Cooking & Baking

I was just having a conversation with a woman at the grocery store. She said that TJs is one of the few places you can get a fresh salad packaged.

You know why TJ's Indian prepared dishes are so good? Because they don't shortcut you on the dinner with rice. Any other place where you want to buy some frozen Indian food does that. I hate that because I don't eat rice without soaking it first (because of the lead content). Consequently, those frozen dinners are not for me.

I tried to make my own paneer dishes. Ay yi yi. You talk about needing extensive cooking resources, not to mention the cost of multiple items. I decided to go frozen on the paneers after that experience.

I've read most of Ruth's stuff and I think I have a big volume of Marcella Hazan in my library. The RG considers her to be the best Italian cookbook author and recipe writer. He spent 20 years in Italy and learned a good deal about Italian cooking through that, but also by importing their food items into the U.S.