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My latest is a glass or two of something bubbly in the mid-afternoon. It makes me feel somewhat elegant despite my at-home attire of (equivalent) sweats. At my age you have to take your thrills where you can. It started one day when my card playing friends came over and I asked if they'd help me hoist my new F. Flumlein steam oven onto the kitchen counter. I promised them a Mimosa and it was a big hit.

I keep all my oils in the fridge, I will have to go sniff my canola and see if it smells of fish.

Where is the 'urk' emoji?

I scored six big bell peppers (red, orange, yellow) on sale for $.50 each the other day at WinCo. Last night I made stuffed peppers, a CI recipe, in the crockpot. Wonderful. Arborio rice, crushed tomato, Italian sausage, etc. So good.

I hear you; there's no such thing as too much freezer space.

\ I bought one about 5 years ago and have used it extensively for my everyday breads. Right now it's folded up and stored in my pantry since my move a few months ago. I'm making do just fine without it even though I'm baking as much as ever. If I ever figure out the settings on my new F. Blumlein steam/convection oven I probably won't ever use the proofing box again.

I bought a stone from Amazon to try out. The steel ,while not only pricey is pretty heavy, which is an issue for me. Will see how well the stone works for my breads and then re-think if necessary.

Just checked. My store is sold out for now.

I’m just wondering how useful it really is just for bread. As opposed to Simply using a stone.

where is the WOW emoji? Gorgeous!

I rarely make pizza so it's actually for my breads. Do I really need this?

Baked my first loaves of Paul Hollywood's ciabatta bread yesterday. (Pix will have to wait as my cleaning woman just arrived at my door). Not bad. I don't yet have baking steel since I can't find one small enough (12x14") to fit. I may just have to buy a small pizza stone instead. The bread was very good....certainly not of Paul's standards but good enough fore a first try. I served it with Ina Garten's recipe of Roasted Tomato Basil Soup which is just wonderful.

I watched an episode last evening (recorded from an earlier broadcast) in which Paul and Mary were baking ciabatta, baked Alaska and so on. I got inspired by the ciabatta and I have the dough rising in its square container now. So much fun to watch those two putting together such gorgeous recipes! I hear that Mary has since left the show,; how sad, she's just so lovely to watch.

The Catholic church in my town always does fish fry dinners during Lent. This year it's takeout only. My friend and I stopped in last Friday and then again this past Friday. Three pieces of fish, coleslaw, dinner roll, butter, waffle fries, tartar sauce, ketchup and chocolate pudding all for $9. A good cause and I love those Knights of Columbus guys getting together and putting it all together. I'm thinking that when those men are no longer with us that' anyone would be hell bent trying to find guys today who would carry on the tradition.

Spam never entered our home while growing up. Truthfully, I have never eaten Spam. While I will try most everything at least once, I've never been offered Spam. On our many trips to the Hawaiian Islands, though, I was always fascinated by the mountains of the stuff displayed in the drugstores there.

okay! My FBCSO arrived ahead of schedule on Monday. I managed, on my own, to get the box open and remove the detritus and get into the second internal box. That's as far a I could get. This baby's heavvy! Tomorrow my canasta playing friends are coming so I will have help lifting the behemoth out of its box and setting it up on the countertop. I can't wait to bake my first loaf of bread!

My dog might eat it.

I noticed my store is selling the point cut for $1 more per pound than the flat cut. I always thought the flat cut was best as the grains is more regular. Which is really the better cut?

One of my card playing friends made us a chicken salad made with Costco canned chicken, miracle whip, onion, celery, s&P and softened Craisins. It was terrific and the best chicken salad I'd ever had. I'm making the same this weekend for sandwiches.

Ditto.

That's what DVRs are for.

Me too! The competitors are such lovely people.

The only source near here for bangers seems to be Costco at or around St. Patrick's Day. We checked there yesterday and there were none. Too bad. I'll have to try another variety of sausage if I want bangers.

Right now Amazon has this oven on sale (US) for $449.95. $50 off. I just ordered mine.