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I think this would be great but not up here. Kerry is not a fan of blue cheese!

On the other hand when she comes home later ready to eat the back end out of a skunk she will at least have some bacon ready to make a bacon buttie or whatever else comes to her mind! Presidents choice bacon on a rack over a foil lined baking pan and put in to the CSO in the toast position. on convection bake 375° for 20 minutes. I flipped the bacon twice— at 10 minutes and again at 15 minutes. The devil forced me to eat one piece for quality control purposes.

Thanks but tonight it is with sadness that I drink alone. Good friends don’t let emergency room doctors imbibe while they are working. Really good friends don’t brag that they are enjoying a Negroni alone.

For certain she did.

No lunch photographs either today. Can’t really say I had lunch. I was craving a slice of toast with butter and nothing else on it. Took care of that problem quickly. Kerry had left me two chocolate-dipped strawberries which became lunch dessert. But since I am leafing through some cookbooks, I am likely to develop a craving for something else really soon!

I succumbed as I knew I would. I have not had a chance, of course, to try any of the recipes but I have certainly bookmarked a lot of them. The proof will be in the pudding as they say, but there are certainly some very interesting dishes. And the photography is exactly the kind that I appreciate in a cookbook. There is nothing artsy about it. Realistic photographs of the food are what I want to find!

I have been thinking more and more about your suggestion and decided even the bread could be saved if I turned it into some nice crunchy, garlicky croutons. Now I wish I could have a do-over!

Looks very refreshing. Tell us more, please.

Crazy wins for me. She was one of my late husband’s idols and when she died you would think it had been a member of his family.

Never thought about it but I shall certainly put it under serious consideration. Thank you Well I know I am going to buy the Tuesday Night’s book eventually! I always do when I get into this kind of mood. I have zero willpower to resist. I can hold back the urge for only so long. I too enjoy these books for much more than just their recipes. And curiosity is a powerful force.

I am not quite sure how long the corn remained in the sous vide bath but it was certainly much longer than the recommended 30 minutes. It was a little overcooked in my opinion but still quite edible. I enjoy the convenience of sous vide because it involves so little last minute futzing about.

Yet another lovely sunny morning here in Little Current made even sunnier by chocolate dipped ginger! No breakfast photo because I ate the half of the club sandwich which Kerry brought home yesterday evening. I really do need to kill my Puritan child! The thought of wasting it did not occur to me but should have. Some things do not do well as leftovers. Kerry has a 24 hour emergency room shift so depending on how busy it is she may be here much of the day. On the other hand I may not see her for many, many hours. Either way I have decided to take a day off from preparing dinner. There are enough leftovers that we won’t starve and it will free up the kitchen for anything Kerry might want to get involved in. She has had almost no playtime since we arrived. I fancy a day of just leafing through recipe books and perhaps making up shopping lists of ingredients to seek out when we head into Sudbury this coming weekend.

At the moment @Kerry Beal and I are up on Manitoulin Island for about six weeks or so and it is amazing what is available and what isn’t available and how quickly it changes from day to day. Usually we both reside between two major urban centres in southern Ontario, Hamilton and Toronto, and are accustomed to having access to almost everything one might wish for. Each year we come up here we have to once again become used to not being able to find the most basic of ingredients. A bunch of parsley was not to be had anywhere in town a couple of days ago.

While I was thinking that Kerry was working hard in Wiki she was actually grocery shopping again and stopping in at Pike Lake Farm! I broke one of those precious eggs when I was trying to lift the carton out of the shopping bag. I also ate too many of those delicious local strawberries. In the blue wrapper is mint that Kerry picked at the edge of the water in Wiki. Close up of the just-picked strawberries.

@Margaret Pilgrim It is all coming back to me now. I would sing that for you but I can’t carry a tune.

Wow! I must admit this is new to me but I could certainly fall in love with it I am sure.

A light lunch today. Even lighter than I was anticipating. This was some of the soup that I made from the leftover rotisserie chicken that we brought up. It’s been in the freezer until now. When I was dividing up the soup into Ziploc bags I somehow managed to get nothing much besides liquid into this bag. The cherries are beginning to look as though they have just about given up their all.

Do remember that I pretty much have to gum it to death!

I think you probably have a better memory than I have. Thanks. I think I’m going to try it at 83.5 for 30 minutes and see how that goes.

No worries. Apparently other people interpreted my sitting on the fence as a matter of finances and offered me other methods of obtaining this book including using the library. I just thought I would make it clear that cost was not a factor in my indecision (although it frequently is the overriding factor!)

@JoNorvelleWalker If the new pills have not put you into extremis, can you please tell me more about this: “I love sous vide corn on the cob 30 minutes or a bit more at 60 deg C, a la @nathanm” Did you put it in a Ziploc bag or vacuum seal it? Did you add anything to the package? Thank you very much.

That is very kind of you. But I do want to make it clear that cost is not the issue in terms of whether or not I buy this book. I am weighing up my dislike of Christopher Kimball versus my curiosity as to the recipes in this new iteration of his cooking philosophy or whatever it is he motors on!

Another gorgeous morning on Manitoulin Island. Kerry has gone off to Wiki (Wikwemikong), Kira has gone off with her caregiver and I have become a washerwoman for the day! Yes, even on holiday chores must be done. At least laundry is easily accomplished here. A stacked washer and dryer are in the utility room just behind the kitchen. Much nicer for me than having to lug everything up and down stairs as I do at home. Point Reyes cheese, a Bartlett pear (not nearly ripe enough) and some buttered rye toast.

I know that some certainly do.

It is not a matter of wanting to own the books for the sake of owning them but my ability to access the library is very limited. Even more so up here in Manitoulin where they have probably never even heard of Dorie Greenspan. Most of my life I was a library patron but physical handicaps limit my ability to do some of the things that I used to do. But I do thank you for the suggestion. E-books are my friends. Well you are much more optimistic than I am regarding the bison. I don’t know yet if they’ve slaughtered any of them. No idea if the meat is available to us. But I am as anxious as you are to find out.