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"E. coli Outbreak Linked to Baby Spinach" The investigation has spread to 7 states.

Make some sauerkraut and chop up some cooked pork roast and stir it in to heat it up. Serve with dumplings* and some potato pancakes. Along with the sauerkraut theme, you could make a knock-off Reuben sandwich with the roasted pork and call it a "Duvel". *Not Asian pot sticker dumplings but more along the lines of "Chicken and Dumplings".

A co-worker brought in to work a package of the new Pop Tart Bites (click). I tried a few and have to say they aren't very good. The crust-to-fruit filling ratio is off...too much crust. They are frosted, too, but that didn't help much. Pass them by...

"Costco alerts customers to recall of Kool-Aid mix that may contain metal or glass"

Limited edition Gingerbread Oreo's: Actually, not too bad. The ginger flavor isn't that over-powering. I could have done without the sugar crystals in the creme filling, but the flavor of the cookie is okay. Now it makes me wonder why they didn't do a half dark chocolate Oreo/half Gingerbread Oreo. Or would that be too weird?

Trader Joe's is involved with this one. The patties in question are sold at Trader Joe's: "Innovative Solutions, Inc. Recalls Chicken Patty Products Due To Possible Foreign Matter Contamination" Product codes/details are in the article.

"Euro Foods Dba Citterio USA Corp. Recalls Salame Stick Products Due To Possible Salmonella Contamination" Thought this was pertinent 'cause tis the season for a variety of meat sticks (for Xmas stocking stuffers).

"Worst to come: pasta makers fret over durum wheat supply crunch" It's always something these days, ain't it?

Stumbled across lots more sale-priced cookbooks this afternoon. A lot of the cookbooks I found have been previously posted and I left them off this posting. Nigella Lawson's "Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, Recipes, and Stories" Kindle Edition $1.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Use the "Look Inside" feature and scroll up to the top to see the list of recipes. Measurements look to be Imperial. "My Shanghai: Recipes and Stories from a City on the Water" Kindle Edition $1.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Use the "Look Inside" feature and scroll up to the top to see the list of recipes. From the founder of Southern Baked Pie Company, "Southern Baked: Celebrating Life with Pie" Kindle Edition $2.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Use the "Look Inside" feature and scroll up to the top to see the list of recipes. Scroll down to see one recipe. From Tasty, the internet food channel of the same name, "Tasty Ultimate: How to Cook Basically Anything (An Official Tasty Cookbook)" Kindle Edition $2.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Use the "Look Inside" feature and scroll down to see recipes. "Sea Salt and Honey: Celebrating the Food of Kardamili in 100 Sun-Drenched Recipes: A New Greek Cookbook" Kindle Edition $1.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Use the "Look Inside" feature and scroll down to see the list of recipes. From NYC's Frankies Spintino restaurant..."The Frankies Spuntino: Kitchen Companion & Cooking Manual" Kindle Edition $1.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) From the New York City bakery Magnolia, it's "The Magnolia Bakery Handbook: A Complete Guide for the Home Baker" Kindle Edition $2.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Use the "Look Inside" feature and scroll up to the top to see the list of recipes. Then scroll down to see recipes. Measurements are both Imperial and Metric. Slightly more expensive... From Ina Garten, "Barefoot Contessa Parties!: Ideas and Recipes for Easy Parties That Are Really Fun: A Cookbook" Kindle Edition $3.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Recipes are centered around parties. Slightly more expensive... "Rodney Scott's World of BBQ: Every Day Is a Good Day: A Cookbook" Kindle Edition $3.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Use the "Look Inside" feature and scroll up to the top to see the list of recipes. Slightly more expensive... NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, "Nadiya Bakes: Over 100 Must-Try Recipes for Breads, Cakes, Biscuits, Pies, and More: A Baking Book" Kindle Edition $3.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Use the "Look Inside" feature and scroll up to the top to see the list of recipes. Then scroll down to see recipes. Measurements are both Imperial and Metric. I am a US Prime member and the price you see may vary.

I bought some Almond Roca® Buttercrunch Popcorn this past weekend. The Werther's Caramel Popcorn I snacked on a while ago tasted much better than this. This Almond Roca Buttercrunch popcorn doesn't taste like Almond Roca to me. Just sweetness.

The Lunchables still remain stuck somewhere in the supply chain. They could be sitting on a dock somewhere, unrefrigerated, and Walmart will still sell them to their customers (allegedly ). Here's a pic of the empty shelves dedicated to Lunchables at the Walmart Grocery store up the street from me: And now the Ritz crackers are stocked but the Keebler Club crackers (some dark green boxes left on the center shelf) have mostly gone missing. Damn those elves! And the missing Gladware, etc., previously pictured in my older post, all still remain missing.

Just amazing... "Doug the ugly New Zealand potato could be world's biggest"

Tastykakes are in the news... "Flowers Foods Issues Voluntary Recall on Certain Tastykake Multi-Pack Cupcakes Sold in Eight States Due to Possible Presence of Tiny Fragments of Metal Mesh Wire" The bolding in the quote text is mine, emphasizing US states impacted. Products codes can be found in the article.

Another from a BookBub email this morning: "The Artisan Kitchen: The science, practice and possibilities" Kindle Edition $1.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) The "Look Inside" feature shows actual pages from the cookbook. You can zoom in on the pages to read them better. Scroll down to see recipes. This cookbook contains 150 recipes. Look at this cookbook's Amazon info page to see what main topics are covered inside. I am a US Prime member and the price you see may vary.

The nice thing about candy corn is you can use the same candy in your candle vase year after year after year and it will likely survive unscathed (might get a little chewy a few years down the road ).

"Dole Fresh Vegetables Announces Precautionary Limited Recall of Garden Classic Salads for Possible Contamination with Listeria monocytogenes" There are 4 salad mixes being recalled which are listed in the article along with lot codes and dates.

A new month and there are lots of new sale-priced cookbooks for your Kindles/e-Readers. Please note that while I included some previously posted cookbooks, I left quite few off of this listing. There were also some that were higher priced than what I normally post. I am suggesting you take a look at the 3+ pages being offered this month for yourself. Jamie Oliver's "5 Ingredients: Quick & Easy Food" Kindle Edition $2.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Use the "Look Inside" feature and scroll down to see recipes...which use, oddly, Imperial measurements. YouTube cake "vlogger" Yolanda Gampp's "How to Cake It: A Cakebook" Kindle Edition $1.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Use the "Look Inside" feature and scroll down to see recipes. Diane Kochilas has a PBS cooking-travel series and this cookbook is its companion: "My Greek Table: Authentic Flavors and Modern Home Cooking from My Kitchen to Yours" Kindle Edition $2.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Use the "Look Inside" feature and scroll down to see recipes with both Metric and Imperial measurements. From Jason Santos, the chef-owner of New Orlean's Buttermilk & Bourbon, it's "Buttermilk & Bourbon: New Orleans Recipes with a Modern Flair" Kindle Edition $2.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Use the "Look Inside" feature and scroll down to see recipes with both Metric and Imperial measurements. From chef Katie Button (who runs/owns the Cúrate restaurant) "Cúrate: Authentic Spanish Food from an American Kitchen" Kindle Edition $2.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Southern humorist Julia Reed's "Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns, and Other Southern Specialties: An Entertaining Life (with Recipes)" Kindle Edition $2.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Use the "Look Inside" feature and scroll up to the top to see the list of recipes. Scroll down to see recipes. With a forward by Ina Garten, Rolando Beramendi's "Autentico: Cooking Italian, the Authentic Way" Kindle Edition $2.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Blogger Jenny Rosenstrach’s "Dinner: A Love Story: It all begins at the family table" Kindle Edition $1.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Use the "Look Inside" feature and scroll down to see recipes. One of the Washington Post's Best Food Books of 2020, Phyllis Grant's "Everything Is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes" Kindle Edition $2.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) From Blue Apron (the meal delivery company) "The Blue Apron Cookbook: 165 Essential Recipes and Lessons for a Lifetime of Home Cooking" Kindle Edition $1.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Looks like a cookbook for people who don't know cooking/knife skills, etc. Use the "Look Inside" feature to see what I mean. Scroll all the way down to see the recipe listings for the first chapter. Mostly food essays and some recipes by chef and priest, Robert F. Capon, in his "Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection" Kindle Edition $1.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Previously posted... Food stylist and food write Jennifer McLagan's "Bones: Recipes, History and Lore" Kindle Edition $1.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Use the "Look Inside" feature and scroll down to see recipes with both Metric and Imperial measurements. Previously posted... Jet Tila's "101 Asian Dishes You Need to Cook Before You Die: Discover a New World of Flavors in Authentic Recipes" Kindle Edition $2.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Use the "Look Inside" feature and scroll down to see recipes with both Metric and Imperial measurements. Previously posted... Steven Raichlen's "Project Smoke: Seven Steps to Smoked Food Nirvana, Plus 100 Irresistible Recipes from Classic (Slam-Dunk Brisket) to Adventurous (Smoked Bacon-Bourbon ... (Steven Raichlen Barbecue Bible Cookbooks)" Kindle Edition $1.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Previously posted... Rose Levy Beranbaum's "The Pie and Pastry Bible" Kindle Edition $1.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Use the "Look Inside" feature and scroll down to see recipes with both Metric and Imperial measurements. Previously posted... Shirley O. Corriher's "BakeWise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking with Over 200 Magnificent Recipes" Kindle Edition $1.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Use the "Look Inside" feature and scroll down to see a chapter listing of recipes. Measurements are in both Metric and Imperial, of course. No recipes...a food travelogue...Winner of the 2017 IACP Award, Matt Goulding's "Grape, Olive, Pig: Deep Travels Through Spain's Food Culture" Kindle Edition $1.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Use the "Look Inside" feature and scroll all the way down to see most of a recipe. Food writing (no recipes)... Trevor Corson's "The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice" Kindle Edition $1.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) More food writing...previously posted... M. F. K. Fisher's "Here Let Us Feast: A Book of Banquets" Kindle Edition $1.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) I am a US Prime member and the price you see may vary.

I'm assuming it's the supply chain, again. This past Saturday the Walmart Neighborhood grocery store was completely out of...wait for it...Lunchables! And sadly, their Pepperidge Farm cookies were wiped out, as well. No Milanos for you! The disposable "Gladware"-type of containers were also mostly gone: Perhaps buyers were getting ready for their Thanksgiving leftovers. Saturday's date was October 30th and Walmart was busy stocking Christmas candy: Halloween was the next day and they had one carton of Reese's Halloween=themed Peanut Butter cups and that was it. I guess "ya snooze, ya lose"!

Margaret, I'm not Norm but do know he usually posts his recipes on his blog...see the link in his signature at the bottom of his post: http://normmatthews.blogspot.com/ edited to add: @Norm Matthews, technically, Velveeta, which originally did contain real cheese, can no longer be called "cheese". The US Government classifies it as a "cheese product". Having grown up eating Velveeta (my mom's go-to "cheese" when making cheese sauce because of its ease of melting) I don't find any shame in using it, as long as you know what it is. I agree with @Margaret Pilgrim, it does look like cold-weather comfort food. Thanks for posting it.

Something stumbled upon this afternoon... From the Editors of Grit Magazine, "Lard: The Lost Art of Cooking with Your Grandmother's Secret Ingredient" Kindle Edition $1.99US (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) Use the "Look Inside" feature and scroll down to see chapter recipe listings and then some of those recipes. I am a US Prime member and the price you see may vary.

Currently snacking on Ruffles Sour Cream & Onion flavored potato chips and thinking of @Anna N(who I believe likes the sour cream & onion flavor on snacks). But stay away from Snyder of Hanover's Sour Cream & Onion flavored Pretzel sticks. Why? Snyder is known for their buttery flavored pretzels and, unfortunately, the very assertive fake-tasting butter flavored pretzels with the sour cream & onion flavoring added on top just don't taste very good. It's not a good combo.

The onion recall has been expanded...now including meal kits: "Onion recall expands to meal kits, another distributor over salmonella concerns: product codes to check" This article has new listings of product codes (you may have to magnify the article to see the codes).

The local grocery stores have all but abandoned Halloween and are completely focused on Thanksgiving now. The Walmart Neighborhood store had a gazillion bottles of turkey marinade for injecting lining the freezers around their frozen food section. Didn't get a look at the brand but they seemed to have bought quite a lot of it. Makes me wonder if they own stock in the company. Plus they had hams for sale, too. We always get a ham along with the turkey for Thanksgiving since a lot of people don't like turkey. The thing about Walmart is they don't put stuff on sale after the holiday is over and done. They still expect you to pay the full price for it. Holiday candy included. No thanks. The local VONS/Albertsons had a full baking supply section on display, from ingredients like flour, sugar, etc., to baking pans and cookie sheets. Too soon for me to even think about it...

Noticed while grocery shopping this weekend that the Walmart Neighborhood grocery store was having supply chain issues with some products. Of the empty shelves I saw the only one I can recall was in the cracker aisle where they were missing quite a lot of Ritz crackers. Normally there would be 6 shelves vertically holding the different kinds of Ritz crackers but about 4 shelves were empty. It's not easy to figure out what was in an empty space unless you consult the shelf product price labels (which I have a hard time reading anyway!).

Reviving this ancient post of mine to say thanks to everyone, again, for the feedback and suggestions. I made country ribs for dinner last night, roasting them low and slow. They were so tender I had to use tongs to plate them (they fell apart when I originally tried using a fork). Which made me think if I used different spices and herbs I could have had carnitas instead. Maybe next time...