Since Hunt's Tomato Paste was often hard to find last year, I ordered 24 6-ounce cans from Amazon. Each can is to $0.72, a good price, I believe. At least I will not have to search stores if I need a can. I painstakingly lifted each can and examined for dents. Thankfully, there were none.
I started using tomato paste in meatloaf and on top to avoid the sugar in catsup. Plus, I use it in soups. The 'best by' date in December 2022.
A tart pan in with the tomato paste is dented! The nail topcoat is the wrong brand! Actually, I did not order topcoat of any kind. Such confusion. But, now that I am straightened out and the order is straightened out...okay, the topcoat came from WM. I am so confused.
Tommy is getting better at helping me load dishes. Like I said, I hold onto the counter to bend and he hands me dishes. You know how things fit in a certain way? Well, mostly he handed me things willy-nilly. Now, he is getting it. As I staggered away to sit down, I noticed he grabbed a dish towel and was wiping down the sink where water was on the edges of the sink and on the divider between the sinks. He was totally oblivious to water before...lol.
I took the first two generic Cymbalta Friday night and Saturday night, and the next two days, Saturday and Sunday, I was hungover until an about an hour before time for the next dose. However, today, Monday, I was not hungover at all. I am so thankful that stage passed.
It is so much easier to use butter at room temperature rather than frozen or refrigerated. Why? Do you ever consider this to be a problem? I was so frustrated and wondered why butter left out of the refrigerator was suddenly so hard. Now, I think I know why. Butter that is hard at room temperature probably has palm oil in it. Cabot Butter was the brand. Never again!
Have you found that butter is sometimes hard at room temperature?
I often leave the butter (real butter, lightly salted) on the table in a glass butter dish. I don't keep it out of refrigerator long this way but 3 days or so has never caused us a problem. I don't know how unsalted butter would hold up. Frozen butter is almost impossible for me to saw through to get some to cook with or put on toast. I keep the rest of the pound of butter in its original box in the refrigerator, in a quart sized zip locked bag so it doesn't pick up any weird odors from the fridge like garlic, or onion that was used in leftovers stored in there. I'm particular about my butter and use Land O Lakes.I miss seeing the beautiful Native American on the current boxes.
ReplyDeleteI have never tried Cabot butter, it shouldn't be called butter if it has Palm oil in it. I have never heard of butter becoming hard out of the refrigerator.
My Grandparents down in Southeast Missouri had dairy cows. My Grandma would use a lot of the milk that my Grandpa milked from the cows to make butter. She was always churning butter and sold a lot of it to neighbors and people they knew. Anytime we went down to see them either my Dad or my Uncle, who were young muscular men at the time, were asked by Grandma if one or the other would churn the butter for her. Grandma had a wooden butter mold with a thistle carved in the wood. She would pack butter into that mold and make the butter look real fancy. She made the best butter I ever tasted. I was a very young girl back then and I still remember how good the milk, cream and butter was at their house. They must have had some really good dairy cows, but I don't remember what kind now, and nobody in the family is old enough to remember either.
susie,
DeleteI think that butter without salt stays out of refrigerator better. I forgot what I read about that. But, Mama had it on a saucer or maybe we had a butter dish with cover. I have not much recollection of what, but I do know that with 7 people using butter, it was not out long.
I don't think I have ever had fresh butter. But, I do know I hated cow's milk at my great aunt's house. Those are very good memories you have. Write all this down for your kids because they might forget it.
I miss the Indian, too. I am part native-American and it does not offend me. Oh well!
Thanks for the comment and good information and memories.
I use only real butter, never anything with oil added, but I have added olive oil myself to softened butter to make a spreadable version for dinner occasionally.
ReplyDeleteThe only time my butter ever hardens at room temperature is if the room is very cold in the wintertime.
Anne,
DeleteThe next time I see that butter, I plan to check and see if there is palm oil in it. My butter gets cold in the cold kitchen, mostly in summer because it is near the ac/heat vent. It would stay warmer in the winter.
Butter that is hard at room temperature is in a cold room! Haha!
ReplyDeleteCabot butter is made from cream only. There is absolutely no palm oil in it. I've never had a stick go hard on me after taking it out of the refrigerator. Perhaps your butter was old.
If you want some really tasty butter, try Kerrygold.
B
Sue,
DeleteI think I have may maligned Cabot without reason...lol. I just read there is no palm oil, too. His kitchen is always cold.No, it was not old. It did not go hard, it just stayed hard. I have heard Kerrygold is delicious. Maybe when I will buy some.
Aaahhh, how to stack the dishwasher correctly. Apparently that is one of the major complaints in divorce filings - an inability to stack the dishwasher properly! I swear my ex would have put that down as to why we should divorce (had he not got himself a girlfriend, which kinda messed with my "unreasonable dishwasher behaviour" story)!
ReplyDeleteTreaders,
DeleteLOL...He has only loaded a dishwasher about twice and decided he would just wash them. That was 40 years ago! So, he knows nothing about it. I sort of talk and say what I am doing and why. It is not that I ever think he would spontaneously load it or even do it if I told him to or asked him to. I do have to tell him which dish to hand me! He would have trouble loading the dishwasher alone because he needs the counter or walker to move. He would probably load up the seat to the walker and push it to the dishwasher...lol.
I am quite sure that is correct about loading the dishwasher as a reason for divorce. I wonder if the girlfriend notices the way he loads it.
It is a good story that you can tell about his "unreasonable dishwasher behaviour." Thanks for the story.
Now that you mention it, the butter was kept out of the fridge back when I was growing up and was always soft. Butter I leave out now is rarely soft. I wonder if it has to do with the salt? I will have to read up on it.
ReplyDeleteBelinda,
DeleteOf course, there was no ac in our house. But, I still think it is not just my memory. I forgot what the article said about salt. I think I am going to put the butter into the one room without the ac vent open and see if the warm room makes it soft as it was when I was a child.
I think it is cute how Tommy now "sees" things like the water that needs to be wiped up. It really is a continuous training or retraining process isn't it. lol. My husband always wipes the stainless steel sinks out now after getting any water in them. We keep a towel on hand just for that. I told him I didn't want to be fighting hard water spots.
ReplyDeleteTake care.
Crystal,
DeleteYes, cute. He really pays attention and I am surprised. Tommy has hard water, too.
Room temperature here is so hot we don't dare keep the butter out.
ReplyDeleteUrspo,
DeleteThat is really hot. Our ac runs nonstop!