It's getting worse. No bok choy at Wegman's.

[theboss]

This is quite possibly my favorite recipe:

5 tablespoons/75 ml extra virgin olive oil
Four 6-ounce/180-g filets Mahi Mahi
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 tablespoon/10 g minced garlic
1 tablespoon/10 g minced peeled fresh ginger
4 bok choy (about 3 pounds/1.4 kg total), cut crosswise into 1-inch-/2.5-cm-wide ribbons
½ cup/70 g raw macadamia nuts, sliced
½ cup/50 g thinly sliced green onions
3 tablespoons/45 ml fresh lemon juice

So...what happens? No bok choy. I ended up having to make a pineapple salsa instead.

I have no idea what to do with the macadamia nuts.

Dark days are ahead, my friends.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. Are you kidding me?

The other day, I came THIS CLOSE to buying domestic caviar!!! Fortunately, someone came up with just enough Beluga to tide me over.

The horror, the horror ...........

[glowing]

4. Good for you.. you can afford caviar.. Most of America has never tasted

caviar.. domestic or foreign.. continue your ignorance.. perhaps we'll be nice to you with our pathetic little gardens and homemade soups when your caviar runs out.

[OwnedByFerrets]

8. I suspect the poster forgot

their sarcasm emo;-)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

22. My what?

I'm new here. What's a "sarcasm emo"? If I have to point out parody to someone, something's wrong somewhere.

The OP was very funny. Who would take it seriously?

[Gemini Cat]

23. The sarcasm emo is in the smilies lookup table

Don't worry, I got your joke.
Welcome to DU.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

24. Ahhhhhhhh

Thank you very much, on both counts..........

[glowing]

28. I thought you meant this.. but better to add sarcasm thingy.. otherwise..

a smart ass will come back at you OR someone will think you are troll.. at the wrong site.. esp. with a low post count..

[Tangerine LaBamba]

32. Thank you

What's a troll? I mean, what does it mean here, at this site?

I never expected anything so broadly absurd ("The horror, the horror.") would be taken seriously. This medium, I understand, does not lend itself to subtlety.

Thanks again.

[glowing]

38. A troll would be a repug in disguise. and they are here. Esp. during

the primaries..

[OwnedByFerrets]

39. Welcome to DU!!!!

:hi:

[Squatch]

11. Power to the soup-making proletariat!

Rise, oh garden-keeping bourgeoisie!

[Squatch]

13. Oh, and BTW...caviar goes GREAT with soup and garden veggies.

My favorite is to make a scallop soup with a dollop of creme fraiche and a spoon of osetra caviar (domestic, of course). I usually use the fennel I grow in my garden.

[Retrograde]

21. Once upon a time

the local fishmonger occasionally would have fresh salmon roe at a reasonable price (i.e, cheaper than the salmon itself). I used to make home-made caviar (not too hard, mostly soaking the eggs in salt water then spending a few hours trying to separate the darn things). Haven't seen it in about 20 years, though.

I'm hoping to see the return of various cuts of meat that have also disappeared from mainstream grocery stores: tongue, tripe, kidneys and all the other "thrifty" cuts that go who knows where these days. Cows still have those parts, right?

Now, back to my pathetic little garden. I need to get the area for the beans dug out today.

[glowing]

29. It will be nice to have more suitable foods in the stores again..

the other day an article came out about GM foods not producing as good of a yield and costing more to maintain.. wheat, rice, and corn up .. when mac n cheese is more expensive than making it from scratch, then the store's may actually start selling sustanence, rather than so much shit.

[Spike89]

37. Cows have the parts, but beware

It's been a long time since I worked the "gut cart" in a local slaughterhouse, but even 30 years ago the inspector that stood at my side most of the day was constantly talking about the poor quality and high-rate of "acceptable" disease seen in the cattle. We didn't do the lay-down cattle, these were basic, healthy cattle. Yet, I remember that other than when we processed calves, it was rare to have a liver pass inspection, less than half the hearts made it to the hooks either. The vast majority of the organs went to the rendering barrels for pet food. The rest of the cow (the "meat") almost always passed inspection.

I can't imagine increased corporate ranching, including the increased use of growth hormones, has improved the ratio. If people start looking for and developing a taste for these "cheaper" cuts, it won't be long before they become priced right out of the low-end market.

BTW - As an incentive to do better in school, that summer job was the most valuable college experience ever!

[jmowreader]

40. Most of America uses caviar as FISH BAIT!!!

I remember buying "salmon eggs" to use as fishing bait when I was a kid. They sold it in little jars, dyed various fluorescent colors so the fish could see it easier, and you went fishing with it. I didn't buy much of it because the fish that liked it didn't live where I was. Worms were better, worms and Rapala lures.

Now they sell salmon eggs as "starter caviar"--you buy this to see whether you like pickled fish eggs well enough to spring for sturgeon roe.

