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What sad news this is. He was much too young. He was always so kind and gentle. He will be missed by so many. Condolences to his family.

A nice selection of cheeses arrived at my house today cour. tesy of @Kerry Beal also a good selection of desserts and ice cream‘s made using her new Ninja Creemi!

My favourite pasta shape served on my favourite plate shape.

So Kerry was able to sneak another couple of hours away from swabbing and vaccinating. She picked up food from our favourite local Vietnamese place. Above is Kerry‘s meat lovers special and below is my meatball bánh mì. I think Kerry’s request for “not hot” got mistranslated as hot hot!! We both struggled with this spice level.

A restaurant called Hello Iris. Go figure.

Kerry was able to wrestle a couple of hours away from work today and brought lunch to my house and shared some good company and some good food. for me chicken strips with Caesar salad and honey mustard dipping sauce. for Kerry dumplings with Caesar salad.

I wasn’t sure but I did learn that Baby Duck got its name from its low alcohol content! Alcohol/volume 7%! Baby Duck is still available at the LCBO but it appears that Cold Duck has disappeared from the shelves.

That is my normal modus operandi. But every once in a while I find myself with nothing but refrigerator-hard butter and that’s when I turn to one of my other utensils.

Ah. I find three (not-purpose-built as butter cutters) utensils work well. I have a swivel potato peeler, a “harp” peeler and finally my wire cheese slicer. (The aesthetic of the sliver of butter is not nearly as important as its spreadability — to me. I will have to look for a different fetish.

Yes and I’m still researching it and finding all sorts of butter cutters but they don’t look like that. I will continue my search.

Fair enough.

I failed the “Why do I need a butter cutter?“ exam. Time to do some googling before everybody lands on me with answers!

I did my very best to convince myself that I needed one of these. It is not happening! Shame really. Mind you they are 45+ dollars here even if they are only Canadian dollars.

It would take something a hell of a lot stronger than wine to persuade me to do that. Good for you. I do admire your industry and respect for the food you and others grow.

As @liuzhoucarefully explained: Use of the word Champagne The United States bans the use from all new U.S.-produced wines. Only those that had approval to use the term on labels before 2006 may continue to use it and only when it is accompanied by the wine's actual origin (e.g., "California"). From Wikipedia

Just curious as to what then happens to the admonition that product must be level

Perfectly level freezer space!!

Thank you. It’s an interesting thought.

Yup. Not likely to have volume measurements! Edited to add That the UK Kindle edition is not available in N. America.

Got to have breakfast before you open gifts!

I am always up for somebody taking one for the team but only when it’s a reasonable outlay of moolah Like enough for a package of potato chips or cookies. But I would be fascinated to follow along. edited to add: let Chris do his thing and save your money!

So reading back to the beginning post it seems to me this is what we are dealing with: Kenneth does not have a large pot that will work on his induction range. He Intends to eventually get such a pot. In the meantime he’s using an enamelled Dutch oven or something similar. The interior enamel is pasta-coloured . He wants to cook 4 portions of pasta. The pot he has will only hold two portions. He needs to remove all the pasta from his first batch so that he can then cook the second batch. Doesn’t want to waste any pasta. Nor does he want to waste the already heated water But he doesn’t believe that he captures all of the pasta in his spider. He cannot see pasta left in the pot because the inside of the pot is the same colour as the pasta. When he is ready to wash the pasta pot he discovers pasta pieces. What to do? I am confident that Ken will take me to task if I have misrepresented him in any way.

Or if you are me grow 6 inches so you can see over the top of the pan! But if I’m reading properly then he would have to dump all the pasta water before he’s finished cooking up to four portions?

Hmmm. Hard to think of anything that would work any better. You may have to sacrifice a little to the pasta gods!

But the package says rings.