Our new apartment is exactly 200 feet from a Whole Foods and a Trader Joe's. I feel like we have been kicked up to a new level of grocery shopping. The Whole Foods is beautiful and I want to spend hours walking around exploring it and petting the food and buying more than we can consume, but my wallet and I have not yet had the chance.
The Trader Joe's was a bit of a surprise. I went in there for the first time on New Years Eve and it was PACKED. It immediately made me feel like I was back at the co-op in Park Slope. (Briefly JR and I belonged to one of the country's largest food co-ops. Then the whole "having to work to wait in line for an hour just to be harassed by the all-organic preaching checkout person before you can buy your food" got to be a bit much.) Anyway, back in Boston, the Trader Joe's was full of lovely, neat, different foods and about 4000 people too many. I quickly grabbed a few things and while checking out asked the very polite and helpful cashier when the best time to come was. He confided in me that any night after 8 was pretty safe.
Last night on our way home from the gym I wooed JR to the Trader Joe's by promising him beer. It was much less crowded and I got to spend some quality time wandering the aisles. The produce area was pretty depleted, but everything looked fresh and clean. I needed some garlic and had to choose between some mini-bulbs and some ELEPHANT GARLIC. I had no idea what I was in for. 
I finished up and headed home to make my standard Boboli Pizza. Crunchy crust heaped with peppers, onions, broccoli, zucchini, cheese and, last night, garlic. A normal Boboli pizza in my house gets 1-2 cloves of garlic depending on if I have any client meetings the next day. I pulled off and diced one clove of the ELEPHANT GARLIC, and had about 6 cloves worth. It was very pungent, actually making me cry like an onion, and tasted fabulous in the pizza.
The good news is, I am working from home this week, the bad news is, JR is in week two of his new job. I hope they like garlic!
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Elephants in my kitchen!
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Roast the garlic and some new potatoes with a little olive oil and just eat it with some salt and beer or wine. Pick up some $2 Buck Chuck wine at Trader Joes. It might be $3 and a lot of people buy it by the case.
lucky for me my coworkers do enjoy garlic, and they have already asked me repeatedly about all the fantastic lunches that I bring in (mostly leftovers from the previous nights dinner), and they are impressed, and then they always follow up with the, "how old are you?" question. I never know whether I should take that question as a compliment or an insult...
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