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On Friday afternoon, I made a batch (three 8 oz. jars) of “seedless” blackberry jam. I do run the blackberries through a contraption with a crank and a metal blade and egg-shaped wooden piece. It takes out a lot of seeds, but some still get through. I have another three cups of the blackberry puree that results, so I’m hoping for enough additional blackberries to get to four cups. The blackberries come from our terrace and from our woodlands.
Aldi's has a "vulnerable" time on Tuesday and Thursday, from 8:30-9:30 a.m. So, when we go, it is on one of those days at that time. The Walmart was not that crowded. My husband did note that someone at the door was keeping track of how many people entered and exited.
The biggest issue was that people are either ignoring or do not realize that aisles are supposed to be one-way. It is written on the floor, so I think a lot of people miss it, and of course there is the "just grabbing the one thing I forgot." If they want one-way aisles to work, they will need to put up signs at eye level.
Even before the pandemic, we would choose off-times to shop to avoid crowds.
I also thought that they gave Bob's Red Mill short shrift. I prefer their bread flour to King Arthur's, and I am very happy with their whole wheat. I'm only sorry that they stopped carrying their white whole wheat, not to mention their unbleached cake flour.
I guessed correctly.
Non Sequitur has a relevant comic today:
Your bread sounds tasty, Skeptic.
It is time for another blueberry dessert. I have a recipe from an old issue of Bon Appetit (back when they were doing features with recipes for whole meals) for Fresh Blueberry Tart. I decided to try it, using a ¾ recipe of my oil pie crust rather than what looks like a delicious butter shortbread crust. (sigh) The recipe specifies a 10-inch tart pan, but of course what I have are 11-inch and 9 ½ inch, so I used the smaller one. I blind baked the crust, then cooled it.
The filling, with 2 cups of the blueberries mashed, is cooked on the stove top, then mixed with the other 4 cups of fresh blueberries before being put into the tart shell and refrigerated for at least an hour. The ring came off nicely from around the tart, and I was able to slide a very large “cake mover” underneath to get it off the tart pan bottom and onto a platter. It cuts nicely and makes for a nice presentation. I like the fresh flavor of the four cups of uncooked blueberries give it; my husband says he prefers the blueberries cooked, as in a regular pie, but he still ate all of his slice.
For Thursday dinner, my husband roasted the remaining “pandemic turkey” that has been in our freezer since March. I made gravy with the drippings, and we had it over noodles. Microwaved fresh broccoli completed the meal.
I missed it, but my botanist husband knew it.
I knew it was not American, since that would be Black Walnut.
BTW, Mike, your answer makes a nice almost rhyme.
The director of our lake environmental coalition sent this info out on our local area list. I don't know if we have received any seeds because the utility company did some work in front of our mailboxes, and then did an asphalt repair on Monday. The cones are still up around it, and the end result is no mail delivery for us.
Indiana did move into some phases (gatherings of 200) more quickly than it should have done, especially given the lack of testing and contact tracing, and the inability to track what is happening in locales with many summer visitors. (Their cases are counted in their home counties, even if they have been here for months.)
I'm amazed that so many people--whatever their ages--are acting like rebellious teenagers. In some cases, people just did not have a clue that we are in this for the long run, and that a vaccine that ends it for good may not even be in the cards.
The story is behind a paywall.
For the first time since the first week of March, my husband and I shopped at Walmart in the next town on Tuesday. We went back only because of the mandatory mask order in our county and state, and Walmart's statement that masks are required. Everyone we saw was in compliance, as was also the case in Aldi's and Kroger.
Our governor decided not to include a fine for not wearing a mask, but he did include, in all bold caps, that if the state numbers do not improve, Indiana would be forced to return to an earlier phase of the reopening plan. We are in this mess in part because he pushed too fast with that reopening plan, so reality has bitten.
I was able to find two bags of KAF flour at Walmart for $3.49 a bag, which is a better price than the $4.99 that Kroger charges. And of course Bakers Authority immediately announced a discount offer....
I guessed and missed.
I was forced to get a new phone as mine is being rendered obsolete by the upgraded network. It was perhaps six or seven years old? And manufacturers have found new and amazing ways to befuddle us, while refusing to give us a straightforward operator's manual.
Great dinner experimentation tonight at Chocomouse's and Cwcdesign's kitchens!
We had leftovers, which is a good thing because I bought a new phone today, and just spent several hours on chat trying to troubleshoot how to turn off the very irritating Voice Assistant. I later googled it and learned that it is under Vision and Screen Reader--neither of which I associate with audio.
It is going to take me a while to get comfortable with this new phone.
Mike--I edited my post (and unchecked the keep a reply box) and it disappeared when I tried to submit it. Is it in the spam file?
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