At Chow.com there’s an article on home canning: at Serious Eats, a recipe for a homemade ketchup made out of blueberries rather than tomatoes.
At Fooducate is an informative article on Greek yogurt, how it differs from ordinary yogurt, and why it’s become so popular recently. My only plea is that package designers will not render the word as “GRΣΣK”, which would be pronounced “grssk”.
Also at Fooducate, a new theory about causes of the childhood obesity crisis: kids in public elementary schools get, on average, about a 25-minute lunch break. That’s 25 minutes to use the restroom, wash up (one hopes), get to the cafeteria, stand in line for their meals, eat, and get outdoors for what few minutes of play they can manage. The nutritional “lessons” learned here are a) gulp down your food as fast as you can, and b) grab the things that taste good and eat them first, because if you save your favorites for last you may not have time to eat them.
Whiskey Sour Day is either tomorrow or next Monday: my sources disagree, as they do on National Waffle Day, which is either today or tomorrow. (International Waffle Day is in March. They do this just to annoy me, I know it.) Monday, the 29th, is definitely both National Lemon Juice Day and National More-Herbs-Less-Salt Day: whatever you’re cooking, squirt some lemon juice in there when you add the herbs. It’s tasty and better for you than salt. And one week from today, the 31st, is National Eat Outside Day, so bag up your lunch and find a shady spot.
August 24th: National Peach Pie Day, National Waffle Day
August 25th: Whiskey Sour Day, National Banana Split Day, another National Waffle Day
August 26th: National Cherry Popsicle Day
August 27th: National Pots de Crème Day, Banana Lovers' Day
August 28th: National Cherry Turnover Day
August 29th: National Whiskey Sour Day according to other sources, National Chop Suey Day, National Lemon Juice Day, National More Herbs Less Salt Day
August 30th: National Toasted Marshmallow Day
August 31st: National Trail Mix Day, National Eat Outside Day
The new crops of fall fruits are coming in – lots of apples and pears, but the summer melons and stone fruits are still around. Chicken prices are quite good.
Albertson’s:
Crystal Geyser spring water, 24 pk of half-liter bottles, $2.47
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $4.99/lb
Beef London broil, boneless, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.99/lb (3 lbs or more)
Pork sirloin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.77/lb (cut & wrapped free)
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.67/lb
Coho salmon fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Land O Lakes “cage free” brown eggs, grade A large, dozens, 2/$5
Deli: Shannon’s Deli roast beef/corned beef/beef pastrami, $6.99/lb
Jennie-O smoked turkey breast OR turkey pastrami, $3.99/lb
Eckrich “super lean” ham, $3.99/lb
Stella Swiss/baby-Swiss/Muenster/Provolone cheeses, $5.99/lb
Nature’s Own 100% whole wheat bread, 2/$4
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $1.99/lb
Gala apples, $1.49/lb
Peaches OR nectarines, $1.99/lb
Cut up watermelon, 2 lb bowl, $3.99
Cut up “fruit medley”, 24 oz bowl, $4.99
Cut up cantaloupe, 20 oz bowl, $2.99
Cut up pineapple, 20 oz bowl, $3.99
Cut up apples, 14 oz bowl, $3.99
Asparagus tips, 8 oz pkg, $3.99
Sweet corn, 6/$1
Roma tomatoes, 77¢/lb
Iceberg, $1.18 ea
Cherub (red) or Sunburst (yellow) grape tomatoes, 10 oz container, 2/$5
Earthbound Farms box salads, 1 lb, $4.99
Bashas’:
Bashas’ water, 24 pk of half-liter bottles, 2/$5
Beef crossrib or bottom round roasts, buy 1 get 1 free
(and a 24 oz pkg of Simply Potatoes mashed potatoes!)
