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I buy one of those roasted chickens at the grocery store and tear off the meat to put on toasted English muffins with a bit of mayo and salt & pepper. Mmm.

It's almost impossible to find decent apples in the supermarket these days. Even the Macintosh apples are usually garbage. I've had far too many tasteless, mealy apples of any variety to buy them from big stores anymore. (How come they taste so awful, anyway??) But one variety I discovered many years ago, which are difficult to find, is the Mutsu apple. Crisp, juicy, sweet and big...Yum. Off the beaten path, but worth the extra effort to find them.

I can't help wondering why people taking pictures of their food is so bad. After all, people have been taking pictures of each other in restaurants for years. Any gathering of more than half a dozen people usually has someone snapping a few photos for posterity. I've never heard of anyone complaining about that...why is taking photos of food any different?

Funny...I'd never heard of serving lettuce like that either, and now this is the second time in two days that I have. (First time was on Pioneer Woman's site just yesterday.) At first glance, it seems like it might be a little boring, but I guess if you have a fabulous dressing, it makes up for a lot.

I can only imagine that the folks at Glad, and other companies that manufacture plastic trashcan liners, are laughing all the way to the bank about the trend toward banning plastic grocery bags. As an apartment dweller, if I can't reuse my plastic grocery bags for my garbage, I'll have to purchase trashcan liners. I'd really be annoyed if I had to do that. Plastic grocery bags are the perfect garbage disposal container for apartment dwellers...they're free, and they have handles that make them perfect for tying shut and carrying the bag (or several of them) to the garbage chute.

I suspect the reduction in plastic consumption by banning plastic garbage bags would be mostly offset by the increase in consumption of specialized trashcan liners.

Cheese curds are sold as a snack food in many parts of eastern Ontario and Quebec. Sold in small plastic bags, they're pea-sized to thumb-sized bits of salty-sour-creamy goodness with a delightful squeak-on-the-teeth texture. You can even hear them squeak as you chew. Yum. It's kind of like a soft, rubbery cheddar. The only way I've seen them used besides eaten plain out of the bag is on a heart-clogging but delicious Quebec treat called poutine (poo-TIN)...french fries covered with a layer of crumbled curds and then lots of hot gravy poured over the whole thing. Melts the curds and gets all over everything. It's street food heaven.