threemeninaboat: (chef)
threemeninaboat ([personal profile] threemeninaboat) wrote2012-02-05 09:08 pm

"We eat too well...."

We ran out of eggs this morning. I suggested that we visit the newly remodeled King Soopers about 10 blocks NorthWest of us (there is also a King Soopers 10 blocks due North, and one 1 block East). It had been under construction for over a year but I remembered that the cheese section they were putting in rivaled Whole Foods.
The new grocery store is HUGE. It has a sofa and beds section. Really.
Reminds me of Carrefour Hypermart.

The cheese and produce sections did not disappoint. We got gouda, local goat brie, 3 types of irish cheddar....
Parsley root, sunchokes, macintosh apples (which are becoming rare here, I don't see them that often), golden beets with greens.

Skyr, they carry skyr.
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So dinner this evening:

Thinly slice:
1 fennel bulb with fronds
2 big sunchokes
3 parsley roots
roast in the oven (I also made granola* and roasted the beets since the oven was on)

1 box bow-tie pasta
2c fresh basil
about $8 worth of Humboldt Fog.

Soooooo goooood.

*Granola
oats
cashews
honey
almond oil
sunflower seeds
sesame seeds
garam masala

dried apricots and mangoes

[identity profile] twoeleven.livejournal.com 2012-02-06 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
i gotta get me one of those stores.

[identity profile] manintheboat.livejournal.com 2012-02-06 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
We'll see if the neighborhood can support it.
Last time one of the grocery stores carried nicer goods they all ended up on the clearance rack (I got a lifetime supply of dark chocolate and australian olive oil, but now you can only get low range brands).

[identity profile] randomdreams.livejournal.com 2012-02-06 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
The Humboldt Fog made it. The rest was really good, but adding that pushed it into awesome.

[identity profile] manintheboat.livejournal.com 2012-02-06 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
You can put humboldt fog on cardboard and it'll taste good. The parsley root was very good.

[identity profile] okterok.livejournal.com 2012-02-06 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
oo nice!

And the few times I've had skyr I *hated* it though Seoirse drinks some Siggi's drinkable yogurts almost every morning :)

I *love* macintoshes so might have to check that out. Were they organic?

[identity profile] manintheboat.livejournal.com 2012-02-06 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
No apples found in grocery stores are organic.
Different pesticides, but not organic in the way you are intending.

[identity profile] okterok.livejournal.com 2012-02-07 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
mmm inorganic apples.

[identity profile] manintheboat.livejournal.com 2012-02-06 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
Besides organic has its own scary. I worked at Whole Foods and there are few things scarier than banana spiders.

[identity profile] okterok.livejournal.com 2012-02-07 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
the spiders that live in bananas or the spiders called banana spiders? Either way, when they come at you unexpectedly, it's good to run screaming. Trust me, I used to live with them.

[identity profile] sistersolace.livejournal.com 2012-02-06 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Oooh... which KS is this? Mine (Englewood) has a better selection than I'm used to coming from Memphis and all, but that one sounds amazing!

[identity profile] manintheboat.livejournal.com 2012-02-06 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
80th and Wads. One block north of Black and Read.