Margaret Pilgrim

A pocket sized bell isn't a bad idea in those cases. In our house, if you hear a rhythmic banging, a stop and repeat and repeat, go check it out. Someone may be out of shouting range and in trouble or need of something.

I hope this doesn't mean that you are without a cell phone. Our son has admonished me, "You live in earthquake country. Your cell phone should always be within 6 feet of you." I always take my phone when I go the the basement. Or any other place where I might become compromised and want to call out. Practicing paranoia is work.

In my experience, it depends on the frequency you use either level. I need access the freezer only several, maybe 4 times, a week. The fridge, multiple times a day.

Pork tenderloin, sauteed apples, maple balsamic glaze; beet greens, pan fried potatoes.

I somehow misinterpreted this as your having received a knife destined for someone at a different address. Oh, well...

A lot bigger than a truc, but when replacing a refrigerator, consider bottom freezer units. They save backs and tempers. I now couldn't live with any other format.

Internet finally provided clues for my m-i-l's childhood memory, whet she called bacon dumplings. Easy, very delicious Croatian bread dumplings. A lovely bowl on a temperate 66F evening. Blessed fog.

SISTER! Why is most bread so sweet now?

Sister! On the same track, why I’d mist bread so sweet now?

I may have mentioned it before, but I think I get the prize for most revolting liverwurst creation. Newly married, rather empty fridge one night -> liverwurst pizza. Sawdust texture and funky taste vied for "which is most vile" title. It has become a 60 year old joke that we use as a standard of how bad a plate can be. I've never surpassed it as a low point.

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Bingo.

We awake before dawn and lunch before 10am.

You spill my box of Maldon salt and we call 911!

I remember using Harrod's food hall deli as a major food source when we were hanging out in London. Most purchases were close to inedible. Flat, insipid, pap. Then we introduced salt. YES! It's all a matter of taste and palate expectation.

It's a balance of "season as you go" and "season at table". Using essentially no packaged products and seldom following recipes as written, home cooked food is not a problem. Restaurants vary all over the board. That said, I am addicted to Maldon salt. Huge dressing flakes that make dishes pop. i.e., undersalt until table then Maldon.

Good Luck on the north side, maybe around 8th Ave, and Wing Lee, south side off 6th Ave. I used to go to Ho and Ho, on 6th, off Clement, but they closed and it has become a very good Viet take out. Today we went to Gourmet Dim Sum because the others are all closed on Tuesdays. We love their scallop dumpling. The mushroom chow mien at Good Luck is the best.

It's mostly chow mien leftover. Husband will finish his spring rolls this afternoon as a wine snack. The two dumplings, if still around, will be refrigerated and then lightly nuked, covered, tomorrow. No quibbles. Chow mien reheats beautifully.

Occasionally when finishing errands we stop on Clement Street to pick up dim sum and chow mien. A pound and a half chow mien, one order (3 pieces) each spring rolls, shrimp dumplings and scallop dumplings = $15.50 Enough for two people for two days.

Same as you might have a sandwich with soup. Alternating bites. Husband's discovery. Works.

A funny aside. Newly married, husband was transferred from SF to Texas. We lived several hours from his job. He packed a big lunch. His favorite snack/sweet was popcorn balls. I sent two a day with him. After a month or so, he started experiencing dental pain, He went to the dentist who asked him his daily routine, including food. Hearing about the popcorn balls, the dentist went ballistic. "Well, of COURSE you're having pain. Stop eating all those popcorn balls." He stopped and so did his dental problem.

When you find how to avoid this, please post.

Need to ask Tropic and JoNorvelle why they find tomato soup with a big bowl of warm popcorn confusing? We often gild the popcorn lily with truffle salt. This really is a lovely lunch or simple supper.

Too wiped to wait up for delivery. Anything in the fridge that can be nuked. Or cereal and milk with a glass of wine is always nice.

Absolutely. And if you're feeling extravagant, popcorn with Campbell's tomato soup. Feast!