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...enjoying good food and other stuff.

 

Childhood reminiscences

When you're young, you experience the world not only through memory but by sight and your other senses. You can remember the familiar scents of home: your mother cooking your favorite dinner, your father's aftershave, the scent of freshly laundered sheets, and other scents that bring you comfort. Taste is also a big thing when you are young. You remember the flavors of your childhood. And ice cream was the biggest wasn't it?

At my age, I remember Thrifty's ice cream (Rite-Aid now)and getting a double scoop of Double Chocolate Malted Crunch. The ice cream is still around in certain places and you are definitely lucky to have it available to you.




I found these through yumsugar.com. Well if you haven't read yumsugar then take a gander below.



Bring back memories doesn't it? :) The cylindrical shape of the scoop ready for stacking just like good ol' Thrifty's. Get the scoop here:Ice Cream Scoop & Stacks for $16.95 each from Cuisipro. Now just get the ice cream. For me, I prefer the Double Chocolate Malted Crunch.

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When's the last time you cleaned your fridge?

Okay, here's the scenario:

You're hungry and you're craving for some spaghetti or some other pasta dish. There's some pasta sauce in your fridge, you look at it...and from what you can tell, visually it looks okay. You look around for the freshness date, but it's been rubbed off. So, okay, you gingerly take it to the stove where a pot eagerly awaits and screw off the lid only to find....A HUGE COLONY OF MOLD IS RESIDING IN THE LID!

Yes, gross. And, it happened to me. I promised myself that instant if I have a premade sauce to use ALL of it the same day or make it from scratch.
And how I wish I knew about these digital day counters from:DaysAgo. The counters tell you how many days since you opened it, closed it, and stored it. The counters are good for other things like reminding you to water that plant sitting on the window sill getting too much light. Pretty neat huh?

To make things easier, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a handy dandy chart of refrigator/freezer storage...also on the daysago site. here's the chart. this chart also answers the age old question of the length of time eggs are fresh.

Anyways,I admit I use the premade stuff out of convenience, since I have two small children and a hungry husband to feed. I prefer classico or bertolli. Or TJ's marinara.

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