That seems so pleasant.
I applaud her.
Thank you. My wife has many wonderful qualities. Among them is her efforts to make our home so comfortable and pleasant.
I’ve made something like it – I love Thai food!
No, we are just me and Pardel-Wife. I cook with it. I use it generously. Sometimes we eat fresh baked focaccia and we dunk it in it. And I like vegetables in confit.
Yes, same here too. She arranges them, we very seldom buy arrangements.
About 8 or 10 a week for me, and I’ve been noticing something interesting. This one organic brand I’ve been buying, comes with 4 small Hass types in a green mesh bag. I swear these have just the slightest hint of a garlic taste to them. Is it possible that such a combo could be a hybrid? I obviously don’t know. They’re fantastic though.
I know you’re dying to know, so…
- Prepared yellow - 2 bottles
- Spicy brown - 1 bottle
- Jalapeno yellow - 1 bottle
That’s it.
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Wife likes the blue vases, and thinks dogs should have at least one bed in every room in the house. I like power tools. On top of the useful tools any homeowner or general contractor should have on hand I have a growing collection of vintage and antique machinery. I’d explain that we both like bacon but I’m sure you assumed that since everybody likes bacon.
Probably onions. Our grocery list AWAYS contains onions, eggs, yogurt, and wine. I’m not sure we consume more of the latter three than most households our size, but is it common to buy a bag of yellow onions every week?
I don’t follow recipes for most of the things I make, I just make stuff up as I go along. A very common starting point is to sauté onions, and go from there.
Frosty paws? We serve our dog those on special occasions like when it’s her birthday or Christmas
Having just done a bunch of recycling:
Beer. A bit embarrassing at the bottle depot.
“These aren’t all mine”.
“But why are they all the same brand?”
< crickets >
And also those bags of mixed greens salad. We really should start to make our own.
We go through a flat of Costco eggs a week for two people, but I don’t know if that’s more than usual, and we eat 3-4 pieces of fruit a day, mainly apples, mandarins, pears or kiwi fruit, but that may be average for many couples.
I do this, but with turkey livers from the turkey farm nearby. Turkey liver as a training treat is amazingly delicious and dirt cheap.
Plus, I make a killer Turkey Liver Stroganoff for me and my gf.
We have a mustard/dill that works really well on certain sandwiches. And Grey Poupon. And a killer onion/jalapeño/mustard. And maybe ten or twelve more.
Don’t get me started on hot sauces.
Medium rats and baby (fledgling) quail.
The snakes have to eat you know, and one is a very picky eater the spoiled thing.
Probably not more of than usual for a snake owning household though, so probably not in the spirit of the thread.
-thinks-
Maybe wheat germ. My wife goes through a 12 oz bottle probably every other week. It’s a reasonably easy source of good non-meat nutrition, and it’s a part of her every day breakfast routine. A close second (for a non-Asian household at least) is premade eggroll wrappers. We do a huge number of meat and vegetarian pan fried egg rolls in the house. Some of our top versions include eggrolls stuffed with homemade spinach saag, a sweet potato pecan and orange filled, and southwestern (refritos, cheese, jalapeno).
So again, a full package of wrappers every 2-3 weeks.
Is it more than an apple a day? Because that’s the recommended poetic dose.
That’s another thing I eat every day. But I only go through one can of steel cut oats a week. Is that a lot?
Whaaaa??
I just re-read the question and realized it says “consume,” not “buy.” I left off the fact that we consume far above average amounts of dark green leafy vegetables, even though I never buy them, because my sweet potato patch (we eat the leaves, which are like a toothsome spinach) is constantly threatening to take over the world.
This past weekend I harvested 3 pounds of leaves and the patch is still trying to strangle the pineapples. I also grow two other kinds of green leaves, and (skip boring reasons why here) a friend is always giving me boatloads of greens.
On a related note, I’m always on the lookout for new ways to use up dark green leaves. I make spinach squares (those freeze well), Martha Stewart creamed spinach, James Beard sesame-spinach salad, colcannon, and NYT cheesy spinach bake constantly, and I always throw handfuls of green leaves into soups, stews, stir fries, and leftovers. More ideas welcome!
We like wraps using greens for the wrap.
I’ve recently developed a problem with cruciferous veggies. I’m hoping I can tolerate my Kale when it comes up.
Saag is my go-to option as I mentioned previously, lots of options, but my slow cooker version (well not mine but you know) is great in that you can start with 2 lbs of greens and I’ve doubled it without issue given a big enough slow cooker.
If I stick with the consume rather than buy, I should also mention tomatoes in season. My Mother-in-law has a medium large garden and grows them by the buckets as they all come in for a glorious couple of months. Many times during those months I’m using up several gallons of tomatoes a week - raw, stewed, stuffed, sauced, de-hydrated, you name it.
Fruit.
Eggs.
Olive oil.
I’m sure we drink more wine than average too, but I don’t drink any other alcoholic beverage, so that’s part of the reason why.
And now orange juice because mr. roman’s doctor recommended an 8 oz. glass a day, so that’s almost a half gallon a week. I think he’s been drinking more than that since the first two half gallons disappeared pretty quickly.
I wish I lived near you egg people. I’ve got like seven dozen on hand right now, and the ladies won’t slow down. I sell them at work for four bucks a dozen, but I guess I need to be more aggressive with my marketing.