Clean up on aisle…oh, faggedit
Yesterday was a beautifully cool, crisp autumn day and I spent it grocery shopping. That is usually a drag for most people, but it is absolute heaven for someone who adores cooking as much as I do, lemme tell ya.
First, I went to my local market to pick up a pork shoulder for my pernil. (guess who forgot to buy garlic, the key ingredient? yep. say it with me: MORON) There was a sale on tuna. This brought me tremendous pleasure. You KNOW I got my fill. You know, I have friends who have a hard time shopping for groceries. They actually hate going to the grocery store. It’s the one time I love to go shopping. Clothes or shoe shopping I can live without, but give me a nice green grocer or a good butcher shop and I’m in heaven. Maybe I need a keeper. Maybe I need to get a life…I don’t know and I don’t care. I’m happy to have full cupboards.
It’s the one thing I have control over these days.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
That is one thing I miss about living in a more urban area — specialty grocers. We DO have a lot of fruit and veggie stands that have an amazing variety. I think that is driven a lot my our latin population. Thank you for that. Butchers, though? Most are gone. The ones I used to go to are shut down. We do not have bakeries, unless you go up to Tarpon Springs, but even then it will be all Greek style goods. That gets old after a while.
The one thing that really might shock you is how hard it is to find a good seafood vendor. We live on the Gulf of Mexico for cryin’ out loud! Could it be that hard to find fresh seafood outside of the supermarkets? Aparently it is.