JoNorvelleWalker

Probably not.

Get well soon!

True. However even though my grocery budget is somewhat price constrained I'd still buy poultry from Griggstown Farm if I could get there. (I've read Griggstown Farm supplies D'artagnan.) Sadly four miles each way is more than I can manage. Last time I enjoyed Griggstown Farm poultry was when @chefmd and her son took me grocery shopping down in Princeton prior to the pandemic. https://griggstownfarm.com/pages/about-griggstown Nowadays I have Whole Foods organic chicken delivered as the best poultry I can manage. Whole Foods keeps promising to open a store within an easy walk of where I live. Closer than Shoprite. All the Township approvals were completed years ago. However the only evidence remains sign by the side of the highway saying a new Whole Foods is coming.

One experiment that didn't work as well as I might have wished: Last night, tired and cold, walking down the highway on my way home from work, I had a craving for a frozen chicken pot pie. So I stopped at Shoprite. The package directions for baking in a conventional oven call for one hour at 400F. Always before I have baked frozen pot pies in my big kitchen oven. The problem with using the big oven is that one must remove all the pots and pans and put them on the bed. Would the Anova work? I figured for a pie bottom heat would be best. With no fan. However the maximum temperature with bottom heat is 180C. I could always bake for a longer time. With top or rear heat the Anova heats right up. With bottom heat, I found, it takes forever and a day. After baking for an hour and a half the filling was cooked through, although the crust was only slightly browed and somewhat gummy. Nevertheless no leftovers.

Tonight was cold and dark. I stopped on my way home for a frozen chicken pot pie. And some limes.

Freeze and spin it in a Pacojet or Ninja CREAMi?

I'd drink boxed wine if I were able to carry a box home. Best I can manage* in one trip is a liter and a half of Soave and a bottle of Wray & Nephew Overproof. *like tonight

For clarification, I use my steel in the Anova for baking bread. I use one inch thick aluminum in the big oven for making pizza.

I'd like to learn more too. It looks almost eatable.

I had to google that.

Same. My original oven came with two flimsy pans. My current oven came with two sturdy pans.

Yes. Toast 2.0 is noticeably crisper and darker than Toast 101. Feel free to create your own recipe.

@palo is correct but the APO makes OK toast for me. The APO app has two quite different toast recipes.

Forgive me @Raamo I saw your post in the lunch thread!

Did you ever find the recipe?

On my first Scottish expedition, an, I believe English, tourist with caravan picked up my traveling companion and myself from an afore mentioned cattle pocked one lane highway. She warned there was no food to be had in the direction we were going, and she most kindly vouchedsafe what leftovers she had. Her wisdom proved to be correct, save for another kind woman who shared a bucket of milk fresh from her cow. The second kind woman had never spoken with an American and she assumed from my funny accent that I must be English. I also shared in a lovely tea for helping with the sheep fank. I only wish I had had a sleeping bag with a full zipper. If the midges don't get you, there are sharks in the pristine blue waters.

You are cruel parent.

@Duvel did you bring home any of the what looked like stuffed Loch Ness monsters?

Did they collect your urine for the dyeing of the wool? One of my fondest memories of Scottland was assisting in a sheep fank and being kicked in the face by a disgruntled ruminant who did not appreciate being picked up and carried onto a small boat. P.S. I still think those look like cows. Scottland is the only place I have been served warm milk.

If only I had not bought a case.

@Duvel based on my ramblings in Scotland in the 1960's and 1970's one thing about your travelogue that stands out as inauthentic is the picture of cattle on the two lane road. In my Scottish experience that would have been cattle on a one lane road. Of course a few miles from here there is a cattle crossing on (an albeit narrow) two lane road, but there is a one lane stone bridge on the way to the library where I work. Cows there are discouraged.

@TdeV if you are seeing knobs you've had one too many mai tais.

Haha, and you have to ask! I use my APO almost if not every day. This afternoon was for the Toast 101 recipe from the app. But like @TdeV I seldom use the app for anything but toast. The app allows one to create and save complex multistage recipes if that's your thing. The app also has a convenient air-fry preset that I sometimes use. My first APO developed a crack in the plastic near the water tank. Anova replaced the APO at no charge, paying postage both ways. Can't get much better unless they offered to carry it upstairs. Before that the water tank plastic cracked. Anova sent a replacement tank no questions asked. If my APO failed out of warranty I would have to purchase one again. I don't know how to live without it.

I apprehended the offending charcuterie and executed the happy dispatch. I have my standards.

Consider farro.