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Happy Thirsty Thursday Nor Cal! Welcome to the second month of 2022
It is a clear, but windy day here at the North End of the Sacramento Valley. I hope things are going well for all of you.
Yesterday was an Emergency trip to the Veterinarian for our old dog. At 14+, she had started having seizures. Not our first rodeo with this problem, but still heartbreaking.
At a lunch stop on our way home from the vet. Still wobbly on her pins.
Last edited by Modoc; Feb 3, 2022 at 04:35 PM.
Reason: I can’t spell
My local Kroger store featured empty shelves and empty display cases. Food is running out. Or people are hoarding. I asked the store manager. She said that they got their regular delivery. No supply chain issue. People just bought more. If they are hoarding, they are doing it selectively. An entire aisle of instant ramen is empty. Every head of cabbage And only pinto beans, not garbanzos. Every box of instant Mac and cheese. All tortillas are sold out. Along with beef flap meat. So the store will have to order more.
Our local Walmart neighborhood market can't keep any of the Top Ramen or Maruchan noodles in stock. The shelves are always empty. Most days the chocolate milk is also missing. I buy it when I can.
Maybe it's a signal of shift in economy. People who did not regularly eat instant noodles, are now on a ramen diet, because it's cheaper. I've always bought "cheap food". I buy and eat whatever is on sale. Albertsons is selling top sirloin for $2.99 per pound at it's Safeway stores. There was plenty. On the top of the sirloin is a "cap". Fancy butcher shops sell that separately as "coulette" and "Picanha" for three times the price. Sirloin, even though it's less expensive, is not a bad piece of meat.
$2.99 per pound was a good price. Sirloin is actually a good piece of meat. Full of flavor. I don't understand why people grind it into hamburger. It cooks really well on cast iron. I really like how it smokes and sears with grill marks. Served with a crab salad. Dungeness crab meat, avocado, tomato, radish greens, radish roots.
I had jumbo coconut shrimp today. Probably will tomorrow as well. Fruit cocktail and buttered toast. Oh, and some moo juice, from a brown cow, not a white one this time. LOL
Where are you buying milk? Costco never discloses the color of the cow. Costco only sells white eggs. I never see the brown eggs.
There is light at the end of my tunnel. To thank my brother in law for the hundreds of dollars of crabs I have been eating, I fed him, my sister, and their kids with "exotic Brazilian Churrascaria Picanha". I did not disclose that they were eating $2.99 per pound Safeway meat. Nor did I tell them that I was only feeding it to them so that I wouldn't have to throw it away. I also had some bread that was just past prime. Not yet moldy, or stale. But a day older than day old bread. Once I toasted it on the griddle and made grilled cheese sandwiches.......the kids did not know the difference. Nobody even questioned why I was eating beer batter fish fillets while they were eating cheese steaks.
I miss a lot by sleeping the day away, then living life in the midnight hours. I finally logged on to read news. It looks like prices are going up, and my dollar will buy less. I guess I should get used to eating old bread and cheap meat. Maybe find a soup line. The last time the equities market dipped, gas prices rose, unemployment was high, and inflation shot up...... I had to resole my shoes instead of buying a new pair. A dozen years later, I will have to resole those shoes again.
