[Sca-cooks] Shopping Orgasm

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Oh,

Muh

Gawd.

I was just squealing with joy when i went into the produce section of 
the glorious Berkeley Bowl supermarket this evening.

FRESH green chickpeas!

Fresh favas (well, they've had them before, but still, just what i needed)

More different kinds of mushrooms than i've ever seen in one place 
before - i swear they have even more than they used to.

Bunches of lovely young carrots - orange ones (of course), yellow 
ones, and i bought white ones. I know they aren't really skirrets - 
just backwards bred from orange ones - but at least they look right.

More different kinds of citrus fruits than they've ever had before 
(although, alas, still no jeruk nipis or "kaffir" limes). Think of 
your usual supermarket fresh produce case. Now think of two of them. 
Now fill those two with nothing but different kinds of citrus fruits. 
One whole side is different kinds of oranges and tangerines. The 
other side was grapefruits, lemons, and lime, including "Persian 
lemons" and "Palestinian limes". Seville oranges are in - i'm going 
back after Crown Tourney this weekend to buy some - squeeze and 
freeze the juice, and maybe i'll get over my dislike of working with 
sugar and make some candied peel.

There were fewer different kinds of eggplants than usual, but it 
could be the season or the weather - there were only about 6 
different kinds and none of the tiny green or white ones that look 
like eggs.

Anyway, i got what i needed for my 14th century Baghdadi Lenten 
dishes... I think i'll make the fish with tahini sauce tonight.

-- 
Urtatim, formerly Anahita