With plenty still left over for all the funeral food platters and casseroles!
That’s outrageous!
I just picked some up from World Market on Saturday and had some today. I really like them!
I’d like to find a recipe using easily available ingredients.
Awesome! I really love this particular food!
Glad you liked them too!
If you find a reasonable recipe let me know.
AFAICT there’s nothing to making mushy peas but baking soda, water, and salt, IF you can find the “marrowfat” (or “vatana”) version of dried whole green peas that have been dried on the vine for higher starch content (as opposed to harvested fresh).
Which IME is not so compliant with the “easily available ingredients” requirement. However, your local Indian foods shop/supplier might help? AFAICT the dried whole green peas that Indian cuisine calls “vatana” are basically the same thing as what British cooks call “marrowfat”.
^^ Thanks for the info. The mushy peas taste much milder than regular split green peas, so I’ll head over to the Indian/Pakistani grocer up the street.
I’ve mostly gotten Ayurvedic items online, I am too lazy to make my own kitchari kit. (Mung beans and rice with a turmeric heavy spice mix. )
Things such as ghee with herbal/spice flavorings or chyavanprash are not always easy to find for local shopping but they are delightful in coffee.
And if you’re looking for good coffee substitutes there’s a multitude of great products to sample online.
We used to buy big jar of powdered cheese, yellow or white, to put on our Saturday movie night popcorn. It was even better than the cheese packet in a box of mac&cheese.
I buy Miss Ella’s expensive dry cat food online since it is hit or miss at pet stores around here. It’s all she will eat.
Exotic coffees and teas for Christmas presents
Once upon a time we would order a case of oddball sodas from a company in California - you could pick out individual bottles from a long list. The cost of shipping was as much as the cost of a dozen sodas. My favorites were Fentimans Curiosity Cola (which I imagine tasted a lot like the first Coca-Cola every bottled, faintly medicinal) and blue Jolt!. (twice the caffeine.) It was so invigorating we managed to pull an all nighter paint job on the kitchen, fueled with blue Jolt! , a loud boom box, and Doritos All-Night Cheeseburgers chips (how I wish I could find them again!). I find random Fentiman’s sodas on occasion in Big Lots, alas, no Curiosity Cola.
My husband discovered odd varieties of Kit-Kat bars from Japan, Green Tea, White chocolate, Dark chocolate.