Breakfast Thursday 1 June2023

[irisblue]

Coffee first I do not know what else later

[Emile]

1. Black coffee now ☕, later sweet maple syrup and waffles 😋.

[Callalily]

2. Coffee now, salad a little later.

[hippywife]

3. Ham'n.

We split a leftover piece of ham steak, eggs OM (2 for B., 1 for me), tater tots*, toasted butter EMs with orange marmalade.

*Not sure if I'll buy anymore frozen hash brown patties. The last ones I bought from WM were a different brand and they were terrible. Really greasy, fell apart and thru the grate in the toaster oven and, on the second try ruined my regular toaster. I've successfully used both methods with the previous brand. Then the third time, I tried frying them in veg oil in the cast iron skillet a couple days ago. They fell apart and stuck to it horribly. Threw the last two in the box away after that.

[NJCher]

4. for me, it was the

banana nut bread at Aldi. They used to have a banana bread better than I could make myself. Then they changed it. B-O-R-I-N-G. Never touched it again.


From listening to the RG on the phone in business talks, I know the big chains often change around suppliers, hoping to find a bigger profit on a particular item. It's a good thing there are only a few high-end pastas, so it doesn't affect him much. Ignorance about olive oil, however, is another story.

This morning I used my greens (radish and turnip greens, Swiss chard) to make sauteed greens, tofu, and garlic over Taiwanese scallion pancake. I made soy sauce/hot sweet pepper jelly sauce to go with it. I would do this again, especially the part about the tofu getting crispy in sesame oil. I still need to up my game a bit on when that pancake is puffy. Sometimes they are a bit doughy inside, even with sauteeing in a pan and finishing off under the broiler. On the whole, though, a terrific breakfast that will take me through evening.

[hippywife]

5. A lot of brand and packaging changes I've noticed...

have been recent to the pandemic, due mostly to supply chain issues.

WinCo doesn't have everything I want/need, most things I can shift brands on, except for their selections of cat litter and wheat bread. Oddly enough, though, yesterday I noticed they have 3 lb. bags of King Arthur 00 flour, which is sort of tempting. Have never seen it in other groceries here.