Beef New York steaks, bone in, value pack, $4.77/lb (regular pack $1 higher)
Sirloin cut pork chops, boneless, $2.99
Pork shoulder roast, $2.49/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
True cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb “weather permitting”
Food Club cheeses, 12-16 oz chunk/shreds/slices/snacks, $3.99
Challenge butter, $2.99
Bumble Bee chunk white tuna, 99¢
PictSweet frozen veg, 10-12 oz bags, 3/$5
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 97¢
Green or red seedless grapes, $1.97/lb
Whole cantaloupes, $1.97 ea
Red or black plums, $1.97/lb
Roma tomatoes, 77¢/lb
Asparagus, $1.87/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 97¢ ea
Vine tomatoes, $1.97/lb
Green bell peppers, 77¢ ea (red, 10¢ higher)
Dole bag salads, $2.47
Food City:
Beef top sirloin steaks or roast, boneless, value pack, $2.69/lb
Country style pork ribs, bone in, family pack, $1.99/lb
Whole frying chickens, 59¢/lb
Tilapia fillets, $2.49/lb
Bartlett pears, 2 lbs/98¢
Pink grapefruit, 3/99¢
Kiwifruit, 5/$1
Mexican grey squash, 2 lbs/98¢
Celery, 2/$1
Fry’s:
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $4.99/lb
All fresh pork, buy 1 get 1 free (same item)
Cook’s smoked ham, shank portion, $1.27/lb (butt portion $1.37)
Tyson boneless skinless chicken breast, 2.5 lb bag IQF, $4.99
Kroger Value boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.79/lb
Jennie-O 93/7 ground turkey, 1.25 lb pkg, 2/$6
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.88/lb
Cod fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
Fry’s milk, half gallons only, 88¢
Bumble Bee chunk light tuna, 69¢
Pure Protein bars, 10/$10
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $1.98/lb
Peaches, nectarines, plums, $1.98/lb
Navel oranges (from Australia), $1.29/lb
Cantaloupes, 2/$3
Mangos, 10/$10
Bartlett pears, 10 lbs/$10
Roma tomatoes, 10 lbs/$10
“Mini peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, 10/$10
Safeway:
Beef London broil, boneless, value pack, $2.29/lb
Beef t-bone steaks, value pack, $7.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef 7-bone chuck steak, bone in, value pack, $3.49/lb
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $2.99/lb
Pork sirloin country style ribs, boneless, value pack, $1.69/lb
Chicken thighs/drumsticks, bone in, value pack, 88¢/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $3.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $3.99/lb
Swai fillets, farm raised, $4.00/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, color added, $8.99/lb
Lucerne “Natural Slices” cheeses, 12 oz, $3.49
Eating Right eggs, AA large, dozens, $3.49
Bush’s variety beans, 15-16 oz cans, 4/$5
Del Monte canned veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 10/$10
Chicken of the Sea albacore tuna, 4/$5
Mini seedless watermelons, $1.48 ea
Navel oranges, probably from Australia, 99¢/lb
“Red Lion” nectarines, $1.99/lb
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $1.99/lb
Cantaloupes, 2/$4
Clementines, 3 lb bag, $4.99
Smart & Final:
First Street whole chickens, twin pack, 79¢/lb
Yoplait yogurts incl. Light, 18 ct variety pack, $7.99
Valencia oranges, 5 lb bag, $1.99
Sprouts:
“Super lean” ground beef, $3.77/lb
Beef sirloin tip steak or roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops or roast, boneless, $2.99
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Alaskan coho salmon fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Sprouts eggs, AA large, dozens, 2/$3
Gardenburger veggie burgers, 10 oz frozen box, 2/$6
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 97¢
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, 2 lbs/$3
White peaches, white nectarines, red or black plums, 77¢/lb
Organic yellow peaches, $1.49/lb
Whole seedless watermelons, 3 lbs/$1
Bartlett pears, 2 lbs/$1
Valencia oranges, 2 lbs/$1
Organic cantaloupes, 69¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 77¢ ea
Eggplant, 77¢ ea
Roma tomatoes, 77¢/lb
Green or red bell peppers, 3/$1
Since I brought up the issue of lentil sprouts last week, here is how to go about it. This works for mung or other small beans as well, or alfalfa or wheat-berries. I’ve never tried it with millet or quinoa:
First pick the lentils over, at least make a token effort. Use brown lentils, not red.
Take a quart jar and pour in an inch or so of lentils. Fasten a piece of gauzy or meshy cloth across the top: old nylon stockings used to be popular, but if this offends your aesthetic sensibilities get some nylon netting (it’s very cheap in any fabric store). Secure it with a rubber band.
Rinse the lentils thoroughly, pouring the water off. The last time, leave it in, enough to cover them by two or three inches. Leave on the kitchen counter. Rinse them again two or three times a day.
The second day they will have swelled up quite a lot. Rinse again, but pour the water off this time and leave the jar lying on its side. Keep rinsing at least twice a day.
By the fourth day little tips of roots and leaf-shoots should be showing. If they’re not, throw them out, make the rest of the lentils into soup, and next time buy lentils from Sprouts or Whole Foods or Trader Joe or the co-op.
As soon as the tips start to show, they are ready to eat. They need to be cooked: steam them or sauté them. Take out half of the jar’s contents, it will refill itself by the next day.
They are good in scrambled eggs, in soup or stew, or any place you’d use chopped veggies.
If the jar refills too fast, put it in the refrigerator. If the contents start to smell even slightly funky, dispose and start over again.
They are good until they’re two inches long. After that toss them onto the compost pile and they will grow.
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