[glowing]

2. start growing a garden.. and learn how to can/ freeze/ and make diff.

types of foods... Anything with corn and soy is going to go way up.. Pasta and Rice (poor people's food) is going to get expensive... We are in for a bad time, unless we pick up our pitch forks and torches and head to our closest govt office... Personally, I think 1-3 days of everyone.. and I mean everyone in America taking the day off.. would signal to the upper echelon.. you better get your heads out of your asses.. we are not happy.

[Javaman]

17. Like I told a friend recently...

Learn how to make potato flour. he looked at me like I was crazy.

[glowing]

31. you are so right.. things that we haven't done or made in a long time

are going to come back

[asjr]

3. My mouth is watering. But you can

play Jacks with the nuts.

[cyberswede]

5. Any CSAs in your area?

We joined a local CSA (community supported agriculture) several years ago. We get a share of fresh organic produce delivered once a week. And we ALWAYS have bok choy in the share box (lots and lots of bok choy!).

CSAs are great - local farmers, you know where your food is coming from, helping the local economy, SUPER fresh veggies, etc.

You can search for one here: http://www.localharvest.org/

I plan to try your recipe when we get our first delivery. :)

[mainegreen]

7. CSA! CSA! CSA!

I love CSAs and farmers markets.

My farmer is a bit of a cranky old fart though. ;)

[cyberswede]

9. That just adds to the charm! n/t

[LiberalEsto]

6. Well that does it!

I'm moving to Dubai!

[Theres-a]

10. Island cookies!

Cookies with white chocolate chips,macadamia and coconut.And the recipe is on the white chocolate morsel bag.

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. To put theboss's haha "comedy" into context

"Most Americans take food for granted. Even the poorest fifth of households in the United States spend only 16 percent of their budget on food. In many other countries, it is less of a given. Nigerian families spend 73 percent of their budgets to eat, Vietnamese 65 percent, Indonesians half. They are in trouble.

Last year, the food import bill of developing countries rose by 25 percent as food prices rose to levels not seen in a generation. Corn doubled in price over the last two years. Wheat reached its highest price in 28 years. The increases are already sparking unrest from Haiti to Egypt. Many countries have imposed price controls on food or taxes on agricultural exports.

Last week, the president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, warned that 33 nations are at risk of social unrest because of the rising prices of food. “For countries where food comprises from half to three-quarters of consumption, there is no margin for survival,” he said."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/opinion/10thu1.html

Must be nice to be theboss.

[El Pinko]

16. That has to be an outright lie, unless they are subtracting food stamps from what they spend.

I make 26K or so per year and spend about $500/mo on food for a family of four, and that is with coupons, bargain shopping and just plain being cheap.

That's about 25% of my income, and we do NOT eat fancy. Don't EVEN tell me that people on minimum wage spend proportionally LESS of their incomes.

Food is the biggest budget item other than rent/housing for working aond poor people, and the prices are SKYROCKETING.

[uppityperson]

27. I agree, poorest only spend 16%?

Let's say a poor household makes $500/month (picking a random number). This means the household gets by on $80/month. No way.

The poorer you are, the greater % you must spend on survival. That number has to be wrong.

[theboss]

18. I don't take food for granted.

I realize how special good white truffle oil is.

[alcibiades_mystery]

20. Laugh riot

With a billion people slipping into serious food scarcity.

Oh well.

[msongs]

14. bok choy is easy to grow in containers or in the ground nt

[The Stranger]

What do you do with all of that shit? Cook it? In what? Don't you need some more salt?

:sarcasm:

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[fed-up]

15. don't know where you live or how big Wegman's is, but farmer BF lost his crop of chard/kale in the

freeze a few night ago in Central Valley of California

Since he is mainly a greens farmer this leaves him mainly carrots and spinach to sell, not enough to make it worth his while to harvest and sell at the farmer's market this weekend.

He will be taking a much deserved vacation this weekend to go skiing instead...

[MorningGlow]

19. Unheard of

Wegmans' has EVERYthing. Get thee to the mega-mega-W in Pittsford.

[Habibi]

25. Or go to the Public Market!

bok choy cheap!

[MorningGlow]

30. Definitely a better idea

I have an aversion to the Pittsford Wegmans, myself.

[AlCzervik]

26. plenty of Bok choy at my local supermarket. Poor Dear, how do you go on?

[theboss]

33. It's rough, man

Last night, I had to drown my pain in a 2004 Latitude 38.

[AlCzervik]

34. My gawd that's unspeakable! I can bear no more, i shall hold you to my bosom and comfort you.

[theboss]

35. I'm glad someone understands.

I feel like an outsider sometimes.

[AlCzervik]

36. listen when i was home and i say home thou it's a modest little estate i happen to

see a scullery maid, you can imagine how upsetting this is, not only did i have to see with my own eyes one of my domestics but it was a lowly scullery maid. I am still not sure if i shall overcome such an affront to my person.