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March 09, 2007
General foodishness
I was supposed to make split pea soup out of the hambone that we got (inside a ham, of course) from the neighbors for xmas. Only I got lazy and by the time I actually got around to getting the ingredients the bone was all funkdafied. Because I was too stupid to just put the damn thing in the freezer. Feh. So now I have the ingredients for the soup, sans hambone, and a friendly crock-pot recipe to make it in. (Yes, I know it says hamhocks. I just wanted to find a recipe to follow for the crock-pot, because I didn't feel like stove-topping it.) I oughta just go ahead and make it this weekend so it'll get eaten up before I'm out in cali.
So we went grocery shopping today. Finally. I don't know why the hubby complains that the food bill is so high when he keeps on postponing our usual 2-week schedule an extra week all the time. Of course we're spending nearly $200 every trip - we only go twice a month! But this time I had basically woke up right when we had to go, and there wasn't any cereal or oatmeal bars, so I ended up going hungry. Bad thing to do, of course, but we did surprisingly well anyway.
I peeped out a twelver of the Lipton green tea stuff, because I like green tea and wanted to see if that brand was worth the trouble. It's the citrus variety, which I'm kind of ambivalent about, but it didn't have that yicky fake lemon taste to it that you usually get with pre-lemonized tea. Okay, so it didn't say 'lemon' it said 'citrus' - it still didn't have that nasty fakey taste. But other than that the stuff is basically unremarkable. It tastes like slightly tangy green tea.
The Omaha steaks have been entirely acceptable so far. The pork chops are teeny compared to the ones we get from Schwan, but the steaks work well enough. They have these zippy au grautin potato things that are like breaded racket balls. Easy to make, but a tad bland - they desperately need a bit of salt (or more cheese melted on top).
Posted by damyano at March 9, 2007 11:37 PM