lindag

as in his political views?

Picked up my curbside order this morning. There were three other cars waiting. My order was complete although I had allowed a few subs, ‘Hey, I was thrilled overall.as I got the white flour and baking powder that wasn’t available last week. I’m pretty much well-stocked for the next couple of weeks.

When I first used my Pullman pan the lid also popped off while baking. i tool a needle-nose plier and crimped the curved edge to fit tighter. Still working.

I'm seeing a lessening of 'panic shopping' here. Last Wednesday I picked up my curbside order and mine was the only car in the designated parking unlike the previous week when all the spaces were taken and I had to wait a good half hour.. I created my grocery order yesterday and, when checking for time slots this morning, found all times from 11AM on were open (they allow time for 10 orders per hour). This is a small town, you see. But the variety and quality of the food is amazingly good.

I am truly horrified!

KAF NO-Knead Sourdough is on the schedule for tomorrow. I’ll feed my stater later today so it’s ready in the morning.

Wow! That’s eye-opening.

After reading about the LoafNest here I checked it out at Amazon. The price there was $199 USD, same as at the LoafNest website. However, a google search this morning turned up this. Curious, no?

I've heard good things about Sea To Table seafood. Like @Smithy I will have to wait a couple months (or more) until my new house is ready and I can move. In the meantime I'm trying to empty my freezers.

My first Le Creuset (5-½ qt.) that I bought maybe 40 years ago did not have enamel on the outside bottom, unlike all my other pieces bought since then. It is the most discolored and is now the vessel I use when I make No-Knead. My newest pieces have a light sand colored interior and seem to resist stains better. The older pieces have a more white interior.

Now there's a word you don't hear everyday!

My grocery order this week was a bit of a bust. Fully half of the items were out of stock. No white flour, no baking soda, no canned pumpkin (who's using all that pumpkin now? I buy it for Lucy), no chocolate donuts, no chives, no tomato sauce and no ground chuck. Still out of lamb shanks, too. Oh well, I just add all those items to next week's list hoping for better results.

Lighthouse Inn Potatoes to go with my leftover pot roast.

Sunday's dinner was pot roast done in the oven in my Le Creuset Dutch Oven, personally, the best way to do pot roast. This one was small, so as not to have eternal leftovers, no matter how good they are. I placed my weekly grocery order just know. I keep checking the available pickup windows as they tend to get filled early on. Already all of today's times are gone so I went ahead with the order to get a time of 11-12N tomorrow. I hope they still have flour although I've given up all hope of getting any lamb shanks.

There was no sticking; my pan is thoroughly seasoned from many, many years of use. It was just too heavy for me to handle while hot.

I made a pineapple upside down cake (my favorite cake) a few days ago. A couple of things went wrong. This time I used a CI recipe which calls for fresh pineapple. I didn't cook the pineapple long enough so it didn't soften sufficiently. But the big disaster happened when after baking I tried to invert the cake onto my plate. I had used my small cast iron skillet. As directed I let the cake cool for ten minutes on a rack. When I tried to turn the cake over the pan was still very, very hot. I used my big oven mitts which are a little clumsy and lost control of the pan and the cake. The cake landed halfway onto the plate, then onto the counter where it broke into pieces, much cursing ensued.. Oy. What a wreck. I pieced it together as best I could but it certainly is not company-worthy. However, since I really make this so I can eat it for breakfast, it's not too big a deal. But, you know what? We still eat with our eyes. Oh yes, I will make this again. I will still use the cast iron pan but will let it cool a bit longer and use a kitchen towel instead of mitts. And I'll use canned pineapple rings.

My feeling as what was mentioned earlier here; lots and lots of people will Be without expendable income for who knows how long. My advice would be that this is not the time. I may be more cautious than you want to be but I wouldn’t bet my own money on it.

I've been watching The Great British Baking Shows again as well. I take such pleasure in just how nice the bakers are. They work more as a team than nasty competitors...I've seen way too much of that on the Food Network. I learn a lot from Mary and from Paul. Overall, for me, it's just a feel-good show.

For dinner last night I used the carcass of the roti chicken I'd made a couple days ago to make chicken broth in the IP. There wasn't a lot of the carcass left so I poached some chicken tenders I'd bought for Lucy to add to the broth and made chicken noodle soup. Not bad, but it needed more salt. That little (3 qt.) Ipot sure comes in handy.

I've been using Living Cookbook since I first encountered it some 15 years ago (I think). When the creator(s) abandoned it around the time of Win10 I had to start looking for something else to use since I didn't know how long it would keep working. Now I'm using Paprika in tandem with LC. The advantage of Paprika is that it can be used on my iPad. My desktop is in my office upstairs and is not convenient to the kitchen. So, while it's a bit more work to maintain them, I use both. Paprika is not as sophisticated as LC but is more accessible. I've heard rumors that LC will be resurrected at some time but I'm not holding my breath.

I just got an email confirming my grocery order is ready for pick-up later this morning. I placed that order two days ago because the pick-up windows kept getting more and more limited. Everything on the order was available except the lamb shanks (third week in a row out of stock) and white flour. I did allow a couple of substitutions for a different brand of whole chicken and fresh thyme. Overall, very satisfactory. Sadly, the state does not allow online ordering of alcohol from grocery stores...it can be ordered online from other sources so that rule makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Irksome.

My slow cooked corned beef and cabbage this year was really, really good. I thought about picking up another to tuck in the freezer for another time but when I checked the prices I was astonished that now it's $10 a pound. The one I just cooked was about 2½ pounds and cost around $8. What? Why the big jump in price after SPDay? Or has it always been that way before and I'd never noticed?

I got my grocery order Wednesday...only two items were no-shows, the elusive lamb shanks and living thyme. Same day pickup, no delays. I didn't order anything that was virus related, i.e., handwipes, Purell, TP or alcohol. This time Lucy got her chicken livers; which made her quite happy. There was a major uptick in the amount of curbside orders...this was the first time I had to wait in line to get mine due to the spreading of the word that for now there is no courtesy fee, anything free brings people out of the woodwork; people who would never order online if it meant there was an extra charge. I have been ordering about once a week and it works well for me. No more schlepping up and down the aisles or avoiding people who stand too close.

At that price I don’t see how you could go wrong. Do it.

Its enamel seems to dry out and darken.