The dreaded supermarket shuffle

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TammyM said:

You guys are killing me with your talk of cool weather! Ohhhhh, the
wonderful cookery of Autumn....

Gotta love it 😉
Yesterday, temperatures were under 22°C (71.6°F) at 10:30 AM, and fell to
under 20 (68°F) in the evening. Today it seems a little warmer, and
yesterday evening the stew and polenta treat went soooo well 😉
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Vilco

I only know it was gray and cool here, but I made crema di sedano and then
had one of the first mele annurca with some cheddar recently smuggled in by
a friend. More autumnal I can hardly be.

Salutations, gentlefolk,

Snickers said:

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When this happens in my fav store, I always get a kick out of walking
up to
the manager to sweetly ask for a map of the store layout. I love the
puzzled expression on his/her face as well as the mad scrambling from
counter to counter. The best part is to be in another part of the
store
when the manager comes back with the answer. I admit it. I never
grew up.
--
"Hope everyone is happy in your head - we're all doin' pretty good in
mine."
--Unknown

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I went to the store today to pick up ingredients for meatloaf.
It's meatloaf and mashed potatoes weather here, believe it or not,
in the middle of August.

I'd noticed some changes the other day when I was in there.
Now it's flat out pandemonium. Stuff is off the shelves. Some
rows of shelves are missing entirely. Armies of people putting
items in new places.

It's going to take me ages to figure out the new layout. This
should be fun.

nancy

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Having recently worked in a byg retail groceries-and-everything-else
chain, might I suggest that even the 'store coach' has little say over
the store layout and shelf-stocking plan.

Might I suggest that on www.hoovers.com you can find out the name and
title of the CEO, and the address of the executive offices, for every
major US corporation, and many overseas ones as well.

As my mother - god rest her soul - would put it "Go right to the top"

Yours, Jon Desmond

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TammyM said:

You guys are killing me with your talk of cool weather! Ohhhhh, the
wonderful cookery of Autumn....

Gotta love it 😉

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It's gonna be 100F today here in Sacramento, California.

Yesterday, temperatures were under 22°C (71.6°F) at 10:30 AM, and fell to
under 20 (68°F) in the evening. Today it seems a little warmer, and
yesterday evening the stew and polenta treat went soooo well 😉
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Vilco
Think pink, drink rose'

Yesterday evening, here in Gemagnano (Torino), was 16°C and I have cooked a
good polenta with toma cheese, reggiano cheese and dried porcini mushrooms
on the top! And we have opened a good bottle of nebbiolo red wine,
ofcourse🙂
PS. Now , at 12,43 PM the temperature is of 19° ! Ohhh! I Am very well
because I hate hot weather!

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Kisses
Pandora

Pandora said:

Yesterday evening, here in Gemagnano (Torino), was 16°C and I have cooked a
good polenta with toma cheese, reggiano cheese and dried porcini mushrooms
on the top! And we have opened a good bottle of nebbiolo red wine,
ofcourse🙂
PS. Now , at 12,43 PM the temperature is of 19° ! Ohhh! I Am very well
because I hate hot weather!

Pandora, just wanted to let you know that I made your recipe for
Zucchini and Tomatoes little pans 'au gratin' a couple of days ago, and
it was really delicious - a wonderful combination of flavours, herbs and
textures. DH really enjoyed it - Thank you! :-)))

Deb.
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"He looked a fierce and quarrelsome cat, but claw he never would;
He only bit the ones he loved, because they tasted good." S. Greenfield

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TammyM said:

You guys are killing me with your talk of cool weather! Ohhhhh, the
wonderful cookery of Autumn....

Gotta love it 😉

Quoted message said:

It's gonna be 100F today here in Sacramento, California.

Yesterday, temperatures were under 22°C (71.6°F) at 10:30 AM, and fell to
under 20 (68°F) in the evening. Today it seems a little warmer, and
yesterday evening the stew and polenta treat went soooo well 😉
--
Vilco
Think pink, drink rose'

Yesterday evening, here in Gemagnano (Torino), was 16°C and I have cooked
a good polenta with toma cheese, reggiano cheese and dried porcini
mushrooms on the top! And we have opened a good bottle of nebbiolo red
wine, ofcourse🙂
PS. Now , at 12,43 PM the temperature is of 19° ! Ohhh! I Am very well
because I hate hot weather!

--
Kisses
Pandora

We have been very lucky here in the Shenandoah Valley the past few days.
Right now it is 66F 19C, and high in the 70's during the day. It is very
lucky for us because we had some very smelly chemicals in our kitchen from
new countertops, etc. and had to leave the windows open as we didn't want it
circulating through the air conditioner. Pandora, I hate hot weather, too.

Your polenta and regg cheese and dried porcini sounds so delicious. I
wonder if you have posted this recipe previously. You are so good to post
receipes when we ask. This one sounds like I would like to make it if you
have time to post it.

I will also serve it with a good bottle of nebbiolo. It is one of my
favorite grapes.
Dee Dee

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It drives me crazy, especially since I make my shopping lists based on
where things are in the store. I find that having things listed in
more or less the same order in which I'll encounter them cuts down on
forgetting things on the list. It's gotten increasingly difficult to
rely on that system.

pat

Local grocery/supermarket shopping is not much of a pain anymore. I hit the
produce aisle, sometimes the yogurt for a fresh supply to seed my new batch,
and if I'm out of it, the dried pasta aisle, though I keep a bucket of
various types handy.
Everything else is bought from other individual non-supermarket places.

I don't know how I got into this shopping pattern, but over the years, it
evolved. There is nothing I dislike more than to shop at supermarkets.
Should've been born European, in that respect.

But I do hit the big ones about every 6 weeks-2 months, TJ's, WF, Wegmans.
Maybe that's why it's fun.
Dee Dee