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  1. Wow! So pretty, and it's incredible you had leftover crab. I am a crab pig, but you certainly made the most of your bounty.
  2. gulfporter, You are correct, the large thorns had been removed. One could have picked them up and placed them carefully in a bag, if the inch-long thorns were present, by the sides of the thorns. They definitely had those nubs, complete with the little furlike thorns that will imbed into your skin and hurt, hurt, hurt if you get anywhere near them. My grandparents had beautiful prickly pear plants in the front yard in Springhill, LA on their old homestead and I got painfully acquainted with them as a small child. I remain fearful of those furry nubs to this day. Other places I've encountered whole paddles supply tongs to handle them, but there were none in sight at El Toro. The paddles were very desireable otherwise, though. And yes, nopales can be very good to eat or also slimy and gross. Same with okra, which I also love! Never heard of Pollo Feliz, but wish they would come here.
  3. Had a good Christmas dinner out at my Sister's place in the North Carolina countryside. Nice visits with animals including my Sis's new mare, German Shepherd and lots and lots of cats. Great visits with my family too, but the boyfriend who deemed it necessary to roll his eyes when my niece, his then girlfriend, was going on about her beloved cats at Thanksgiving was noticeably missing. Told ya! 😉 The main event was a deep-fried turkey breast courtesy of eldest niece. SO GOOD! I was asked to bring a salad and veg. Instacart let me down for the first time, and when I called Sis to let her know I might not be able to deliver on my obligation, she said not to worry my head, that they had SO much food there. Instacart did come through the next day, though, so all was well. They, however, delivered the asparagus in much less quantity and quality than I'd asked for, so offered Sis some beautiful broccoli they had brought, and that worked out well for Christmas. Turns out she even likes it cooked the same 4 minutes I fancy. My salad consisted of an entire head of the smallest red leaf lettuce I have seen in my life, stretched with iceberg, cucumber, Campari tomato, thawed green peas, grated carrot and beautiful fresh sliced radishes. We all prefer Romaine lettuce, but none was on offer from Food Lion though Instacart. On the side in separate containers (Sis despises eggs in any form) hard-boiled chopped egg, shredded sharp cheddar, and french fried onions of the commercial variety, but still craveable by all. I brought two dressings, but everyone but me used the bright orange sweet Kraft "French" dressing I remember Sis eating since she was a wee little thing. Oh well, everyone seemed to enjoy the salad except for the nephew and he "does not eat vegetables" . Except french fries. We also had good homemade whole wheat rolls from Sis, Stovetop stuffing, a little moister than I prefer and not crisp at all, exquisite real gravy that could not have derived from the deep-fried turkey breast, but kudos to whomever was responsible for collecting and saving the drippings from something else. I doused my turkey, stuffing and mashed skin-on red taters generously with this ambrosia. There was also homemade cranberry sauce, but only one niece seems to like it. I love cranberries, but this is too sweet for me, and I prefer it offset with orange. But that's a minor quibble with a PHENOMENAL dinner. We get to dessert, and I knew there were several options, but Sis and I had discussed eldest niece's attempt at a turtle cheesecake. It was a major fail the first time due to a recipe that called for you to dump caramel onto your cheesecake crust. It even stuck to the parchment they'd placed in the springform pan and had to be "jackhammered" out. This first one had been committed to a church gathering but did not make it there, although it didn't go to waste, the parts that could be salvaged. The second attemept is what we had a Christmas, and I was sent home with a generous wedge that will make two or three serving depending on how greedy I am at the time. I'm kind of a cheesecake purist, so eat the chocolate lacing, pecans and even the chocolate crust separately. But then you get down to just the cheesecake itself, which is just the kind I love. There was also a pie, and I don't know if I have spoken of my Sis's skill with a pie crust, but it is The best I have ever had anywhere. It speaks to my love of cheesecake that the pie remained in the pie safe and I did not even ask about the filling. They also sent Chex Mix savory, which has somehow already disappeared and sweet Chex mix called some cute name that involved mud with chocolate and peanut butter. They also sent chocolate chip cookies, Rice Krispy treats, and fudge. So I am really set for desserts for some time. I do not think I have had any fudge in 35 years or more. This is good. So good to see the family and so generous of Sis to spend her time and gas coming so far to collect me and bring me back. I am so blessed! Merry Christmas and Happy and Prosperous New Year to Eveyrone!
