Anna N

I love the facial expression on the last Santa. I wouldn’t count for one minute on him leaving anything other than a lump of coal at my door. He seems to be saying, “You gotta be kidding me. There’s nothing in that sack except my lunch”.

😂😂😂 Marketing can get carried into ridiculous orbits sometimes. They are cookies for heaven’s sake. Oatmeal cookies.

Kim, Was this from frozen? They do look good!

Shishito peppers with beef over rice. Spicy bean sprout salad and long cooked sweet peppers with onions.

Wired review.

From my cleaning angel. Shouldn’t it be the other way around – – I give her a gift? She spoils me dreadfully. I found these neatly packaged in the bag with my clean laundry which she brought back on Thursday.

I can honestly say that I almost never bake with out knowing there is a recipient waiting in the wings. But these have been on my mind ever since they were posted. All I had in the house in terms of oats were simple old-fashioned rolled oats. I toasted these for about 10 minutes before using them. Straight from the oven I found these cookies to be somewhat disappointing but as the day goes on they seem to improve. I had to use unsweetened coconut and this will be one of the few times when I think that a little more sweetness would not have gone amiss.

Taste matters most. Trust me I do not fill a piping bag with anything. I use the bottle that the mayo comes in! Your okonomiyaki looks delicious.

That is pretty stunning but I don’t think it is a lot different than some of our larger Asian groceries. It is definitely very different from our Western supermarkets. If I had easier access to our Asian markets I would be trying a lot more vegetables! Right now I am thrilled to find baby bok choy in a regular supermarket. Thanks very much for sharing.

Pork and beans over rice. I cannot tell you how good this was. And I’m not claiming credit. The recipe is simple and fast. Here.

No photograph because there’s nothing left to photograph unless you consider the sheepish look on my face as photo worthy. I was slicing a baguette to freeze and decided that the ends would make great croutons to freeze for later use. I cut the bread into small cubes and slowly browned it in some oil with the only seasoning being salt and pepper. As a required quality control measure I tried one ..........

Nope. Not everyone. I love cheese and I love bread and I love fondues. I dislike cheese fondues. Two dips and I’m done. I find all that melted cheese overkill. But carry-on. Just wanted to express one dissenting vote.

As in June Cleaver? As in Leave it to Beaver? Jane Grigson said that? Was she wearing pearls at the time?😂

The ingredients in Ken’s and the ingredients in Kraft Zesty Italian are not too different. And Kraft is available almost anywhere.

Well for a smidge over $125 you could get nine bottles of it from Amazon.ca. Free shipping by the way. 😂😂

Egg and pepperoni onigirazu and black coffee.

Today was somewhat impacted by my need for an “emergency” dental appointment. No worries though. My visions of a root canal and the ensuing insult to my bank account did not materialize. Five minutes, a few swipes with the sanding machine and I was on my way! But as a result, our choices for places to eat lunch were limited by our need to make sure we were on time for my appointment. Deningers is in the same mall as my dentist’s office so we decided to have lunch in their recently opened new location. Turned out to be rather a good choice all things considered. The photographs, however, are a bit boring. We both decided to have the same thing. This is their version of flammenkuchen. It surely will not win any medals but it was tasty and filling. The tiny sandwich on the side was also interesting with cheese and bacon and I’m not sure quite what else as I couldn’t finish mine. Perhaps @Kerry Beal will fill in the missing details.

I have been known to do that.

I use glass/porcelain/Corningware when I am reheating things but then I rarely go above 325°F.

Sorry but this brings such a smile to my face. Of course you will do things that suit you best. But the point of making buttertart squares was to get away from making little tarts in muffin tins.😂

I should have given credit when I posted the photograph. My excuse is that I was looking at all kinds of recipes before I settled on this.

So the buttertart squares won best in 2018 award! Nice way to end the year. Of course, anything that sweet was bound to win with this crowd.

But I do think that if you are accustomed to year round access to outdoor swimming facilities then it’s hard to imagine lifeguards on duty in an indoor pool. These kids even lifeguard while the pool is being maintained so that the maintenance people are safe. Sometimes they have to work through the night now you wouldn’t imagine that if you took a job as a lifeguard would you? Anyway to drag this back to food. I just learned that one of the celebrants is allergic to eggs so no brownies for that person! Might have been able to accommodate them had I known.

We do have indoor pools you know!

It was one of those days when Murphy ruled. First, when I turned the food processor on to combine the ingredients for the short bread base, nothing happened. I turned it on and off a few times. I used some words that might’ve got my mouth washed out with soap at some pointin my life before realizing that I hadn’t bothered to put a blade in there. Then when I realized that the crust was not coming together and checked the recipe, I realized I had mismeasured the flour. In an attempt to remedy that by increasing the amount of butter I managed to dump much of the mixture on the floor. Somehow at the end of it all I came up with just barely passable butter tart squares. But they have so much sugar in them that their audience will fail to find any fault with them. As befits everything else that went wrong I forgot to take a photograph before I had them packaged up. On the plus side these are the last treats I need to make this year.