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Earlier, fresh strawberries just before they got too ripe.
And, taking half the day to figure out what was in that zip-lock, without a label.....there is fresh baked cornbread now! Where did I put the honey?
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@ "cwillie,"

I lovvvve cardboard :)

And how was it - do you know why it didn't rise?
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Only if you like the taste of cardboard. And yes, I did eat it. 🤣
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@ "cwillie,"

Ohhhh - I love those and apple ones too - won't it still taste good even though it didn't rise????
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I made a peach dutch baby, but it didn't rise 😢 That was supposed to be my dinner, I didn't plan anything else.
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@ "Sendhelp,"

Where'd it go? Oh yeah, in your "hubs" tummy :(
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Still missing my ice cream!
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We will be having Pork Tenderloin with a brown mushroom glaze, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, sauteed zucchini with "mozzarella melts" cheese and a cornbread muffin with honey butter. Since I forgot to buy the strawberries for our shortcake, my husband will be getting our favorite, inexpensive McDonalds hot fudge sundaes for a little treat!
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Baked haddock with lemon butter crumb topping, mashed potatoes, carrots, corn on the cob, dark chocolate homemade brownie.
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Coming out of the drive-thru at Telly's, husband says" "We ordered off-menu at Telly's". Like he sounded proud?

I asked if that was a thing? "Is that a thing?"

I thought about it. Sounds like a Valley-girl thing. "Are you maybe a Valley-guy? I said. Lol.

Went for ice cream. They did not have it, just shakes. I asked, What do you make your shakes out of, ice cream?" He says, "I'll check". We can do that for you, he says, and they did!

So we also ordered french fries-they were so nice and hot! I ate them first. Hubs ate my ice cream.

We went out! It was an outing! Yay!
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Haddock sandwich with potato salad, 1/2 glass low calorie lemonade.
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Tonight we're having Garlic Herb Rotisserie Chicken, potato salad, baked beans, sliced tomatoes and red peppers, biscuits with olive oil, oregano and crushed red pepper flakes for dipping, watermelon, a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon and hot fudge sundaes from McDonalds.
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Hi friends,

Roast turkey tonight with baby potatoes.  Looking forward to tacos tomorrow though.:-)
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Grilled Balsamic Vinegar Smokehouse hamburgers with homemade pasta salad. Yum 😋

I like Kosher salt or Sea Salt...just my little 2 cents!
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@"earlybird," - did you save some for me - because I'm coming over! :)
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I saw fresh green beans at the local orchard ( they also sell farm produce) and we got 3 lbs, Hubs made green beans and tiny potatoes with ham hocks! 2 cousins brought my Aunt for a surprise visit with Mom, first since Mom came home from Aunts and ended up in the hospital,, Mom was so excited,, and everyone loved the meal! I am also living on the fresh fruit.. peaches, nectarines.. you name it.
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Homemade flautas made with rib eye, diced jalapenos, purple onions and cabbage, cilantro and parsley, with mozzarella cheese. Served with chopped fresh purple cabbage, cilantro and spring onions, salsa on the side.

Baked not fried.
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Eggplant parmigiana with garden fresh tomatoes, summer squash and basil, splash extra virgin olive oil, garlic butter bread crumbs and mozzarella natural cheese. Fresh brewed coffee, Milano orange chocolate cookies.
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Fasting through breakfast time.
Maybe I will juice some celery, but only 8 ounces.
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Mom and I eat 'dinner' at lunch time and have a snack at dinner time. Last nite it was homemade quacamole with tomatoes, onion and cilantro, a little lemon juice. That's the vegetables, the chips add grain, and the margaritas, well, how could you not have a margarita! (so lots of salt used, both kinds!)
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Sorry about the salt, folks. I have a warped sense of humor, and sometimes overkill seems the most enjoyable way to respond.
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@ "Gershun" and "Sendhelp" - thank you for my after dinner entertainment!!