  4. Friday last, I got a few minutes in the El Toro Supermarket in Raleigh! This place is fabulous. It has a great produce and butcher section, which were the main areas I had time to check out. The carniceria has all kinds of meat and fish, but I did not buy any as when I finally figured out, with my Sis's help, the prices and descriptions were all posted toward the ceiling away from the displays of actual meat. They have more of a selection of meats than the Food Lion off Reedy Creek! I was hoping that Sis and eldest niece would be as excited as I was about this rare treat of a bodega and all the treasures it offered. Sadly, they just wanted to get the heck out of there and get over indulging me. When will I EVER find someone who loves these experiences as much as I do? They had "fajita meat" which was the closest thing I found to what I wanted badly, which was skirt steak, but wasn't labeled as such. The "fajita meat"was $7.99 a pound and looked to be striated like the skirt steak I can only eat at "Toreros's" here. The lines for actually talking to the butcher (who knows if he speaks English) were long and my companions were anxious to get the hell out of there. I still managed to buy some stuff. Sis recommended the Purple Crow (Cuervito Morado) brand of queso fresco when she saw me selecting some. It is excellent. I bought a large bunch of fresh cilanto for 49 cents. I had crossed off the cilantro acquisition from my Food Lion Instacart order knowing that I would be coming to this bodega. $1.29 at Food Lion last time with half of it waste vs. .49 with virtually no waste here at El Toro, so win! A big bag of jalapenos at very similar price to Food Lion, but larger (freakishly, and perfect for stuffing) . Also got a white onion, and have cut into it, because even though I had older (to me) white onions, this one was the softest upon squeezing. I do not like this onion much. It is however edible, and I ate some tonight. It's what I get for buying the best-looking onion out of a bin of bad-looking ones. They have cut cactus and whole and thorny cactus paddles from the prickly pear. The latter actually looked really good, but they provided no tongs to pick them up, so I left them in the store. They also had a couple of vegetables I did not recognize at all. That is always interesting and piques my curiosity. If I'd had more time to observe, I would try to describe and ask for help, but alas, as soon I realized my companions had no interest in this place it was a race to grab a few items and get to the checkout. Lastly, I bought a big whack of house-made tortillas. They are stored in big, marina-sized coolers in front of the meat case in the back of the store. They are HOT! when you buy them and they are SO good! $1.29 a pound. They are hard to find. I read about them online, but Sis actually had to direct me back to the coolers in front of the meat cases after I had walked past them without noticing and expressed my concern to get these things. If you're ever in there, these handcrafted tortillas caliente come out of their coolers not quite hot enough to burn your hand, but still impressively very warm. They are lightly charred on one side, and they are worth seeking out. Just be careful what you order at the Taqueria El Toro restaurant next door. Fajitas great, cabeza (beef cheek) tacos, wonderful, tortas very good, quesadilla fail. Take out Total Fail! Still, the experience of the bodega and the restaurant together is something anyone who enjoys food in this area is bound to enjoy. I loved my little time in this bodega. I just wish my Sis and niece had been more into it so I could have enjoyed it with them, but at least I got out of my little shell for a while and was able to pursue something I love so much. Shoot! I totally missed the bakery racks I saw in the Yelp reviews because of the "let's get out of here and get it over with" attitude I was feeling. I could have gone crazy there in the bakery aisle!
