Grocery Shopping

[Nancy in Pátzcuaro]

Well, that was a surprise!

 

If they are fresh enough you can do a spore print, which will help with identifying. Put the cap, gill side down, on a sheet of paper that ideally has both black and white areas. Put a glass over the cap and leave it for a couple of hours. If there is no print, put a drop of water on the cap and try again. The color and shape (you'll need a magnifier for that) will be a major part of identifying the critter. We've found that even the driest mushroom will sooner or later  drop a few spores. Note also the gills--do they attach directly to the stem or are they one of several other options? (From the photo I think they are not attached.) Are they single strands or do they branch? (Couldn't tell.) Is the cap sticky or dry? That will go a long way toward ID-ing it. I haven't investigated any resources on the internet--we use books--but I'm sure there are plenty of sites that will walk you through the process if you're interested.

 

I just realized that you probably have eaten them by now and that there's no way to do a spore print. Oh well-- Perhaps your friend from Shanghai will know at least the local name and maybe from that you can figure out the latin name.

 

How did they taste? To me there's nothing as good as a sauteed wild mushroom.

 

Nancy in Pátzcuaro

 

 

[liuzhou]

Yes, I know how to take a spore print.

 

Unattached gills, single strands, dry cap.

 

The taste wasn't particularly distinctive - just generally mushroomy. Mild and not unpleasant, but not thrilling.This was my first time to cook them on their own. I usually do them with a mix of wild mushrooms, including the morels.

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Late this afternoon I had planned my dinner and was about to place my Whole Foods Prime Now order.  No delivery available tonight.

 

[gulfporter]

Last week at our tianguis (open air market), I asked Denis (a Frenchman now living in Guadalajara) who makes and sells his own pate', quiche, duck confit at the market, if he could get me duck breasts as my local Mexican butcher has been unable to locate any.  

 

I got them today, two frozen together.  The price was 380 pesos per kilo.  At today's exchange rate, that would be $9 USD per pound which seems reasonable given it is considered a delicacy of sorts here.  

 

One of them my DH will make into duck prosciutto.  The other will meet the fry pan soon enough.  

 

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Tonight I needed to go to the pharmacy so I stopped at Shoprite for a couple things.  A girl cannot have too many limes.  And I was short on sour cream.  However grocery shopping after dark around here is ill advised.  Coming home I was almost run over twice, once by a police car in the parking lot.

 

[lindag]

Heh heh heh.   Once a group of friends and I rented a vacation house on Flathead Lake.  We loved our cocktails and went to Costco to buy their huge bags of limes.  We maintained that lol means lots o' limes!

We actually had to go back and buy another bag.

Incidentally, Costco does not sell alcohol in this state, we go to state-owned liquor stores.

[lemniscate]

Speaking of duck.  I stopped in at Costco Business yesterday during a break from a work thing.  They didn't have the "thing" I was looking for, but I did find this.  I didn't have a way to keep them frozen for the remaining hours away from home, but I will be returning to purchase, when I clear up a bit of freezer space......

[Smithy]

58 minutes ago, lemniscate said:

Speaking of duck.  I stopped in at Costco Business yesterday during a break from a work thing.  They didn't have the "thing" I was looking for, but I did find this.  I didn't have a way to keep them frozen for the remaining hours away from home, but I will be returning to purchase, when I clear up a bit of freezer space......

 

This makes me wish I had a Costco membership - and a Costco (or Costco Business Center) near where I live. Nice find!

[lemniscate]

Right next to these in the freezer were whole NZ lambs, halal, wrapped in white cloth, piled 4 feet high.  Amazing.

I didn't take a pic of those.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

For shopping I had no energy.  Browsing Prime Now did not excite me.  But I needed limes.  One can endure most privations.  But not limes.  Besides, it was still a lovely afternoon and there is a Flood Watch in effect.

 

I girded my loins, my boots, my backpack and set off for Shoprite.  Shoprite had no limes.

