Donuts and other breakfast pastries

[AndyMH]

butter "boats" that use water to evaporatively cool the butter.

Back when I was a lad, we're talking 1950's here, we had similar. Imagine a box about a foot cubed, door on front and dished top. You poured water on the top, it evaporated and cooled the contents. Must of been made of terracotta or similar. Then we all got richer and got fridges.

Didn't realise you had Aldi in the states. Together with Lidl, also German, they have taken major market share from the big UK supermarkets. A quarter - you're lucky, over here it's a £1 coin.

[151tom]

A bit off topic.

I made cornbread casserole for breakfast this morning and it was delicious ingredients eggs / rotel / diced onions / diced potatoes.

I like Aldi.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

A bit off topic.

I made cornbread casserole for breakfast this morning and it was delicious ingredients eggs / rotel / diced onions / diced potatoes.

I like Aldi.

What? No corn?

[151tom]

Nope didn't have any and at 4am in the morning wasn't no stores open yet.

[MartyMint]

A bit off topic.

I made cornbread casserole for breakfast this morning and it was delicious ingredients eggs / rotel / diced onions / diced potatoes.

I like Aldi.

What? No corn?

Who puts corn in cornbread casserole?

hahaha j/k

[151tom]

I have it mixes well and cornbread casserole ain't really no different then cornbread just got more stuff in.

[MurphCID]

I like a nice Croissant fresh from being warmed in the oven.

If you have the chance, try a freshly baked one. Made with real butter, not margarine. It's something else entirely. No topping needed, well... maybe a spot of jam or marmelade.

Fresh ones are really, really hard to find here. But I could not imagine one with margarine, blech. Real butter or nothing.

[Pepi]

Can't eat pastries of any kind. They will ruin my day

[AZgl1800]

Can't eat pastries of any kind. They will ruin my day

I am getting close to that point, not from my Taste Buds, but from my A1C tests

So, my daughter, the ever diligent sleuth keeps looking and found me two very precious items to add to my repertoire...

Available in Cinnamon Roll and Fudge Brownie flavors ( maybe more? )
and oh my gawd, does it ever taste good.

[151tom]

Those are excellent.

[MurphCID]

Can't eat pastries of any kind. They will ruin my day

I am getting close to that point, not from my Taste Buds, but from my A1C tests

So, my daughter, the ever diligent sleuth keeps looking and found me two very precious items to add to my repertoire...

Available in Cinnamon Roll and Fudge Brownie flavors ( maybe more? )
and oh my gawd, does it ever taste good.

Most those taste pretty terrible as a general rule, it is nice to see one that does not taste terrible.

[kelevra]

I'm with MurphCID on this one, a nice warm apple fritter is grand at about 10 am. For breakfast, the closest I come to a pastry is a toasted bagel with creme cheese. None of that flavoured cr@p either.

[Schultz]

My favorite is just the usual glazed donuts. There's a donut place around here called "Taste Donuts" and they make great donuts. Dunkin Donuts also makes great donuts. I have never understood why so many like Krispy Cream donuts. Their donuts are so much smaller than anybody else's. And more important, they don't taste as good as the previous mentioned places.

[MurphCID]

My favorite is just the usual glazed donuts. There's a donut place around here called "Taste Donuts" and they make great donuts. Dunkin Donuts also makes great donuts. I have never understood why so many like Krispy Cream donuts. Their donuts are so much smaller than anybody else's. And more important, they don't taste as good as the previous mentioned places.

They are nasty sweet as well.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

My favorite is just the usual glazed donuts. There's a donut place around here called "Taste Donuts" and they make great donuts. Dunkin Donuts also makes great donuts. I have never understood why so many like Krispy Cream donuts. Their donuts are so much smaller than anybody else's. And more important, they don't taste as good as the previous mentioned places.

They are nasty sweet as well.

"Nasty" being the polite term.