  5. On Friday night last Sis and eldest niece came to pick me up and take me to visit my husband in his nursing home. I had researched where to get something to eat close to the nursing home online and came up with Taqueria El Toro in Raleigh. It's an authentic Mexican place and I thought it would be more popular than it turned out to be, since I know my Sis and niece adore Torero's in Cary, where there's a lot of Tex-Mex offerings, but also authentic Mexican ones too. El Toro has a great rating on Yelp, and that was certainly part of my decision to recommend it. I ordered up tacos Carne Azada, Pescado, Hongos, and Cabeza, along with a Sope with Chicken Tinga. Husband wanted a torta with chicken milanesa, which he seemed to enjoy with an order of french fries. Niece ordered up beef fajitas which looked and smelled absolutely fabulous! She devoured them. Unfortunately, Sis ordered a chix quesadilla and refused to even touch it. She can be kinda picky, but it made for a very uncomfortable situation with her sitting there not eating. I have to say that all of my tacos were very good except of the hongo (mushroom) one. It had very few mushrooms and those it had were not even cooked! So major fail for a vegetarian leaning person. The carne asada was tough and dry, but the cabeza or cachete, like they call it in Esmeralda Grill in Cary was beef cheek braised to perfection, and perfect. The fish could have been fresher, but did not make me sick, which is always a big plus. The sope was unlike the ones I have had at Rancho Grande in Cary which are soft inside, but crispy on the outside. This sope which was ordered with chicken Tinga had a very small amount of chix, on top of a lot of refried beans (which I loved) and a very small amount of wilted lettuce (iceburg). Kind of a fail if you were expecting major protein, and also the thing was not able to be cut in its styrofoam takeout container with the plastic knife and fork supplied. I was able to bite through it after picking it up and was able to eat it, but for the price, that was a major fail as well. So I'm not really on board with this high Yelp rating, especially after my sister informed me after I told her I'd brought little takeout containers for salsas from the salsa bar after reading the reviews that they were not supplied. I'm half-blind without glasses and I broke my glasses a while back. Sis said there was a sign over the salsa bar that it was for eat-in customers only! Damn! Two hundred reviews and no, and I mean NO one says anything about that! They were even very skimpy on the cilantro and onion on the tacos, while I admit the meat portion was generous. Do NOT do take out at this place! I guess a homeless person once wronged them and now they have a policy against takeout? Dunno, but do not do takeout here. So I recommend if you want an authentico Mexican taqueria experience in this area that you go to Rancho Grande which has a salsa bar and provides takeout containers for salsa and cilantro/limes/pico de gallo, blistered jalapenos, etc. I have eaten there many times and can get behind their high rating on Yelp. There is a Latino grocer in the same strip mall as El Toro where I was able to have a glorious few minutes and I'll write about it in the Grocery Shopping topic, if you're interested.
  6. We have a similar recipe down here. This one is from "Homespun Cookin'" published by the North Carolina Chapter Order of the Eastern star back in 1984. It's been called "Virginia Beach Chicken", but the one I like best is pretty simple. It calls for chix breasts, a jar of dried beef, bacon, a can of cream of mushroom soup and 8 oz. sour cream. I usually hate chix breast as it's so very easy to dry out. This comes out not only edible, but quite cravable. Maybe put buttered egg noodles on the side because the cook time is 2-1/2 hours at 300 degrees F, then uncover turn up the heat to 350 F and cook another half an hour. You would think that the non-crispy chix breast skin would be a turn-off, but with the gentle cooking, it turns tender, releases all of its lovely fat into the dish and while it is a non-standard way to cook chicken, it is very popular will all who have been exposed to it. The only thing I would add to the traditional recipe is maybe a third cup of minced onion. Certainly no salt is needed because the dried beef is loaded with it and the mushroom soup has some as well.
  7. I like bean soup and pea soup very well. I almost always put a couple of pork ribs into a pot of bean soup, but I prefer split green pea soup with no meat and just carrot, onion. jalapeno and celery in it. When my husband was here, I always put cooked ham in his, but when I tried that I tended not to like it at all. Green split peas cook up with the aforementioned veggies to be the most umami-tasting thing without any meat. I love cornbread to go with, especially my cornbread pancakes with onion, carrot, jalapeno and green peas baked into one side. This idea came from eating uthapam at an Indian Restaurant. These are SO good with pea or bean soup.
  8. MetsFan5, Any idea what TJ's business plan is on this action? A link to an article? This is so disappointing. I was hoping for it to eventually happen, but now that hope is dim. I love TJ's and haven't been able to get to it even before my husband went to the nursing home and after he destroyed my car. They just don't have everything you need, but they have so many value-priced things you want. But if you're depending on someone who drinks a sixpack of beer in the parking lot while you are shopping and resents the hell out of missing sitting in front of the TV, you need to go somewhere where you can get everything you need for the month and quickly. I will look for Wegman's delivery through Instacart. We have one now in Cary, but not where I could walk to it even before I broke my hip. I've heard really good things about them, although one of the things I've heard is that they are quite pricey, so maybe not a good fit for me.
