My good friend stine who has been an inspiration to me in many ways.. The past 6 years i’ve found myself wanting to be more like her. She kicks @$$.
anyway she wrote this great post
And she left some good comments on my previous post.. in response
umm.. i’m keeping the salt.. and i like my cheese.. so i think the reduction in flour and sugar will have to suffice. White may not be right but sometimes you gotta deal with whitey.
Plus i’m getting some more running in with soccer and playing some tennis weekly so i’m hoping the combination of exercise and watching 2 out of 4 of the white devils will help.. Though i may have to try some of that organic stuff christine mentioned. if i can find it at wild oats here..
i have a 18 ounce steak thawing right now.. guess i can start being more careful tomorrow.
-that is all
March 5th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
Ummmm…..yeah. I like Whole Foods. But the pretty girls all shop at Central Market.
March 5th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
ah yes.. it made dealing with the traffic to CM worthwhile Out here i haven’t noticed anything too exciting about wild oats out here.. i probably need to go downtown or something
March 5th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
1. When once I return to the homeland, I plan to live within 2 miles of Central Market.
2. Stine RULES. I’m so glad a good boy scooped her up.
March 5th, 2006 at 8:25 pm
the farmer’s market downtown is pretty sweet. you should check it out once it opens up for the season. i don’t know if hot girls hang out there or not, but we did see oprah there once…maybe if i see her there again i’ll try to get her digits for you…
March 6th, 2006 at 9:08 am
Well, hello, hello (bows and curtsies)! Ha! JK! I have one thing to say about salt. Once you try organic unrefined sea salt, there’s no way in heck you’ll want to go back to table salt. So there ya go!
And Central Market DOES indeed rule! I shopped there yesterday!
March 6th, 2006 at 10:58 am
“Organic salt cannot be “organically grown”, as it is a mineral, not a plant. If you are looking for “Certified Organic” sea salt then you are looking for salt with the Nature & Progrés, BIO-GRO and Soil Association certification. These certificates that guarantee organic sea salt and organic production are issued by Nature & Progrés in France, BIO-GRO in New Zealand and Soil Association Certified - Wales. This certification is awarded to saltworks that are located in a nature reserve, without risk of pollution, producing strictly by hand, without purifying the salt, and fulfilling the high standards in chemical analytics. from - http://www.saltworks.us/salt_info/si_organic_info.asp
Well the barrier for me on this issue is my generally dislike of using most things french.
I’m all for kosher salt though
There’s a peace of mind that you get when a rabbi checks it out for you.
March 6th, 2006 at 4:22 pm
Wullll, if you don’t like most things french, then we can’t be friends cuz I almost majored in it in college
March 6th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
Ummm…no disrepect to the other foodies on this thread, but:
There are times when ‘kosher’ salt is either required, preferred, or appropriate, but there’s really nothing wrong with your standard Morton’s table salt for a lot of cooking needs. Especially when going into soups and sauces. Of course, in those cases, you can substitute bouillon cube for salt and intensify the flavor.
A lot of this organic-food-good, non-organic-food-bad stuff smacks of unecessary elitism in my mind. Especially since I live in Houston–even if the trace amounts of fertilizers, steriods, fungicides, pesticides, etc., I’m getting in my food supply are as deleterious as some say, I still gotta breathe the air here.
And then, of course, I got in my car today, which totally throws things off…
March 6th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
hey, and don’t forget that Morton’s has iodine! where else are you gonna get that? you want a thyroid the size of a grapefruit? I didn’t think so…
But thanks, JV, for a most-excellent post- I’ve been waiting for days to read something from nashvegas…
March 6th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
And it was always nice when I could walk to CM (if I wanted- only did once). Botso has it there.
March 7th, 2006 at 12:12 am
Well, if you eat enough seafood, you probably get enough iodine in your diet these days…the original reason for the iodine in salt was the “goiter belt” around the Great Lakes–people were so far removed from the sea that even their fish was largely freshwater, and the ground where they grew their veggies was iodine depleted.
Still, Morton’s is cheaper than amberjack.
March 11th, 2006 at 5:08 pm
There aint nothing cheap about Morton’s. I know, I’ve bought dinner there twice!