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Your Fryness

1) What we ate at the Maryland Renaissance Festival two weekends ago: potato wedges, fried mac and cheese on a stick, grilled portobello mushroom burgers, assorted varieties of honey, cheese bread, fried pickles and soda. I must admit that the best items began with the word "fried." Here's a more descriptive post on the trip at Solarkat's blog.

2) Why is Costco guacamole the bomb? It comes in 4 stay-fresh packs which you can freeze for long-term storage. I once recall reading that it's made with Mexican avocados that are smaller but more flavorful than Californian ones. As guacamole lovers, be and i cannot even eat 1/2 of one pack. There's a limit to how much rich guacamole one can eat in a 24-hour period! Check it out if you have (access to) a Costco membership.

3) I love Archway Ginger Snaps. They're not "cool" cookies so you can usually find them on the very top or absolute bottom shelves of supermarkets, next to Social Teas, Nilla Wafers and Lorna Doones. Those ginger snaps are so Fall. They have the perfect crispy yet chewy texture, a great gingery taste and are such a nice warm golden color. I usually go through a bag in less than a week.

4) Some figs really do have bugs in them! From my sister Solarkat:

Just wanted to clarify that yes it isn't dead flies, but it's actually wasps, and it isn't a rumor. In some species of fig trees, female wasps have developed a symbiotic relationship with the fig trees. This is only in a certain species of fig; not all fig tree species are pollenized by wasps.

So i guess those kids in grade school spreading rumors about Fig Newtons were only partially correct!

5) B made me crave boiled peanuts. I've never seen any raw green peanuts available for purchase in New York, but if anyone has any leads do pass them on! Meanwhile, you can purchase a Boil-Your-Own Peanuts Kit from the Lee Bros. and if you do an internet search, many recipes come up in case you do find some!

posted by beXn @ 9:38 PM