  9. Here it is: Corned Beef and Cabbage Casserole 4 c. chopped cabbage 1 c. sliced celery 1/2 c. chopped onion 1/4 c. butter 8 oz. mostaccioli noodles cooked and drained 1 can (12 oz.) canned corned beef 1 c. (4 oz.) Swiss cheese shredded 1/2 c. milk 1/2 t. dry mustard, but prepared mustard works very fine and I like a lot of it in there, about 1/4 cup 1/2 t. caraway seed 1/8 t. black pepper Preheat oven to 350 degrees F/ 177 C. Saute cabbage, celery, onion in butter until tender. Add remaining ingredients. Mix well and spoon into 2 qt. casserole. Original recipe says to cover and bake 45 to 50 minutes until heated. 8 servings. I always cooked the past first, drained it in a colander and let that sit there while I sauteed the veggies and mixed them in the same pasta pot to keep the dish washing down. Some adaptations I've made over the years have been to increase cabbage to 6 c., celery to 2 c. and onion to 1 c., but I like a lots of veggies. I also find it imperative to remove the cover to let the pasta and cabbage caramelize a bit. I think I also increased the milk a bit and the cheese to compensate for the extra veggies. I like it and find it tastes a bit like a Reuben. I was scared of the caraway seed at first, but that is what makes it IMO. There is no salt added because there is plenty in the corned beef. I also put this in Recipe Gullet for searching purposes. If you try this, I hope you enjoy it as much as I have over the years.
  10. Corned Beef and Cabbage Casserole 4 c. chopped cabbage 1 c. sliced celery 1/2 c. chopped onion 1/4 c. butter 8 oz. mostaccioli noodles cooked and drained 1 can (12 oz.) canned corned beef 1 c. (4 oz.) Swiss cheese shredded 1/2 c. milk 1/2 t. dry mustard, but prepared mustard works very fine and I like a lot of it in there, about 1/4 cup 1/2 t. caraway seed 1/8 t. black pepper Preheat oven to 350 degrees F/ 177 C. Saute cabbage, celery, onion in butter until tender. Add remaining ingredients. Mix well and spoon into 2 qt. casserole. Original recipe says to cover and bake 45 to 50 minutes until heated. 8 servings. I always cooked the past first, drained it in a colander and let that sit there while I sauteed the veggies and mixed them in the same pasta pot to keep the dish washing down. Some adaptations I've made over the years have been to increase cabbage to 6 c., celery to 2 c. and onion to 1 c., but I like a lots of veggies. I also find it imperative to remove the cover to let the pasta and cabbage caramelize a bit. I think I also increased the milk a bit and the cheese to compensate for the extra veggies. I like it and find it tastes a bit like a Reuben. I was scared of the caraway seed at first, but that is what makes it IMO. There is no salt added because there is plenty in the corned beef. If you try this, I hope you enjoy it as much as I have over the years.
  11. I like a casserole made with canned corned beef, cooked pasta, cabbage, onion, celery and Swiss cheese with a little milk. Pretty sure I got the recipe off the Hormel corned beef can years ago. I don't make it anymore because it makes a ton and the cabbage doesn't freeze too well IMO. So being on my own now, it's out of the rotation. I still keep a tin of corned beef in the pantry in case of power outages from hurricanes or ice storms. Oh, the casserole has mustard and carroway seed too, and it is really good.
  12. Yes, I have an e-mail from Instacart offering delivery from Aldi here in Cary too! I'm probablly going to venture it soon. I just wish they would start offering Trader Joe's. Now that would be absolutely perfect, but I will settle for exploring what I can get from Aldi for now. I have never set foot in a brick and mortar Aldi's, so this will be interesting at the very least.
