Anna N

Pretty sure he’s a brother.🤣

I escaped scot free! Nothing to do with the nationality. If in doubt check the etymology.

After my carnivorous mid-afternoon meal I was still peckish. I fancied a toasted tomato sandwich. There is no Hellmann’s in the house only that overrated and despicable Miracle Whip. What’s a gal to do? This gal took some of that stuff, added some shiro miso and enjoyed a umami-rich tomato sandwich.

I think there will have to be some testing done to see how her recipes fare in the Cuisinart Steam Oven. They seem to be aimed at the higher end combis more so than the CSO. She is lumping all steam ovens together and it remains to be seen if that is truly feasible.

For the carnivores amongst us: We were both starving so forwent the accompaniments. Lunch? Slunch? We will see.

Ditto

Thanks to both of you. Makes the site more accessible.

Lucky you! No I don’t have an ad blocker I might look into them though.

Sorry. Try as I might I can’t get past the ads. It’s just too ad-heavy for my level of tolerance.

They taste good too! Good morning. I was in my room enjoying my morning coffee when I heard the phone ring in Kerry’s room and the next thing I know Kerry is flying out the door. So begins her day. I was much luckier and after lying there considering breakfast I decided it must include fried bread and fried tomatoes even if it is not Sunday morning. Much as I love bread fried in bacon fat it can be a bit of a threat to one’s hip line. So in my always food obsessed reverie I wondered about brushing bacon fat on bread much is I brush butter on bread before skillet toasting it. Worked quite well. All the flavour but a little less of the calories. Unfortunately I broke the egg yolk so eggs over easy it was. Once Kerry has dealt with whatever emergency pulled her out of bed before she was quite ready and she has attended rounds, she will be off for the rest of the day. Who knows what we may get up to today.

Kerry’s lunch was a quickly thrown together salad of leftover top blade steak, kumatoes, cucumber and red onion with a balsamic vinaigrette. My lunch was a piece of blueberry/pickled pear corn bread and a coffee. Forgot photo before taking a bite!

Also available here in Canada in the Asian grocery stores. I actually have a bottle in my refrigerator down south.

Good morning. It’s sunny and 19°C with a forecast high of 24°C, but there are showers in the forecast. For now it is blue skies and sunshine. Breakfast this morning is a Crispy Kimchi and Cheddar Omelet from the book Dining In which I bought yesterday. (If I were to be truly open and honest I would admit here that when I got home I found I owned both books in Kindle editions.) But for anyone interested, the recipe is available on-line on the Food52 site. Just ignore the typo that says “serves 4”. Kerry is back on call today so, as always, anything could happen.

Throwing? Not likely? But I can show you a scar on my left thenar eminence from the last time I handled an axe. I was 15 and splitting logs in the middle of winter on the Alaska Hiway. It was so frigging cold the cut barely bled and I didn’t feel the pain for hours. Axes and I parted company on that day in 1958.

Now that is the quintessential Sunday breakfast for me. I don’t have a lot of memories of my early childhood but the smell of tomatoes frying on a Sunday morning.....

I swear I learn more about Japanese food from reading your posts than from stacks and stacks of real and virtual books! 7 different iterations of tamagoyaki? Oh my.

What a novel and interesting way to present a salad. Your whole meal looks intriguing. Thanks so much for sharing.

You are so much more dedicated than I. I am led to believe that most Japanese do what I do which is turn to a package of instant dashi. But I admire you and others who try to keep traditional ways alive. After all if you have access to the ingredients, dashi is not particularly difficult nor time-consuming to make. Colour me lazy.

I am definitely not familiar with fish powder. Can you elaborate for me, please?

We are back from our retail therapy session in Sudbury. Apart from the little delay over breakfast all went smoothly. Very first order of business was to find a post office and mail a birthday card off to my sister in England. That done we hit Costco first for coffee, avocadoes, kumatoes and cream. The yellow Charles Viancin silicone lid was a steal from Value Village @ $3.99. After Costco it was a long, leisurely browse through HomeSense. Kerry’s haul. My haul. Befoe heading home we re-fuelled at Sapporo Ichiban. Green tea for Kerry. Warm sake for me. Miso soup for each of us. We shared four appetizers: Beef gyozas (are they still gyozas when they are deep fried?) Mixed tempura with shrimp and vegetables. Crispy shrimp mayo. These were delicious! Okonomiyaki (sometimes called Japanese pizza). Right next door to where we ate was this: If we had not been quite so hungry…....

So our first adventure happened when we stopped at Nairn Centre for breakfast. Apparently only one cook turned up for work this morning and the restaurant was extremely busy. We waited almost an hour for our breakfast and we would appear to have been luckier than others. Kerry felt so bad for one chap that instead of bringing home potato pancakes for Kira she gave them to him to hold him till his breakfast arrived. When the waitress showed up at his table to offer him more coffee he wondered if he could have some crackers in it! By the time we left we had spent almost 1 1/2 hours in the restaurant. Fortunately we had nothing really pressing to worry about. I had poached eggs and toast. I turned down the home fries and when offered tomatoes Instead, turned down those too. Apparently this information failed to reach the cook. As I suspected the tomatoes were inedible. Here is Kerry‘s breakfast. She had peameal bacon, poached eggs and the potato pancakes which she passed on to the starving diner mentioned above. We are now in Sudbury and Kerry is shopping at Costco while I post an update.

Now you are being cruel! 😋

Good morning. It was a cool 14°C when I awoke this morning but the sun is shining and the clouds are dissipating. Kerry has gone off to the hospital to clear up some odds and ends and then we are going to head to Sudbury for some well-deserved retail therapy. Well I think it’s well deserved. This will probably be our last trip down there until we skirt around it on our way home. Aside from grabbing some coffee from Costco, I don’t think that we have any particular goal in mind other than to check out HomeSense and some thrift stores. It should be a fun day.

No suitable furniture out there at all. I think that as one gets older seating becomes more of an issue than it ever was. When you’re young and healthy perching on a backless barstool is no challenge. When you are old, infirm and vertically challenged, you can often end up feeling like a toddler being potty trained and sitting on a toilet, legs swinging. It’s not a pretty picture.

Even if they do I bet you there’s no Old Dutch in it!