What produce/ingredients did you buy or obtain today (2025)?

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

This was part of today's shop. Just the fresh stuff. Less than normal but we're out a couple of times this week.

 

[rascal]

I just found this in the fridge. Never seen it before.
Processed in hokitika. I used to deal with them. We normally get 1lb blocks but this???

Russ

That's a 1 kg block.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

The house smells amazing at the moment.

Whilst I've been studying hard, we ran out of garam masala, so my OH bought some. We've tried several times to "like" it but failed. Today it went into the bin and i made some of our own. (It had fennel and caraway seeds in it.)

Mine has mace and star anise, plus black cardamom in it.

a long lost friend and I have been reintroduced.
My spice shelf (a tiny percentage is dried herbs (middle left half shelf only). A few larger items have to go elsewhere and I've now got 4 items which need replacing, but i go to the health food shop tomorrow.

We'll have eaten all of that garam masala before Christmas.

Recipe - Homemade Garam Masala

 

[Barriehie]

Morning Glory mentioned a fava bean stew recipe, foul-mudammas, in another thread and mentioned it was garlicky. That was enough for me so off to Morelo's Market! I entered haba pelada in my search engine and the initial pictures weren't beans... These should be peeled fava beans. I hope they're good at $4.99/lb.

 

[badjak]

They definitely look like broad beans

 

[Barriehie]

They definitely look like broad beans

I hope they're good! I've some chickpeas to plow thru first.

 

[badjak]

Dunno...
Suddenly remembered that my dad on e bought dried broad beans and they tasted disgusting... He tried to maintain they were nice, but ended up throwing them out.
They were plain I think, so the recipe you want them for will be a whole different thing (and maybe my taste buds changed)