Food and Recipes while under Coronavirus quarantine #8

[IceIce9]

Since we are on the topic of slow cookers, several weeks ago I was cooking down cherry tomatoes from my garden to make pasta sauce and the bottom of the crock cracked. All the way through.

I have been using slow cookers ever since I was a teenager and can’t even think how many I have had over the years. But I’ve never had one crack.

This particular slow cooker was only a couple years old. I emailed customer service and they responded right away, asking me to send pictures of the inside and outside of the crock, a picture of the plug, a picture of the serial number, a picture of the manufacture date, and a picture of the case ID number written on a piece of paper and placed next to the slow cooker.

I sent all the pictures, and again they responded immediately. But this time they said some of my pictures were blurry and could I please retake them. They did not look blurry to me, but I did retake the pictures and send them again. Since then, I have not heard a word back from them, I emailed them again last week with the case ID number and still didn’t hear anything from them.

 

[IceIce9]

Here is a recipe for slow cooker cookies

Slow Cooker Cookies

This recipe for Slow Cooker Cookies is so rich and decadent. Each bite is so gooey with lots of chocolate. It's even better served over ice cream for a real treat.

dessertsonadime.com

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

At this time of year, Nino Salvaggio's features little pork roasts stuffed with apples and dried cherries or sage and onion bread stuffing. The cute little roasts are rolled and tied for easy roasting. They take only an hour at 350* to roast. We had an apple and cherry stuffed pork roast for dinner tonight. I seasoned the roast with salt and pepper then basted it with cherry barbeque sauce. Sauteed kale and oyster mushrooms for accompaniment. There's enough left over for tomorrow. When I make the sage and onion stuffed pork roast, I usually make a light gravy with the drippings, butter, flour, and a little chicken stock. Good with mashed potatoes or noodles.

I'm a little under the weather today and wonder if it might be a mild reaction to the flu shot last Friday. I'm sipping a hot toddy with Cognac, raw honey, and lemon juice. Need a good night's rest so this doesn't turn into a full out cold.

 

[killarney rose]

I got a flu shot last week and had a reaction for the first time ever. About a day of not feeling well with a shaky tummy.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Over the last 3 days I have raked, tilled and removed debris from my 5’ x 30’ bed out back. Found 4-5 more sweet potatoes too. When I was stacking those old concrete pieces, I didn’t realize how big it was. But I’ve made the best of it.

I have 3 blueberry bushes at one end. I refreshed them with some cow compost/soil and watered them in. I have a green Florida avocado tree that is about 5’ tall by the birdbath. Plus the aloe plants my kids inherited from their Gma.

I’ve added in 12 bags of cow compost, 6 bags of garden soil and some perlite. I’m tired and sore.

Tomorrow I will plant my Italian Flat Green Bean seeds, they are pole beans. I spent today scrounging whatever I could to fashion a tall trellis. It looks like garden junk and it is because nice trellises are expensive! Pretty sure the beans won’t complain.

Neeko was wore slap out after all that garden superviser work!

 

[IceIce9]

@BetteDavisEyes and @killarney rose I received my flu shot last week and it made my arm very sore. I thought it was very unusual, because my arm gets slightly sore after a flu shot. But normally it doesn’t feel sore until several hours after the flu shot, just a mild soreness in the place where the shot was given, and it doesn’t last long.

But this year my entire upper arm was very sore and it started within an hour after receiving the shot. It stayed sore for a couple of days.

 

[killarney rose]

I always get a very sore arm for a few days after, but have never felt bad till this year. I had both.

 

[snooptroop88]

I always get a very sore arm for a few days after, but have never felt bad till this year. I had both.

That's freaky, honestly. I haven't had mine yet this year, but I've never had any response to them either (at least that I noticed). I wonder if the very "post" covid flu shots are formulated differently, maybe especially potent or something, no idea...?

 

[Auntie Cipation]

I got a flu shot last week and had a reaction for the first time ever. About a day of not feeling well with a shaky tummy.

@BetteDavisEyes and @killarney rose I received my flu shot last week and it made my arm very sore. I thought it was very unusual, because my arm gets slightly sore after a flu shot. But normally it doesn’t feel sore until several hours after the flu shot, just a mild soreness in the place where the shot was given, and it doesn’t last long.

But this year my entire upper arm was very sore and it started within an hour after receiving the shot. It stayed sore for a couple of days.

I started getting flu shots in 2020 and for the first few years had zero reaction I can recall, I don't even think my arm got sore.

