Anna N

If I told you that I'd have to kill you. This person prefers to remain anonymous.

Another wonderful gift from our benefactor. This is a rack of lamb from Cumbrae's. Since neither I nor Kerry are fond of cold lamb I have split it into two smaller racks which will be SV'd. I am just waiting Kerry's response on whether she wants one tonight. If so I will put both into the sous vide bath and then chill one off to be served later. I do have a technical question though! This rack came with what I am going to call a bandage over the sharp ribs. I did not fancy leaving this in place while they were being cooked in the sous vide bath. Both are now properly sealed and no bones have poked through despite that I removed the bandage. Would anyone have left this in place?

I love smoked eel but it does not return the favor so it is a rare treat. The eel you are eating looks delicious. The food presentation of the Japanese is always something that captures my heart.

Good morning. Another cold (14°C) but sunny morning. Forecast is for a high at 23°C. Balmy! Breakfast today is re-heated frittata, some grape tomatoes and some of the cherries that our friend brought up from the Niagara region.

My first experience with this particular cut. I hope it won't be my last!

True. But then he is not exactly one likely to give an objective assessment. At some point he must surely have had a little more positive view since he did accept a position with Purple Carrot.

It is indeed. Read most of the way through it with a little information about that frozen function. But I suspect that you are correct. My Breville has a frozen button, also. Never found a reason to use it though.

Well it has made it to 22°C much to my astonishment! Hoping the rug rat will enjoy the frittata. I made it with a view to either feeding Kerry who was trapped at the hospital or feeding the rug rat tonight. Like all kids she's always hungry when she gets home.

You know how @Tri2Cook's signature says something about when the gorilla gets tired. Today the gorilla won. I ran out of steam considerably sooner than I ran out of ambition. Got the laundry done. Got the kitchen kind of organized. Made a frittata from bits I found to use up: But I think that is as far as I will go today. Happy to give the gorilla bragging rights this time.

Yep. I made meatballs a week or so ago without any sort of panade and they were tough. I don't care what the recipe calls for, from now on if it's meatballs it will include a panade.

You know all of our best wishes are with you always! It will be fun watching you meet the challenges as we all know you will.

Good morning. It is 14°C in beautiful downtown Little Current and my main goal for the rest of the day is to find a way to stay warm. My dinner last evening. After the rain put the kibosh on any idea of lighting the little green egg, I reheated some yorkies, some gravy and had that along with some leftover steak and some of Kerry's bacon jam. This morning, knowing there was a gain some white bread in the house, I wanted nothing more than a poached egg on toast. I was so cold even that I managed to make a mess of, however, it tastes just fine. Strangely, the "sourdough" made rather miserable toast even in the CSO. Barely coloured and dried almost all the way through, it was extremely disappointing. I have a couple of loads of laundry to do this morning and I feel the urge to bring some order to the kitchen. Other than that I have no clear plans for the day. I see the sky is beginning to brighten so perhaps it will warm up a bit soon.

This completely changed our dinner plans. Nobody wants to barbecue in this do they? The steak planned for tonight and carefully sous vided for 24 hours will have to wait for another day.

Looking forward with great anticipation to this food blog.

Whew! Bragging rights can get unbearable.

Now she's going to be even more impossible to live with. Thanks a lot.

Well thanks. But that didn't help a whole lot.

No! No! That's just not fair. Damn at least let us see the rest of that picture that might be the backend of a hotdog bun, a german sausage or a stalk of sumac....

I will throw my towel in with @HungryChris who just came off a cruise and might be ready for some homegrown food.

Lunch back at the townhouse in Little Current which does have power! Shaved leftover steak, lots of horesradish on super market bread labelled "sourdough". I suspect the in-store bakery equates anything boule-shaped as "artisan" and hence is deserving of a monicker more sophisticated than just "unsliced white bread".

Yes. I could not believe my eyes when we arrived in Espanola. I had carefully checked the websites of all the stores we wanted to visit and all should've been open. I thought the blame was all on me until Kerry read the sign outside Canadian Tire speaking of a scheduled power outage. Never mind we will try again next Thursday.

Not quite. Very close. Mine are much dirtier.

so here we are in Espanola all fired up and ready for some retail therapy. If you look closely at the photograph you will see those traffic lights are not working neither is anything else in Espanola. and here is the reason a scheduled power outage that we were completely unaware of. We are parked outside of Giant Tiger whose staff are optimistic enough to believe that the power will be on very shortly. I am not sure we are quite so optimistic.

Good morning. Rain is in the forecast but it's not looking too threatening at the moment. Breakfast this morning was this rug the salad slice of toast. Served as you see on the most delicate of paper towels. We are on our way to Espanola with the rugrat in tow. We are not looking for anything in particular. We just need a little retail therapy. This usually means we come home with far more than we ever imagined.

They hardly even resemble the leeks I buy here. That clear demarcation between the white and green is not present on my leeks and mine are nowhere near as slender and delicate. You would not even have to look inside to find dirt on the leeks here! Lucky you!