[Sca-cooks] Food rant...

[Susan Fox-Davis]

It's a good thing that we're in a historical organization and know how to make
the good stuff ourselves, isn't it?

Gorgeous Muiredach wrote:

> Dont' mind me, I just have to rant a bit about what's available at the
> local grocery store!  Arghhhh

I don't blame you.  Time to switch to another grocery store.

>My suggestion,
>Plant a garden.

My mother has a garden on legs in the cemented part of her yard.  It is a table
with just a rim around the outside, holding in some fine netting material and
dirt.  She grows tomatoes and herbs in it, and does not have to kneel to weed
or harvest.

> It seems to become harder and harder to find simple crushed/diced canned
> tomatoes.  The stuff on the shelves is all pre-seasoned ad nauseam.  This
> style and that style of canned tomatoes.  Yerch.
>

<blink>  I know only two other people who have used the word "yerch" in a
sentence, spelled that way, one was my father and one was a contemporary of his
in New York newspaper circles in the 50's, a curmugeon who wrote a housewives'
advice column.  You wouldn't be any relation to "Prudence Penny" would you?

> Then, of course, finding HIGH fat yogourt is impossible.  All the yogourt I
> can seem able to find is this low fat, reduced fat, no fat shit.  Hell,
> they even have lowfat butter!  Ha!

Repugnant, isn't it?  I really dislike the "nonfat cream cheese," the mouthfeel
is all wrong, all gummy.

If you have any ethnic markets in your city specializing in Middle Eastern,
Balkan or Russian foods, go there for full-fat yogurt.  They will look at you
like a space alien, but they will sell you the yogurt.  Otherwise, it's not
hard to make:  So what you do is procure some of the other low-whatever yogurt,
anything with live cultures, and dump a container of it into a pot with a
half-gallon or so of full-on milk.  Cover it to keep the good bugs in and the
puppy dogs out, and place it on a heating pad all night, swaddled in a big
towel or small blanket.  In the morning, full-fat yogurt, lower price, very
little work.

Selene, Caid