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eve_primeIt happens all the time - I get attached to some food product, and then the store stops carrying it and I have to find another place that sells it. I have a long list of products I used to be able to buy at my neighborhood Safeway but now I have to get from the Market of Choice down the hill, or the Albertson's on Hilyard Street. Then there are other products I love, but they disappear altogether.
This afternoon I set forth to buy a can of Jyoti-brand saag, made with mustard greens rather than, or rather to a greater extent than, spinach. I also wanted some white cheddar cheese sticks, but that's another story. Anyway. I used to be able to buy the Jyoti saag at the Sunrise Asian Market, but the "India Import" store run by Pakistanis a couple of blocks away also reliably carried it, and a few times I'd been able to buy it at the Market of Choice, also in the immediate neighborhood. A couple of weeks ago I'd tried to get it from Sunrise, but they had a sign on their door that they were closed for a few days. So today was the day.
But no. Their India aisle didn't have any Jyoti products at all! Market of Choice had a different Jyoti product, only one. The India Import store didn't have it either. Later, I was in the Friendly Street neighborhood for the brand of kitty litter I prefer (PetSmart having run out), and I decided to pop into the Friendly Street Market to see if they had white cheddar cheese sticks. No, but they did have two Jyoti canned products, not the one they had at Market of Choice and not the saag.
It's clear that I'm going to have to learn how to make it myself. I have plenty of Indian cookbooks. The bigger challenge may be to find mustard greens, but surely there's some around town because I had some in the beef kow soi I had for dinner last night. A challenge!
Weird products I did see today: kale tahini -- how yuppie can we get, eh? And for our canine friends, the pet food store on Friendly Street had... trachea chips. Yikes.
This afternoon I set forth to buy a can of Jyoti-brand saag, made with mustard greens rather than, or rather to a greater extent than, spinach. I also wanted some white cheddar cheese sticks, but that's another story. Anyway. I used to be able to buy the Jyoti saag at the Sunrise Asian Market, but the "India Import" store run by Pakistanis a couple of blocks away also reliably carried it, and a few times I'd been able to buy it at the Market of Choice, also in the immediate neighborhood. A couple of weeks ago I'd tried to get it from Sunrise, but they had a sign on their door that they were closed for a few days. So today was the day.
But no. Their India aisle didn't have any Jyoti products at all! Market of Choice had a different Jyoti product, only one. The India Import store didn't have it either. Later, I was in the Friendly Street neighborhood for the brand of kitty litter I prefer (PetSmart having run out), and I decided to pop into the Friendly Street Market to see if they had white cheddar cheese sticks. No, but they did have two Jyoti canned products, not the one they had at Market of Choice and not the saag.
It's clear that I'm going to have to learn how to make it myself. I have plenty of Indian cookbooks. The bigger challenge may be to find mustard greens, but surely there's some around town because I had some in the beef kow soi I had for dinner last night. A challenge!
Weird products I did see today: kale tahini -- how yuppie can we get, eh? And for our canine friends, the pet food store on Friendly Street had... trachea chips. Yikes.