  13. That's another reason I love Torero's Mexican in Cary. They have carpet, low ceilings, and lots and lots of old-fashioned comfortable booths to eat at. I believe the first time I've ever had to eat at a table was when we recently came as a party of eight with tables pushed together and quite comfortable armchairs that looked and felt like leather. SIL with small baby complained she was stiff and sore on getting up, but I said I did not think the chairs were uncomfortable at all. She agreed and said they had gone to some kind of trampoline kind of place and her muscles were just now stiffening up. Young people. Anyways, this is another reason I've really enjoyed this restaurant over more than two decades. I did say I couldn't understand my niece's BF about the kind of burrito he ordered, but I was able to understand everyone else at a table of eight. The guy was on the far opposite end of the table and I'm not too familiar with his voice yet, so I don't think that's too bad for a busy Sunday night. I just hate noisy, and to me unaccommodating restaurants. The noise level at Torero's can go up when they book marichi bands. Some folks like 'em, some don't. I tend to like them, but they are not there all the time, and you know what? I like that too.
  14. Woo hoo, girl! Your windmill is very exciting to me! Sis's property where she keeps her horses has no water down there, so they have to haul it from the house in a tub on a truck. It is really quite ridicules. The town water is only a matter of yards away, but they were told they would have a cheaper solution drilling another well. I want them to get a concrete washing pad for the horses, and running water. They do have electricity, but caring for horses requires onsite water, so your extremely cool windmill is not boring at all! So glad to see your hunting blog again, and I look forward to it always.
  15. I do not agree. To me the site is clean and quite informative, but I have AdBlock and highly recommend it if you can use it on your platform and hate ads. Mine was free and I think, but cannot swear, it still is. It runs on Chrome and is available for iPhone and a few others. I find it funny that it blocks ads on its own site that I linked to. That is integrity.
  16. A bunch of my family met at Torero's Mexican Restaurant in Cary for dinner. I suggested it to my sister and eldest niece when we went out to lunch one time, and apparently they are as taken with it as I am. Yah! It was me, Sis, two of her daughters, one of them's boyfriend, my eldest nephew who's in the Navy, his wife and infant daughter, so we had a table for eight. Beloved nephew tried to pick up my husband from the nursing home, but husband was too sick to go. He hasn't been able to hold anything on his stomach since yesterday and has a hard time getting into his wheelchair, much less getting into a vehicle and schlepping into the next town to a restaurant. So that was a No Go and quite disappointing, but I have to give my nephew cudos for such a good heart to go to the effort it takes to get a half -paralyzed large man to a restaurant for a family gathering. We were all glad to see the little new addition to the family again, and she was remarkably good during our restaurant visit. Her mom had to breastfeed her at the table at one point when the child got hungry, but it was handled very discretely and caused no problems at all. I always recommend the Carne Asada at this restaurant because they use real skirt steak and season and cook it very well. One niece ordered the Carne Asada platter, as did I. It comes with ranchero (charro) beans or frioles refritos and Mexican rice, lettuce, pico de gallo and guacamole. Oh, and also a grilled spring onion and jalapeno pepper. She got corn tortillas, while I opted for the flour ones. They come in individual covered tortilla warmers and stay steamy hot throughout your meal. This was awesome as usual and we both left with a takeout box with enough for lunch tomorrow. My nephew ordered the Carne Asada burrito and pronounced it delicious when I asked. Sis got chix fajitas and really enjoyed them. Eldest niece ordered chix fajita salad and both relished their meals and left with boxes of lunch. Nephew's wife (niece-in-law??) ordered the pork carnita platter and said she enjoyed it, but seems to have developed a habit of inhaling food while trying to tend to the tiny human. The niece's BF ordered some sort of burrito and said he liked it, but I couldn't understand what kind of burrito it was due to us being at opposite ends of the table and the noise level in this always busy restaurant. Such good family fun and such good food again! They have been bombarding us with TV commercials about Uncle Julio's which seems to be an outlet of a chain that recently opened in Durham. I love reading menus, so I went there fresh from tonight's experience at Torero's to peruse their menu and read some reviews. They also serve real skirt steak, but that is where the good stuff stops on Uncle Julio's. Like most overpriced restaurants, UJ does not publish pricing info even when you narrow down the locale you would like to visit. Fortunately, you can often find recent images of current menus on Yelp for deceptive marketing places like that. Everything UJ offers seems to be twice the price and half the size we were offered at Torero's tonight. There is also a Torero's in Durham, so that's where you need to head if you're looking for Tex-Mex and some real Mexican in Durham. I just love Torero's and have been enjoying their hospitality and good food for over twenty years. It's so nice my family now likes it too. BTW, my frozen margarita was only $4.99, tasted good and had a distinct kick to it. They also managed respectable service for a large group and did not try to rush us out to turn the table on a busy night at all. No I do not work, there and never have. I just love this small, family-owned restaurant chain. Sis got pics, not of the food, but of the three generations of our family at the gathering before the resto filled up. Took a long time, like herding cats, but she's happy with the pics.
