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Today I felt really old at the grocery store when I learned the store (a really big Kroger chain store) no longer carries barley! I know that other grains like quinoa are more popular and newer, but I thought barley might still be bought enough to warrant keeping it on the shelf. I wanted it to make mushroom barley soup---is that really obsolete now? California Pizza Kitchen has a split pea barley soup still on the menu, so surely there is still a little interest in it, even in 2020.
To make me feel even older, I saw in the hummus section that there is now prepackaged avocado toast. A small pack of avocado mash a la guacamole and a few melba toast type crackers. And here I thought making my own avo toast was a ridiculously easy meal---mashing up some avocado, putting toast in the toaster, smearing the avo on the toast and then putting some pumpkin seeds and cut up grape tomatoes on top.
It's official--I'm older than dirt! Anyone else have similar experiences?
I don't think it's a matter of your feeling that you're old! You shouldn't! It's a matter of your being a better and more eclectic cook than your neighbors! Did you complain to the store?
I have seen barley at my local Kroger's affiliate and at most other supermarkets. It goes really good with beef shanks in a soup.
I have found employees to be very unreliable UNLESS it is the employee doing the stocking. Last month , the bulk foods guy told me that they had no popcorn. I went to go get some beans and guess what? The popcorn was right these.
I've been drinking stink bug coffee for a week. I saw one in the kitchen last week and went to get a damp paper towel to pick it up, then couldn't find it. It was in the coffee maker water reservoir. Ewww.
I've been drinking stink bug coffee for a week. I saw one in the kitchen last week and went to get a damp paper towel to pick it up, then couldn't find it. It was in the coffee maker water reservoir. Ewww.
I've been drinking dead stink bug coffee!
But think about it this way, maybe that little bug added a lot of flavor to your coffee?.
I've been drinking stink bug coffee for a week. I saw one in the kitchen last week and went to get a damp paper towel to pick it up, then couldn't find it. It was in the coffee maker water reservoir. Ewww.
I've been drinking dead stink bug coffee!
Oh gosh that reminds me of all those years ago when my mother picked up a coffee bean so she thought from the just cleaned floor and threw it in the coffee grinder.with the other beans.How did she not realize it was not a coffee bean. The coffee tasted awful and of course we all teased her for years to come.
Oh gosh that reminds me of all those years ago when my mother picked up a coffee bean so she thought from the just cleaned floor and threw it in the coffee grinder.with the other beans.How did she not realize it was not a coffee bean. The coffee tasted awful and of course we all teased her for years to come.
I've never seen barley in a grocery store. I know it's used in dog food, but I've never even read a recipe for people that calls for barley. Maybe it's a regional thing? Rice is big in my area. Stores have all sorts of rice, prepackaged & flavored & seasoned, to brown raw short or brown raw long, white long, big bags, small bags, different brands.
So many people these days like pre-packaged food, like that avocado toast. I can't get over the fact that people use chocolate syrup these days to make cocoa, instead of using...cocoa! I pulled out a jar of Hershey's cocoa powder to make hot cocoa, & my brother said, "what's that?" I told him, "cocoa...to make hot cocoa." He said why not use choc syrup like his family does. He'd never heard of using cocoa powder. Go figure.
Or cake mixes. ??? Cake mixes aren't even much of a shortcut to making a cake. I never understood why people used them.
I saw pearled barley in the bulk food section of my local WINCO today.
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