Ready to Eat

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    When I first met my DH, he was living in Seattle on Queen Anne's Hill.  He had a market nearby (I think it was a Thriftway) that had the most wonderful made-in-house products of all kinds.  I'd never seen anything quite like it and was very impressed.  They also had recipe demos.  And they had underground parking!

    This was in 1997.

    Dinner 2016 (Part 10)

    in Cooking

    Posted · Edited by lindag (log)

    last night I made a wonderful Cioppino for dinner.  Lots of in-shell shrimp, sea scallops, lovely big slabs of cod, fennel bulb, lots of garlic, clam juice and all the other stuff.  No, I don't use clams or mussels because I don't need them.

    I can't wait for dinnertime so I can have leftovers!

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    Cooking for Jeffrey

    in Cookbooks & References

    Posted · Edited by lindag (log)

     

    Even though I've always been a big fan of Ina I have vowed to not purchase anymore cookbooks.

    I already have too many and they're heavy and bulky and take up too much room.

    However, I'm teetering toward this one.  The ratings at Amazon are very good.

    Has anyone purchased this book?

    Kitchen gadgets needed to give as gifts

    in Kitchen Consumer

    Posted

    anna,

    I use mine primarily for bottled things like pickles and pickled peppers and such.  Also they're really handy for anything that's hard to get at.  I find uses for mine all the time mainly because I keep them in my tool caddy that's right on the counter.

    It's a nice gift for some who loves all things kitchen and who maybe already has most everything.

    I wouldn't part with mine.

     

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    Current sales, deals, and bargains (Part 2)

    in Kitchen Consumer

    Posted · Edited by lindag (log)

    I just got rid of a beautiful set of 3 stainless mixing bowls; I just never use them and I need to start downsizing.  I have too much of everything, particularly kitchen ware because I have always loved the stuff way too much.

    I just don't know how to best dispose of all the stuff.  In a smallish town there isn't much in the way of outlets for this sort of thing.  Craigslist doesn't bring in enough to outweigh the trouble.

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