this week it’s butter

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Groceries are limited here, you can forget about yellow bell peppers, broccolini, ground turkey, whole wheat flour, coffee beans, enchilada sauce, marshmallows and mushrooms. Of the limited supplies, usually there is at least one item not available at all. Once it was eggs. Other unavailable items have been: milk, bananas, orange juice and swiss cheese.

When we first got here I wished I’d brought an egg carton. Now I’m use to buying eggs like this, $6 for thirty at a time, “un plateau.” Always brown, except around Easter when they import a few white ones for coloring, and always with the feathers and all.

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5 responses to “this week it’s butter”

  1. mc Avatar
    mc

    Sounds like you need some chickens

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  2. MamaLana Avatar
    MamaLana

    “Feathers and all.” LOL I know what that means. We used to get eggs with the “and all” even in Rome and Madrid!

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  3. sheree Avatar
    sheree

    Do I dare share this article that The New York Times ran this morning, then? That’s easy — of course. I know you’ll delight in that PDX gets its due! And while I’m like a kid in a candy store, here in NYC, it was wonderful to hear mention of some of my favorite, PDX restaurants: Genoa, Wildwood, Higgins.
    Question: I’m curious to learn what types of various foods, etc. that you do have access to? Do you have a Panini maker?

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  4. MamaLana Avatar
    MamaLana

    That was a great article, Sheree.

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  5. Amy Avatar

    So make some butter! Give the kids a glass jar of milk and let them shake away. I myself would not have the kids make butter – I would just whine about how there was no butter. But you could have the kids make butter!

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