Wanderers

[Sinny]

what have you been cooking lately?!

Right now I am oven baking ribs (don't tell Thor I ran out of propane and my offset smoker is still hybernating). Serving with roasted veggies. Super basic. I am kinda tired. Overdid it yesterday.

Basically, I am eating really simple things, low on the carbs. I feel soooo much better now that I have given up white stuff (bread, potatoes and rice). I miss the fuck out of a crusty baguette and butter so I reserve that only for dining out.

I made a lemon pesto sauce to go with chicken for dinner tomorrow and roadhead is making arroz huerfanos with brown rice on Wednesday.

Are you doing a garden this year?

 

[neci]

Right now I am oven baking ribs (don't tell Thor I ran out of propane and my offset smoker is still hybernating). Serving with roasted veggies. Super basic. I am kinda tired. Overdid it yesterday.

Basically, I am eating really simple things, low on the carbs. I feel soooo much better now that I have given up white stuff (bread, potatoes and rice). I miss the fuck out of a crusty baguette and butter so I reserve that only for dining out.

I made a lemon pesto sauce to go with chicken for dinner tomorrow and roadhead is making arroz huerfanos with brown rice on Wednesday.

Are you doing a garden this year?

i need to get some things in the ground soon. the asparagus popped out of the ground last week, and the berries are going to be super prolific this year. i have some italian paste tomatoes reserved through a farmer at the local market, and i will put those into the ground in about a month. i'll pick some peppers up from him as well. one of my goals this week is to get a new bed set up for squash. i really want to grow delicata squash this year. it has become one of my favorites, so i saved some seeds and am going to give those a go. other than that, just some border herbs, basil, thyme and mint. sweet potatoes have taken over the front garden bed next to the roses. last year we didn't dig them all out, so they will come back. they need to be mulched.

 

[Sinny]

i need to get some things in the ground soon. the asparagus popped out of the ground last week, and the berries are going to be super prolific this year. i have some italian paste tomatoes reserved through a farmer at the local market, and i will put those into the ground in about a month. i'll pick some peppers up from him as well. one of my goals this week is to get a new bed set up for squash. i really want to grow delicata squash this year. it has become one of my favorites, so i saved some seeds and am going to give those a go. other than that, just some border herbs, basil, thyme and mint. sweet potatoes have taken over the front garden bed next to the roses. last year we didn't dig them all out, so they will come back. they need to be mulched.

Every year I say I am going to do a Neci style garden and then it is July and too late. SOMEDAY

 

[Wings]

Congratulations. We'll miss you here in the middle west.

You aren’t getting rid of me too quickly. It’s a slow process.

 

[Wings]

Wait! Seattle is in CA now? Man, the west coast is really changing w/all those earthquakes. I still know some folks out there - maybe I'll drop in and say Hi.

You seem to have some reading comprehension issues.

You are meant to wander a beach forever and always.

I can pass you a list of markets and other food tips when you get here if you need help researching.

The first thing you should know is that if your office is outside Seattle (like Tukwila or Bellevue) and your residence is in the city, you will spend 90 percent of your life in a car screaming at people. You want to live in a house or hotel in the SAME area as your office. Our public transportation is very weird here. Inside the city, navigating light rail is easier, but transit options to and from the city (except for the airport) is a god damn nightmare.

It will be a fly in, spend a week every month kind of thing. No residence unless I fall in love with Seattle and choose to live there.

But hell yes, I’ll want all the Sinny tips and tricks. And tits.

 

[Sinny]

You seem to have some reading comprehension issues.



It will be a fly in, spend a week every month kind of thing. No resodence unless I fall in love with Seattle and choose to live there.

But hell yes, I’ll want all the Sinny tips and tricks. And tits.

Yeah!!!!!!

 

[Not Normal]

You aren’t getting rid of me too quickly. It’s a slow process.

Still though...
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[Aglaopheme]

I am inconsistent in my shopping tactics. When I do make a list for me or the fella, I do it by store layout. I also shop by what looks good in the produce/meat section or what looks good at the butcher. I rarely stick to the lost unless I am just getting a few items for one meal.

 

[neci]

Every year I say I am going to do a Neci style garden and then it is July and too late. SOMEDAY

it really is just a hodgepodge garden, mostly in the front yard, because dogs. sunflowers as always will be in bloom. those are easy, because you just plant a few seeds along the fence, and boom! just don't mow them over. if i had a dollar for every sunflower that's been "accidentally" mowed over, i'd be a rich woman.

i went sugar and bread free recently, and it's been amazing to see how well my body has reacted to the change. it was actually an elimination diet my doctor wanted me on, and now i'm slowly figuring out what i can add back in, without adverse reactions. red wine and tequila are in! pizza is out.