[Pjotr]

One thick slice of freshly baked whole wheat bread (about 80-90 grammes), baked with an earlier version of this baking machine:
https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-SD-YD2 ... B00005QFL0

Usually covered with sprinkles made from pure dark chocolate, or with locally produced honey. Yum.

[chiefjim]

...I like the way they control the shopping carts, all lined up in a row, takes a Quarter to unlock and use one.
take it back, and retrieve your Quarter, or as I do a lot of times, catch a senior who is senior to me and I give them my cart.

I like the way they control their carts (trolleys for our English speaking friends on the other side of the pond or down under). It seems to be quite effective at keeping carts from cluttering up the parking lots (car parks) or "exploring the neighborhood". My problem is I don't carry change with me unless I have my purse with me (which is rarely anymore; I keep getting more and more butch every day). I do have some in my truck but me remember to grab a quarter? Yeah, right.

At other stores, I make a point of grabbing a cart out in the parking lot and rolling it to the store; even if I'm not going to use it; it's one less cart the cart wranglers have to round up. I also try to return the cart to the store when I'm finished with it but, sometimes, I just don't have the stamina to do so and do good just to get the cart the cart to a cart corral.

I like the way H-E-B hires enough staff to handle the parking lot. First being numerous cart corrals. They fetch the carts so often I often have the person waiting by me to take the carts back to the store. Still wiping them down for us as well.

[chiefjim]

How about muffins? Pleasant surprise near me is the Costco bakery section. Fresh, light and very tasty. The blueberries nearly fall out when you take a bite. The apple cinnamon is just scrumptious. Only fear is the health hazard of not having the willpower to have just one at a time. (not followed by another and another)

[Portreve]

Even before I really started paying attention to what I was eating (or, more to the point, what's in what I am eating) earlier this year, I normally didn't have pastries for breakfast. Not never, but just not all that often. The European and American notions of "breakfast" can and in fact do vary, widely.

At this point, I'm generally eating Cheerios and raisin bran cereal, or oatmeal, for breakfast. I'm trying my best to up my good cholesterol and lower my bad cholesterol. My next step, once I've recovered from thyroid surgery, will be to seeing what kinds of exercise I might do. I'm primarily thinking walking and bike riding, but also maybe basic weight lifting once I know everything has fully healed. I would like to get rid of the extra kilos I've piled on in the past five years and change, and also I just want to be a healthier person.

[OFF TOPIC]

A few years ago I got off of all social media (well, ok, I was only on Facebook and Twitter) and I've been trying to strike an appropriate balance between watching/reading news so that I know what's going on in the world around me, and not getting so obsessed with it that it drags me down the way social media was. I guess you can think of it as being the first stage in trying to live a healthier lifestyle. Everything I've said above (along with the link to another thread) kind of constitutes a second part to that.

Also, I recently upgraded to the Samsung Galaxy Watch 3, which as near as I can tell has the same features as the latest Apple Watches, including fall detection, EKG monitoring, blood oxygenation monitoring, etc. It's so critical that we are aware as early as possible that "something might be going on" because that's the key to proper diagnosis and taking appropriate measures to remain healthy and maintain quality of life. I can't recommend highly enough that you folks take advantage of the technology which is out there.

[Pjotr]

@Portreve: Get well soon!

Walking is, in my experience, the number 1 physical exercise to keep me fit. Both physically and mentally. One hour of walking in the open air every day, preferably in the woods. That's what I strive for and that's what I usually manage to achieve. I find it to be essential for my well-being. Bicycling is only a second best for me.

You can make your walk as brisk as you like; thus making it more sportive or more leisurely, depending on your physical fitness or simply on your mood.

While I personally would certainly benefit from five kilos weight loss, and perhaps even from seven or eight, walking helps to keep my weight (just!) within the upper range of a healthy BMI.

Another tip for weight control: just eliminate those bad foods from your diet, that you don't really like very much. Only keep eating (now and then) the bad foods that you do really love. Easy to do and easy to keep up....

Only go to the supermarket with a full stomach, don't keep a stock of bad foods in your house, etc. Only easy rules are durable, in my experience.