Notes from grocery shopping
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magidI went to Trader Joe's first.
Not only do they now have kosher ground beef, they had some kind of kosher steak, too. I've again not remembered the brand name (David's, maybe?), but I looked up the hechsher when I got home, which turned out to be certified by Rabbi Asher Zeilingold, the Kashrut Administrator of Upper Midwest Kashrut (tenth row down on the right from this list of hechsherim). I wonder what the short name is for them, given the symbol?
On the minus side, the unsweetened dried cherries no longer have a hechsher. (And why can't I find unsweetened dried cranberries? I know they're sweetened to make them more palatable to people eating them straight, but I want to control the sweetness if I use them in cooking, especially because they're sweetened too much for my taste.)
On the plus side, I got there just as someone was stocking the organic produce section with bags of organic lemons and limes! This is the first time I've seen organic limes (Whole Wallet never does, at least when I've asked), and I was happy to get more lemons if that's what it took to get the limes. Yay!
Current plot: juice the lemons and limes. Also juice oranges and tangelos. Candy all the peel together.
And I found that they're no longer stocking the ginger tea by Yogi Tea, so I shall have to look elsewhere.
Then it was on to Whole Foods (which I still call Bread & Circus half the time; it's a much more interesting name), theoretically just for yogurt.
Of course, I had to walk through the produce section first, just to look, and there atop the other citrus were a couple of Buddha's hands, as if for decoration. I'd seen pictures before, never the real thing. Very cool. I couldn't see a price, so didn't want to risk it (given their prices), but I smelled, and they're reminiscent of etrog.
The other produce of note was in the mushroom section. There were the oyster mushrooms, slightly greyish-brown, like the ones currently in my fridge. And there was the basket of oyster mushrooms that were pink! I couldn't help staring at them for a few minutes, debating with myself whether I should get them (I resisted, in the end.).
On to the yogurts, where I was sad to find that now Liberte's plum and walnut yogurt doesn't have a hechsher anymore, either. I'd sent them an email when the fruit and grains lost their hechsher months ago (that was the absolute best), and I've sent them another one. Interestingly, it looks like they're coming out with a line of organic fruit yogurts, and those are all hechshered. (But the flavor choices are rather predictable. I want the fruit and grain ones, darnit!)
While I was there, I noticed yogurt made from water buffalo milk. How incredibly neat. Not kosher certified, alas.
I meandered through the Place of Longing otherwise known as the cheese department, then consoled myself by looking at the funky flour selection. So many interesting choices, including chickpea flour (which I got; now I have to find a recipe for chickpea flour cookies like Tabrizi's makes. Reminder to self: do NOT use this flour when making things for Z; the kid's allergic to chickpeas. In fact, better to make in a bowl that's not the usual bread dough bowl.), chickpea and fava bean flour, hazelnut flour, almond flour (which was very expensive, and the almond butter at TJ's went up in price, too; has something happened to decrease the almond supply?), teff flour, and chestnut flour (the only one that wasn't hechshered, alas). I looked at the recipes on the teff flour, and was disappointed to see that it was of the 'replace one cup of regular flour in your regular bread recipe' variety, rather than an injera recipe.
And when I was home searching for hechsher info, I stumbled across this wonderful article about the kosher meat boycott of 1902, protesting a 50% increase in kosher beef (from 12 to 18 cents per pound. I wish.). How cool. (OK, and I love the bit about how a woman responds to police pushing by slapping an officer with a piece of wet liver.)
Not only do they now have kosher ground beef, they had some kind of kosher steak, too. I've again not remembered the brand name (David's, maybe?), but I looked up the hechsher when I got home, which turned out to be certified by Rabbi Asher Zeilingold, the Kashrut Administrator of Upper Midwest Kashrut (tenth row down on the right from this list of hechsherim). I wonder what the short name is for them, given the symbol?
On the minus side, the unsweetened dried cherries no longer have a hechsher. (And why can't I find unsweetened dried cranberries? I know they're sweetened to make them more palatable to people eating them straight, but I want to control the sweetness if I use them in cooking, especially because they're sweetened too much for my taste.)
