• 888 Costco + Kit Kats + bad food

    From MICHAEL LOO@1:123/140 to JIM WELLER on Monday, June 18, 2018 02:15:40
    Lynnie Sacerdote swore by the chicken bake,
    which she made me try once, much to the
    detriment of my digestion. It was in fact
    an umami bomb, and if you're into that kind
    of thing, not bad for the price.
    I've never been in a Costco or tasted their Chicken Bake, got
    curious, found this ...
    From: Reddit via www.thekitchn.com
    Costco's Chicken Bakes

    Seems about right, almost identical to what I found
    credited to Reader's Digest.

    On Reddit a user claiming to be a Costco food court employee said
    that the frozen chicken bakes sold in the Costco warehouse are
    nothing like the famous chicken bakes at the Costco food court. If
    you've ever tried the famous chicken bakes at the Costco food court,
    you know what a big deal this is.

    An interesting notion, and the company is
    uncharacteristically shooting itself in the
    foot if true. Maybe an echo picnic experiment
    might be in order.

    "As someone that used to work in the food court at Costco, I will
    tell you that the frozen chicken bakes they sell are not anywhere
    near the same as the ones that we made at the food court," wrote a
    user going by ricecracker420. "Food court ones are superior in every
    way."

    For sure a subject for investigation.

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    I forget where those Kit Kats came from
    Could have been Yellowknife! My Loblaws carries them.
    Could perhaps have been, but if so they
    weren't from me. Did you send a package to
    the echo pic in '15 (I looked it up, and
    they appeared on the Shipps' table that year)?
    I vaguely remember sending some sort of Canadian candy bar to him
    prior to a picnic some time ago, maybe 2014. Something made by
    Cadbury that isn't sold in the USA. Cadbury Fruit & Nut bars maybe.

    Everything Cadbury is available in the US,
    some only in specialty Anglophile stores,
    others in watered-down Hersheyish versions.

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    Kidneys need that second round of butter but I wouldn't want
    to eat the fish that did!

    So there was a memorial dinner for Nicholas at
    No. 9 Park with a menu dictated by him before
    his death. It featured kidneys (his main complaint
    was renal failure). I wasn't invited, whether by
    his direction (what did I do?) or by Lee's faulty
    execution I don't know.

    Rognons de veau au Noilly et a la moutarde
    categories: French, offal, main, Michelin **
    servings: 3 or 4

    2 veal kidneys
    flour
    3.5 oz butter
    s & p
    8 oz Noilly Prat [white vermouth, warmed]
    [1 oz Cognac, warmed]
    2 Tb Dijon-style mustard
    1 Tb butter

    [M's note: stuff in brackets is not in original]

    Clean the kidneys and slice them very thin. Flour
    them lightly. Brown the slices in the butter over
    high heat for 5 min. Salt and pepper them. Remove
    the slices to a warm platter and keep warm.

    Deglaze with the vermouth, which you have heated
    for 2 min beforehand. Flambe this [if it won't
    flambe, cheat and flambe with the Cognac]. Reduce
    the liquid a while and mix in the mustard well.
    Swirl in the butter and pour the sauce over the
    kidneys.

    Conseil du chef: Goes well with homemade noodles.

    Jacotte Brazier, "La Mere Brazier"
    12, rue Royale
    69001 Lyon
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