What produce/ingredients did you buy or obtain today (2023)?

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A big bag of fresh mint to make mint sauce (now in the fridge).

4 Pollock fillets and 15 sausages (5 x pork and leek, 5 x pork and apple, 5 x pork and garlic). The sausages will be cooked sous vide then individually vacuum packed to freeze.
 
rascal said:
We call those Swede. I served it with 2 couples last Saturday. 3 people said it was tasty as.

Russ
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It's white on the bottom, so it's a turnip and will be white inside a well. Typically they are harvested much smaller, so that one will be tough inside. I had one similar last year. Left it too long in the veg plot and it wasn't edible sadly. Swedes (or Rutabaga/neeps) are yellowy and are also known as a Swedish turnip. They are both from the same family though.

Turnips and swedes are both members of the cabbage family and are closely related to each other – so close that it’s not surprising that their names are often confused. For instance, swedes are sometimes called Swedish turnips or swede-turnips. How do you tell the difference between Turnips and Swedes? For one, turnips are usually smaller than Swedes, about the size of a golf ball, with creamy white, smooth skin. Some turnips have a smooth, silky skin that’s coloured white, with a purple or reddish top. The flesh is white and has a peppery taste.

Swedes are a lot bigger, roughly the size of a shoe. Its rough skin is creamy white and partly purple, with a distinctive ‘collar’-that shows the multiple leaf scars. The Swede also has a hint of yellow-orange inside the actual vegetable
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Swedes - Tuwīti tānapu

Turnips - Kotami

Weirdly your NZ website on vegetables shows turnips as totally white (in the globe form). If you look then up elsewhere you'll see that they are like above.
 
Yorky said:
15 sausages (5 x pork and leek, 5 x pork and apple, 5 x pork and garlic). The sausages will be cooked sous vide then individually vacuum packed to freeze.
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No matter how much I try, I cannot differentiate between the spellings of "leak" and "leek". It's not that I haven't been to Wales. I lived in South Wales for nine months in '69/'70 and North Wales for seven months in '73/'74.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
so that one will be tough inside.
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That’s what I expected, but it was fine. If I’d happened upon one of those in a bin of regular-sized turnips, I’d have never touched it, but the whole bin was filled with these mammoth turnips, so I had to try one, since it obviously wasn’t an aberration, and I was pleasantly surprised.

I doubt I’ll buy another one, though - that thing cost $5US!
 
TastyReuben said:
Well, you’ll have company, because half the time, the grocery store labels turnips rutabagas and rutabagas turnips, and regardless of which one I get, they ring them up as turnips. :laugh:
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We get veges that are not bought often apparently rung up wrong all the time by either teenagers or women that are from another country. Sometimes they will ask what they are, sometimes not.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
It's white on the bottom, so it's a turnip and will be white inside a well. Typically they are harvested much smaller, so that one will be tough inside. I had one similar last year. Left it too long in the veg plot and it wasn't edible sadly. Swedes (or Rutabaga/neeps) are yellowy and are also known as a Swedish turnip. They are both from the same family though.



Swedes - Tuwīti tānapu

Turnips - Kotami

Weirdly your NZ website on vegetables shows turnips as totally white (in the globe form). If you look then up elsewhere you'll see that they are like above.
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Here they are a light yellow colour. Southland swede are the best after they have been through a frost. A good Southland frost.

Russ
 
I sent hubby out to the fresh food market again today. More celeriac needed, plus there were some additional items I need for recipes I want to make so I have him a wonderful list of things he's never heard of... I got some but not all.

Oddly in Australia is hard to come by light and dark soy sauce. It just doesn't seem to exist whereas in the UK we found buy it in the local spar or 7/11, as well as a supermarket, here it is just soy sauce, no light or dark options. So hubby came home with light and organic soy sauce! Yeah good try but...

I needed dark & light soy sauce, rose harissa, and barley berries

I needed dark & light soy sauce, rose harissa, and barley berries

I got organic soy sauce & wheat berries instead
I wanted barley berries or barley grain and ended up with peeled wheat. And some rose harissa which he did manage to obtain.

Capers, fermented black beans & a Turkish spicy tomato paste

Capers, fermented black beans & a Turkish spicy tomato paste


I also wanted the Turkish sweet tomato and pepper sauce, and got the spicy version...,
Fermented black beans happened kind of, and capers...

The Sherry on the right was needed for a recipe

The Sherry on the right was needed for a recipe

But only 75ml!

I needed 75ml of Sherry for one of my recipes. I guess I'll be making that recipe a lot.

Dates are half price at the moment

Dates are half price at the moment


And the dates are all half price at the moment. $13 for 800g of these ones which are not as sticky or as sweet as Medjool dates are.
 
Went to the grocery yesterday and got the usual stuff plus a very nice looking, pretty thick, bone-in ribeye that was on sale, then drove to the Italian market. Got some guanciale, n'duja, imported ParmR and Pecorino Romano, plus some paccheri pasta for a ramp and guanciale pasta dish tonight. Also got a piece of Oreo cheesecake for me, they're huge so I only eat half at a time, and Craig got a couple of eclairs from their bakery. Then had lunch.
 
Lovely, smelly ramps.
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SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I sent hubby out to the fresh food market again today. More celeriac needed, plus there were some additional items I need for recipes I want to make so I have him a wonderful list of things he's never heard of... I got some but not all.

Oddly in Australia is hard to come by light and dark soy sauce. It just doesn't seem to exist whereas in the UK we found buy it in the local spar or 7/11, as well as a supermarket, here it is just soy sauce, no light or dark options. So hubby came home with light and organic soy sauce! Yeah good try but...

I needed dark & light soy sauce, rose harissa, and barley berries

I needed dark & light soy sauce, rose harissa, and barley berries

I got organic soy sauce & wheat berries instead
I wanted barley berries or barley grain and ended up with peeled wheat. And some rose harissa which he did manage to obtain.

Capers, fermented black beans & a Turkish spicy tomato paste

Capers, fermented black beans & a Turkish spicy tomato paste


I also wanted the Turkish sweet tomato and pepper sauce, and got the spicy version...,
Fermented black beans happened kind of, and capers...

The Sherry on the right was needed for a recipe

The Sherry on the right was needed for a recipe

But only 75ml!

I needed 75ml of Sherry for one of my recipes. I guess I'll be making that recipe a lot.

Dates are half price at the moment

Dates are half price at the moment


And the dates are all half price at the moment. $13 for 800g of these ones which are not as sticky or as sweet as Medjool dates are.
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Your hubby sounds like .my son when he was a teenager. I would give him $10 to run to the dairy and get him to buy a tin of beans.
He would come home with a carton of milk and an onion..
We still joke about it. :)

Russ
 
We are going out to buy Saturday stuff. We never made it to the shops.
Leg of lamb for hot meat Sammy's tonight. Yummy and quick.
Bread
Mint jelly
Custard powder
Corn flour
Chow
Cheese slices
Cream and milk
the platoon will arrive at 5pm.
We love hot meat Sammy's

Russ
 
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