Then a few years ago I had a one-day queasy/yucky reaction after the flu shot. I hadn't planned for that and was travelling on the day I felt icky, but fortunately it wasn't severe and only lasted one day.

But ever since then, I've been prepared for reactions. I think I had a mild reaction last year. This year I didn't feel weak or queasy, and my arm wasn't strongly sore (ie I could sleep on it), but it was indeed sore and that lasted almost five days!

Note: I have never gotten the flu shot combined with any other vax, so that is out as a possible cause of these differences.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

I got a flu shot last week and had a reaction for the first time ever. About a day of not feeling well with a shaky tummy.

I had some digestive issues over the weekend but didn't associate it with the flu shot. No sore arm but definitely didn't feel right for a few days. Another reason why I won't get two vaccines at the same time.

 

[PayrollNerd]

We are back in the toasting business! I think the door was hinting it was done with me so it just quit. But hey, I didn’t torch it, like I did my microwave, so there’s that.

We’re waiting on Keith to do the lawn, then we can get back out in the garden to plant more seeds. I’ve chosen yellow tomatoes this year. A 3’ x 6’ bed instead of the 4’ x 8’ bed.

I didn’t get the beans in but will do so today. Yesterday was quilt group, in which sadly, nobody could help me fix my messy heart block. Then to pick up my new toaster oven.

When I returned, Neeko needed zoomie time out back. Now he’s sulking because supervising the lawn guy is not allowed.

 

[slowpoke]

Fuyu persimmons from my next-door neighbor’s tree. The tree hangs over the wall between our properties, and they always urge me to pick as much as I want. Lucky me. Such beautiful fruit!

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

^Pretty tree. Fruit looks delicious.

 

[iamshadow21]

Not brownies today, though you could easily be forgiven for thinking so from the picture.

It's one of my favourite bakes that I haven't done in years, from a recipe book old enough that it refers to the butter as fat. It's a date and walnut cake, and it smells like heaven.

 

[iamshadow21]

Oh, and I found I do have a twelve cup muffin tin! It was right up the back of my baking pan cupboard, I found it when looking vainly for my cooling racks, which I think must be in the storage shed with the bulk of my collection of cast iron cookware. I think I ended up given the twelve cup tin by someone at some point because they didn't want it any more. It had remnants of their last bake plus a surface coating of chewing gum like oil residue between the cups which was super gross. I ended up having to use steel wool on it despite it being nonstick because it would not come off with soaking and my dishcloth. I think it's pretty good, now, but it may get one final clean before I deem it Safe For Partner. Coeliac is no joke, and I have no wish to poison her with baked goods. I suspect the pan may have been used for Yorkshire puddings; I don't know how else it would end up with so much cooked on oil between the cups.

 

[Seni]

Oh, and I found I do have a twelve cup muffin tin! It was right up the back of my baking pan cupboard, I found it when looking vainly for my cooling racks, which I think must be in the storage shed with the bulk of my collection of cast iron cookware. I think I ended up given the twelve cup tin by someone at some point because they didn't want it any more. It had remnants of their last bake plus a surface coating of chewing gum like oil residue between the cups which was super gross. I ended up having to use steel wool on it despite it being nonstick because it would not come off with soaking and my dishcloth. I think it's pretty good, now, but it may get one final clean before I deem it Safe For Partner. Coeliac is no joke, and I have no wish to poison her with baked goods. I suspect the pan may have been used for Yorkshire puddings; I don't know how else it would end up with so much cooked on oil between the cups.

Try soaking the tray in Coca Cola for a couple of hours and then scrub again.

 

[IceIce9]

My daughter made browned butter pumpkin oatmeal cookies today and they were delicious. I’ll have to get the recipe.

 

[iamshadow21]

Try soaking the tray in Coca Cola for a couple of hours and then scrub again.

The steel wool worked, and the Coke soak sounds expensive. There's no way we have enough to fill a sink deep enough to immerse the pan in the few cans my partner has. I would have had to go out and buy bottles, which are like $4 for a 1.25L right now.

 

[Seni]

Just fill the cups. Leave tray covered to rims. Should not need more than 2 cans if it is 12 cups. It was just a suggestion that worked for me.

 

[IceIce9]

Just fill the cups. Leave tray covered to rims. Should not need more than 2 cans if it is 12 cups. It was just a suggestion that worked for me.

“Coke Clean” was a method taught in high school shop class years ago. I think it works well on oven racks too.