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thebratqueenI, uh, got a little chatty about food. It occured to me this might bore people. Ahem.
Went to Whole Foods. Produce! Lovely lovely produce! Loads of it, all colorful and beautiful except the tomatoes since my god it's fall and I don't care where they came from I don't know who they think they're trying to kid with that.
But! Meat! Beautiful meat! (yeah, yeah, I know, I said it deliberately). And a butcher! A real butcher, who came up and talked to me and did not look at me as though I were insane or wasting his time to dare to ask for specific cuts!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
Sadly the rest was pretty much par for the course. It wasn't a large Whole Foods (I've been to bigger ones) so beyond the meat and produce it didn't have much to recommend it compared to my local supermarkets or even the local megamart. For example the section for baking needs pretty much amounted to 3 different kinds of King Arthur Flour, some sugar, and then Amy's mixes for cakes and brownies. Which is nice and all, but my local megamart has all that and more, and that's even if I'm only limiting myself to the organic section of that.
Still, the produce and meat are the biggies. There's one store in my town which has phenominal produce (for those who have stayed with me, I'm talking about the yuppie food store) but it's a teeny weeny section. Good for when you're just trying to throw together a salad or grab some apples or oranges, not so good for when you're trying to make meals that branch out beyond the uber-basics. Meat-wise I've been dealing with ongoing disappointment as I'd yet to find a local shop that had a meat section which made me drool just to look at it. Trader Joe's has some good stuff, but it's a limited selection and what they got is what they got. Nobody on the location to do special requests.
Not that having actual butchers helped my special request needs in the past. I remember one time I tried doing a request at the local megamart and was met with a blank stare and the directions to the meat which was already on display. This even after the guy acknowledged that what was on display wasn't exactly what I had asked for, but it was close enough to make no difference, right? (Answer: wrong).
So to see a meat counter that actually had good meat, meat that actually looked like meat is supposed to look, then couple it with a guy behind the counter who was happy to sit and shoot the shit with me, then combine it with him being happy to answer my questions about placing special orders and how would I do that to make sure I could get a specific cut of meat in time for Christmas.... happy sigh.
It's a shame the rest of the store didn't have more b/c I'd happily make the trip over there to do all my shopping. Esp as the prices weren't actually insane. In fact it was cheaper to buy some stuff there then at the megamart. About the only thing that wasn't cheaper or comparable in cost was the meat, but that's to be expected for the quality.
It occurs to me that possibly what I need to do is stop with the almost day to day improvising that I've been doing with my food schedule and get a little bit better about planning out my meals in advance - or more in advance than I do. That way I could do strategic attacks on Whole Foods and pick up the rest at the local stores, rather than being tempted to only do the local stores b/c it's so easy to just get everything all in one place.
But this is me babbling now.
Oh! And they had local honey! Or at least more local than the honey at any other stores around here! Local honey! From different kinds of flowers! Fancy that! :D
Okay, I'll shut up about the store now.
I want to write. I so want to write. I especially want to write since![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
obsessedmuch put inspiration and temptation in my path today, that vixen. Plus I have some time off tonight that I didn't expect to have off, so that's technically like a freebie for the stuff I'm supposed to be doing, right? Right?
Sigh. The sad thing is that it's past 10pm, so little old working lady me actually needs to go take a shower and go to bed in about an hour and a half, which leaves me with just enough time to do one of the things I'm supposed to do tonight anyway.
Curse you, Fate, for your enforced responsibility!
Went to Whole Foods. Produce! Lovely lovely produce! Loads of it, all colorful and beautiful except the tomatoes since my god it's fall and I don't care where they came from I don't know who they think they're trying to kid with that.
But! Meat! Beautiful meat! (yeah, yeah, I know, I said it deliberately). And a butcher! A real butcher, who came up and talked to me and did not look at me as though I were insane or wasting his time to dare to ask for specific cuts!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
Sadly the rest was pretty much par for the course. It wasn't a large Whole Foods (I've been to bigger ones) so beyond the meat and produce it didn't have much to recommend it compared to my local supermarkets or even the local megamart. For example the section for baking needs pretty much amounted to 3 different kinds of King Arthur Flour, some sugar, and then Amy's mixes for cakes and brownies. Which is nice and all, but my local megamart has all that and more, and that's even if I'm only limiting myself to the organic section of that.
Still, the produce and meat are the biggies. There's one store in my town which has phenominal produce (for those who have stayed with me, I'm talking about the yuppie food store) but it's a teeny weeny section. Good for when you're just trying to throw together a salad or grab some apples or oranges, not so good for when you're trying to make meals that branch out beyond the uber-basics. Meat-wise I've been dealing with ongoing disappointment as I'd yet to find a local shop that had a meat section which made me drool just to look at it. Trader Joe's has some good stuff, but it's a limited selection and what they got is what they got. Nobody on the location to do special requests.
Not that having actual butchers helped my special request needs in the past. I remember one time I tried doing a request at the local megamart and was met with a blank stare and the directions to the meat which was already on display. This even after the guy acknowledged that what was on display wasn't exactly what I had asked for, but it was close enough to make no difference, right? (Answer: wrong).
So to see a meat counter that actually had good meat, meat that actually looked like meat is supposed to look, then couple it with a guy behind the counter who was happy to sit and shoot the shit with me, then combine it with him being happy to answer my questions about placing special orders and how would I do that to make sure I could get a specific cut of meat in time for Christmas.... happy sigh.
It's a shame the rest of the store didn't have more b/c I'd happily make the trip over there to do all my shopping. Esp as the prices weren't actually insane. In fact it was cheaper to buy some stuff there then at the megamart. About the only thing that wasn't cheaper or comparable in cost was the meat, but that's to be expected for the quality.
It occurs to me that possibly what I need to do is stop with the almost day to day improvising that I've been doing with my food schedule and get a little bit better about planning out my meals in advance - or more in advance than I do. That way I could do strategic attacks on Whole Foods and pick up the rest at the local stores, rather than being tempted to only do the local stores b/c it's so easy to just get everything all in one place.
But this is me babbling now.
Oh! And they had local honey! Or at least more local than the honey at any other stores around here! Local honey! From different kinds of flowers! Fancy that! :D
Okay, I'll shut up about the store now.
I want to write. I so want to write. I especially want to write since
obsessedmuch put inspiration and temptation in my path today, that vixen. Plus I have some time off tonight that I didn't expect to have off, so that's technically like a freebie for the stuff I'm supposed to be doing, right? Right?Sigh. The sad thing is that it's past 10pm, so little old working lady me actually needs to go take a shower and go to bed in about an hour and a half, which leaves me with just enough time to do one of the things I'm supposed to do tonight anyway.
Curse you, Fate, for your enforced responsibility!
