Shelby

Dove into the box last night to make a sauce for roasted goose. I chose the Classic French Demi Glace. The inside of the package had a good sounding recipe so I followed it. Soften some onion in butter. Add sliced mushrooms. Cook until done. Remove from pan. Add some red wine and bring to boil. Whisk in Demi Glace and a bit of cream. Add onions and mushrooms back in. Salt and pepper to taste. OH was it good. Had a lot of depth and flavor.

The sad face emoji seems so cartoon-ish but when I click it, I really am sad.

Still. Way better than me.

Made some more pasta dough last night. It uses precious eggs, but one batch gives us at least 3 meals worth so I feel that's ok. Shrimp and mushroom alfredo

Awwww I love this @Kim Shook! Thank you! And Happy Anniversary!!! I hate that you didn't get to go on your trip, but I'm SO glad you didn't. Holy crap.

Hot wings

Besides the regular hot wings, I like Asian sticky wings and @Ann_T's Lemon, Sea Salt and Black Pepper Wings

Got any tofu you could use as a sub?

This whole virus situation has me even more mindful of using up all leftovers. Had a tiny bit of corned beef left so made some hash. Not as meaty as we would have liked it, but oh well. Mortadella and salami sandwiches last night

I ordered my seeds, seed potatoes (red and Yukon Gold!) and onion sets a while back. I was kind of worried I wouldn't get them due to being sold out or mailing problems because of how times are now, but they came Friday. Ground is too wet to plant, but hoping to get in the garden the end of next week for the taters and onions. Hoping I have some lettuce seeds somewhere. I didn't order any because it bolts so soon here in hot Kansas. Now, I don't care if it bolts soon because who knows if lettuce will be available in the store.

Thank you to Kerry and all of the others on the front line in this time of big need!

Speaking of celery, I've been obsessed with wanting to try that celery root salad you made a while back. Two weeks ago was my last trip to the big big city grocery store. No celery root. I don't think they have ever had celery root. Sigh. The only other place I can think of would be the Asian Market and I don't think they would have that......

I know right? 😅 Me too except everything I want to make uses precious eggs. I might have to settle for instant pudding lol.

Smart.

I feel like less of a weirdo now lol. I put two clorox wipes in a ziplock yesterday and today. Grocery store is out of their wipes that they usually have right by the carts.

Pheasant piccata

I'm back. I called the pharmacy inside the grocery store about 9:30 this morning to make sure the prescriptions were ready. A friend answered the phone so I asked her if it was as bad in there this morning as it was yesterday. She said at the moment it wasn't, but that it comes in waves. It was busy, but not tooooooo awful. Got the meds. Grabbed a cart. Ronnie is almost out of his bottled water so he wanted a case of that --it's something we always have. I forgot to order carrots yesterday so I wanted to pick some up 'cause I want to make a stew. They were OUT OF CARROTS. What the hell??? Who bought all the damn carrots. Sigh. I found some ridiculously priced tiny baby gourmet carrots and bought a tiny pack that won't be enough for stew, but I have to have carrots in stew. Anyway. I also got some bananas --Thursday is banana day 15 cents a lb. And some strawberries. Ronnie wanted some saltine crackers. Totally out of all except the crappy Always Save brand. I hope they don't suck. Same for graham crackers. And, guess what? Not ONE PACK OF RAMEN NOODLES. The aisle was ravaged. Empty cardboard boxes tossed around. Surreal. Only a few jars of spaghetti sauce. Canned goods very low. Couldn't get to the meat section. Too many people. Anyway, I'm home. Will need to make a liquor store run at some point but for now, I'm hunkered down. Heading for a nap. Or a glass of wine. Or both.

Oh, thank you. I don't want to come off as whiney. I'm just so not used to crowds. And, yes, I need to up my New Yorker big time. I'm pretty timid. Maybe I should record you saying that and I could play it on my phone lol.

May have to start liking hard liquor more. Major jealous of the delivery.

I'm home and fresh out of a vat of bleach. Holy crap you guys. I've never seen anything like I saw today. Showed up at the grocery store at 3 this afternoon like they emailed me to do. I got the items that I ordered, some in smaller quantities. I ordered 2 whole chickens. Got one. Ordered 9 limes. Got 3. Ordered 50 lb bag of dog food. Got 3 15 lb bags (super grateful). Everything else was as ordered. A V8 juice, 2 heads of lettuce, bag of baby spinach. YAY I got the eggs. 2 cans of spinach. 1 package of fresh mushrooms. 2 cans of mushrooms ( I know but they are ok on pizza). The curbside buying is not curbside at this smaller store. You go in, try to find someone who knows anything about your order and then they try to find your cart. Sigh. Literally stood there for 10 mins. in the midst of chaos. The parking lot is huge at this store because it's in a little strip mall type place. Every. Single. Spot. Was. Full. Ronnie had to drive around and just keep an eye out for me. People had 2 and 3 carts full of food trying to haul them all around. Definitely had not heard about social spacing and the 6' rule. Coughing. Elderly people, bless them. Kids. Sigh. More coughing. I had also called in 3 of Ronnie's prescriptions and was assured they would be done. As luck would have it, we were out of refills. Sigh. After I got home nurse called and renewed without him having to go in and get checked....thank goodness. But, I have to go back tomorrow . Help me. I firmly believe that if one is in the pharmacy line, YOU STAND BACK. Even before this. Guy behind me, I swear I could feel him breathing on me. I was going to peek at the TP isle to see what was there. I'd have had to had an army to even get close. I cannot imagine bigger cities right now. Oh and we did stop at a small farm supply store--DOG FOOD. I feel better. No, I didn't buy it all They had a lot. Eyed the baby chicks....wish I could keep them alive here for eggs. Wouldn't work. I've been thinking....smaller type stores like where I found our dog food might be the way to go. Even craft stores sometimes sell odd items that you wouldn't think of. Skipped the liquor store. That's how exhausting this was. Pouring wine now.

Hoarding begats hoarding. I'm buying allllllll the dog food. Just kidding

I hope you're right. I really really hope the store really has some today. Or my doggies will be eating canned dog food and I will be cleaning up poo lol.

Yes. Sold out.

Agreed. Looking at our normal threads with pictures here lets me sink into a normal feeling--even if it's just for a bit, it's much needed.