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I've definitely seem them selling bags (like 3 or 4 lbs per) at much lower prices - usually they even say for canning. but I'm wondering if you ask about buying a lug and see what kind of deal they'll give you. Getting late though.

Have you ever gone Leccinum arenicola hunting in the dunes. It's a species of bolete mushroom, looking similar to porcini, a bolete which you won't find in the dunes. It even tastes like porcini, and we found them quite abundant around this time of year. Nearby, wild cranberries also are seen.

Leccinum arenicola is a species of bolete mushroom in the family Boletaceae. Described in 1979, the fruit bodies (mushrooms) grow in sand dunes from New Brunswick south to Cape Cod.

Do you ever go foraging in the dunes there? We got loads of porcini, and even the cranberries were in abundance this time of year.

Nothing at the greenmarkets?

I had just come from the liquor store up the block with that bottle! We were in Chicago on a late November road trip last year (seeing Elvis Costello and the band in Chicago, Milwaukee and Madison), staying at a little hipster hotel called the Robey, on the final night of the trip. So I figured I'd bring a bottle of Malort back to NYC with me, in order to disgust people here.

Two hauls today - 1 via shopping in Chinatown... And one via Amazon... 1 lb. each of hot, medium, and mild Hatch chili peppers. 2 lbs. of Sweetzels! 3 bags of George Howell. I'm set for the week.

Well, I'm lucky, being left-handed and all. And drinking Malort!

An omelet in an oven? What will they think of next!

Toast recipe? Call customer service!

Ha! And the rather, ummmm, phallic looking object...the neck!

I roasted a Poulet Rouge from Joyce Farms in the steam girl. Roasting a whole chicken doesn't get you quite the crispy skin that, say, roasting thighs does. But the bird remains nice and juicy throughout, so that's good. Significant Eater is not a fan, as she says, of the "sinew" or what appear to her to be undercooked bits; she likes the breast. So being the great husband that I am, I remove half a breast off the bone, sorta slice it and pull it apart, and plate it. I also poured all the roasting juices (I'd roasted the bird atop thickly sliced onions with those potatoes strewn around) into a small saucepan, added mustard, lemon juice and a little white wine to make a nice jus. I ate a leg and a wing and shhhhh - the oysters. Tomato, avocado and cucumber salad alongside.

So Significant Eater spots these “baby” bananas on the counter. She loathes regular bananas. She jests: “Wow. Are you making Bananas Foster with those?” Wasn’t planning to, but what the fuck. Ice cream was already on hand. Madagascar bourbon vanilla and George Howell coffee Philadelphia-style ice creams made Saturday. Yesterday - Bananas Foster.

Cans, jars - either one dropped on a toe is not a good thing. La Valle is one of the brands I use - nice cans. The laSt time I tried to procure the Bianco tomatoes shown above (which may have been around the beginning of hoarding time), they were very expensive, so I passed. the stuff from Beatrice at Gustiamo is, to my taste, the sine qua non of canned/jarred tomatoes.

I've managed to make it this far with never having a microwave. They needed your money to pay customer service.

And if you don't have your stabilizers, you're banned! (tongue in cheek, tongue in cheek).

Now all I have to do is figure out how to use it!

Just get your tomatoes in jars, and you won't have anything to worry think about.

Thank you!

Yeah @liamsaunt, as @Franci mentions, from the research I was doing about the 3 different chicories I received this week, the outer leaves are edible cooked. By the way, @Franci, the fish you are getting is beautiful and making me envious. Back to cicoria, the 2 that I have used so far have been quite bitter - so I was wondering - do you ever blanch any of the cicoria?

I'm assuming it's a giant green radicchio... https://specialtyproduce.com/produce/Green_Radicchio_8678.php

Unless it's that big green thing?

I'm either blind as a bat, as I don't see the huge radicchio.

This is interesting, as I shop (or did) in an opposite manner. That is, I use (or used) the supermarket for cans and bottles and paper towels and kitty litter, and bought dairy, meat, fish, produce at stores specializing in those items. Which is why, I suppose, it's so hard to generalize about supermarket "quality."

I have a problem with this whole concept (now there's a concept, me having a problem), as supermarkets, wherever they may be, are certainly geared to the clientele in that locale. A supermarket in my neighborhood may have a big Hispanic/Orthodox clientele; I doubt one some 100 miles away has the same. And the change in supermarkets over the past 2 decades, with prepared foods (both cooked and not) has certainly changed the industry. I have never in my life bought a sandwich in a supermarket, or a container of chopped carrots; to others, those items are probably important. All that said, supermarkets that have impressed me include the Harris Teeter chain (a Kroger brand since 2014) I became familiar with when we had our pied-à-terre in Washington, DC. Big, clean, well-stocked stores; nice knowledgable employees and great prices once you "joined" their marketing schtick, aka the HT club. In the tri-state area, there's also a privately held supermarket chain I happen to think is one of the most fun supermarkets I've shopped at in this country; it's called Netcost (I mentioned it in this blog post 8 years ago). Initially geared to the large number of people who came to NY from Russia, so it's chock full of products from there, as well as other fun countries. Stuff never seen before, crazy amounts of things like dairy, smoked and cured meats, etc. etc. They also have an insane candy selection, which doesn't surprise me, as my Minsk-born grandfather sure loved his sweets. Though maybe they need to be more careful with what's inside those sweets... Liquor-filled candy seized in police raid in Somerton; store owner facing charges Others think (or thought, at one time) it was the best supermarket they'd ever been in. Is NetCost The Best Supermarket In The World? Epicurious Thinks So