We had steakhouse flavored pork tenderloin, sauteed zucchini seasoned with fresh ground peppercorns and Mrs. Dash Original Seasoning (salt-free!) and a Mexican four cheese shredded blend on top, fresh greens with sliced black olives, roma tomatoes and "mozzarella melt" shredded cheese - it's softer than regular and Kraft makes it, open-faced cornbread-like muffin dipped in "extra light taste" olive oil mixed with oregano leaves and red pepper flakes, applesauce sprinkled with cinnamon, and a glass of Merlot. For dessert we had homemade strawberry shortcake (I make the strawberry part by slicing the strawberries adding one packet of Stevia, mashing them and then I add heavy whipping cream and stir together) a little extra creamy whipping cream on top sprinkled with sliced almonds.
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😁😁😁😁
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I just ate a teriyaki chicken bowl with rice. Premade. Just heated it up in the microwave. Not bad.

I added......wait for it.....SALT!!😂
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You are right Gershun. Lol.
So many are feeling as-salted!

Tonight for dinner, we baked some boneless, skinless chicken thighs in our Toaster oven on the turbo setting. An easy fix, and a good flavor! They browned just right, 45 minutes.
It did take the two of us, which is why I always say "We".

What did you have for dinner? 🥝🍓🍉🥕🥗🥑🥑🥑🍅🍍🍐🍊🍋🍒🍇🍈🍌🍏🍎🧡💛💙💜💚❣️
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I know much more about salt now than I ever wanted to.

Just saying..............:P
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There’s been so much interest in salt, that I followed instructions and looked it up myself. Google only showed me the three rock salt mines in central Europe to which the Romans used to send naughty slaves. They seem to be largely tourist attractions now. One has a hotel in it, like the ice hotels in glaciers. The Kansas salt mine also seems to be a tourist thing now, with a little railway like a ghost train. The UK still has a functioning mine in Cheshire, providing coarse de-icing road salt.

Sea salt is very cheap to make by evaporation, if you have hot dry weather and flat land next to the sea (like down the road from here). Before pumps came along, it used to be captured behind barriers at highest tide. Sea water does contain trace elements and minerals, sometimes nasty ones like lead if the sea is polluted. DH spent some time thinking how to get the trace elements out of sea water (eg by differential distillation), and came to the conclusion that it would be difficult, uneconomic and pointless – there is no market for what you could extract, and no other reason to do it. The evaporated salt sometimes contains mud if it is being scraped off mud flats in the old way, and this is liquified to let the impurities settle out.

DH moved on to working out whether salt could be synthesised from sodium and chlorine chemicals. Conclusion – tricky and very expensive. Then found on Wikipedia that, conversely, almost any manufacturing process that requires sodium or chlorine obtains it by breaking down sodium chloride. It says “sodium chloride is available so cheaply that it need never be synthesised’.

Wikipedia says 280 million tons of salt was used in 2017 (latest figure), with China the main producer. The USA produced 43 million tons, virtually all by evaporation. If harvesting sea water is not convenient, saline lakes and remnant salt pans can also provide the raw material, but these will contain different trace elements and minerals.

I have been unable to find any confirmation that ‘Anticaking ingredients strip nutrients from table salt’. Or that ‘sea salt has less sodium’ ‘because the granules are bigger’. Granule size is usually the result of processing options.

I’ve had salt conversations before, probably because it’s a local industry. One with MIL who used a herbal flavored salt, and insisted that it wasn’t ‘real’ salt so she could use lots in spite of what her doctor instructed. Another was with a migrant woman who simply refused to believe that cheap supermarket table salt could possibly be sea salt.

I have no problems with people who like to pay more for fancy salt. I do laugh about some of the fads. ‘Almond milk’ which contains less than 4% almonds. Super healthy quinoa that doesn’t seem to have made the South Americans healthier even though they use it all the time. My favorite one was a sign on a truck delivering bottled water, saying ‘Gluten Free’! I've learned to take many of these claims with (guess) a pinch of salt. However if anyone thinks they know more than this about salt, please post again. I’m hanging out for it. But I suspect this may be more than enough!
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How is it that 2 small potatoes, a stick of celery, a small onion, a handful of diced peppers and a chunk of ham looks like a small meal until you chop it all together and roast it, after which it looks like enough to feed a small family 🤔
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😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
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I live in Canada where salt and winter just naturally go together. When it comes to purity of salt I can't imagine anything more pristine than that extracted from deposits formed 400 million years ago under lake Huron, site of the biggest salt mine in the world.
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