We've been enjoying cooking this week instead of eating out. We've become regulars at the local grocery store -- COOP -- and have (mostly) figured out how you're supposed to do things. For example, they have disposable plastic gloves that you put on to pick out your produce instead of touching with your bare hands. Then you take your produce to an electronic scale and print out the price tag using the touch screen provided. The cashier doesn't do this for you like in the U.S. You also have to put a coin in the handle of the grocery cart in order to free it from the lock so you can have a cart to use while shopping. You get the coin back when you put the cart away -- a really smart way to have the customers put carts away instead of leaving them haphazardly in the parking lot.
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Mom insisted that we post a picture of our July 4th inspired
meal. Unfortunately, we had already started eating. |
While our meals have been pretty basic, you can't help but be inspired with all of the fresh food that's grown locally. I've made bruschetta twice (yummy) and we even fired up the grill to have our one American-style meal of hamburgers in honor of Independence Day. Since we will be in a hotel on July 4th, we had to celebrate a little early. No fireworks, but we do have beautiful sunsets so it's not a bad tradeoff.
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