JoNorvelleWalker

Today was cool and cloudy. I decided to revisit steel cut oats in the NW-JEC10BA Zojirushi. I added less than the minimum 0.5 go: 1.5 ounces (by weight, not volume), a more Jo sized amount. (As I recall 0.5 go of oats is about 2.5 ounces.) The result was a bit wetter than I might prefer, but otherwise quite OK. One complaint, the cleanup after cooking oats is more of a pain than after cooking rice. I think there is a reason these devices are called rice cookers, and not oat cookers.

I shall never again get out of bed. The battery of my iRobot mop is charging. Reaching for some steel cut oats, I knocked over an open box of Cheerios and a can of cooking oil. As I was dealing with the Cheerios on the floor, I somehow upset a shelving unit. Did I mention my container of heavy cream was rancid?

I'm sure. Now the question is what does it taste like?

A long time.

You didn't answer my question about the spam.

In the picture is that candy spam or real spam. Other than salty I can hardly imagine what candy spam is like.

I was just shopping on nuts.com. They have a fine collection of antique candy but I resisted.

A pretty pan but it sure doesn't look like carbon steel. I was interested because a while back I bought an inexpensive enameled steel pan for baking potatoes in a bed of salt. My pan is probably too big for the CSO. But with two spare CSO's in the living room I always have an eye out.

First some backstory: I went to make my monthly recipe of orgeat, batch 21 if anyone is counting. There were not enough Marcona almonds in the bedroom, likewise insufficient organic apricot kernels from Turkey. How could I have let this happen? I have pounds and pounds of almonds in house with which I am sitting here feeding my almond addiction as we speak, but they are not the same. This is about orgeat. Without which my evening mai tai cannot happen. Immediately I logged onto nuts .com. Resisted the offers of caramel corn* and Jordan almonds.** Reordered Marcona almonds and Turkish apricots, and snagged a free pound of pistachios while I was at it. Delivery is tomorrow. All of which is to say nuts.com has instituted a temporary service charge of $0.98 per order. I do not hate them for this. They have not otherwise raised prices. The county has just awarded me and my colleagues a 3% cost of living increase, which may be thought of as a service charge upon the taxpayers of our fair county. *Oh how I wish I had some now. **That too.

Enameled steel?

Scallions at Shoprite tonight were $1.99. As I recall that is the usual Shoprite scallion price. Scallion prices could depend on how big a bunch and whether or not they are organic.

A good one.

I suspect because the contents of Pacojet containers are frozen like a brick. Hand blenders are not noted for blending bricks.

Of not salting? Hellmann's.

Where does the name of the beloved old king come from?

Yes.

The char I enjoyed last night was listed by Whole Foods as farmed or line caught.

After a careful eGullet coleslaw search I came here to share my contribution. I found I already had... https://forums.egullet.org/topic/19413-coleslaw/?do=findComment&comment=2203217 One augmentation in recent years is a generous squirt of Yellowbird Serrano Hot Sauce. I would still welcome more information on the etymology of coleslaw. The Old King Cole nursery rhyme with the tobacco reference to pipe and bowl points to 16th or 17th century, when bowl meant a bowl of tobacco. I can't help but believe European peasants were subsisting on cabbage long before, crime against humanity, they were forced to kale.

It seems I was too late for at least one of the avocados.

Today Shoprite sold me non-organic green cabbage for $3.99/pound. The clerk rang it up as lettuce. Perhaps I'll go back again tomorrow.

$17.99 a pound. $9.95 delivery fee. I steam broiled in the anova, 5 minutes. Baked potato, lemon wedge. Rainer organic cherries.

Thanks for the reminder on the avocados.

Due possibly to @KennethT I experienced a craving for arctic char. When I got home from work tonight, I consulted amazon and they had two fillets on my doorstep within the hour. Expensive addiction.

I will never again permit a potato to deliquesce on my bedroom rug without asking. Also, never again shall I witness a whole large organic cabbage to liquify. Frightening. Something out of science fiction. No coleslaw for me tonight.

And again tonight, although, forgive me, I may sound like a broken record. Dinner was supposed to have been chicken cacciatore. It never happened.