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Welcome to #CheckIn for SATURDAY 2026-04-04


Muse here,

It's another great food time of the year! Apple blintzes, potato latkes, hot cross buns, and lots of chocolate! I've just come back from my Saturday morning shop at the farmers market, and it's apple season! One woman has her own orchard and grows the sorts of apple varieties that you can't get at a supermarket. They don't look as pretty, but OH are they tasty!

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Tomorrow morning will be first farmers market of the season. Can't wait. There are some great cheeses, baked goods, and greens. A lot of food products are good too, but they are fairly expensive treats.

Funny story. I stopped wearing my "smart watch" when I wasn't going on walks with Ruby. When I started walking with her again, the distances seemed shorter than I remembered. I realized that the distance units changed from cm/km to feet/miles so I was getting a significant 'discount'. Switched it back and all is well.

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Joyce Donahue

Spent a quiet Holy Thursday night and Good Friday, missing singing and being part of the celebrations at church of the Triduum (Great Three Days)... it does not help that it is cold and rainy. We are on a flash flood watch after several days of downpours.

Holy Saturday is a day of preparation for Easter, so I'll be attempting to pull out some floral decor and such to brighten up the apartment. Not much for special foods for Easter because normally I am so busy that I don't have time or energy to cook. Not really feeling it this year.

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Samuel Smith

Last night I moved, again. From my brothers living room to a house with a roommate. I have my own room again! Also a kitchen. I'm looking forward to cooking again. The new cookware was definitely a splurge, but one I'd been planning for most of a year. This morning was spent cleaning and putting things where they might belong.
I still need a bed... Sleeping on a couch is for younger people. Things are looking up. I have plans for the back yard. Hollyhocks, and... Not sure what else yet. Need to ask the landlord if I can put my fish in the backyard. I'd love to finally have a pond, even if it's just a small temporary one.
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Deb Zaccaro-Rojas

Muh Goth, I grew up with my adoptive Mom being an Evangelical Presbyterian. So the family was ordered to be involved with Easter from a freakin Dawn Service (really, an hour in church starting at 7AM without food) til the second Easter Service mid-afternoon. Exhaustion was the Word of the Day. Dawn Service, regular Easter Service, Afternoon Easter Service. I don't know if this ironic or not, but we didn't have an 'Easter Dinner', we had bagels and lox. Apple blintz sound intriguing...I've usually had cheese blintz all my life.
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Not sure about Easter the festival, but the public holidays come at the right time this year.

One, a smol pause from work. Then I have a friend over, spring is getting started, morning walkies have barely above freezing. Feeling daring we hiked the Bode valley for several hours anyway and then some after a 3 hour train ride. We cycled this city, my new bicycle gets a thumbs up (and a slightly longer stamp soon, yay), we walked ever more steps and boy did this week go by quickly. Had many noms including Korean.

Speaking of apples, I am somewhat looking forward to finding Cox Orange again soon. Soon, as in when August or September make that possible. Until then, for convenience I bought apple sauce to go with today's pancakes.

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Lisa Stranger

Apple season is fall here... interesting

I'm an apple snob—basically fuji or GTFO, though I do slum it with packaged apple slices from time to time, which are almost certainly red delicious

if you had asked me, I'd have said it was the texture of fujis that I like—but it turns out they're the sweetest variety (murasaki potatoes, similar)

granny smiths for cooking of course

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Joyce Donahue

Having stated that I don't have any particular food traditions for Easter, I got inspired and created one this year. Just finished cleaning up after a spectacularly yummy meal of chicken cacciatore. It was a lot of work but worth it Somebody please remind me to do the dishes as I go next time instead of leaving them all till the end!
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Samuel Smith

I made pita bread and shakshuka for dinner. The pitas didn't form a pocket, but tasted alright. I need to work on bread making skills again. The shakshuka was pretty good! The store didn't have caraway seeds, but I got the rest of the spices. No measuring spoons in the house so I eyeballed the measurements. Next time I'll add more jalapenos. It called for one but three would be better. My roommate is vegan so I put some in a separate skillet to put my egg in. Probably will make it again. I want to try it with the caraway.
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The thing about shakshuka I like best is the generous amount of Cumin that goes into it. I looove that stuff, it puts the oomph into the first bite nicely.
Extras I may add are, once the tomato is in the pan and lightly boiling, one of the following: fava beans, black beans, chickpeas, coarse beef sausage sold here as being from Kosovo.
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Carsten Raddatz

Speaking of caraway, I had to look that up.

German word for it is very different, and used in confusing ways, Kümmel. Cumin, on the other hand is named Kreuzkümmel. Saying that a dish has it almost scares people since Kümmel itself is not very popular at all, we don't have any at home. Also Schwarzkümmel, black seeds that look like sesame, also carry a same name,

The labelling puts the assumption that it is similar at your feet. Oh well. 🤓

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Rod Mesa

Shakshuka is basically Maghrebi Huevos Rancheros. Fight me.
I use The Three Cs: cumin, coriander, and caraway. I use harissa and too much garlic. Occasionally Bell peppers and sausage. Spinach and epazote work pretty well, as does verdolaga when I can get it. Chickpeas, fava, black beans, lentils, YES, you can't go wrong. Often substitute green tomatoes ot eggplant for eggs. Sometimes no harissa at all.
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