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Saveur: The New Comfort Food is $2.99 on amazon US.

My dining room lettuce plant.

Pizza. No picture. After the smoke alarm was turned off, the pizza was exquisite. Plating was unconventional. The oven can wait until tomorrow.

24 hours...

They haven't sent me cauliflower yet.

I have to say my grocery orders are known to feature strange substitutions, but the quality of the meat and produce delivered has been first rate. In the last couple years I can think of only two exceptions: potatoes that turned out to be green, and a cut of Emmentaler that had a small spot of mold. Neither were obvious. I think the shoppers do a fine and careful job.

Not too hot to eat soup, too hot to cook soup.

By dinner time I did.

Dinner was supposed to be a Jose Andres soup. It is not soup weather. Dinner was a bowl of Momofuku with stuff to dip into it. Like fingers.

As suggested by @paulraphael I got myself some dextrose from Modernist Pantry. I finished the last of my first dextrose batch a couple days ago. The mix: Cream 600g Milk 150g Sucrose 80g Dextrose 20g Egg yolks 4 (60g) Salt pinch Polysorbate 80 0.13g ('cause that's what came out of the Polysorbate 80 bottle) Final mix weight after cooking 736g. Homogenized, chilled, and spun as usual. Blast chilled to -30C. (How I love to say that.) Possibly my best ice cream effort yet. Hard, though scoopable at -18C. Possibly better to scoop a few degrees warmer. Not sure what I would try differently next time. Maybe lower the butterfat percentage as an experiment. But I say if you have the butterfat, go for it.

I can't spare the counterspace. My Paragon, one of them anyhow, lives on top of the chamber vacuum sealer.

Or from Momofuku.

Beautiful. If I lived where you live I would never want to leave. Thankfully the same can be said of where I actually do live.

As @blue_dolphin said, the Paragon (as much as I love it) does make some noise. Interestingly the A4Box does not. I'd love an induction stove but being in an apartment I don't get a choice.

Three or four miles from here Griggstown Quail Farm raises and sells pheasant, quail, and partridge. But without grouse I'm sure the recipe wouldn't be the same. And unfortunately six to eight miles round trip is more than I can do.

Alexa can now play the same music over all your echo devices. I would not be surprised if eventually timers can work over all your echo devices.

Rack of lamb. Baked potato, broccoli. Baguette.

Thermapen if you can get it.

Modernist Bread has a lengthy dissertation on crumpets vs. English muffins. Not to mention recipes. I have assayed neither crumpets nor English muffins, though they are on my list to do.

As I recall Joy of Cooking sixty years ago.

The echo clock will give a visual countdown timer display, sort of. But I don't have one. Yet. I'm waiting for version two or three. Problem with echo timers: I have at least seven echo devices. (Don't judge, it is for safety in case I fall.) Any echo is happy to set a timer. But if you interrogate the wrong device Alexa will cheerily inform you you have no timers set.

I found a duck once.

I made it back to Shoprite. It was a beautiful warm evening. The mixed game recipe I am making for calls for: 1 grouse 1 partridge 1 quail 1 pheasant However the recipe notes hare or venison may be substituted. I guess I'll make do with chicken breasts. And unlike last trip, Shoprite had hot peppers. Only Jalapeno sadly, but one cannot be too picky in these times.

Alexa keeps me company in the kitchen. And she doesn't drink that much. Sometimes I ask her to time things for me. More often I use this: http://amzn.com/B009EJE8TM

I hope you wore a mask.