09:13 – Wow, the cold weather has really moved in. Our lows are below freezing for the next several nights. For tomorrow the forecast high is just above freezing and the low is 18F (-8C).
Costco run and dinner with Mary and Paul yesterday. Mary is vegetarian and cooks amazingly good no-meat dishes, so I gave her a copy of the list of seasonings that Frances and Barbara came up with and asked her to please add to and annotate it from the point of view of someone who was going to be cooking meals from boring staples like rice and beans over a long period. I’m sure Mary will come up with some worthwhile additions and suggestions.
Yesterday was the first Costco trip in a long time that I didn’t buy much in the way of shelf-stable foods. Other than six jars each of spaghetti sauce and apple sauce, a pack of seven one-pound assorted pastas, a jar of red pepper, and two bottles of Worcestershire sauce, the only thing I added to our cart was two 12-packs of 12-ounce cans of evaporated milk. I couldn’t resist those. They were on sale for about $0.75/can.