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[cjsherwood]

Tonight I went off to Trader Joe's and Whole Paycheck to get various items for my pantry. The incumbent "storm" (which, I'm given to understand, is supposed to be mostly rain at least tonight) had nothing to do with it. I made quite a TJ's shopping list the other day and couldn't drag my body out of the house to go have at it

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[txanne]

FWIW, you can put citrus into your salad and make the juice into a vinaigrette--olive oil, grapefruit juice (or blood-orange juice, or Meyer lemon juice), a tiny bit of Dijon mustard, shallots or chives...best thing I ever made up in the kitchen.

[cjsherwood]

Sounds like a great idea! Will have to try, as it sounds like a great departure from the traditional lemon juice in vinaigrette. I made a vinaigrette tonight with my TJ's California Estate E.V. Olive Oil and the cassis vinegar, some lemon pepper, rosemary, garlic, and honey. Oh my.

(These particular olive oils are PRESSED with fruit. Not infused, not flavored. It's quite a departure from the traditional methods of adding citrus to olive oil, apparently. If I were a rich man....)

[amaebi]

Citrus peel is easy to candy. With grapefruit, simmer in water and drain it three times before simmering it in the syrup-- to reduce the bitterness.

I find it easy to keep away from Whole Paycheck since its CEO announced that USians don't need healthcare, just organic food.

[cjsherwood]

Thanks! It will be fun to try (and have citrus peel to eat once the grapefruit peel the Historian gave me runs out).

As to Whole Paycheck, I'd heard that. It's actually not at all on my standard places to shop... happened this time to be way more convenient than my local A&P given that I had frozen stuff with me that had to get home... thankfully, A&P carries the milk I like so WP isn't a requirement.

I do wonder if that's why it was rather emptier than I expected it to be...

[amaebi]

I doubt that the CEO's political move is thinning the ranks at Whole Foods at this point, given the memories of USians. Most likely continuing employment, low income, and apprehensions of the coming of such.

[cjsherwood]

Not sure if I understand you.... I'm not saying there were less employees; I'm saying there were less customers.

Trader Joe's was mobbed and their staff was frantically re-stocking nearly every department. Whole Paycheck was re-stocking produce -- as they always seem to be -- but any other re-stocking I saw (and there wasn't much of it) was mostly rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, so to speak... not putting out anything new, just restacking what was there (there was one guy inside the dairy cooler putting out more milk; I guess that's new product not restacking). And the lines weren't at all long and most people were only buying a few items...