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Skriven 2014-11-18 23:14:00 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 19500 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
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Hi Nancy,

 NB>  NB>> True...  but I'd expect a place like Whole Foods to have decent
 NB> frozen  NB>> veggies, with their reputation... :)

 RH> They have them, and I've bought them, but not recently enough to
 RH> remember anything specific about their quality. The last few years
 RH> I've tried to get as many veggies as I could, fresh thru the farmer's
 RH> market or other sources unless I needed frozen for something like
 RH> turkey (or chicken) soup. The bag I had in the freezer was left over
 RH> from one of those purchases. Actually, the last time I made soup, we
 RH> bought bags of peas & carrots and beans, no corn for Steve's benefit.

 NB> I would tend to use fresh veggies for soup, unless I had an ancient
 NB> bag of frozen that needed using (and rehydrating [g])...

Some soups I cook for hours so I'd rather use the frozen veggies--just a
quirk of mine, I guess. Fresh are good eating with minimal cooking.


 RH> Guess I'll have to try the WF frozen veggies and give a report.

 NB> The best part of frozen is that it doesn't spoil so fast... ;)

Veery true. (G)

 NB>  NB>> I got spoiled for green beans from putting up my own from the
 NB> public  NB>> market... what frozen green beans we have now are part of
 NB> the mixed  NB>> veggies...  I'll get all sorts of fresh from Wegmans,
 NB> in season...

 RH> I get my veggies for putting up usually at the farmer's market or a
 RH> local produce stand. Sometimes, for something like rhubarb, I'll go to
 RH> Lowe's or WF, but that's because it's not locally grown.

 NB> Your market is more convenient than our public market, after all...

Very much so, actually. Plus, we've been going regularly since we moved
to WF so we're well known by the vendors.

 NB> Rhubarb is locally grown here, but it's a pretty short season...

I don't think it grows that well in NC but my dad used to grow it. It
was one of the early crops each year in the garden.


 NB> one gets... ;)  Highs  NB>> tomorrow (I think) are only going to be in
 NB> the 30s....

 RH> We started getting the cold today--I think it got up to 50 but
 RH> tomorrow is supposed to be about mid 40s, at best. Same with Saturday,
 RH> then a couple of days in the low 50s and back to the 40s by next
 RH> Tuesday. Night time lows will get to the mid 20s or so, January weather
 RH> here, not November.

 NB> That's December weather for us, lows in the 20s, highs in the 30s...
 NB> but we're already getting that this week here, too... along with a
 NB> measurable amount of the white stuff... at least not sticking on
 NB> streets or sidewalks much yet... but that probably will change as the

It's 27 now, at 11:15 pm. No snow like you're getting but plenty cold.

 NB> progresses... Haven't heard if it's supposed to warm up again any time
 NB> soon, either... oh, well...  Time to do more things in the oven and
 NB> simmering on the stove top...  :)

I'm going to do a (small) chicken casserole tomorrow for supper,
probably in the stove instead of the microwave. Add some stove top done
kale and it'll be a hearty supper.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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