Text 34851, 106 rader
Skriven 2013-03-16 00:38:42 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
  Kommentar till text 34760 av Nancy Backus (64948.cooking)
Ärende: Re: Wegmans 178
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Hi Nancy,

>> Possibly.. or that at times I'm willing to relax my standards a bit. (G)

>> hahaha.. we have done that in the past.  I bet the worst was when Ron
>> and I  went on a kick that included eating La Choy chinese (?) canned
>> food (laugh). I  don't know what got into us that week!

> Comfort food from the past...?  I know... that was my first introduction
> to chinese (sorta)... that's what I had growing up as a kid...  :)

Yeah no doubt.. but probably from when we were first married .. :)

Mom did try making her own Chinese food - it was great since she worked at a
day care as the school nurse with a Chinese woman who told her where to get
"real ingredients" and gave her recipes.  This was back in the late 60's/early
70's. Mom had such an aversion to canned food (probably from the depression
era) she never bought any "dinners".. she wouldn't even buy frozen tv dinner
type dinners :) That I think was because honest to God, dad had to have
macaroni or spaghetti any time he was not on call at the Hospital :)  Those
nights when he'd have to work a double shift or whatever meant we could eat
"other" food Lol.. like potatoes.. I'm serious :)

>> They did, though, recently add an on-premises sushi maker that one can
>> watch, or even order from... haven't tried that out to see if fresh is
>> better than the packaged...
>> That sounds like a very nice way to get sushi :)

> Maybe.  I'm sure it really can't come close to any good comparison with
> what Fu makes...  :)

Understand.. but sushi is very easy to make and there are so many books out
with how-to's - as long as they have the proper ingredients (sushi rice, rice
wine, nori, etc.) I can't imagine it could be bad.. well you know what I mean
(grin).

>> If that weren't the only Wegmans in the Ithaca area, I'd be wondering
>> how much longer they were planning to keep it open...

>> They were busy as all get out last night :)  Ron and I founnd shopping

> Well, that should help keep them open anyway... ;)

Yeah.. busy is good :)  One thing I've learned with shopping at Wegman's here
is you can't really "stockup" with ingredients for more than several days. It's
a little pia for me but just some adjustment needed.. When we lived in Windsor,
and shopped at the Binghamton Wegmans we'd do a big shopping jaunt maybe every
2 weeks.. run to the local BigM for milk, bread, when we ran out, that kind of
thing.. meat got frozen, most fresh veggies stored like potoatoes, onions, etc.
If I let things sit for two weeks here, well they rot.. so I just have to cook
everything we buy that week.. pia Lol

>> there  last night quite the pia, as everyone seems to be ignorant of
>> others walking by  (you know, people who don't look where they're
>> going), and those  "hard-chargers" racing down aisles..

> That's never fun...

Definitely... it's all over though.  The temptation to stick out a foot has
been kept in check thus far (vbg)

>> list, the two of us  said, "let's get out of here!" We figured we could
>> get anything I'd forgotten  to put on the list at the more local P&W
>> store.. like sauerkraut and rye bread  for the reubens I'll make with
>> the corned beef we fought through the crowds to  get :) :)

> Well, at least you got some good goodies from your foray...  :)  The
> small stuff is easier to get just about anywhere..  :)

I wish this was a "town" where we lived Lol.. at least Windsor had that BigM
Market (reminicent of very early ShopRite stores, did you have those over
there?)

There is a post office here, but catch this.. it is in a shed kinda
manufactured home .. It's not even a real building :) :)

..Ordering Sushi fish
>> The biggest issue I can think of is whether you'd have to get so much at
>> a time that it wouldn't stay good for long enough to use it all
>> yourselves...

>> Yes, that would be a concern of course.  One could freeze part of the
>> order as  well.  I'm not yet sold on the idea of ordering it though..

> I've noticed that the local sushi restaurants often are using
> fresh-frozen fish to keep some of it good longer... they end up having
> to thaw to have their fresh...  :)

Makes sense..Even they don't want to lose $$ with fish going bad.

>> we'll see. It was  SO nice living in SE NY's Orange County.. When we
>> were living 45 minutes from  NYC back then the local fish stores always
>> had an abundance of excellent fresh  fish.  Seems like another
>> life-time, now (g).  I guess it was :)

> yeah...  life just keeps trudging along, and before you know it, things
> you thought were yesterday are another lifetime ago...  ;)

Sure seems like it, doesn't it.. :) I don't mind so much.. but wish I could
combine all the good parts with "today" Lol

Take care,
Janis

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