A Marzano pepper plant at the Mexican market! I was there for baking soda…how do you run out of baking soda? 
Lots of flower buds! I picked one a few days from blooming, hoping for a cooling spell.
I grew one of these from seed several years ago, and while it sets fruit better in cooler weather, I was able to keep the last one going for a few years.
We should measure our age this way. “She’s on her third baking soda.”
I usually at least have an old, opened box in the refrigerator!
I have an old, opened box in the back of my pantry cabinet. I expect it to outlive me.
Well, you kind of have to find them in the wild. A lb of ramps would be a whole lotta big flavor. Probably more than you could use. More than I could, anyway. Strong stuff.
I tried Royal Sanguine Nectarine imported from Spain this week. They were delicious.
They have red flesh.
Distinct flavour from regular nectarines and white nectarines.
They were available in a plastic wrapped package of 4 nectarines at the Loblaws in London, Ontario. The trade name is Royal Sanguine.
I didn’t seen them at Fiesta Farms or my local Metro in Toronto this weekend.
Here is the site in Spain.
These aren’t new per se but the first time I’ve bought fresh scallops at the supermarket fish counter:
They were on sale at £19.99 a kilo
I wouldn’t say no to this. I might try and seek this out to try.
I like a lot of Japanese sandwich types (and desserts in general) and have tried these strawberry sandwiches 2-3 times here in SF (they are quite popular for many years) but have to say that the milk bread part doesn’t work for me
I love pretty much all HEB chips. BTW, at the Texas Chili Parlor here in Austin they make an incredible Frito pie. My favorite chili on it…drum roll for the forthcoming heresy…their three bean, XXX.
Ate this for breakfast just now. Really nice. The bread isn’t milk bread but a sort of sturdy brioche. Not too sweet.
I would definitely enjoy this!
That didn’t take long 
Yeah, it helps that I have a mini branch of that supermarket at my workplace!
Ah, H-E-B. Never lived in an H-E-B state, but I did dig their readily available cajeta.
Every time I go to Texas, the best part is the trips to HEB. Love those stores.
I rarely go more than five or six times a week.n
A couple of Sprouts frozen pizzas (pepperoni and 3 meat) that I haven’t tried yet and a couple of salted butters that i have tried.
Straus Lightly Salted: The package says pasture based herds and 85% butterfat. It’s good but not as flavorful as I expected, considering it’s more premium than the usual supermarket butters. Perhaps needed a bit more salt? The high butterfat content was noticeable but didn’t really impress me. I’ve only had it on one piece of bread. Maybe I’ll come to like it better with more use.
Vital Farms Salted: The package says pasture-raised, 90% grass-fed. I liked this one better. The package doesn’t say what butterfat percentage it is. I thought this was a U.S. product but while looking for the butterfat percentage just now, I noticed the package says “Product of Ireland”.
One of the AI websites told me Vital Farms was a USA butter, not the first time I’ve been misinformed by those websites. I just checked the Vital Farms website and their salted butter is 83% butterfat.
I, too, like salted butter and have pretty much settled on Kerrygold. There are others that are widely available and ok but not great. I am always on the lookout for one with that nutty taste of European cultured butter. Despite many that are labeled “cultured European style” or words to that effect, it seems a hopeless search.
We can’t buy Kerrygold butter in Canada. We can buy Kerrygold cheeses. The butter has been a treat when I’ve visited the States.
Some of our Polish stores sell Polish butter, which I haven’t tried yet. A few places sell French butter.
I like the European-style butter made in Ontario, but I can’t really say how it compares to butter in Europe or Kerrygold, since it’s been 6 years since my last taste of Kerrygold or butter in Europe.
