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I'm learning about businesses around my new abode and Saturday while looking for a Post Office, I accidentally turned into the parking lot of a Farmers Market.
Near my house in Miami is and Italian market with bakery and farmer's market. We were shopping there and driving 1 hour to get to the condo. Sure there are lots of other markets closer, but it was our favorite. Not any more!
This newly found market is 2 miles away and except for fighting to get a parking spot, pretty awesome!
Cooked food, meat market, fresh seafood, fruits, vegetables and bakery... it's actually nicer than the market in Miami.

On average, it takes about 10 years for a young mango tree to bear fruit.
We took some mangoes from my last visit before my house sold.
Some of the best mangoes in South Florida came from that tree.
A seed was planted and now a tree is born!
Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to plant fruit trees where I currently live.
Hopefully, I'll find a house and sell my condo before this new tree gets too high for my screened patio.

I suppose I could learn the art of Bonsai Mango!

I ate so much sushi at Mother's Day luncheon today that it impaired my breathing! Happy (belated) Mother's Day to all the women and Happy Mutha's Day to any of you who never had a mother.

Dairy farmers are crying over spilled milk... Restaurants, schools and businesses are shuttered. Now there's a huge surplus of milk and cheese products. One dairy that produces 30,000 gallons of milk dairy is forced to dump nearly half of that because the food-service industry no longer has a demand.
Something must be done... but what?
These are products that normally would be consumed by people going out. The people haven't disappeared... they're hunkered gown on a stay-home order. Same people.

Maybe it's my 'cheesy-request' but if people started buying more milk from grocers and the demand went up, dairy farmers could kick-in and supply to a different source. Even if they were to lower their cost to the it wouldn't the total loss they are having now.

Some stores have a shortage of dairy products... supply and demand. Find another source,


That's my opinion. Yours may differ...

Over the years while getting to know people in real and online, few of the common questions that I have been asked are "What's your staple food? Do you have any? Is Rice your staple food? Why isn't Rice your staple food?"

Have any of you been asked these? What would your replies be?

As for me, like I'd written under my previous blog with Title "Who am I? A Scammer via Identity?", I had a global upbringing where I lived the most in Australia followed by Oman, India, Nigeria and Ireland (Yes, seen couple of other nations too. And yes, I do have a global family as written under that blog). So, the food that I eat are Italian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, South Korean, Thai, Taiwanese, Turkish, Mediterranean, American, Mexican, Seafood, etc.

Rice isn't my staple food though it is one of the many food that I do eat at times. Below are few of the alternatives that I do go for too:

1) Pasta

This is 1 of the Pastas that I have where I make Macaroni with Frozen and Fresh Vegetables as well as Non-vegetables whether Sausages, Chicken or Fish. I do have many other Pastas too which I order also.

2) Pizza (Usually not rice based)

That's the Chicago innovation Deep Dish Pizza which I had at one of the Uno Restaurants in Chicago.

3) Ethakka Appam (also called as Pazham Pori or Kerala Banana Fritters)


4) Kappa (also called as Tapioca)

Yes, I do have that with Fish, Chicken and more

5) Chapati and Paratha

This is another 1 that I have with various other food and here, it's Chapati

6) Fries, Chicken Nuggets, Fish Fingers, Eggs, etc


With Rice, I do have Indian Food, Japanese Food like Sushi, Thai Food like Red and Yellow Chicken Curry and more (Sorry, I had to take them off because of what I'd written below under PS)

So, these are few of the food that I do eat. What about you? What kind of food do you eat and like? What are your favorites?

PS One thing I did notice with the Last Blog and especially with this 1, ConnectingSingles SUCKS with IMAGES as PREVIEW, it's ok but when the Blog is Published, it goes haywired.

...at least at my house. Yours might have been quite different.

On my way home from photographing a baby (bald) eaglet,
I stopped by the grocery store.
There is a store chain here in New Jersey called Shoprite.
For the past year I have been capitalizing on a recent change there.
I noticed the change, when I got back to NJ from Florida last spring.

In the very back of the store they have a sit down eat area.
I suppose some workers in the area go there and eat lunch.
Perhaps it's gotten progressively more popular to do so.
It's a lot cheaper than going to a restaurant, and you don't have to
deal with a waiter nor waitress. So, no tipping needed and you can sit there
as long, or as short as you like, or take out the food too.

At the end of the lunch period, the store has a lot of leftovers.
So, they package about 2 meals (or more) into a plastic containers with a clear plastic lid
and move that to the front of the store, where they have several glass door
refrigeration units 2 to 4, depending upon which store location.

When they move it up there, the containers are at 30% off price.
Then later, they are reduced to 50 % off.
By the time ~ 4:30pm arrives many are at 70% off.
So, after I am done doing whatever I am doing that day,
I stop by Shoprite and get 4 containers once a week.

Thus, for the past year I have been literally feasting on gourmet meals for a song
and other than heating that dinner up in the microwave, I haven't cooked 1 dinner
in over a year.

When I get home I freeze 3 of the 4 packages and use the other for dinner that night & usually the next night. The second day I also move the second package from the freezer section to the refrigerated section and repeat that each 2 days. This then takes care of 8 dinners for the week. I got 4 packages earlier tonight.

At random I stuck 3 packages in the freezer and the one I tried tonight is (Indian) Butter Chicken. It was sooooooooooooo good, that I ate both meals AND I took
5 pieces of 100% whole wheat bread and sopped up every last drop of the sauce
and ate those too:

I guess I better pull out one of the other containers for tomorrow night......once I can move again.

I just looked up the recipe for you;

No ! I didn't eat the robin.

This evening I wolfed down several turkey breast slices with honey-mustard, mashed potatoes with butter, 1/2 a sliced red bell pepper & shredded red leaf lettuce drizzled with Balsamic vinegar.

For dessert it was a chocolate brownie.

I hope your dinner was good too.

I just took recycling outside. 'My' robin, nesting ontop the front porch light,
flew from the nest to a short nearby tree, as usual, when I opened the front door.
But oddly, she didn't chirp this time.

Perhaps the lack of sun today had something to do with that.
Or maybe our front porch 'dance' is becoming 'old hat' to her.
Perhaps I should sing as I exit to spice things up.

....sure, we all know how many look down their noses at the prospect. After welsh rarebit and F&C, what is there, really? But look a bit closer, especially at the baked/biological goods. Peasant breads can be to die for. Cheeses and beers, as well. Today, as part of fathers' day, the twins baked me the most delicious rhubarb scones ever. They came up to raid the red rhubarb by the veggie garden, at the Vk/Aa mansion estate. Somewhere they found a book on the use of this tasty medicinal hardy weed, and have been making chutneys, scones, pies, and more. Stalks only peebles----leaves are dangerous. Yummy. Hail Britannia.

It was raining Saturday morning and my plans to get to Miami were delayed. On the way down we stopped in Hollywood to run an important errand and ate lunch at a sandwich shop before heading to Miami. The tuna sub was awful...

After a few hours of painting, I suggested visiting the local buffet for the take out for dinner. We continued painting (I was patching holes and cracks with plaster ahead of the paint) but I needed some trim moulding and went to Home Depot for more supplies before they closed.

By the time I returned it was after 9pm, my hands and feet were swollen... obviously something in the food I ate. All you can eat buffets are notorious for lacing food with salt MSG.

The sun is out, I'm charging batteries and plan to catch a few model helicopter flights before getting back into the painting mode.

I got up early, looked in the mirror and see my face is swollen... kinda like Alec Baldwin.
If it's not better when I get back, I'll have to take some hydrochlorothiazide.