Staple ingredients

[Menolly]

Erm...

My Lady of Sensuality...

[Cameraman Jenn]

I couldn't help myself. I have those moments. For me staple ingredients are whole peeled unsalted canned tomatos, tomato paste, a huge range of spices including "Old Bay." cheese of all sorts but most especially my "blend" that I have mentioned on other threads, corn meal and vinegars of all sorts. Bloodguard Bob recently has discovered that I am also a bit of a freezer junkie. I am not happy if there isn't five kinds of frozen meat in the freezer so that I can whip up a meal without having to run to the store.... I've always had that tendency and I changed Julie's life forever because we used to share groceries all those years of living together. We would come home and whip up meals from the fridge and cabinets without too much effort or thought. Julie greatly appreciated that style of living and has mentioned it many times. Before living with me this time around (we were roomies in college) she would eat out alot more often and only really buy groceries the day of the planned meal. That takes so much more effort and planning. Freezer junkie is the way to go!

[A Gunslinger]

One should always have a can of condensed milk around. Also, brown sugar, flour, baking powder, corn starch, eggs, and a cute sig. other to help out.

[bloodguard bob]

A few other special things i can't let my kitchen be without:
oyster flavored sauce
white pepper
rice flour
for deglazing:michu or saki for white, port for red
minced garlic in olive oil(never store-bought)
wine bottle full of olive oil with garlic, rosemarry, bay, thyme
stock, lots of stock; chicken or veg. preferably home-made


*still can't find straight up matzoh meal. it's all soup mix.

[Menolly]

*still can't find straight up matzoh meal. it's all soup mix.

BGB, where are you looking for it at the grocery store? Look in kosher/ethnic foods, not by the soups.

PM me. I'll be happy to ship you a canister so you can try it. It's cheap enough.

[Cameraman Jenn]

I looked in the kosher foods section. They had a tag on the shelf for it but the stock guy at Safeway said they had been out of it since Passover.

[Menolly]

Oh that's friggin ridiculous. Will they special order it for you? If not, I really am happy to send out a cannister for BGB to experiment with. I get mine free from the Passover leftovers Albertson's donates to Lubavitch...

[bloodguard bob]

what she said

i went again yesterday, see, our Safeway has a "new look", they have 19 different kinds of matzoh soup mix but they've gotten rid of the meal. no worries, i'll look somplace else. i have an idea that this hippie grocery has it in bulk bins.

[Cameraman Jenn]

If you are going to go to Rainbow Grocery then you had best NOT shower and don't forget to wear your tevas and pachouli and bring your hemp cloth shopping bag and make double sure you only get the CRUELTY FREE ORGANIC matzoh meal.....

[Menolly]

Oh now that sounds like a kewl place!!

[bloodguard bob]

i'll be sure to wear my free- range, organic, hemp, tie-died fanny-pack and twist up a few dread locks before i go. while i'm there jenn, do you need me to pick you up a new, all natural fiber, organic, bio-degradable yoga mat and some organic, cruelty free, new beginnings, spiritual oat cakes?

[stonemaybe]

I prefer my staples made out of metal. The matzah flour ones just disintegrate when you try to force them through the stack of paper....

Um what's matzah???????

[Menolly]

Well...OK. If you haven't been around a lot of Jews then you might not know what matzah is.

This is the bread of afflicition. The unleavened bread our ancestors were forced to eat because they did not have the time to wait for the dough to rise.

It also happens to be rather tasty, and is eaten throughout the year, not just at Passover.

Matzah meal is matzah crumbled to a bread crumb like texture.

[stonemaybe]

Well...OK. If you haven't been around a lot of Jews then you might not know what matzah is.

Menolly, there aren't any Jews in N. Ireland! Hence the very old NI joke....

Thug: (menacingly)are you catholic or protestant?
Jewish tourist: I'm a Jew
Thug: Catholic or protestant Jew?

And as for Cheltenham, shrug I don't know! But I've certainly never been involved in mealtimes....

[Menolly]

Well...OK. If you haven't been around a lot of Jews then you might not know what matzah is.

Menolly, there aren't any Jews in N. Ireland! Hence the very old NI joke....

Thug: (menacingly)are you catholic or protestant?
Jewish tourist: I'm a Jew
Thug: Catholic or protestant Jew?

This is not the 'Tank, so I won't debate. But I will admit I was shocked to learn just how tiny Belfast's Jewish Community truly is when I went searching in response to your post. I thought Gator Town's Jewish community was small (Beorn has been the only Jew in both his elementary and middle school his entire time attending them. But, those school's have been tiny as well), but we have four shuls (houses of worship) and the one where Beorn attended religious school has a membership of 700 families on it's own! So to learn there are a total of 150 individual Jews according to the current census in Belfast floored me.

Belfast Synagogue

And as for Cheltenham, shrug I don't know! But I've certainly never been involved in mealtimes....

Maybe someday we'll get together around Passover and I'll fix a full fledge seder meal for you and yours. As long as I get to see what a North Ireland Easter is like in return.