food

Thanksgiving Dinner

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Floyd picked up a frozen turkey a while back.  We started defrosting it in the fridge a couple of days ago.  I cut it up into pieces before roasting it to make it easier to handle when cooked.  Cutting the turkey is always a challenge, and my arms are very sore from work, so I’d rather get it done beforehand.  Besides, it will take less time to cook.  Various spices were added – parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, oregano, chives, a bit of salt … I forget what else.  Unfortunately for Floyd, it only had one drumstick.  Unfortunately for me, it also had only one thigh.

I forgot to put this on the table.  Oops.

I wanted to get some prep work done yesterday.  I put some cucumber in vinegar as Floyd likes it.  I don’t care for it, so some of them are left raw.

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Taber corn

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I got some Taber corn this afternoon.  It was $11 for a 11 cobs with 1 extra thrown in.  However, in the bag of a dozen cobs, I counted 23!  He doubled the amount of corn!  Wow.

We’ll freeze most of it to have during winter.

wingless

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After a long day of working, I thought it would be nice to bring home some wings.  I phoned Floyd and told him I’ll bring home a box of chicken wings.  However, despite what the sign says, Save-On Foods has no wings.  Their wing oven broke two days before.

You’d think that, without a working wing oven, they wouldn’t put the sign up.

Four other places in town were also out of any hot food.

random thoughts

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It is now 37°C outside.  It should be extremely warm inside, but it’s a very pleasant 27°C.

I guess we should be eating more yoghurt.

… or less of it.  (Yuck.)

Old pipe, new pipe.

The former was dug out of 20 St. S. here in town.  The latter will be the final fitting to complete the plumbing at 1403 up.

More random thoughts as they come.

jeez whiz

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So I went shopping at Real Canadian Superstore here in town.  On my list was Cheez Whiz because I can’t live in a house without it.  Yes, I already have a just-opened jar in the fridge, but one must be prepared.  So I went up and down the isles looking for it.  I saw “CONDIMENTS” on the signs above the isles.  Great!  I went up and down that isle a couple of times.  I found mayonnaise, so that’s good.  But no Cheez Whiz.  I saw a couple of isles down, “SPREADS”.  “Well alright!  I bet I’ll find it there,” I thought.  No go.  I found some almond spread, which was nice.  But you’ll never guess where the Cheez Whiz was – with the cheese!  In the refrigerators!  Who the heck put it there, and why?

What’s more, why wasn’t the mayonnaise refrigerated?

Everything?

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I pulled a bag of “everything” bagels out of the freezer and put it in the fridge a few weeks ago.  It had been in the freezer for months – months and months.  “Gotta get rid of this,” I thought.  I think HFT bought it, but I can’t be sure.  But why was it there for so long?

I eat a bagel many mornings – most mornings.  I have a weird habit of putting peanut butter and slices of tomato on it.  (Not sure where I came up with this idea.  Maybe it was to get rid of the tomatoes … not sure.)  Sometimes I stack luncheon meats, cheese, lettuce, etc. to create a Dagwood.  Sometimes I just put cream cheese on it.

But most of my bagels have substance.  They are 60% Whole Wheat, 100% Whole Wheat, Ancient Grains, Cracked Wheat, 14-Grain, etc.  Real food.  But this “everything” bagel is not!  It’s basically just a simple, plain, white-bread bagel with stuff sprinkled on top.  White bread!  That’s not everything!  That’s white, lifeless, Wonder Bread goo in the form of a bagel.  So these so-called Everything Bagels never got eaten.

And then, this morning, I saw this.

Everything You Need to Know About the True Origins of the Everything Bagel

The writer of this article claims, “The everything bagel is the king of bagels. On this there should be no argument.”

So I’m here to argue today that the everything bagel is not everything it’s cracked up to be.  Its contents are, in my view, nothing. Just like so many other foods out there, it isn’t good – it just looks good from the outside.