foodie trip :)

"~patches~" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I decided to do a foodie trip today to a couple of orchards and the
local mom & pop grocery store. The m & p is really quite quaint but he
has an excellent reputation for his meats and deli. If fresh cut meat
is not sold by 2 pm he puts it on special which means I get a good deal.
The produce is so cheap at the orchards it's a sin not to buy it. So
I ended up with green peppers, 8 lb apples, 4 diff'n kinds of squash, 10
lbs cooking onions, and a basket of pears for $10.50. Then I stopped at
the m & p for potatoes, rutabega, lg sweet potato, chicken legs already
marked down, spare ribs also marked down, and milk. That cost me
another $17.

Now what can I do? The green peppers are slated for salsa and the
onions will go for salsa and chili. The apples are for applesauce.
That leaves me with the pears that aren't really enough to can but
perhaps in a chutney. The chicken legs - 12 of them for $2 are already
on the grill for freezer meals. The ribs look awesome so maybe a wet
bbq. Maybe I could use some of the squash for the freezer meals. I
have an abundance of green beans, tomatoes, cabbage, and herbs from the
garden followed by a few cucumber, carrots, and onions. It would be
nice to come up with a different casserole that became a family favourite.

Wow, what a score! I used to love going to those kinds of places when I
lived in Upstate New York. Gosh, your post brought back some fun memories.
You've got so much stuff, it's like, what *can't* you do? Oh, how about a
pear [censored] with the pears? Or like a rum, pear, cinnamon thingy? I adore
pears. Yummy!

kili

kilikini said:

"~patches~" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I decided to do a foodie trip today to a couple of orchards and the
local mom & pop grocery store. The m & p is really quite quaint but
he has an excellent reputation for his meats and deli. If fresh cut
meat
is not sold by 2 pm he puts it on special which means I get a good
deal. The produce is so cheap at the orchards it's a sin not to
buy it. So
I ended up with green peppers, 8 lb apples, 4 diff'n kinds of
squash, 10 lbs cooking onions, and a basket of pears for $10.50.
Then I stopped at the m & p for potatoes, rutabega, lg sweet potato,
chicken legs already marked down, spare ribs also marked down, and
milk. That cost me another $17.

Now what can I do? The green peppers are slated for salsa and the
onions will go for salsa and chili. The apples are for applesauce.
That leaves me with the pears that aren't really enough to can but
perhaps in a chutney. The chicken legs - 12 of them for $2 are
already on the grill for freezer meals. The ribs look awesome so
maybe a wet bbq. Maybe I could use some of the squash for the
freezer meals. I
have an abundance of green beans, tomatoes, cabbage, and herbs from
the garden followed by a few cucumber, carrots, and onions. It
would be
nice to come up with a different casserole that became a family
favourite.

Wow, what a score! I used to love going to those kinds of places
when I lived in Upstate New York. Gosh, your post brought back some
fun memories. You've got so much stuff, it's like, what *can't* you
do? Oh, how about a pear [censored] with the pears? Or like a rum, pear,
cinnamon thingy? I adore pears. Yummy!

kili

My grandma in Ohio used to can pears from the tree in her yard. They were
delicious! She had a second kitchen in the basement for her canning and
making sauces and stuff because she didn't want to mess up her upstairs
kitchen 😉 Wish I had pictures of it! The basement kitchen was totally
early 1940's white enamel. She had a cool closed off fruit cellar with
shelves of pears and other stuff she canned. It was right next to the coal
storage room. Ha! The house was built in 1910 and they used to use coal to
stoke the furnace and there was a coal chute. What a great house that was!
I'd walk a mile for some of her canned pears now. She died in 1976.

Jill