Monday, April 13, 2015

What's in season by you?

I live in New York and right now
this map
http://www.epicurious.com/archive/seasonalcooking/farmtotable/seasonalingredientmap
on Epicurious tells me
apples
carrots
onions and
potatoes
are in season here.

What's in season by you?

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Links and Things 3/17/2015

Thinking a lot about frugality and grocery shopping. There really are a ton of resources....like most of the internet one step forward two steps back.

Groupon has this app(?) called snap where you get cash back on purchases from any store by scanning the receipts for things like bananas and sweet potatoes
https://snap.groupon.com/footer/faq

Some of these are interesting.
"about 80% of what shoppers buy, they buy each week"
*the butcher marks the meat down between 8-10am...is this true?
I never thought about but milk is cheaper at the drugstore.
http://www.rd.com/slideshows/supermarket-tricks/view-all/

Best Sellers at Trader Joe's
http://www.traderjoes.com/digin/post/customer-choice-award-winners

I'm really looking forward to this kitchn column
http://www.thekitchn.com/grocery-stores-a-love-story-the-grocery-insider-216908

I can never remember who owns who.
http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2014/07/08/this-chart-shows-who-makes-the-food-you-buy-at-the-grocery/




Recipes
Easy Peasant Bread
http://www.alexandracooks.com/2012/11/07/my-mothers-peasant-bread-the-best-easiest-bread-you-will-ever-make/

Granola Bars
http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-homemade-granola-bars-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-176676

I have always wanted to make gougeres.
http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-cheese-gougres-169039