  17. Dinner tonight was spot on! It was roasted turkey at little Sis's house out in the boonies of NC. She also made really good gravy from the drippings, mashed potatoes, stuffing cooked in a separate dish, homemade cranberry sauce (not a fan, and no one else was either), Watergate salad and lovely homemade rolls. All I brought was lima beans (eldest niece's favorite, and mine) and the infamous French's green bean casserole. Sis is a really good cook and usually fries the turkey outdoors, but opted for roasted this year so we could have the good homemade gravy. She's a good enough cook that even the breasts were moist and tender. The bird was done to the bone, but there was still a ton of juice pouring out as it was carved. This juice got poured over the platter of meat. Everything was so, so good and I got to enjoy the company of my family to boot! After Sis, my eldest niece and I went down to the pasture to play with the horses, we came back to the house where most of us enjoyed the pecan and apple pies she made. There was vanilla ice cream too. Unfortunately I had gorged so much on the sumptuous meal that I was not able to partake of dessert at that time. No matter. Sis offered me some pie to take home and I replied I that I liked both the apple and pecan varieties. I did not know that she was going to send me home with two large slices of each! She is determined to get me fat. I told her to keep all the leftover butterbeans and eldest niece was excited about eating those for lunch. I have another big bag at home I will cook little by little over the course of the next month. I have so much in common with this niece that I sent a copy of "Black Beauty" (Anna Sewell) when she was a wee little thing. So good to see everyone again, and such killer food. There is nothing like a beautifully roasted turkey with homemade gravy and plenty of it for everyone. (I tend to be a gravy hog, putting it on turkey, potatoes and stuffiing, so it's nice if you do not have to be so polite and make sure there is some for everyone when it's that good.) Happy Thanksgiving, eGulleters!
  18. White Lily is good. Really good for cakes, biscuits and pie crust. It's available everywhere down here. Also, I swear I did read somewhere that even all purpose flour commonly sold down here usually has less gluten than up North. I am damned if I can find that now, though. I did find this from the Washington Post. And yeah, you want to blend your low gluten flour really well with the fat, but leave some pea-sized large lumps, before adding any liquid. I would love for @Ann_Tto weigh in here, because the Queen of Breads has posted some of the flakiest and most delectable-looking biscuits in the known world!
  19. The only wine type glasses I own that do not have the little bump on the lip are some I bought at TJ Maxx for not a lot of money. They seem to be handpainted, which makes them a pain to hand wash. They are balloon glasses, tall and very beautiful. The lip edge is cut off at a 90 degree angle, and doesn't seem to be sanded or rounded down much, and this another drawback to me. These are really left at a thin and very square edge, but never has actually cut anyone. It's not quite sharp enough to cut your lips, but it makes you think about it. That is never good. They are stem glasses and quite tall, another reason they cannot go into the dishwasher, another drawback. They're also really fragile and half of the six of these glasses have succumbed to breakage over more than a decade. (I got called out for my age tonight when speaking to my sister and eldest niece about an experience I was relating and referred to it as "not long ago". I went on to tell that it was about twenty years ago, and the niece is not much over twenty herself.) So these glasses might be considered durable in some circles? However, when I bring these glasses to a dinner party where wine will be served, they are always a conversation point. Also I think the sip is cleaner and less likely to dribble. I would just like the very thin edge sanded off a little more, myself. What kind of "no bump" glasses do you own/prefer @rotuts?
