Ongoing Letter - Allan's Place
Allan's journal to the world. (Sounds important, doesn't it?)
I went to Safeway to get some cream for my coffee. I’ve had milk in my coffee for four days now! Imagine! Gross. It has a sickeningly sticky, hollow taste to it. (Now enjoying a second cup mixed in with my first cup, with cream. Much better.)
By mistake, I bought some Crisco shortening a while back that is yellow! I opened it up a few days ago to find it looked like butter. I’ve never seen yellow shortening before. I tasted it. Definitely not butter!
My sister, a while back, commented that cheddar over here is orange but shouldn’t be. Why do we put food colouring in everything? Can’t we simply enjoy the taste of natural stuff? Now Floyd’s muffins are extremely orangy-brown.
I also have white cheddar. Over here, they call it white cheddar, not just cheddar.
Today’s breakfast:
Coffee, cheese bagel, yogourt with blueberries.
Something weird – I’ve always spelled yo… that food… yoghurt. But, apparently, that’s not how Canadians generally. The Americans, as per their tradition, take out a couple of letters (yogurt), and the Brits add an extra u. I was just going to post a picture of my breakfast and got into a discussion with Floyd about its spelling. I think my yoghurt is cold now.
There’s an app called Flash Foods that offers discount about-to-be-expired foods. I picked up some meat from them and threw it on the barbecue. Mine is not gas but, rather, wood. And coal.
Part of the reason for buying this was to use up all the dry food stores we have from Rene. Cooking all these lentils and beans and peas … well, it never really works out well. Either they’re much or pellets when I’m done with them.
A&C told me about their pressure cooker and all the good food it can create. I looked online and found a Starfrit on sale. A&C and I walked (videophone) for a while, while I was at Walmart, about which one to get. In the end, I got a Hamilton Beach.
Aizlynn and Caleb bought a new pressure cooker. We were talking about what one can cook in it. I brought up the Rene food (a rather large selection of leftover food when he finished his tenancy) and the fact that I haven’t the foggiest idea what to do with much of it. Here is an accounting of all the dried foods and their quantities in our collection.
The Pile
Breakfast!
Aizlynn called me, thinking of Glenn’s birthday.
We talked for a bit about dentistry (root canals, extracted teeth, and implants), Glenn (his life, his death, and things between), and pierogies (in England, they don’t have pierogies, but the closest thing they have is filled with strawberry!).
Glenn has been gone 10 years.
For Floyd’s BD, I wanted to get some beef ribs from London Road Market. I went there by scooter only to find that they had none. (Why would have display beef ribs online if you don’t have any?) So I bought some pork ribs instead.
Happy BD!
This just an experiment. I made meatloaf muffins!
It’s a mixture of ground beef and turkey along with finely chopped vegetables. It turned out well but maybe a little too well done.