Text 14029, 77 rader
Skriven 2014-06-08 21:12:21 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 13992 av Dale Shipp (1:261/1466.0)
Ärende: egg-planting
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Hi Dale,


 RH> I've not had anything over 5 years so couldn't say whether I'd go for
 RH> an older one or not. The 5 years are good tho. (G)

 DS> Sometimes our three year old Cabot brick gains a bit of age in our
 DS> fridge before we get to it :-}}  There is a place in NY State (Jewetts
 DS> www.jewettscheese.com) that sells (and ships) cheese of up to 18
 DS> years. If I recall correctly some was sent to Burton Ford's picnic, a
 DS> sample of 5, 8 and 10 year old.

Burt brought some to the 08 picnic at Janis's--that was our first
exposure to a really long aged cheddar.

 RH> We're debating a
 RH> Costco membership but would have to make sure we had the room to store
 RH> the bulk purchases first.

 DS> We have both Costco and BJs.  We seem to use BJs more often.  There

We walked thru the BJ's in Raleigh--it seemed a bit shabby, not very
well kept and not much of a selection of things we'd be interested in.

 DS> are differences in the products carried.  We do not buy extra large
 DS> sizes of anything (like a #10 can of ...) but do buy a lot there.  We
 DS> also get
 DS> more than groceries, e.g. kitchen items.  Sometimes they only have a
 DS> large size of an item that costs about the same as the grocery store
 DS> version of half the size.  Even if you don't use it all, you still
 DS> make out.   BUT, as you say, you need to be concerned about storing
 DS> what you buy.  We have a basement area where we keep stocks of things.

We have no basement, useable attic or garage so have to stow where we
can in the (small) house. Makes for interesting re-arrainging to fit a
new thing in sometimes. (G)


 RH> BTW, we will probably arrive some time mid to late afternoon on picnic
 RH> Thursday. Depends on traffic, etc, as usual. Since the picnic itself
 RH> will be Sunday, we'll stay thru and leave on Monday. I'll bring
 RH> ingredients but make my lemon pound cake up there (probably borrowing
 RH> your pan so I don't have to schlep mine) so it'll be fresh.

 DS> Pretty much anything in our kitchen is up for grabs -- so long as
 DS> there are not too many folks trying to grab the same thing at the same
 DS> time.

I doubt there'll be much competition for your bundt pan. (G)

 DS> There was an infamous incident at the picnic near Montreal when a
 DS> certain person (no longer in the echo) tried to claim the only decent
 DS> knife as her royal right.

That must ave been interesting. (G)


 DS> We have planted some basil and some rosemary in pots on our deck.  I
 DS> hope that it is mature enough to use at picnic time.  We still have a
 DS> little bit of the rosemary you brought up once.  Gail dehydrated it
 DS> and put it into a spice jar.  It is still much more pungent than store
 DS> bought dried rosemary.

We were thinking of brining up some more, as well as some oregano. One
of the bushes died this past winter but the other is still going strong,
putting out more than we can use in a season.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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