On the plus side, I got there just as someone was stocking the organic produce section with bags of organic lemons and limes! This is the first time I've seen organic limes (Whole Wallet never does, at least when I've asked), and I was happy to get more lemons if that's what it took to get the limes. Yay!
Current plot: juice the lemons and limes. Also juice oranges and tangelos. Candy all the peel together.
And I found that they're no longer stocking the ginger tea by Yogi Tea, so I shall have to look elsewhere.
Then it was on to Whole Foods (which I still call Bread & Circus half the time; it's a much more interesting name), theoretically just for yogurt.
Of course, I had to walk through the produce section first, just to look, and there atop the other citrus were a couple of Buddha's hands, as if for decoration. I'd seen pictures before, never the real thing. Very cool. I couldn't see a price, so didn't want to risk it (given their prices), but I smelled, and they're reminiscent of etrog.
The other produce of note was in the mushroom section. There were the oyster mushrooms, slightly greyish-brown, like the ones currently in my fridge. And there was the basket of oyster mushrooms that were pink! I couldn't help staring at them for a few minutes, debating with myself whether I should get them (I resisted, in the end.).
On to the yogurts, where I was sad to find that now Liberte's plum and walnut yogurt doesn't have a hechsher anymore, either. I'd sent them an email when the fruit and grains lost their hechsher months ago (that was the absolute best), and I've sent them another one. Interestingly, it looks like they're coming out with a line of organic fruit yogurts, and those are all hechshered. (But the flavor choices are rather predictable. I want the fruit and grain ones, darnit!)
While I was there, I noticed yogurt made from water buffalo milk. How incredibly neat. Not kosher certified, alas.
I meandered through the Place of Longing otherwise known as the cheese department, then consoled myself by looking at the funky flour selection. So many interesting choices, including chickpea flour (which I got; now I have to find a recipe for chickpea flour cookies like Tabrizi's makes. Reminder to self: do NOT use this flour when making things for Z; the kid's allergic to chickpeas. In fact, better to make in a bowl that's not the usual bread dough bowl.), chickpea and fava bean flour, hazelnut flour, almond flour (which was very expensive, and the almond butter at TJ's went up in price, too; has something happened to decrease the almond supply?), teff flour, and chestnut flour (the only one that wasn't hechshered, alas). I looked at the recipes on the teff flour, and was disappointed to see that it was of the 'replace one cup of regular flour in your regular bread recipe' variety, rather than an injera recipe.
And when I was home searching for hechsher info, I stumbled across this wonderful article about the kosher meat boycott of 1902, protesting a 50% increase in kosher beef (from 12 to 18 cents per pound. I wish.). How cool. (OK, and I love the bit about how a woman responds to police pushing by slapping an officer with a piece of wet liver.)
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Date: 2005-12-23 12:18 am (UTC)Bib-K, perhaps? ;)
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Date: 2005-12-23 01:25 pm (UTC)For some reason, my first thought was about cowboy hats, even though the brim isn't there.
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Date: 2005-12-23 01:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-23 01:47 pm (UTC)I went a-Googling, and while a lot of the hits reference the link above (Hyman seems to be the major scholar interested in it), there's some interesting stuff out there, including a high school lesson on boycotts that references this boycott along with protests of the Stamp act and the boycott of the Mongomery bus system, heady company indeed; a paper examining the occurence of food riots in general; and a chapter in American Jewish Women's History. Ooh, and a K-12 resource for food history lessons!
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Date: 2005-12-23 02:24 pm (UTC)Oooh, thanks for the warning! I'll stay away!
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Date: 2005-12-23 02:29 pm (UTC)"Avoid.... the Hand... of Buddha... if you can!" *evil laughter soundtrack*
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Date: 2005-12-23 02:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-23 02:33 pm (UTC)chickpea flour
Date: 2005-12-23 06:47 pm (UTC)( I never used a recipie but this looks right). http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe.cgi?r=58110
The indians also use it for dumplings.
Don't know about cookies though.
enjoy
Re: chickpea flour
Date: 2005-12-23 08:39 pm (UTC)Tabrizi's bakery in Watertown has chickpea flour cookies, little ones in the shape of four-leafed clovers, that have an interesting texture. I haven't Googled yet, so I don't know if recipes are out there, but if not, I might ask the guy at the bakery.