New items you’ve purchased at the grocery store

Great idea! Maybe to lightly sweeten hibiscus tea.

Great idea! Thxs

Enjoy it while it’s cheap! Before too long, it’ll be the next tongue/oxtail, and instead of paying $2, you’ll be forking out $12 or $22!

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Lately, I’ve been finding lamb breast plates for cheap. I hope people hate lamb more and more over time. I love lamb!

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I’ve gotten tuna collar at USQ. They’re like $4 each - it’s almost crazy.

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Took your suggestion and also added fresh pineapple juice.

That is a great idea, and might be the perfect thing for pineapple rinds. Where’d you get that press pitcher? Kinda smitten with that thing. Or, is it just a press plunger from a coffee unit on a pitcher?

Amazon. I initially bought it for loose leaf sun tea. It’s great for filtering out bits. Just be sure that you rinse it out very well and air dry it btwn uses so the cap stays super clean. You can’t disassemble the parts to the top.

https://www.amazon.com/Classic-Cuisine-82-KIT1071-Pitcher-Carafe-Stainless/dp/B07CR7YBBN/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=OHnAo&content-id=amzn1.sym.255b3518-6e7f-495c-8611-30a58648072e%3Aamzn1.symc.a68f4ca3-28dc-4388-a2cf-24672c480d8f&pf_rd_p=255b3518-6e7f-495c-8611-30a58648072e&pf_rd_r=X0WHHQXW1RR3Q0MDMCPR&pd_rd_wg=LVVsh&pd_rd_r=3ba747a8-342f-4c7c-91e8-9d139d3c1fb9&ref_=pd_hp_d_atf_ci_mcx_mr_ca_hp_atf_d&th=1

Anyone find these at the grocer yet?

I’ve read that they have no choice in the matter, with Canadian regs prescribing specific levels of added sodium nitrite or sodium nitrate if a meat product is to be labeled as a cured meat.

So while I quite agree that celery nitrates are nitrates, and celery-derived nitrites are nitrites, manufacturers of the celery-based cured meats would get in hot water for calling their product cured.

Edit to add - “uncured” is required by law in the US as well, so they’d get in trouble here, too, if they labeled it “cured”.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/the-uncured-bacon-illusion-its-actually-cured-and-its-not-better-for-you/2019/04/19/0c89630c-608c-11e9-9ff2-abc984dc9eec_story.html

It seems several makers don’t want the confusion, either, and have petitioned the USDA (along with consumer protection groups) to add plant-based nitrates/nitrites to its approved list of curing agents, but I don’t think it has done so yet.

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Glad I read the whole package. At first glance, I didn’t know that was ice cream in the middle. I thought "dayamn that’s a wholelotta glaze/frosting. " Phew!

I didn’t know all this. I was wondering why this uncured foolishness started popping up on bacon. Side pork, or pork belly would be uncured bacon me thinks. That said, one of my favorite pork seasonings is a local one called Pleasoning; makes “uncured” pork sing.

Good catch. The word ice cream should be larger since new product location is key!

I just heard of these for the first time this morning. I’m almost tempted to try making some.

If you enjoy flavorful but mild dried garlic, this brand is deliciously fresh and enjoyable in so many recipes.
Tasting notes listed on the label:
Shiitake mushroom, olive oil, parmesan, caramelized onion. Umami.

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Interesting! Are those flavors or ingredients

“Tasting notes.”

Def tasting notes.

Thanks all!

:grimacing:

Secretly looking up “what are tasting notes ?”

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The link I added explains the process used to create dried pink garlic into their house garlic at the company link.

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