Capitol Hill Blue Forums Misc. Topics Food, Drink and Cooking Wonder what the poor folks are eatin' tonight?

Scout, I'll agree that Claussen's and Vlasik are good pickles, maybe even great pickles. But they just don't have the taste or feel of a real home made pickle. I'd even wager that a lot of folks wouldn't even like Ba-Tampte pickles because they are too fresh and too much like a real homemade pickle.

Their New Kraut might be perfect to make that coleslaw PIA remembers so fondly. If the jar of kraut outlasts the corned beef I'll give it a try.

No it's a grocery store here on the west coast. The parent company is Tesco UK, the largest grocery company in the world.

Fresh & Easy link

Nice looking store. I wish we had those, the website says the nearest one to me is in Mesa, Arizona.
I often gaze longingly at those prepared pizzas, can't bring myself to buy them though. Boboli makes a pretty good pizza crust so I grab one of those and make my own with whatever's in my fridge.

No Publix nearby, but I do my pilgrimages to Publix in either Dothan or Panama City. I like shopping at Publix. They offer a lot that the local supermarkets don't carry- such as fresh mozzarella cheese, and their employees seem to enjoy working there and are helpful and not surly. Their deli section is also very good. Now that I think about it, next time I'm there I'll check to see if they have any liverwurst. I always enjoyed it on rye with mustard. You can't get liverwurst in any of the supermarkets around here.

Speaking of deli sandwiches, I was also very fond of sliced turkey breast, Swiss, coleslaw, with whatever dressing appealed to me at the time, on an onion roll, and steamed.One deli that I frequented made a Holy Mackerel- mackerel, onions, cheese, on an onion roll, which I enjoyed regularly.

Enjoy your Reuben today!

Fresh & Easy is not your typical grocery store, not even a high-end or "organic-oriented" place. Mostly they concentrate on the "easy" part by stocking a LOT of already-prepared entrees, side dishes, and entire meals.

And most of those items are portion-sized for one or two people. It would be quite easy to live on nothing but their prepared stuff, with just a microwave oven at home to heat them up or steam fresh veggies. You would not even need a fridge because you would not have any raw ingredients or leftovers.

OTOH, that would be rather like picking up all your meals to go from a restaurant. Or like 7/11 expanded their fresh sandwich rack to fill up an entire store!

Interesting to look at, but I have only bought anything there a couple of times though it is my third-closest grocery store.

ERMAGERD!!! Perpared fud?
With all those chemicals?
Rick would never eat that kind of food!
But if you can't trust the worlds largest grocery chain who can you trust...

Now, now...

Fresh & Easy has a commesary and they make all of the foods themselves and the foods expire within 3-4 days. No preservatives. Yes, they have organic prepared foods as well.

I really like their chicken and green curry dish. Yum! I just steam my own brown rice and add some steamed broccoli.

The pizza I told you about is a Fresh & Easy product too, but from the frozen section.

I think because they are the largest grocer, and world-wide, their Asian recipes are very authentic and are much better than an American company can do, IMHO.

...and Fresh & Easy's Tandori chicken is to die for!

Yes, the few items we tried at Fresh & Easy were actually pretty good, which is why I wrote that it would be easy to just live on whatever you found there instead of eating in restaurants or cooking at home. But to do that, I think you would want to go and pickup fresh items every day or every other day.

Very convenient for a single person who doesn't want to bother with cooking for one, and it also probably would keep that person from the morbid obesity so highly-associated with frequent super-sized restaurant portions!

I finally got around to making that traditional homemade Tiramisu tonight. I soaked Ladyfingers in espresso and creme de cacao. Separated four eggs, whisked sugar and mascarpone cheese into the egg yolks, whipped the whites into meringue then folded that into the egg yolk cheese mixture. Then I put three ladyfingers in each of four wineglasses, poured the egg and cheese mixture over it topped it with shaved dark chocolate and chilled it.
Totes to die for and takes only minutes.