My CSA has spoiled us for many things. Supermarket stuff doesn’t compare.
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Agreed. I’ve been participating in a Debit card CSA this year, and the choices have been great.
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What’s a debit card CSA? I’m not familiar with that term.
I think it’s new for my CSA this year (or their 2nd year?). They load up a CSA-provided debit card with a set amount ($250 or more…I went with $300, and re-ups are $250 as well if you use the first amount loaded). When the CSA arrives (they come every Thursday to my workplace lobby between 3 and 6:30 during the summer, and will have 4 pop-ups in my building in Nov, Dec, Jan and Feb to take advantage of their winter CSA items) I can shop for just what I want, vs the specific quantity of items they set forth in a regular CSA. This way, I’m not forced to have beets or kale or something I don’t want, OR I can skip a week or two if I want. SUPER convenient for me!
Pick ups are farmers market style. I choose the veggies I want based on a list of available items each week, and I get 10% off every time I use the Debit CSA card. Plus they also let you shop via pre-order from their Meat, Mushroom, Dairy, and Egg shares. Theyll bring that stuff in a cooler for your pickup at offsite locations.
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That’s our CSA too, I think we may do the debit card program, if they come back next summer. We did the smallest share they offer, but even that was too much for the 2 of us. We gave a lot away.
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They’ve told me it’s popular, so hopefully they do bring it back. It’s very convenient. I didn’t spend everything in the Summer CSA program, so they said I could use it in the Winter pop-ups.
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AHHHH! I used to be a member of a CSA that worked sort of the same way. You deposited a certain amount of money at the beginning of the year and then shopped as needed. My CSA delivered the purchase to my house whenever I placed an order.
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VERY good, albeit rather lengthy article (worth the time and effort to read it, however.).
As stated in the article, in many instances, “ignorance is bliss”…indeed. In Japanese, the phrase is “shiranu ga hotoke” (知らぬが仏) which directly translates to “not knowing is Buddha” and I often use that as well.
Currently, I wish I never knew which entertainers are conservative or liberal because after knowing that, I can often no longer enjoy them. (← I hope and pray that this comment doesn’t cross any lines. 
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Heat your stainless before adding oil.
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Transforms your relationship with cooking eggs in a steel pan!
Also the dancing water bubbles are really fun (and kind of amazing)
Yay science!
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I do this. And …. Stuff doesn’t stick.
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My first motto was Hot Pan, Cold Fat. The second was stop playing with the meat. It will stick until it doesn’t.
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Jeff Smith ~ The Frugal Gourmet (I know , I know)
“Cold pan - hot oil. Food won’t stick “
Some things you never forget🙂
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And yet I fear you’re remembering it incorrectly! I’m pretty sure it’s “Hot pan, cold oil. Food won’t stick.” His recommendation was to heat the pan to (near) cooking temperature, then add the oil and begin cooking almost immediately.
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You’re right! How embarrassing was that.
I swear I learned this from Martin Yan, about cooking fish.
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Could be. I don’t think Jeff Smith coined the phrase: I think he just popularized it. Or maybe he and Martin Yan stole it from each other!
Son got a warning message before it happened!
I was in a store when I got the warning, and didn’t feel it, but my son was home and felt it. He videoed the water in a pool which was sloshing over the sides for long enough to get outside and capture it.
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That’s a decent sized quake. I’m glad the tsunami warning was called off.
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