[Sca-cooks] garam marsala

[Anne Murphy]

You shop in the Wegman's in Ithaca? That is the most amazing store!

My parents lived there the last few years. Once when I was visiting, my
mother, native New York City person she was, said "I am taking you to the
supermarket." I thought she'd lost it... There were aisles and aisles of
fascinating things! I mean, here in the city, I do know where to find
everything I saw, but I'd have to go to about 20 specialty stores to do it!
Couldn't imagine shopping there regularly, being able to get all this
easily. Of course, easy is relative - the flip side was that it seemed to
take 2 hours to find cereal and soup.

I'm always having people outside the city tout the advantages of the bigger
stores, but the ones I've shopped in, in NJ, used that space to have
multiple sizes and brands of the same merchandise, nothing interesting.
(That is finally beginning to change, at least where I used to live. Didn't
until I left, though - frustrating!)

Anne

> [Original Message]
> From: Angie Malone <alm4 at cornell.edu>
> To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
 > Date: 8/31/01 9:30:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] garam marsala
>
> Thanks to everyone for their advice.  I can't believe I added that r in
masala!
>
> It's probably because I came right home from Wegman's and Tops (two
> really big grocery stores next to each other) extremely frustrated
> because 1st I didn't find what I was looking for and 2nd the college
> students are just back at Cornell U and Ithaca college so it was a
> mad house.  I don't do very well in crowds like that..sort of
> claustrophobic.
>
> So I think when I got home I was thinking about beer and or wine,
> while I was writing my question!
>
> For those who are wondering I think in the tops store (Which has a
> pretty amazing Indian food aisle) they had about 4 different kinds of
> masalas.  I can't remember all the names now but they had a couple of
> standard ingredients which i will try and figure out.
>
> It was odd because they had some other spice mixture (I can't
> remember the name) but on the back was a tandoori chicken recipe.
> Now that I have suggested mix I think I will try that.
>
> The jars were bigger than your normal spice jar and cost about $1.59
> I think.  So I was willing to get it already mixed up, but I think I
> can mix my own.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> 	Angeline
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