  20. I've already eaten two large salads with a Romaine head that was delivered Sunday, with sliced strawberries and a ginger/soy sauce slightly sweet vinaigrette. I have not had fresh vegetables in two weeks, so I am not getting rid of this beautiful head of lettuce that is so much more vibrant, green and bursting with nutrients than was delivered on last month's grocery order when they substituted some anemic, pale hearts of Romaine. I always wash it thoroughly, and it is my favorite lettuce. I can understand why others might pitch it, but I just can't. It only cost $1.49, so that is not the point. I just so look forward to being able to consume whole, unprocessed foods when I can get them in the first couple of weeks of my monthly grocery order. I don't feed anyone else now, and would probably not make this decision if I did. I will wash my lovely lettuce extra well, however. I anticipate being fine, as I have been so far.
  21. Can you remember the name of this service so we can avoid it?
  22. Yes, kay. I'm sure my access is not up to your locally sourced small farmers, but at least I was able to get a pound of ground chuck that was ground at Food Lion on the same day my grocery order was delivered. I tried shopping at Walmart for groceries one time. It was a deal breaker when I came across packages of ground beef that were in deep, shrink-wrapped packages with expiry dates a week out or more. This is a sure indication they have been treated with carbon monoxide, although there's no requirement to inform the buying public. Thank God we still have butchers at Food Lion. It's just less risky, I think. Of course it's a pain to have to patty and freeze the meat the same day you receive it, but so worth it to me. I do wonder how long the onsite butchers will last as things get trimmed down to the bone, seemingly in every aspect of life.
  23. I also have a big Club cast aluminum Dutch oven and a a three quart saucepan. I love them, and more importantly, I can still lift them easily. These things are very sturdy and they conduct heat up the sides of the pan all the way to the top and into the lid. You could use these pans for car jack stands. That's how sturdy they are!
  24. Yep, I don't have a cell phone either, so Uber is out. Cabs accept cash around here while Uber does not as well. Also, when I got an estimate for a destination from Uber website it was equivalent with the cab company I use. You have to be careful, though, because one cab company I used one time was 50% more expensive than the one I've settled on. All they offered more than the cheaper one was getting out and opening and closing the door. Even though I was on crutches at the time, it's not worth 50% more. Didn't help with packages or anything, just the door.
  25. Yep, this "out of stock" thing is a problem! My Instacart shoppers are going to the same Food Lion at Reedy Creek and Maynard Roads I used to walk to and regularly find all of my requested items. They regulary ignore the fresh loose carrots in favor of a bag that is so much easier to grab but is not nearly as fresh and hate to pick up seltzers in 2 litre bottles in favor of the more expensive seltzers in cartons of 12 oz cans. I know this stuff is actually in stock, I know they do this willfully, but what are you going to do? I need help right now until I can get back to my ground-eating rolling gait that used to bring me in person to my grocery stores. It's a four mile round trip, and I hope I'm on my way to getting back to it. I'm getting stronger every day and so looking forward to picking out my own stuff again. Met my neighbor out at the garbage cans the other day and she said she'd be glad to walk with me when I'm up to it. Looking forward to when I can again do this and getting rid of the $20 and $30 delivery fees. Ha! That makes my late brother's stealing over $50 and then demanding another $100 come into perspective after he shopped for me a week after coming home from the nursing home and eating mostly expired food. He was determined that I would be desperate. It did not work for him long term, though, and before we knew it he had passed. I never asked him for help again after the first rip off. I did give him the $100 even after the $50 theft. I just wanted him gone after he kept hammering me. He wasn't a nice person, but I still loved him. He sneered after he picked up the $100 bill off the floor where I had thrown it and after I asked him why he said, "Because you have it and I don't." Something that will always be between us. I was confined to a wheelchair at the time and he was extorting me. To my credit, this was the last time this ever happened, although it caused much fear that I would starve. I didn't. My neighbors were great and brought me groceries. Today's delivery included two packages of chicken wing "drumettes". This is probably my least favorite cut of the chix. I requested whole chix wings. I will eat them, but I really prefer the wing tip and the two-bone "flat" that I put up with the drumettes to get. I do wish they sold the flats separately as they do in some restaurants for an upcharge. Those are my favorite cut of chix.
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