Current sales, deals, and bargains (Part 2)

[quiet1]

I am so jealous. I'm not allowed to garden due to being immune compromised because of the medication I take for my arthritis. And no one else in the house has enough of a green thumb to help.  (The biggest risk is a fungal lung infection, which are exactly no fun at all and don't have great survival rates. So the chance is relatively small but not worth risking.)

[kayb]

Today's report from Enablers-R-Us: "The Enchantingly Easy Persian Cookbook," link here, is available as an e-book for $1.99.

 

I know nothing about it, but then, I know nothing about Persian cooking, either, so it's worth $2.99 to learn something.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

7 hours ago, kayb said:

Today's report from Enablers-R-Us: "The Enchantingly Easy Persian Cookbook," link here, is available as an e-book for $1.99.

 

I know nothing about it, but then, I know nothing about Persian cooking, either, so it's worth $2.99 to learn something.

 

This purchase was not so hard...but then there were the three other kindle books I just bought as well:

 

Salted

Food52 Cookbook, volume 2

The Cuisines of Spain

 

 

All at $1.99 today.

 

[Anna N]

15 minutes ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

 

This purchase was not so hard...but then there were the three other kindle books I just bought as well:

 

Salted

Food52 Cookbook, volume 2

The Cuisines of Spain

 

 

All at $1.99 today.

 

 I have resisted all day long but you pushed me over the edge and I fell for Salted. 

[Anna N]

13 hours ago, Anna N said:

 I have resisted all day long but you pushed me over the edge and I fell for Salted. 

I was forced to stop reading this by the fear that my eyeballs would eventually become detached from their moorings. They were being rolled so often  I may have a permanent case of nystagmus. 

 

"Any salt with a death grip on the moment should not be forsaken, lest the dream escape."

 

 And my brain shut down trying to decipher sentences like this.   And the quoted sentence is one of the milder examples of over-the-top use of language.  YMMV. 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

9 hours ago, Anna N said:

I was forced to stop reading this by the fear that my eyeballs would eventually become detached from their moorings. They were being rolled so often  I may have a permanent case of nystagmus. 

 

"Any salt with a death grip on the moment should not be forsaken, lest the dream escape."

 

 And my brain shut down trying to decipher sentences like this.   And the quoted sentence is one of the milder examples of over-the-top use of language.  YMMV. 

 

Reading Bitterman is quite a trip.  And here I thought my prose was florid.  I confess I bought the book sight unseen because late at night I confused Mark Bitterman with Mark Bittman.  (As amazon's search engine does also.)  Nonetheless Salted is an interesting read and worth the $1.99.

 

Wonder if Bittman is up to anything more productive after the debacle of purplecarrot?  Somehow purplecarrot makes the idea of boutique salt sound sensible.

 

 

[Anna N]

32 minutes ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

 

Reading Bitterman is quite a trip.  And here I thought my prose was florid.  I confess I bought the book sight unseen because late at night I confused Mark Bitterman with Mark Bittman.  (As amazon's search engine does also.)  Nonetheless Salted is an interesting read and worth the $1.99.

 

Wonder if Bittman is up to anything more productive after the debacle of purplecarrot?  Somehow purplecarrot makes the idea of boutique salt sound sensible.

 

 

Isn't he lecturing at some university?  Seem to recall something along those lines. Columbia maybe?

[boilsover]

Thermoworks is having a sale through 1/4/17.  Industrial IR gun, $33.  Instant read pocket, $16.  Triple timer, and many more...

[btbyrd]

Zingerman's is having their annual sale on balsamic vinegar. 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

For the benefit of @rotuts Shoprite down here has Hellman's 30 oz at $2.99 this week.

 

[rotuts]

@JoNorvelleWalker  

 

Nice.  Geography considered.  A bit more North,  One local chain ( Shaw's ) had them for $ 1.99  . twice a year.  

 

I bought Large !   

 

this may be a thing of the Past , as Ive missed this years Deals. They might have never existed !

 

so Ive moved to ALDI  at $ 1.87   6 months worth at a time.

 

what can you do ?

 

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

14 minutes ago, rotuts said:

@JoNorvelleWalker  

 

Nice.  Geography considered.  A bit more North,  One local chain ( Shaw's ) had them for $ 1.99  . twice a year.  

 

I bought Large !   

 

this may be a thing of the Past , as Ive missed this years Deals. They might have never existed !

 

so Ive moved to ALDI  at $ 1.87   6 months worth at a time.

 

what can you do ?

 

 

 

Make my own.

 

[kayb]

A curse upon whoever it was (don't remember if it was this topic or another one) who posted the link to igourmet! I can tell that place is going to cost me significant money.

[IowaDee]

Hee, hee it was me.  And did you get the sale notice they sent today?  Lots of wonderful runny, stinky cheeses for starters.  Happy Shopping!

[Porthos]

On 1/2/2017 at 9:13 PM, boilsover said:

Thermoworks is having a sale through 1/4/17.  Industrial IR gun, $33.  Instant read pocket, $16.  Triple timer, and many more...

