Show us your shopping trip

[Clodfobble]

(We had a thread like this once before, and I did my due diligence trying to find it, but I failed.)

With the threat of another ice storm coming in tonight, I stocked up for a few more days than usual today at the store. Then, I got a fan-fucking-tastic deal on strawberries, so I just wanted to share the glory of my haul.

Below is everything I bought this afternoon. Grand total $131.63.

[Clodfobble]

The organic strawberries were on sale, $2 per pint. Normally in the winter they are $6 per pint. They're not even close to expiration, I have no freaking clue why they were priced that way, but I bought all that they had left.

[glatt]

What are those red things to the left of the spices? They look like radishes?

[DanaC]

radishes?

[glatt]

Maybe. That's a lot of radishes.

Are they radishes?

[Clodfobble]

Yes, radishes. I slice them thin and dehydrate in the oven until they're radish chips.

[Sundae]

How am I ever going to adjust to living in America when I marry Sarge?
It's all so foreign.
Arugula

What a wonderful idea though, Clod.
Not the arugula, the photo.
I'd love to replicate but I shop five days a week, and only buy what I can carry home. Because of course I work in a supermarket. So it would look like I'm starving myself or living unhealthily if I took a photo of just one shop.

The one thing I will comment on (apart from the arugula, which has really tickled my fancy) is that we could never eat that many strawberries before they went off. And the 'rents love them some berries.

[Clodfobble]

Also, it's just one spice (black pepper,) and one vitamin supplement (Biotin.)

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by Sundae

The one thing I will comment on (apart from the arugula, which has really tickled my fancy) is that we could never eat that many strawberries before they went off. And the 'rents love them some berries.

It will be a slight challenge for us, admittedly. But I eat strawberries at least once a day, sometimes twice, and the kids would eat them at every meal if I let them. Mr. Clod is also planning to puree some for a strawberry-cocoa-butter experiment, and whatever we're left with as we get down to the deadline can be frozen, since the kids are just as happy to eat fruit straight out of the freezer.

[Gravdigr]

The pack that says 'Driscoll's'...are those raspberries?

I like that table/chair set.

ETA: Also, Ms. Fobble, could you tell us a bit more about the radish chips? I'm intrigued.

[Sundae]

I'm currently soaking blueberries in Crème de Cassis. Yes I know, blueberries/ blackcurrants. They're all berries.
Sadly, the Kilner jar I'm using has a faulty seal, so I can't invert it. I worry about the berries at the top.
It's for dessert for when "the girls" come round on 28 February (Mum's friends).
She's going to serve them in meringue nests with cream.

She has so much faith in me that she's bought tinned cherries. Just in case.
Given that tinned cherries remind me of nothing so much as blood clots, I'm thinking of buying a new Kilner jar...

A strawberry-cocoa-butter experiment sounds right up my alley.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

The pack that says 'Driscoll's'...are those raspberries?

I like that table/chair set.

ETA: Also, Ms. Fobble, could you tell us a bit more about the radish chips? I'm intrigued.

Yes, raspberries for making raspberry vinaigrette dressing. I prefer frozen as they're usually cheaper, but they were out, and we can't be allowed to run out of salad dressing (or salad, hence the arugula.)

We love the table too. We got it after wandering into a furniture store's going-out-of-business sale on a whim. It's meant for 4, but we routinely cram 6 people around it because we don't want to replace it.

To make the radish chips, you just slice very thinly, toss in a bowl with a fair amount of olive oil, spread out on 1-2 pans lined with foil, and sprinkle heavily with salt. Then put in the oven at 170 (the lowest temp most ovens will go to) for 6-8 hours, stirring them around every couple of hours. When you start, they will be piled all on top of each other, but by the time they're done they'll be shriveled to smaller than a dime. "Chips" is kind of a misnomer, they're more chewy than crunchy. But the kids like them.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by Sundae

A strawberry-cocoa-butter experiment sounds right up my alley.

It's a weird thing. You melt the cocoa butter, blend in honey and a couple other minor ingredients, then let it cool and solidify while continuing to blend it periodically so the honey doesn't separate out before it's trapped in the hard cocoa butter. He tried it once over Christmas, and it kind of worked out okay. He thinks he can make a better batch now, given what he learned the first time around.

[glatt]

Now we're ready for the storm. We had stocked up for the week on Sunday, but needed lots of snacks if we'll be cooped up inside for two days.

[Undertoad]

that stuff is ground beef I just made for a pasta sauce later. ^


need moar budder


I always get the 3 pack of romaine lettuce and only use 1. Then they go bad. This time I froze them so I can throw them out later. Tragic waste