![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Shopping for cooking!
Aug. 2nd, 2010 11:09 amThis weekend I had the delightful opportunity to spend a lot of money on spices and such. I got some basics at the Penzey's in Overland Park, and was directed from there to The Tasteful Olive, just a couple doors down. The sales help there can be a little annoying/overbearing, but their products? Oh, my. I can't wait to use the coconut balsamic vinegar. I'll certainly be going back for some of the more exotic olive oils, but I thought I should practice some restraint and bought a standard manzanilla oil that was on sale.
I should note that even![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mckitterick, who is very impatient with shopping at anyplace other than Ace Hardware or Target, enjoyed himself at the Olive store (there was some small griping at the strong smell inside Penzey's, but he was a trooper). It's a great store, if a tad pricey.
Imagine my surprise when the spices I'd ordered from Zamouri Spices were waiting for me when we arrived back home. I placed the order on Friday! I noticed on the return address label that they are based in Olathe. Considering the online store was recommended to me by an acquaintance in Austin, and we'd just returned from seeing a movie in Olathe, I appreciated the irony. Lovely small world. I'm going to ask if I can visit their store or if they only ship out of a warehouse. I'd very much like to look at their tagines in person before I buy one. Someday. Not this month!
This morning, I browsed around the Tropical Traditions websiteadammaker mentioned this weekend. I ordered some of the Coconut Cream Concentrate to try as a dairy alternative, and some more coconut flour since it was on mega-sale.
Now thatmckitterick is back home after the July CSSF activities, I'm looking forward to cooking for us again. It was nice to be lazy for a while, cooking for one (leftover baked chicken thighs for the third night in a row? No problem!), and it will take me a week to get back into the swing of meal-planning again, but I'm looking forward to it. And how fortuitous that it coincides with my August Whole30 commitment. Tonight, Coconut-Lime Salmon with Melicious's Mashed Butternut Squash and a side salad topped with the amazing new coconut balsamic vinegar and some walnut oil.
I should note that even
mckitterick, who is very impatient with shopping at anyplace other than Ace Hardware or Target, enjoyed himself at the Olive store (there was some small griping at the strong smell inside Penzey's, but he was a trooper). It's a great store, if a tad pricey.Imagine my surprise when the spices I'd ordered from Zamouri Spices were waiting for me when we arrived back home. I placed the order on Friday! I noticed on the return address label that they are based in Olathe. Considering the online store was recommended to me by an acquaintance in Austin, and we'd just returned from seeing a movie in Olathe, I appreciated the irony. Lovely small world. I'm going to ask if I can visit their store or if they only ship out of a warehouse. I'd very much like to look at their tagines in person before I buy one. Someday. Not this month!
This morning, I browsed around the Tropical Traditions website
adammaker mentioned this weekend. I ordered some of the Coconut Cream Concentrate to try as a dairy alternative, and some more coconut flour since it was on mega-sale.Now that
mckitterick is back home after the July CSSF activities, I'm looking forward to cooking for us again. It was nice to be lazy for a while, cooking for one (leftover baked chicken thighs for the third night in a row? No problem!), and it will take me a week to get back into the swing of meal-planning again, but I'm looking forward to it. And how fortuitous that it coincides with my August Whole30 commitment. Tonight, Coconut-Lime Salmon with Melicious's Mashed Butternut Squash and a side salad topped with the amazing new coconut balsamic vinegar and some walnut oil.