Discovery of the Month

Ok folks, questa è senza dubio la scoperta del mese!!  I’ve been clueless for so long, but this week I discovered Save-a-Lot Italia! And it’s right on my way home from work.  Double score.  I needed raisins for the Moroccan Chicken Couscous recipe I wanted to try and was not looking forward to the big grocery store experience during grocery rush hour. 

So in the desperation of the moment, I pulled into the sketchy DICO parking lot, praying for raisins.  Not only did they have raisins, but they had CHEAP raisins and cheap everything!  You can only imagine my excitement – I got a loaf of bread, six 2-liter bottles of sparkling water, a bag of raisins, and a pair of tweezers –all for a grand total of €4.28!!  Do you understand the savings?!

The Moroccan Chicken Couscous was quick, easy and really good! It was from the Parents.com newsletter.  I enjoy the Parents.com weekly newsletter, even though I’m not a parent.  I tried their Banana Ginger cookies the other night too.  The flavor combination intruiged me and I had a blackening banana that was starting to make friends with the neighborhood fruit flies.  The cookies weren’t bad, just kind of weird; creaming method without eggs.  I made half the recipe, and put milk chocolate chunks in some of the cookies.  The lemon glaze was really lemony thanks to our awesome lemons from our neighbors by the sea house.  But I think I’ll make banana chocolate chip muffins the next time I have rotting bananas around.