Chuck- Forgot to mention that your Kung-Pao Chicken (Reply 63) looked so good I almost took a pair of chopsticks to the computer screen.
Just got back from the local Hy-Vee: The Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020 must be over, as shelves were full of it, as well as paper towels and Kleenex. Manager said a guy tried to return 140 rolls of paper towels he'd bought over a period of weeks. Manager told him to take a hike. Guy was sure he could sell it for big bucks online. Ha-ha!
However...No yeast, no Clorox Wipes, no canned soup (???), and almost no meat. Two meat-packing plants in the area--JBS in Worthington, MN (28 miles from here) and Smithfield in Sioux Falls, SD (90 miles from here) and I think one in Iowa, as well,-- have all closed indefinitely to huge COVID-19 spikes. So meat is the current hoard du jour. Christ. Plenty of baking supplies (barring aforementioned yeast) and frozen pizzas. I read yesterday that there's been a run, nationally, on frozen pizza.
Almost all customers in the store (senior hour 7:00-8:00 a.m.) were wearing masks. About 90% of store employees were, too.
It all just keeps getting interestinger and interestinger, doesn't it?.
Seriously: AW cooks have mad skills and scads of ingenuity!