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Go to eBay. They have everything.

Signing in as one who has gulped her share of Pixie Stix.

Works!

I went to Aldi last week to get hams and wound up spending $90, only a third of which was hams, mostly on dairy products, which are significantly cheaper than Kroger. Oh, and orange juice concentrate. I go through two cans a week, and Aldi's are 50 cents a can less than Kroger. I can tell no difference in taste.

I'm fortunate to have a regular source for eggs from happy chickens, from the farm that supplies most of my meat (all my beef, all my chicken, a fair amount of my pork). Yes, they're three bucks a dozen, vs. the $1.29 +/- I'd pay at the grocery. No matter. I'll happily spend $3 a dozen so one chicken, somewhere, doesn't have to spend its life at the equivalent of forced labor in inhumane conditions. I'll use six or so eggs a week in breakfast muffins, etc. Child A will eat an egg sandwich on an average of once a week (two eggs per). I'll boil eggs to put in potato salad, or on the occasion I want egg salad, or when I'm attempting a softboiled egg over asparagus (how in the blue hell do you PEEL a softboiled egg, anyway? I'm never successful. All tips appreciated.) . I must confess, not very often do I want a scrambled or fried egg on its own, for breakfast or another meal, but when I want it, I want a good, local, farm egg with an almost-orange yolk, the taste is not comparable to a grocery store egg. After I read on here, years ago, about duck eggs, I commenced buying duck eggs when I found them available, and still do, when I can get them. Guinea eggs are a taste treat, and I have come to love quail eggs; I have some in the fridge now, and plan to boil them and make Scotch eggs with them. Those are hard to beat, with some spicy mustard to dip. The most sublime egg dish I ever ate was at Brennan's in NOLA -- Eggs Tartare, i.e., egg yolks cooked sous vide to pastuerize, but still liquid. Poured in a pool on a plate; grilled shrimp surrounding a tangle of crisply fried sweet potato strings. Have mercy! They billed it as an appetizer, and I had eggs Hussarde after that. Like Benedict, but with a red wine sauce. Thank God I have good cholesterol. I commend to any of y'all Michael Ruhlman's book on eggs. A classic. I'm glad I have it. The two dozen farm eggs I picked up yesterday, reposing restfully in my fridge, make me smile.

Easter dinner: Ham, of course. Mac and cheese, asparagus, green peas. Deviled eggs/relish tray, "Green Stuff," Potato Salad. Butter Cake (left), and corn casserole. Somebody's plate (I disremember whose, but it wasn't mine.)

Ah! The cute, cute kid looks like his grandma!

It was, in fact. People in this forum are quite helpful! Thanks, @Alex.

Now that I look at it again, the chicken thigh has a bit of an orange tone, and if I look hard, I see an orange cast to the rice. I did not think "orange" until you said it, though.

Planted most of mine Monday; then Wednesday night and Thursday night we had frost. I covered the tomatoes (bottom bed), but I fear I may have to replant them. It's warming up today and through next week, so we'll see. Other stuff (lettuce, carrots, radishes, cabbage, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli) will be fine. Squash and cucumbers to go in behind the lettuce, etc., while potatoes will go in behind the crucifers bed. But I'm guessing I'll have to replant tomatoes. We shall see. Counting on the landscape fabric to keep them neater looking.

@Kim Shook and @patti, I commend this one to you, from Mr. B's Bistro. The grits are over-the-top rich, and that's no more red-eye gravy than I'm a spaceship, but they're damn fine and a regular when I go to NOLA. (I have cut back the cream, etc., in the grits, and they're still wonderful.)

I'm contemplating cancelling Misfits after another box or two, as there'll be a surfeit of local produce available. That said, I will feel less sad about doing so given that they sent me two giant green bell peppers today as a sub for some ancho peppers I'd ordered. You do not know what it is like to plunge your hand expectantly into a box, once you've moved all the lettuces and such, and come away with...a big green bell pepper! I'm scarred, I tell you, scarred! I binned them. The rest of the haul looked good. Limes, oranges, broccoli, romaine, leaf lettuce, pea shoots (I LOVE pea shoots, I've found), microgreens, potatoes, sweet potatoes, fennel and a giant Jicama. Think I'm going to get out the food processor and grate up some jicama, fennel, celeriac and carrots and toss them all together with a dressing. Suggestions? Lime viniagrette, slightly sweetened?

Welcome! You sound like you'll fit right in here. Someone else here was trying to identify a flatware a few months back...wish I could remember who it was.

Glad you went. Did you get two hams?

The Misfits order delivered me a package of gluten free crisp sugar cookies. Not bad. I just ate six. They're small.

Bittman looked good. I went there.

Green Thursday...hadn't thought about it, but being that Misfits delivered me a big ol' box just now, and it had lots of lettuce (and pea shoots; I have learned I love pea shoots!), would a big ol' salad count?

Got to be one in every crowd... 😜😜

It is not written that I won’t go back and get two more for the freezer. Two of the three I bought are for the soup kitchen.

At least in the American south, it’s pronounced as if the a were an o.

My Aldi today -- I presume it was chain-wide -- had their Appleton Farms spiral sliced hams for 85 cents a pound, limit 2 to a customer, but I bought three, prepared to pay full price for one of 'em, and got the discount on all three. Butter (whatever their normal brand is, somebody's creamery), $1.89 a pound, no limit (I got six to go in the freezer); frozen orange juice concentrate, $1.19 a can (Kroger is $1.79). Asparagus (nice skinny spears), $1.29 a pound (I bought four and will pickle at least two of them, maybe three).

We treasure our triumphs! Score one for spelling!

Point taken!

Well, it may be a comedown for Murray's, but it's a decided improvement for Kroger. That counter gets a lot of my cash on a regular basis.

Tomorrow is gardening day! I have, sitting on my back porch, Better Boy, Beefsteak and Roma tomatoes; bedding seedlings of cabbage, brussels sprouts, broccoli and cauliflower, as well as romaine, butter lettuce and some herbs. I have seeds for leaf lettuce, carrots and radishes. I have 12 sprouting crowns of asparagus, and I have a roll of chicken wire to put over the top of that bed to keep the Godforsaken squirrels from digging them up and eating them. It was sunny and pretty today, and breezy, and thus should have dried out the beds enough to make the soil easy to work. I had already worked compost into three of them, and have the asparagus bed left to do. Am thinking I will wait and plant squash (yellow and zukes) and cucumbers after the lettuce, radishes, etc., are through. I may follow up with potatoes after the cauliflower, broccoli, sprouts and cabbage are out. Oh, and I bought flowers. Petunias and some tall purple-and-white things. I forget their name, but they're pretty. They're for planters on the porches.