Minimal food activity today. Early on, I cored, peeled, and sliced about ten more apples for the dehydrator. The canner's hymnal, the Ball Blue Book, has a recipe for apple-cinnmon conserve (page 71, if you'd like to sing along). It calls for a cup of chopped dried apples, along with applesauce and raisins, and it occured to me that the nearly marhmallow-textured dried apples from my last batch would be perfect, but I'd need more for future sausage. Apples and raisins please me a lot, but other dried fruits might make this conserve more universally pleasing. I'm thinking 3/4 cup of scissor-quartered dried apricots in place of the 3/4 cup rasins. There are still enough apples to make 4 cups unsweetened applesause for the conserve recipe, with enough leftover for the rollups that were very popular at work last week.
The postman brought my first copy of The Rosengarten Report and he only had to ring once for this one. It's like a Kiplinger Reports for foodies, all terse text, right to the point. More on that later.
Win some, lose some: A batch of chili sounded good and I bought two onions, one red, one Spanish, at the Food Lion for the sale price of 69 cents a pound. Despite observation and palpation, both were soggy and near rot when I started slicing. Trash can. No soggy onions in my chili, it would ruin it all. Maybe tomorrow. I wanted to grind the London Broil into coarse wormlike coils, and it was a good deal at $1.69/lb. also, but everything stopped on the onions. It occured to me selecting them that something might be wrong, but there was nothing in there appearance to suggest it. It's like they got frozen on one side, bursting cell walls and making them "something to get rid of". I've never seen this before, but will keep an eye out for it in the future.
5:45:18 PM 
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