 

[Sinny]

I am inconsistent in my shopping tactics. When I do make a list for me or the fella, I do it by store layout. I also shop by what looks good in the produce/meat section or what looks good at the butcher. I rarely stick to the lost unless I am just getting a few items for one meal.

What is your one impulse meat buy?
Mine is landjaeger!

it really is just a hodgepodge garden, mostly in the front yard, because dogs. sunflowers as always will be in bloom. those are easy, because you just plant a few seeds along the fence, and boom! just don't mow them over. if i had a dollar for every sunflower that's been "accidentally" mowed over, i'd be a rich woman.

i went sugar and bread free recently, and it's been amazing to see how well my body has reacted to the change. it was actually an elimination diet my doctor wanted me on, and now i'm slowly figuring out what i can add back in, without adverse reactions. red wine and tequila are in! pizza is out.

I have had pizza 2x in six months and both times I felt vile after. I think my pizza days are behind me. It is not even the crust. It is heartburn from the combination of fat and carbs and acidity. Gives me so much pain.

 

[Aglaopheme]

What is your one impulse meat buy?
Mine is landjaeger!


I have had pizza 2x in six months and both times I felt vile after. I think my pizza days are behind me. It is not even the crust. It is heartburn from the combination of fat and carbs and acidity. Gives me so much pain.

Meat snacks FTW. I always grab some from the butcher, and never go in intending to do so.

 

[Hypoxia]

Maybe the question is, what's the balance between shop-to-live vs live-to-shop? Between only wasting the least effort on resupplying vs the thrill of shop-till-ya-drop? The balance varies if we're shopping for necessities vs fripperies, and just how do we decide what's necessary? *MUST* I have those shoes, that steak, or another 'ukulele?

Lovely Pecos, New Mexico, was an indigenous trade center, i.e. a continental flea market, with traders from California to Florida to the Maritimes to the Northern Plains to central Mexico, gathering to buy and sell stuff and deal with the locals. Shopping. Till they dropped. For centuries.

Remember, "trade" means shopping. Now we conduct much trade online, and not just for inedibles -- I order various foods that can't be had within my driving distance. Y'all may have Amazon drones airdrop fresh tamales to your doorstep. But I want my hands to physically feel avocados, tomatoes, grapefruit, breads, 'ukuleles, etc before I buy them. Trade/shopping can't be totally roboticized.

 

[spacekowboy]

Sinny!!!!!!!




this is exactly what i do!

make a list, most days. sometimes it is a mental list turned free for all.

Lets make with the motorboating

 

[BotanyBoy]

You, personally, will like LaJolla, but it's hard to go wrong any place in San Diego. I have a feeling if you make that move that will be your last.

IDK....LaJolla is so uppity.

I liked PB and Chulajuana the best, and a good chunk of time was spent on Coronado.

That’s my plan, I have conceivably 30 more years of my career left, Cali was always my goal. I’m just going about 10 years before I had planned on it.

Congrats on the SoCal gig!

Best of luck on the house hunt too, I was looking around just north of DayGo recently and it's intense.

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[sharingfantasies]

I create my list online for the local grocery store. I add things as they sound good or if they are on sale. I try to put things together to make meals. Just before I submit my list, I delete most of the junk food and add last minute ideas. Then I select a day and time and drive to the parking lot of the store. They do the shopping and bring the bags to my car. I just have to struggle getting the groceries into the house. For a person that has very limited mobility, this is a wonderful service. It helps to minimize impulse buying that I used to do when I went into the store. I can leave directions about items like "furthest date possible" for dairy products or "not quite ripe" for bananas. For the most part that helps to get what I would choose if I went in myself.

 

[bellisarius]

I'm a buyer, not a 'shopper.' I make my list and pretty much stick to it.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

When you shop in a grocery store, do you make a list and buy what is on that list? Or do you wander through the store and randomly put things in the cart?

Might've made a list on Post-It-Note a few times in my day, but now it's all in my head. I just get what I need, feel what the wants wants and then my favors plops in a few extras into my basket. It's all measured on what I can or will carry.

Living in this city with no car and all mass transit means your arms dictate the sack weight. Often I pack for stacking the pantry so for the month over time so's I don't have to make trips later. But I like people watching when I go to the joint, so there's that pleasure.

