Chat-a-Thon 2017-18 Thread!

[flemeth]

Good morning everyone.

Happy Saturday

My home phone was not working for the last 3 days a technician was supposed to come out yesterday between 12-5 but no one show up waited until 7 to call to learn that the ticket was not written correctly to say what kind of technician sound like an excuse to me so now it’s booked for today at the same time . What a waste of my day

[flemeth]

Good morning everyone

Happy Sunday

[walkonby]

Good afternoon! Plenty of kitchen busy time for me today. Happy Sunday all.

p.s. Canada won the Gold ( 3rd time Gold medalists ) against Czechia in the Hlinka/Gretzky Cup!
https://chl.ca/ohl/article/canada-ou...a-gretzky-cup/

[GoJays]

[GoJays]

[flemeth]

Good morning everyone

Happy Monday . It’s going to be a busy day here lots errands to do.

[walkonby]

Happy start of the work week all. Question: has anyone ever lost their petcock?


I was beside myself this morning after pressure cooking up the soaked beans for the chili.
They only require 5 minutes to fully cook and not be mushy.
After allowing the steam to escape, I removed the petcock and drained the beans in the sink.
It was when washing out the pot and lid that I realized the petcock was NOWHERE!!
Panic only set in when I had traced my steps over and over. Then VOILA!
I looked at the huge bowl of chili sitting on the stove and took 2 slotted spoons to go petcock
fishing. It was there! Buried deep in the bottom of the bowl.
Sure I can laugh about it now BUT.....what if heaven forbid one of the guys had scooped up a
serving to reheat and that damn metal thing went into our microwave?
Disaster thwarted. Whew!

[flemeth]

Good morning everyone

[flemeth]

Good morning everyone

[walkonby]

Good day flemeth. Seems so quiet at this point, I do have to fill the vehicle with gas but not feeling the urge to get dressed just yet.

On August 8th I bought a bunch of bananas and intentionally bought them as unripe as possible ( green ) so they would not ripen too
early. This morning they are rock hard and still green?? Well....I've now learned something about bananas that I never knew before.
Apparently these are ungassed bananas.

Google told me this:

Ungassed bananas have not been force-ripened by packing them with ethylene gas while being shipped.
If you put the bananas in a cloth or paper bag, they will naturally produce ethylene and become ripe.
I told DH and he never heard about this either. We've placed them in paper bags to see if they will ripen.

[flemeth]

@walkonby not sure if you have a Loblaws or Zhers close to you but the Flash offer that ends today 8000/$25 on Poultry is an great deal especially if you have the digital coupon download to your PC account for 8000/$50 spent on Poultry/ Pork. I know how you loved to cook for your family

[walkonby]

ty @flemeth I had already left for FreshCo before I read this post of yours. Went mainly for the sale celery, green onions and butter ( no butter left, got a raincheck ). We have a very large pork loin in the freezer atm and the last tray of skl/bnl chx breasts in there DH is planning on using to make chicken Parmesan for the weekend. He'll want to make his usual pot full of pasta with meat sauce to go with the Parmesan so I grabbed him 3 small trays of the ground beef/pork mixture marked down to $4.00 each. Another good find was the Boursin soft cheese was on sale for $4.99, I grabbed 4.
When paying I had no idea I had $30.00 in Scene money to reduce my bill with! yahoo!
On the drive back I heard on 680 that gas will drop 3 freaking cents at midnight!! of course it will since I filled right up before hitting FreshCo.
Save on one hand, pay out more with the other.....

[GoJays]

[GoJays]

[flemeth]

Good morning everyone.