What produce/ingredients did you buy or obtain today (2024)?

SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
As you have assignments I thought I should try and find them myself. Is this about right?
The Ajo Blanco one I couldn’t find but there’s a nice link to some recipes in one of your posts.

Sweetcorn and Roasted Pepper
Recipe - Creamy Sweetcorn Soup with Roasted Red Peppers


Avocado and Coconut soup
Recipe - Chilled Avocado and Coconut Soup


Ajo Blanco
https://www.copymethat.com/r/MS1ZlZiGA/ajo-blanco/?is_macua_ios=1


Cabbage beetroot and carrot soup
Recipe - Cold Sweet and Sour Red Cabbage Soup

Edit: pls son’s get sucked into looking if they’re not the right ones!
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Yes, but the ajo blanco we prefer is this one

https://www.copymethat.com/r/VLIV3Cdir/vegan-ajo-blanco-soup/
 
All from ALDI:

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From the side of the road...

Christmas Cherries.

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They're much darker red than my photo suggests. It's middle of the day and full sun, so the camera is confused on exposure inside the car.


The lady had a big bowl of them out for taste testing and even showed me the container I was buying. These 2kg were AU$50 which is about £25 which I don't mind paying. They're huge and excellent quality and will easily store for 2 weeks. I also know when they were picked.

Fruit selling at the side of the road is very common at this time of the year. Each seller has their own patch that they return to every year. The fruit growing area isn't that far from here and they make for money than selling to the supermarkets. We've driven passed 5 such sellers today.

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They often sell out by early afternoon.

Now I'm home, this is what they look like.

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SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
From the side of the road...

Christmas Cherries.
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I just bought some cherries from the grocery store, mainly because my brain said, “Oh, cherries! In the winter!” - and I should have known better. They’re the blandest things ever. Worse than supermarket tomatoes.
 
Went to the enormous oriental supermarket in Bristol.
I could spend hours in there. So much great produce.
I didn’t buy the bag of chicken feet because I wouldn’t be near a fridge again for a while but I was tempted.

Bought shredded black fungus, some tins of whole water chestnuts (for some reason in the normal supermarket they’re always sliced), mung bean thread noodles (prefer the texture to rice noodles and unlike rice noodles they hold there shape and texture when left for a very long time in fluid), a jumbo sized piece of ginger and some red bean paste mochi.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Went to the enormous oriental supermarket in Bristol.
I could spend hours in there. So much great produce.
I didn’t buy the bag of chicken feet because I wouldn’t be near a fridge again for a while but I was tempted.

Bought shredded black fungus, some tins of whole water chestnuts (for some reason in the normal supermarket they’re always sliced), mung bean thread noodles (prefer the texture to rice noodles and unlike rice noodles they hold there shape and texture when left for a very long time in fluid), a jumbo sized piece of ginger and some red bean paste mochi.
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Chicken feet! I like using those for stocks and broths. They're up to stupid expensive now, double the price of pig's feet, so I've had to fall back to pigs feet. Still good but...
 
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