JoNorvelleWalker

Peanut butter on a spoon. I thought it might be a good day for oatmeal but it is too cold in my kitchen.

How awful. I am sorry for her husband.

I have a Swedish potato grater so I made a Swedish potato pancake by way of Magnus Nilsson. Just grated potato fried in butter. Overfried unfortunately, for which I can't blame Nilsson. However I'm thinking I misused the tool. The full English name is "Grating drum for potatoes for making potato dumplings". But the instructions are in nine languages and the Italian is "Tamburo a grattugia per patate, per la preparazione di crocchette o gnocchi di patate". This makes me think the grater is for grating cooked potatoes, not raw potatoes. Next time I will try one of the other drums.

I read about the Grape Nuts shortage. Of course that left me wanting some.

And Howard Johnson's served melted ice cream. Jacques and his capitalist cronies scarred my childhood. Why should I trust him with my Brussels sprouts? In the end I briefly blanched them whole as I almost invariably do. Delicious.

I thought of that. Turns out the largest component of my frozen goods is fish. Tuna, bluefish, and red snapper. You see, amazon will not usually deliver fish in small amounts. Having a blast freezer I simply freeze the excess fish and never think about it more. Now I'm wondering about fish soup.

Here is the photograph of the loaf I was unable to show earlier this week. Slightly less than half left.

Thank wikipedia.

I defrosted my freezer earlier this week. Most stuff is now safely back in the beautifully defrosted freezer. However I had stored the meat and fish in the blast freezer to keep them from melting. Now I am wanting to use the blast freezer for drying tonight's duck. I am trying to summon the energy to get up and attempt to cram the contents back into the freezer. Wish I had some ice cream.

That it is.

At least you got limes.

No guanciale here but I could come up with duck fat. However the Brussels sprouts in your picture do not look sliced?

23andme says I'm not Catalan but my room thermometer says 77F. Tell her "hi" for me.

As mentioned above my favorite Brussels sprout recipe is to boil whole for 5 minutes. However I have a new Ankarsrum slicing attachment to play with and a bag of Brussels sprouts. I might be open to a new preparation. Ideas for sliced Brussels sprouts?

"Especially popular with women and children"?

The Zone Improvement Plan was introduced in 1963, so that sets a lower bound for the publication date. Then again there is that orange jello salad that drags it back to the 1950's. I was pleased to see they call for use of a meat thermometer.

Finishing my mai tai and almonds. Very tired. Dinner may be tuna salad if I can summon the energy to open a can. Else boxed pasta and and jarred marinara sauce. Or maybe just another mai tai.

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal had an article on the misfortunes of people ordering food on line. The woman who thought she was ordering 5 carrots and received 5 kilos of carrots. Another who accidentally ordered 200 lemons. The man who ordered a number of bananas and got that many bunches of bananas. This week I ordered 1 bunch of leeks to make leek soup and actually received a single leek.

NP-NVC18

My Zojirushi has a setting for producing a crust, but it is not as crusty as a Persian crust.

Tonight I used the Ankarsrum medium coarse grating drum on a chunk of Jarlsberg. Very pleased. No muss, no mess, almost no work. (Best not to ask about the celery.)

As has been so rightly said: "Blessed are the cheesemakers."

I have their pastry book. I did not know there was a chocolate one.

My spice jars are often labeled, but labeled with what they originally contained. Normally this is not a problem, as mustard seed does not look much like rosemary. Not only have I used cinnamon in tuna salad, I once tried Modernist Cuisine barbecue rub on rice pudding.

My Ankarsrum shredder/slicer attachment arrived, so of course I had to test it. Amazon brought forth organic radishes and an English cucumber. Obviously I could easily have sliced these by hand but I wanted to test the machine. The slices were uniform and beautiful, unlike vegetable slices from the Cuisinart. For once slices from an appliance actually looked like slices from a marketing brochure. No fuss, no muss. Ankarsrum assures it is safe to stick one's hand in the shredder while it is running but I did not test this.