"We eat too well...."

[threemeninaboat]

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

Comments

[twoeleven.livejournal.com]

i gotta get me one of those stores.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

The Humboldt Fog made it. The rest was really good, but adding that pushed it into awesome.

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

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).

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

You can put humboldt fog on cardboard and it'll taste good. The parsley root was very good.

[okterok.livejournal.com]

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?

[sistersolace.livejournal.com]

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!

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

80th and Wads. One block north of Black and Read.

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

No apples found in grocery stores are organic.
Different pesticides, but not organic in the way you are intending.

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

Besides organic has its own scary. I worked at Whole Foods and there are few things scarier than banana spiders.

[okterok.livejournal.com]

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.

[okterok.livejournal.com]

mmm inorganic apples.