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Mango Flavored

This morning be pan fried some Mrs. T's frozen pierogies. Our freezer likes to crust everything in ice crystals, so the dough part tasted a little funky but the potato part was still yummy. The best batch ever was when i soaked the frozen pierogies in hot water for a few minutes, drained them and then cooked them in the deep fryer. I know this isn't really authentic or anything, but they sure were delicious!

At Stop & Shop we discovered a few things:

Entenmann's now makes a "Delicias Latinas" line. We had first spotted the Mango Loaf at our corner store a few weeks ago. Stop & Shop had the whole line available but i was set on the Mango Loaf - it's like pound cake with a sweet mango swirl! I love pound cake and i must say the swirl makes it even tastier.

be is in love with Entenmann's Cinnamon Filbert Ring. He wanted me to let everyone know that it's only available in the tri-state area. He's always telling me about how he missed it while living in Miami. It's really good, but i like their Original Chocolate Chip Cookies, Louisiana Crunch Cake and Mango Loaf better.

Kool-Aid makes a mango and a tamarind flavor packet! I've tried the tangerine one a few years back, which was good. All these companies are now trying to cater to Latin tastes, which i'm pro because a lot of it caters to Asian tastes too! Mango, tamarind, tangerine and pineapple are all tastes my mom passed on to me, flavors she grew up eating and things i grew up with, too.

We scoped out the discounted produce section, which was 2 carts of plastic-wrapped styrofoam containers filled with assorted produce in various stages of going bad. Some of it wasn't edible at all, but we found a packet of 6 assorted organic apples that we only a little bruised: red delicious, gala and golden delicious. At the checkout, it rang up for 75 cents instead of 99 cents! We used these apples for juicing (bruised fruit is totally fine for this) with our 4 bags of carrots in an effort to reduce. The 6 apples, 35 carrots and big piece of ginger made a full pitcher of delicious, refreshing and nutritious juice.

Dinner was splitting a giant crusty baguette with oil & vinegar, Heluva good cheese (cheddar and pepper jack) and a big salad with be's croutons. It doesn't sound like a huge dinner but the bread really filled us up.

Misc thought: those new M&Ms commercials are dumb. I really used to like seeing the old animated one where the M&Ms are swimming in a chocolate pool and then take candy showers that cover them in the colored shells.

We got another produce box tonight; right now we have too many sweet potatoes. We have a frozen pie crust ready to go, so we're considering making a sweet potato pie! I'll report on the outcome if we decide to make it.

posted by beXn @ 1:44 AM