Oh, I am in a generous mood this evening. I’ve decided to post a freeeeeee pattern every Friday starting TO-NITE! Vintage Knitting affecionados, rejoice, everyone else, there’ll be other stuff on here.
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If you choose to, you can find the negative in almost anything. A far better habit to inculcate is seeking the positive wherever practically possible (‘practically’ meaning to not make up stuff to be happy about or pretend something terrible is really great).
I could complain about my current neighborhood- sketchy dudes on every corner sitting around doing nothing but staring at you, blaring R&B karaoke sessions upstairs, that my nickname with local creeps is ‘Snowflake’- but after moving out of the hell that was my prior space, even the off-key warbling of the latest slow-jam sounds like the dulcet tones of sweet angels. Similarly, I could go on about how there’s no restaurants in the area that aren’t fried chicken/Chinese food spots (the slash actually indicates not either/or, but both at the same time; I’m unsure how that particular combination became so popular), or that the nearest coffee place is over by Pratt, but that does no one any good. What I DO have nearby is a swell grocery store with an excellent produce section.
Always judge your grocery store by how ample and variegated its produce section is- in the city this is your lifeline to vitamins and health and a good one will get you through cold and flu season with nary a sniffle. This particular spot is chock full of the fruits and tube roots familiar to Jamaican and hispanic cooking, with a nice selection of North American goods as well. Half the store is shelves, the other half is actually a giant walk-in freezer that also encompasses the non-frozen produce section. It’s sort of strange to see milk, eggs, meats and beer laid out like you’d see bread and such, but it’s cold enough in there to get away with.
It’s Prem! None of these actually say which meats they contain, but Prem is the only one with ‘Virginia Ham Seasoning’.
From left to right- ‘Chicken Feet’, ‘Pig Tails’, ‘Sausage Case Pig Feet’. Not seen- ‘Lights’ (aka lung bits)
These meats are all salted and pickled, hence their being kept at room temperature with the produce. Eewwwwwwwwww.
…and a close up on that last one:
Mmmm, Porks Nouts. Just like mom made.
I neglected to post these photos when the posting was good, but perhaps these images of better times will help the last leg of winter pass a little more quickly:
