Mellowing in Manitoulin.

[Tri2Cook]

8 hours ago, Anna N said:

That hairy monster may mark the end of a long and lovely friendship.  We have one melon. I want to make soup. Kerry wants to stuff it.  I may tell her where before this saga is over.

Judgement of Solomon: split it lengthwise, stuff half and cut the other half up for soup.  Although, I can't really get a sense of scale as to how big the thing is from the picture... maybe it's too small for that approach.

[Kerry Beal]

Breakfast at Maranatha in Espanola - not a fancy place!

 

 

 

 

[Kerry Beal]

 

 

 

 

[Kerry Beal]

Best we could do for leaves given the overcast day

 

[Kerry Beal]

Sharing 4 apps at Respect is Burning in Sudbury

 

 

meatballs with porkbelly in the sauce 

 

 

caesar salad with warm lardons 

 

 

crispy mushroom salad

 

 

mussels with  a chili sauce 

 

 

 

[Shelby]

How were the meatballs with pork belly???  I'm starving.  I think I would have been face down in that bowl lol.

[Dejah]

12 hours ago, Anna N said:

That hairy monster may mark the end of a long and lovely friendship.  We have one melon. I want to make soup. Kerry wants to stuff it.  I may tell her where before this saga is over.

The solution to your one melon dilemma : use 1/3 for soup 'cos that's all you'd need for soup for two, especially if you add tofu. Stuff the other 2/3 and use it for the main course. Add the leftover meat stuffing into the soup!
Now, come out, shake that melon, and get cooking!

[Anna N]

3 hours ago, Kerry Beal said:

Breakfast at Maranatha in Espanola - not a fancy place!

 

 

 

 

Look carefully. Is the dog looking at the sky or over his shoulder?

[Kerry Beal]

2 hours ago, Shelby said:

How were the meatballs with pork belly???  I'm starving.  I think I would have been face down in that bowl lol.

Quite yummy! Meatballs with meat sauce - what's not to love?

[Kerry Beal]

 

 

 

[Dejah]

Interesting shopping!  Looking forward to seeing what you make...

 

[ElsieD]

23 minutes ago, Kerry Beal said:

 

 

 

 

Was that Keurig a thrift shop find?  If so, I'm jealous.

[Tri2Cook]

31 minutes ago, Anna N said:

Look carefully. Is the dog looking at the sky or over his shoulder?

Yes.

[Kerry Beal]

5 minutes ago, ElsieD said:

 

Was that Keurig a thrift shop find?  If so, I'm jealous.

Yup - it was Sally Anne and it was half price electrical appliance day. They had two Keurigs - both labelled as tested and working. This way we can leave one up here saving Anna the trouble of bringing her little one. And it makes larger cups.

 

 

[Anna N]

In the next to the last photograph, right in the center, is a bag of potatoes that Kerry was able to find. These are a new breed of low G.I. potatoes. 

 

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[Shelby]

  I love my Keurig coffee maker.  Nice find!

[Smithy]

What a fun haul from your day's shopping!  I wish I had a thrift-store-shopping buddy within easy distance.  It would be more fun.  Come to think of it, it would also be more expensive. Maybe it's a good thing my thrift-store buddies live far away.  

[rotuts]

how do those low GI spuds taste ?

 

I was surprised to learn that IP'ing potatoes , letting them cool   changes the GI

 

ie  for potato salad.    they can then be reheated w that lower GI.

 

that the index actually is for these IP'd potatoes I can't say.

 

any data on the Aussie index ?   window dressing ?

[Kerry Beal]

10 minutes ago, rotuts said:

how do those low GI spuds taste ?

 

I was surprised to learn that IP'ing potatoes , letting them cool   changes the GI

 

ie  for potato salad.    they can then be reheated w that lower GI.

 

that the index actually is for these IP'd potatoes I can't say.

 

any data on the Aussie index ?   window dressing ?

Article from CBC - GI appears to be 53 vs 77 for 'regular' potatoes (not sure if GI different for waxy vs russets).

[Kerry Beal]

 

Coconut-Chocolate pound cake 

[Anna N]

Very slow start this morning though it looks to be a beautiful day. 

 

not a very interesting breakfast. "Chewbacca" stuck under the broiler of the CSO and then some butter and some store-bought apricot jam. 

 Hoping to accomplish a few things today including stuffing that damned melon and making some chicken soup. We shall see how it goes. I am very partial to Ming Tsai's  pork and shrimp filling for potstickers and think I will use that to stuff the melon and perhaps some of the banana peppers.   So I'm off to the kitchen to see how much trouble I can get into today.  Kerry has gone off to work  but will come home as soon as she has cleared out the ER waiting room.

[chefmd]

1 hour ago, Kerry Beal said:

 

Coconut-Chocolate pound cake 

I declare it low glycemic index product and would like at least half of it sent my way! 

[Porthos]

On 10/4/2016 at 1:17 AM, sartoric said:

I'd have fried potatoes any way they come as long as there's salt to go with

 Yup.

[Porthos]

14 hours ago, Smithy said:

I wish I had a thrift-store-shopping buddy within easy distance.  It would be more fun.  Come to think of it, it would also be more expensive.

This week's thrift shopping saw me in six stores. I spent 50 cents in one store. That's it. Now if my DW had been with me ...

[Anna N]

So I donned the finest surgical gloves that money can't buy and attacked the hairy monster.

 

 

I had already made up of filling of pork and shrimp which we had taste tested. So I dusted the inside of the rings with cornstarch and filled them with the stuffing.

 

 

 I chose not to mince the shrimp but to keep it in pieces that at least you knew it was shrimp.

 

 

There was still an awful lot of filling left so I made an attempt at filling the banana peppers which we will also try to steam.

 

 That still left some filling so  I made meatballs and poached a few of them and some chicken soup but I suspect we will steam the remaining ones.   I also put some cut up melon in the soup but it is completely tasteless and has no texture hardly at all.

 

 

 The chicken soup served as my lunch but it was not particularly good.