 

[BeeZee]

Geez, I just bought 2 limes at my local ShopRite, thats a drag.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Yesterday at Shoprite I was told their delivery was coming in last night.  I woke up in withdrawal and hurried to Shoprite before work.  No limes.

 

I'm sure this is because of International Scurvy Awareness Day on 5/2.  Scurvy is a dreadful way to die.  Meanwhile I just placed an order with Amazon for ten limes, with delivery for tonight.

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Amazon came through.  No scurvy for another week.

 

[ChocoMom]

I felt a little odd buying a gazillion lemons and limes this past week...I feel better knowing I wasn't the only one! Needed Key Limes for a ganache in the shop.   Lime zest for the raspberry-lime diplomat cream (filling for one of tomorrow's desserts.);  Lemons for my lemon meringue cheesecake; Lemon juice for the hollandaise sauce for tomorrow's pan roasted asparagus side.   The glorious thing about it all, was that the lemons were on sale 2/$1 for 1 day this week, and I hit the store on that day.  =) 

We're having 19 people for dinner tomorrow...so....needed ample desserts and sauce.  

[JoNorvelleWalker]

In Shoprite's defense they did have one lorn bag of Key Limes on the shelf.  And lemons they had lots.

 

[suzilightning]

15 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

In Shoprite's defense they did have one lorn bag of Key Limes on the shelf.  And lemons they had lots.

 

Hey, at least YOUR Shoprite had real Key Limes.  Mine didn't and had to make good with Nellie & Joe's key lime juice for John's drunken shrimp from Margaritaville.

[chefmd]

First of the season local MD asparagus.  

 

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Shoprite had limes.  Not many, but a few nice ones.

 

[chefmd]

Dry aged steak.  

[rotuts]

@chefmd

 

looks nice

 

looks like its still on the butchers counter

 

 

 

I on a list of things ld like to try at least once

 

is to dry age a big hunk of beef in my refrigerator for

 

a zillion days , w one of those semi-pemeable plastic bags that you Vac.

 

A high end store near me

 

has their own  dry age chamber that you can see

 

they then cut out the high end cuts and place them in the service butchers counter

 

I tried one item

 

I was not impressed , even though it was 28 day dry aged

 

then I realized , the meat they are aging is Choice , not Prime.

 

for me , and possibly only me 

 

I can do better w choice if I can see the marbling 

 

and maybe get the meat on sale

 

[ ed.:  " sale ' here means its a hurdle, that  limits item that are maybe not so good for R etc.  to be fair : if there were inside skirts easily available rotuts would 

 

cave in immediately ! ]

 

[chefmd]

@rotuts you are correct, beef is still in butcher case.  I bought about a pound of this beauty (they weigh it after trimming) to serve two people.  It is my Saturday indulgence.  

[rotuts]

@chefmd

 

Id like to see what you do with that Tranch

 

that being said

 

maybe the Cognocenti 

 

or the serious Meat Eaters here

 

might chime in on

 

1 ) aged choice   the meat we might get easily   at times

 

2 ) aged Prime  far mo difficult to fined ?

 

still is how you cook it and provide for yourself and

 

your family and friends

 

cheers

[chefmd]

@rotuts I cook my steak rare as previously posted in the dinner thread.  Tonight’s steak was happily consumed without being photographed 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

4 hours ago, chefmd said:

@rotuts I cook my steak rare as previously posted in the dinner thread.  Tonight’s steak was happily consumed without being photographed 

 

This week's amazon prime now delivery was again strip steak rather than the dry aged ribeye I ordered.  Amazon didn't charge me and they gave me a $10.00 credit on top of that.  I don't see how they make a profit.  It would seem so much easier to just send the ribeye I ordered.  They sent ribeye once, I know they can do it if they want to.

 

 

[liuzhou]

 

Egg shopping this morning. Clockwise from top - duck, chicken, quail, goose.

 

 

Edited April 28, 2019 by liuzhou (log)