MaryIsobel

Is brezel just another word for pretzel or is there a difference? Either way - that brezel looks wonderful!

Yes, weight watchers. Rebranding to WW. Whatever - it's basically just a way of being mindful of what you eat. I am all about indulgence, everything in moderation. I won't name the ex-boyfriend who dubbed it Whale Watchers...

Another WW friendly dinner. Beef and broccoli and brown rice. I really like doing the beef/sauce part in the instapot. I saute the onions in the IP, take them out, then just add the the beef and sauce and cook for 10 minutes. Quick release - turn to saute, add the cornstarch slurry and the steamed broccoli, sauteed onions and bean sprouts. Served with brown rice - it hit the spot.

Weight watcher friendly baked pasta; whole wheat rotini, heavy veg and provolone and parmesean on top. Salad on the side. Did the trick and left me enough points for a G&T!

When I visited my daughter in Ireland, I was shocked to find out that I actually like Guinness. Reason being is that it is totally different from the Guinness that we get in Canada.

I tried - once. I managed but not high on my list of things to do again.

Yes, just the innards. Baking it in egg roll wrappers is also an option but I don't feel like fussing that much today!

Bless your hearts. I agree about the PB&J - carpal tunnel trauma for sure!

As an appetizer for my daughters' birthday dinner, I made aparagus (fresh not canned) wrapped in prosciutto then wrapped in phyllo and brushed with butter and sprinkled with parmesean before baking. A bit fiddly but I was astonished at how many were consumed.

Egg Roll in a Bowl tonight. It's not going to be pretty, but we both like it. Husband and I started on weight watchers so cooking has been challenging, but kind of fun. Loading up on veggies so we can both have enough points for a cocktail or a glass of wine or two...

Thanks - I am certain that as Anna said, BC grocery stores can't sell liquor products except for the select few that can sell BC wines. Richmond is a possibility but one of my least favourite places to drive. As I mentioned there is a government liquor store about 20 minutes away that shows shaoxing wine in stock, so I'll try there first.

I have noticed this in the last six months, not just with Russets, but also red skin and Yukon gold. I assumed it was from the bizarre weather conditions that North America is experiencing.

I'll give this a try - thanks Ann

Interesting. I don't frequent Chinatown much but don't recall seeing liquor stores there. Canadian liquor laws are definitely archaic. I usually have dry sherry in the cupboard, along with vermouth for when I just need a splash of something.

Thank you - I don't know why I didn't think to search the LCB website! Apparently it is available about 20 minutes from here, in the direction I go when visiting my daughter. Thank you!

Although I'm about 50 minutes away from Vancouver's very large Chinatown, I'm not about to venture there for one thing. I'm looking for Shaoxing wine. Three local liquor stores don't carry it. Walmart online has some but it is salted so I suspect that it might be like grocery store "cooking wine." We have H-Mart and T&T not too far away, but when I asked at H-Mart, the reply was a shrug. Knowing that I'm sure I wouldn't pronounce it correctly, I did write it out and show it to them. I don't find the employees there to be very helpful; a couple of times I have had a similar response to a query and ended up wandering around and finding it myself. Anyway...is there a good sub or do I need to bite the bullet and head into the big city? (We do have Colin James tickets downtown for March so could probably talk my husband into a Chinatown trip at the same time.)

Wonderful news - looking forward to Duvel's announcement!

Total comfort food to me. As I went to school in the stone age, we used to come home for lunch and this was often lunch.

Small appliance dinner. Beets in the instapot cooked earlier in the day and reheated and finished with butter and balsamic and some lovely Maldon salt flakes that my daughter gave me for Christmas. Enormous sweet potato cooked in the toaster oven and bacon wrapped pork tenderloin done in the airfryer. No complaints. I did try to wipe that beet spot off the plate before the photo, but it wasn't budging.

I agree about the unsalted butter, especially the grass fed type - always smells off to me, although when I was in Ireland for a couple of weeks, I may have eaten several pounds of "Irish butter." I'm fine with sour cream and cream cheese though.

Did you use canola oil or margarine? A while back I made one of my Mom's old recipes that she swore you could not sub butter for margarine, and it had that same smell. I assumed it came from the margarine, as there is not much other than the usual baking ingredients in it; flour, baking powder, sugar, chocolate chips...

Between this and my sister's recent description of brunch at an Indigenous restuarant in the Okanagan where the eggs benny are served on bannock, I cannot rest until I have something similar. Chinese New Year seems like a good time to make resolutions!

I have never had fried chicken that even approached that level of beauty, just looking at the pictures, it looks perfect. Fried chicken is not a big thing on the west coast of Canada. I'm looking at you KFC, Popeye's et al. Not something I have ever ordered, but you can bet that the next time I get to NOLA, it will be first on my list!

Thank you. I had planned to search EGullet to hopefully save me same failed attemtps, so this is very helpful.