[Mike Nolan]

Chicken breasts on the grill with potato salad on the side.

[Mike Nolan]

I'm making potato salad to go with burgers on the grill.

[Mike Nolan]

I made honey wheat bread today.

[Mike Nolan]

Nutmeg used to be used as a meat preservative, if you look at recipes from colonial days they would grund up 2 or 3 nutmegs to preserve a few pounds of beef. (And nutmeg wasn't a cheap spice then, either.)

[Mike Nolan]

The USDA's database says that a teaspoon of ground nutmeg is 2.2 grams and a tablespoon is 7 grams. (Yeah, that doesn't add up.)

I weighed several whole nutmegs on my microscale (1/10 gram increments) and they ranged from 2.2 grams to 4.7 grams.

[Mike Nolan]

We did go to LaMars this morning for our free donuts, but we also bought a dozen of them, most of which went in the freezer. (They freeze very well.)

[Mike Nolan]

This may bring up a picture of the one I have, one half is black the other half is clear:

https://www.google.com/search?q=microplane+nutmeg+picture&client=firefox-b-1-ab&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=3dqwJ5lW6QccrM%253A%252CTQJAkX9I-KGLeM%252C_&usg=__ZzWL2Y1vRIAmvbZzeoA0hzaqrY4%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiglMTM7bPbAhWT3oMKHc7SAkkQ9QEILTAB#imgrc=3dqwJ5lW6QccrM:

I'm guessing it broke too easily, I know mine has a few cracks where the two halves go together.

Too bad, it is much easier to use than the other nutmeg grinders I've used.

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[Mike Nolan]

I couldn't find it either, I guess it's been discontinued. I found it at a store in Ottawa CA several years ago. I also saw it at an outlet mall in Iowa a few years ago, but I haven't looked for it lately.

[Mike Nolan]

The Microplane folks make a nutmeg grinder, it's kind of egg-shaped, half of it is for storing whole nutmegs the other half is for the grated nutmeg. Just don't drop it on the floor, it's a little fragile compared to most Microplane products.

[Mike Nolan]

Bay leaf is a very strong and persistent spice.

There are two or three different types of bay leaves, Penze's are the good ones. That's one spice I always buy from them.

[Mike Nolan]

Burgers on the grill tonight.

[Mike Nolan]

I remember my sister making donuts a few times, but we don't have a deep fat fryer, and it seems like so much work when LaMars is only a few miles away and makes far better donuts than I could hope to.

[Mike Nolan]

It sounds like he had a full life well-lived.

[Mike Nolan]

I've made that donut muffins recipe several times, I make them in a mini-muffin pan so they're almost like donut holes. It's a good recipe, but you need to be careful with the nutmeg. It needs a little, but not too much.

I've never thought Krispy Kreme was worth the fuss, or the carbs. And forget Dunkin Donuts, even though they opened one just a few blocks from us, they don't even make them on-site any more.,

LaMars makes a really good cake donut, but my wife prefers their glazed raised.

[Mike Nolan]

Panko has the advantage of having already been cooked, semolina and couscous are both still raw durum wheat and probably wouldn't work well in a dry cooking environment, they need to have water or oil available to soften them.

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