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Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Reply #825 on: January 18, 2025, 09:53:54 PM »
Mom sprayed oven cleaner in the toaster oven. Gonna need a new toaster oven.

You gotta love the internet.  Apparently, you are not alone.
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-bad-that-I-cleaned-my-toaster-oven-With-Easy-Off-and-VIM-It-has-a-strong-chemical-odor-but-I-know-these-chemicals-were-meant-to-clean-this-stuff-I-was-told-to-get-rid-of-my-toaster-oven-now-and-buy-a-new-one

Meh.  I looked into this and the likelihood of a thorough neutralization of the sodium hydroxide with 5% vinegar solution (the concentration found in most commercial food vinegars) is not reassuring.  Part of this depends on whether she went full bore with a can of Easy Off on the entire interior.  If so, then I suspect you are right.  It's probably best to get another toaster oven.  If she only cleaned the trays with it, that's another matter and probably reparable via a thorough washing and cleaning with vinegar.  I suspect you are concerned because of the former.  People often give away toaster ovens when they move so perhaps Freecycle is a good option.  My stepmother died with an oven that was practically new so I donated it.  Hopefully, you'll get lucky.
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« Reply #826 on: January 22, 2025, 08:35:33 AM »
Today I had the usual breakfast:
Earl Grey tea and cream scones with blackberry jam and a marmalade made from blood orange, meyer lemon and hibiscus.  When you live in a place that has plenty of native citrus, you take advantage.  As for the Eastern U.S., I'm going to have to learn to make jam from snow, apparently.  The bunnies are still out hopping around, which is impressive given it's been below freezing for days on end.  They must store up body fat and have a nice little place to hole up in with all that nice fur to keep them warm.

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« Reply #827 on: January 23, 2025, 09:13:05 AM »
Last night after whipping up a batch of cream scones, I watched them sit there in the oven failing to rise.  Later I realized that although I'd gotten out the baking powder, I'd forgotten to add it to the dough mix.  The end results resembled small hockey pucks.  They went into the trash.

I won't do that again.

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« Reply #828 on: January 25, 2025, 10:11:34 AM »
Scones are much better when you use leavening.

I had a turkey sandwich for lunch.  Just bread mustard and thinly sliced smoked turkey.  Nothing to write home about but it was easy to assemble and required little clean up afterwards.

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« Reply #829 on: January 26, 2025, 08:32:09 AM »
Fresh wild caught haddock was on sale and so I got a couple pounds.  We had it for dinner.  This is a luxury as there wasn't affordable fish when we lived on the West Coast.  I brought a rod along out here so maybe I'll get a chance to go fishing here.  It's lots easier to let others do the gathering but fishing is a satisfying activity -- knowing where one's food came from is usually a good thing.

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Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Reply #830 on: February 01, 2025, 11:51:11 PM »
Whatever is in the freezer and doesn't take too much energy.
Some fake chicken patties (Quorn) with some salsa on top for lunch.  Not very inspiring.
Dinner:  some vegetable soup I thawed out and it was delicious but not real stick to your ribs stuff so I'm chomping on nuts later in the evening.

Tomorrow, I swear, I'll go grocery shopping. 

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« Reply #831 on: February 03, 2025, 08:04:13 AM »
Do they have Trader Joes in the UK?  Probably not, even though it's a German chain.  They have lots of nice prepared foods.  I got a Greek salad yesterday and it was dinner.  Fresh and I didn't have to do much other than toss the dressing in and voila!  Dinner.

I have to cook stuff in the next few days but for now I'm happy to nuke stuff from there.   I imagine that people who work a lot or have kids live at that store.

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« Reply #832 on: Today at 08:47:18 AM »
Tea and a maple walnut muffin with dates.  I finally got to cook a little.  More over the weekend.