Shaking my Spoon

The Butcher of Albert St.

This is what happens when I see a sale and I have too much time on my hands. Or really, I’m looking for reasons to procrastinate.

So I was making lasagna for supper and needed to grab some cottage cheese from the grocery store, the closest being the Wholesale place. And there in the meat section at 50% off was a whole beef strip loin. 

Yes, this is what $35 can buy…sometimes, and it is ungraded but whatever, we will just throw in a little more salt.

So 10-12oz steaks and 2-3lb roasts (one I turned into stew beef) later, my freezer is once again full and efficient, and we are ready for bbq season!

This is odd but I couldn’t find an appropriate song.

Food on a Stick

I just spent the morning at the Elmira Maple syrup Festival with friends. I think it’s one of the craziest food fests around. Boasting itself to be the world’s largest 1 day Maple Syrup Festival, the small town of about 7000 swells to 50k+

I was hoping to a better job of documenting the various food vendors, but the weather didn’t cooperate and we had to quickly make out way through the throngs of people and a wind-chill of –7. Here is a list of what I remember tempting our taste buds:

We went to to the Antique tractor and car show, that  consisted of 1 tractor and 3 cars. We didn’t care though because it was in out of the cold wind and we perused over the smaller antiques allowing our stomachs to settle for round 2 of eating.