 

Because one can never have too many , I ordered another Extra Big & Loud Timer, this one in red. Since I am partially deaf I really like these. For the time being this one will stay at my FIL's house. He is in a care facility and I go to his house once during the week and my DW and go there once during the weekend. It was part of the agreement for him to go into the facility.

 

Besides being able to hear it I love being able to set exactly how long, down to the second, the amount of time I want. That is especially helpful during Christmas cookie baking. I bake with the convection on but still need to turn the pans 1/2 way through baking. If I am busy on the computer while baking the cookies, it allows me to adjust the time to account for how long it takes to walk from the computer (in the family room) to the kitchen.

[Toliver]

Another Kindle book/cookbook:

"Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen" by Laurie Colwin $1.99 U.S.

It's part of their "feel good" books sale.

[Anna N]

11 minutes ago, Toliver said:

Another Kindle book/cookbook:

"Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen" by Laurie Colwin $1.99 U.S.

It's part of their "feel good" books sale.

Oh boy!  Absolutely a must-have if you don't have a prescription for Valium.  The hardcopy is around here somewhere but to have it on my Kindle ... 

 

[kayb]

Aaaannnndddd:

 

The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, Deborah Madison, $1.99 ebook.

 

The New James Beard, $1.99 ebook.

 

Curry, A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors, Lizzie Collingham, $1.99 ebook.

 

Viniagrettes and Other Dressings, Michelle Anna Jordan, $2.99 ebook.

 

The Complete Book of Butchering, Smoking, Curing and Sausage-Making, Philip Hasheider, $2.99 ebook.

 

A sampling from the email Amazon so helpfully sent me today. You're welcome. ( @IowaDee, I'm looking at you....)

Edited January 12, 2017 by Smithy
Fixed broken link (log)

[Shelby]

3 minutes ago, kayb said:

Aaaannnndddd:

 

The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, Deborah Madison, $1.99 ebook.

 

The New James Beard, $1.99 ebook.

 

Curry, A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors, Lizzie Collingham, $1.99 ebook.

 

Viniagrettes and Other Dressings, Michelle Anna Jordan, $2.99 ebook.

 

The Complete Book of Butchering, Smoking, Curing and Sausage-Making, Philip Hasheider, $2.99 ebook.

 

A sampling from the email Amazon so helpfully sent me today. You're welcome. ( @IowaDee, I'm looking at you....)

DAMN IT, KAY!  I was sitting here feeling oh so smug because I already have the book by Laurie Colwin and I wouldn't have to succumb to buying anything.

 

Then you post this. 

 

Now I've bought the butchering book.

 

Sigh.

[kayb]

1 hour ago, Shelby said:

DAMN IT, KAY!  I was sitting here feeling oh so smug because I already have the book by Laurie Colwin and I wouldn't have to succumb to buying anything.

 

Then you post this. 

 

Now I've bought the butchering book.

 

Sigh.

But you LOVE me.

 

I thought of you, actually, when I saw the butchering book. I bought the vegetarian book and the James Beard book, and may well go back and get the curry book.

 

[Anna N]

2 minutes ago, kayb said:

But you LOVE me.

 

I thought of you, actually, when I saw the butchering book. I bought the vegetarian book and the James Beard book, and may well go back and get the curry book.

 

I knew I was looking at something when a visitor arrived and because I'm polite I paid attention to the visitor and forgot what I was looking at. Now I recall it was the vegetarian book!

Edited January 6, 2017 by Anna N (log)

[boilsover]

5 hours ago, kayb said:

The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, Deborah Madison, $1.99 ebook.

 

***

 

The Complete Book of Butchering, Smoking, Curing and Sausage-Making, Philip Hasheider, $2.99 ebook.

 

 

Sounds like a marriage between these two would be interesting.

[Anna N]

5 minutes ago, boilsover said:

 

Sounds like a marriage between these two would be interesting.

Amazingly there are those of us who are attempting to reduce our meat intake and increase our vegetable intake so, yes, they work rather well together. At another time they would have seemed somewhat incongruous even to me. 

[boilsover]

2 minutes ago, Anna N said:

Amazingly there are those of us who are attempting to reduce our meat intake and increase our vegetable intake so, yes, they work rather well together. At another time they would have seemed somewhat incongruous even to me. 

 

Or maybe not, if Ms. Madison is vegetarian.  But I suppose Mr. Hasheider could be vegetarian himself, so who knows?   

[Anna N]

27 minutes ago, boilsover said:

 

Or maybe not, if Ms. Madison is vegetarian.  But I suppose Mr. Hasheider could be vegetarian himself, so who knows?   

Fairly certain Ms. Madison is not a vegetarian.  

 

Edited to say  I am so certain that I read somewhere that she did not consider herself a vegetarian despite all her vegetarian books but I can no longer find that so I may be mistaken.   Perhaps if someone else has heard the same thing they might chime in.

 

edited again to fix grammar. 

Edited January 6, 2017 by Anna N (log)