Cacio e pepe with fresh bucatini (nyt recipe - simple and delicious indeed)
penne with Parma
raw veggies
sourdough toast with chocolate almond butter and peanut-pecan butter (separate)

Another carb fest.
I have not heard of chocolate almond butter or peanut pecan butter. Are these dessert things like nutella?

these nut butters are made in NC


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Those look good. I love peanut butter on apples &I am sure those would be yummy. They are a bit too pricey for me.

I prefer Safeway organic crunchy peanut butter more at $6.99 for a big jar compared to this peanut-pecan but I’m glad to have bought it. The chocolate almond butter is nice and not replicated elsewhere.
I’ll try the Fiji ginger almond butter in the future. I’ve already loved the coconut one.

one day I’ll just buy Costco almond butter to compare :-)

I wish a couple more of those jars were turned around. The peanut pecan looks good to me. The Fiji ginger less so. I would probably not even try the maple cinnamon.

I've tried plenty of those organic peanut butters and if I'm being completely honest none of them holds a match to Kraft.

The two left ones are what I’ve already bought: toasted coconut almond butter and chocolate almond butter, both with sea salt. I too refuse to buy the maple syrup one :-)

If it’s Kraft 100% peanuts plus salt, then sure I’ll agree. I don’t want any of the peanut butters unless it’s 100% peanut & salt. Plus crunchy.
there are too many peanut butter skus with sugar, Palm, or other weird ingredients; sometimes it’s because of “no stir” or “no refrigeration”

also in USA I don’t recall Kraft having a peanut butter; JM Smuckers (formerly P&G) have most of the shelf space besides private label. I don’t even know if Unilever / Nestle carry a peanut butter. Also I didn’t know that peanut butter was popular in Australia.

I am shocked that you don't buy your peanut butter at Costco. 2 huge jars of Skippy super chunk shrink wrapped together. I can't remember the price but it is often on sale and I am sure the 2 jars sell for what you are paying for one jar of store brand. Not organic but I don't care.

The major brands all include sugar. It's the reason I don't buy them...not only is it too sweet but why should there be sugar in peanut butter?

No Adams (Smucker brand) where you are? You can even get it in a nothing-added version.

Because it's addictive and (excessive) sweet(ness) is, apparently, what the North American (primarily U.S.) market appears to crave.

Re: the Adam's PB, I guess Smucker gets you with the grape jelly.

Kraft has been pushing a no-sugar PB in Canada but I have never been tempted by their pricing to even have a look at the ingredients.

No PB but finishing the second and last round of supposedly black angus burgers tonight.

Have some skin-on side pork that I will try to make lard rôti for lunch tomorrow (would have been for dinner but a friend is visiting). Bought a lot of marked-down side pork in the past week and 2 slabs/2 Kg are salting right in step 1 of being turned into pancetta.

Never heard of Adams, but you can get a Smucker brand natural peanut butter with no sugar just about anywhere. I usually buy that or Teddie, the other widely available no-sugar brand.

The only annoying thing about it is the need to stir. I always seem to make a mess.

Adams is/was WA-based so might be a regional label.. Probably the same product as the Smucker with a different label/container.

cacio e Pepe with fresh spaghetti
baked potatoes - one with cheese mix; one with butter
assd raw vegetables
bagel with cream cheese

I’m not buying non-organic peanut butter unless it’s mega small batch. I keep hoping to see an organic crunchy peanut butter at Costco.

Yes! This is it.

this is where I do study ingredients. Some majors have only 100% peanuts with salt as ingredients.

I love stirring! It’s fun. Adams is a staple at major supermarkets.
anyway I do enjoy peanut butter toast for supper.

Thanks. I was too lazy. There are only a couple there that I think I would try. Too many sweet versions. The peanut butter for dogs crack me up. Our dog doesn't need a special gourmet peanut butter, he'll eat whatever brand we give him as a treat and like it, gosh darn it.

Very excited for some roast mallard tonight, with juniper berries, sloe gin and apple.

Hunting season where you are and a shot gun handy, or did you net some unwitting fowl in your local pond?

Never had the opportunity to taste a wild waterfowl.

:D

Every time I see the local wild turkeys and geese, the thought crosses my mind...

I'm exhausted from working the polls yesterday and then working my full-time job today, so I finally gave in and ordered nachos through DoorDash.

On another (cheap shopper) forum I participate in, I was given that smart answer in reply to a question about cheap fresh turkeys. There are reportedly urban flocks in Toronto and Ottawa (their range is nowhere near where I am though).

Pizza (not Panic) - half cheese; half vegetable (onion, black olive, mushroom, banana peppers)
mixed green salad

Road kill?
;)

A large fishing net was suggested

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Yesterday's lunch (and tonight's dinner). Lard rôti or roasted side pork belly. Been trying to figure how to make it since coming across it in Brittany 8 or so years ago. The French recipes I've been finding and using online (it seems largely unknown to the French who are not Bretons) haven;t worked too well if at all.

Ended up using this recipe that ironically came from my local mainstream paper.

With different spicing (apparently garlic and Chinese five spice), the cooking technique can be easily used for making Cantonese roast pork.

Gorgeous! Love how this works for different cultural cuisines.

Shake Shack double cheeseburger !! Mango & pear at home .. no Frozen Custard :( or shake !! Long story

Haven’t seen you mention ice cream in quite some time. Not eating it, or just leaving it off your lists?

It's been an exhausting week, so we're getting Lebanese food delivered. Mmmm :)

i sometimes post the meal before dessert. Last night I had a Fat Boy ice cream sandwich square.

Actually we are short on waffle cones.

why? What happened???

Mega yummy :-)

A rare outing...happy hour. I had delicious carnitas quesadilla with chipotle cream and guac. 2 mezcal cocktails. I am stuffed.

broiled salmon
Baked potatoes with random toppings
mixed green salad

Haagen daaz chocolate
Robbins rocky road & peanut butter chocolate
Haagen daaz chocolate & Haagen daaz vanilla & B&J milk & cookies

cigarettes? So fun!!

:confused:

:confused:

Well , short version : the person getting the items from Shake Shack did not listen to instructions . We were supposed to have gone together , so after waiting 2 hours , I realised she had already bought them after trying to reach her . This was while I was elsewhere waiting for her as arranged .

ugh. Sorry about that!

I'd be taking a guess, but I'd say after Vegemite peanut butter is the most popular spread.

Actually, Kraft sold it's Australian business (they also owned Vegemite) to Bega a few years ago. So it's Bega peanut butter now. There was a court case over the branding, which Bega made identical to the old Kraft logo probably because it has such strong brand recognition. Tastes exactly the same.

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Mixed green salad
hot smoked salmon
buttered sourdough toast