Anna N

And if you enjoy it then why not? But I am not keen on corn starch thickened gravy.

No, not in the supermarket but the liquor control board is now importing quite a number of sakes.

Since I have come across many recipes that show Shaoxing as a substitute for sake I wonder if it works in reverse. Theoretically there’s no reason it shouldn’t. But I’m no expert on food chemistry. I can at least buy sake without salt!

My grandma raised me through the end of the war and the postwar years. Her favourite chocolate bar was Cadbury’s Brazil nut bar. For Mothering Sunday and for her birthday I would save up my allowance and buy one of these for her. I am pretty sure I got to eat most of each one! Brazil nuts have been in short supply for years but recently I received a gift of some which I stuck into my freezer. Last night I was thinking about Brazil nuts and my grandmother and cookie making. I didn’t think that there would be a recipe for a cookie that included both milk chocolate and Brazil nuts. It occurred to me there might be such a thing as a universal cookie recipe where you could choose your own inclusions. The ones I found didn’t appeal much so I simply took a chocolate chip cookie recipe and modified it to my own taste. These are not bad at all. Of course they have decent chocolate in them, not chocolate chips, and I think that makes a huge difference. They look anaemic in the photograph but not in reality. I tried a fair bit of manoeuvring around the light to improve the colour but with little luck.

Cross posting!

If it is going to be sold in grocery stores then I believe the salt overcomes the issue of alcohol in terms of licensing. Salt tends to make it pretty disgusting as a drink. I cannot get it other than the grocery store version. Our liquor license board does not bring it in for consumption.

One can probably count the advantages of old age on half of the fingers of one hand. But here’s one: Time to play with one’s food even at breakfast time. Wasabi-mayo devilled egg, spam onigirazu, cherry tomato stuffed with leftover potato salad.

Potato salad, green salad and soy-honey chicken drumsticks.

Obviously my food stylist took the night off again! Chicken karaage, broccoli with carrot-ginger dressing and broccoli stem kinpira.

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Clearly not a travelling bento but fun nonetheless both in the making and in the eating thereof.

Me too! I am sure I never saw fresh salmon until I was well into adulthood.

OK so I have been complaining to you personally for a very long time that my eye sight is failing. So I don’t know what you see here but what I saw for the longest time was a Labrador. His nose is pointed to the left and I can clearly see his collar. When I moved to the next picture I thought, “OMG they are eating him”. I will see about an eye appointment on Monday.

Sausage with homemade tokatsu sauce, scrambled egg and teriyaki flavoured nori over rice.

See if you can get hold of a copy of Candymaking by our very own @Chocolot— Ruth Kendrick.

Small rice bowl of fried rice. It contained mushrooms, onions, spam, lettuce and rice.

Well the Span was in a can.

Don’t notice flags on chicken but you can count on me to spot an EZtemper.

Nice work @shain. I would’ve eaten it without missing a beat.

And the IP is in good company: Right next to the EZtemper! Way to go @Kerry Beal.

After a really horrible morning of appointments that took three times as long as I had expected I arrived home tired and very hungry. When that happens I am grateful for the canned products that I often shun. Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup and a spam and kimchi musubi.

Please feel free to take all of ours.

Oh my goodness. You don’t need to do that.

Do these retain their colour when they are cooked?

Wow. I inherited a spool of stainless steel wire from somewhere. I will dig it up and when Kerry returns from her current round of travels see if it will work as you explain and perhaps she can bring it with her to the next workshop and share it.