Re: See? It's not just me.

On Tue 09 May 2006 08:49:48p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Dee
Randall?


"Karen AKA Kajikit" <kajikit@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 9 May 2006 18:32:35 -0400, "Dee Randall"
<deedovey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've noticed shopping at Costco and BJ's (where the aisles are wide)
there are many kids tagging along side the carts that are filled with
junk food. (Yes, I notice!) But what breaks my heart is when the moms
of these carts give a snarl to the kids who ask for apples, pears or
other fruits and good foods that they see. I see it more often than I
would like, little begging eyes for these good foods. They must be
getting lessons in school, but the adults won't comply, is the only
thing I can attribute it to. Dee Dee

We buy junk food at Costco (like applesauce and fruit cups and oreos)
because it doesn't go off and it can sit in the cupboard for as long
as it takes the two of us to get through it... but there's zero point
in buying our fruit and vegetables and meat there - there's no way on
earth that we'd manage to use six pounds of tomatoes etc before they
rotted and we have no room to freeze them!



We are two -- I always buy veggies in bulk there. I work around using
most of it. Right now I have bags of both red and vidalia onions, yukon
potatoes, carrots, lettuce, bags of grannie smith & another red apple,
clementines, can't think of the rest now; but any meat I buy there I
freeze. Today I cooked a couple of pounds of andoulli sausage and put
them back in bags in the freezer to have a few at a time. Tomorrow I'll
make a pie out of the rest of my apples, eat the clementines and bananas
one at a time, have carrots often in everything I can think of because
they are healthy, etc etc etc

When tomatoes were cheaper, I always bought the 6# of tomatoes. One
time I did have to freeze them instead of loosing them; I had never
frozen whole tomatoes before. Stuck them in the freezer in a ziplock
and when I got home, put them in a pot and made tomato soup. I wouldn't
want to feel obligated to do this with all the meat and vegetables I
buy, though. There are times that I have too much celery, but having too
much celery brought me to researching it and I found the way the French
make it in Cook's Illustrated. For me, food is kinda like a jig-saw
puzzle of life. Like matching people together in genealogy, finding the
right one - or in the case of food, the perfect recipe for that day.

I bought some junk food last time at BJ's -- some chocolate biscotti --
a coupon of $1.50 off, and I do buy plenty of boxed food, like dried
pastas, etc.

The next time you have surplus celery, try braising it in chicken or veal
stock until just barely tender, then chill in the stock. Drain well, then
dress with a light garlic vinaigrette, adding some strips of pimiento and
anchovies. Serve chilled or at room temperature. The old Taft Hotel in
New York City always had this at their appetizer bar in the "bar". It's
really delicious.

--
Wayne Boatwright @¿@¬
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