But hell yes, I’ll want all the Sinny tips and tricks. And tits.

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What, think I'ma forget about them tittays? Hell you think I am? I'm still living, not dead!

 

[Captainnumnuts]

You missed a post or two up there ^^^

I tend to do that sometimes. I must break that habit.

I've heard there's some cool monasteries and golf courses there. Is that where they film all the shark movies?

I am. And guess what? They’re giving me the Seattle office too. Like one big, fucked up present.

So I’ll be all up in your....neighborhood soon.

Wait! Seattle is in CA now? Man, the west coast is really changing w/all those earthquakes. I still know some folks out there - maybe I'll drop in and say Hi.

You seem to have some reading comprehension issues.

My bad. I assumed that when you said you were assigned to the Seattle office that the Seattle office is in Seattle. Then I seen the post about San Diego, CA I got a little mixed up.

Anyway, good luck to you. Seems as though you have a nice future ahead of you.

I have a couple of buddies in the Puget Sound area I served with. Still keep tabs on each other. Years ago, I absolutely fell in love w/Seattle and western Washington State as well as the natives.
Lost touch w/a friend who lived in Diego - probably dead.

When's the house warming party?

 

[Wings]

I tend to do that sometimes. I must break that habit.









My bad. I assumed that when you said you were assigned to the Seattle office that the Seattle office is in Seattle. Then I seen the post about San Diego, CA I got a little mixed up.

Anyway, good luck to you. Seems as though you have a nice future ahead of you.

I have a couple of buddies in the Puget Sound area I served with. Still keep tabs on each other. Years ago, I absolutely fell in love w/Seattle and western Washington State as well as the natives.
Lost touch w/a friend who lived in Diego - probably dead.

When's the house warming party?

Ah. Okay.

It’s just a region that I will be running. Living in Cali, visiting Seattle.

I’ve met so many Litsters over my life span on this board, I’m not sure I can have any of them to the new place, I’d be afraid they’d never leave!

 

[Wings]

IDK....LaJolla is so uppity.

I liked PB and Chulajuana the best, and a good chunk of time was spent on Coronado.



Congrats on the SoCal gig!

Best of luck on the house hunt too, I was looking around just north of DayGo recently and it's intense.

https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/300x300/78177414/california-be-like-17-million.jpg

LaJolla is ideal for location to my office but...uppity is right. I have a bad habit of wanting to be away from downtown wherever I am. So, who knows where we will pick. I loved the optimism one of my offspring had over a house on the beach but doing the math it would be so far out of my price range that we’d be better off in a tent on the sand. Ha.

 

[Rightguide]

I'm a buyer, not a 'shopper.' I make my list and pretty much stick to it.

Totally agree. I know exactly what I want when I enter a store. It's like a tactical mission for me, in and out with the objective in hand.

 

[Antryg_Windrose]

Might've made a list on Post-It-Note a few times in my day, but now it's all in my head. I just get what I need, feel what the wants wants and then my favors plops in a few extras into my basket. It's all measured on what I can or will carry.

Living in this city with no car and all mass transit means your arms dictate the sack weight. Often I pack for stacking the pantry so for the month over time so's I don't have to make trips later. But I like people watching when I go to the joint, so there's that pleasure.

Weight and capacity constraints are real. Back in my urban pedestrian youth, I took a rucksack shopping, and schlepped home what I could bear. My shopping list was always short and cheap. And I had better ways then to spend my frantic time than wandering aisles at A&P or Safeway.

A car and worthless time free me to poke around diverse retailers. And we crave novelty even during regular food-shopping, seeking something new every time. The same old stuff is the same old stuff. Yes, you can live on it. But why?

 

[where_is_RUTH]

I never make a list when I'm at my butchers (or the fishmonger). The supermarket requires a list.

the loose leaf tea shop is a browse with the nose (they have smell pots).

Whiskey (or wine) is dictated by the wallet these days (and no it never used to be)

the Beer shop is a random browse...

and a lifetime away the Tobacconist was done on size. Those lovely fat Cubans!

 

[trysail]

When you shop in a grocery store, do you make a list and buy what is on that list? Or do you wander through the store and randomly put things in the cart?

I'm on a mission.

My time is limited.

Of course, I make a list. What kind of nitwit doesn't? Otherwise, you're bound to end up running out of stuff or accumulating a 15-year supply.



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[LincolnDuncan]

No list and I don't wander.

I'm a ramblin' man