With my new found interest in vegetarian cooking I have run into a whole new adventure in the grocery store. Where do you find these ingredients? Went grocery shopping tonight and here are a few of my observations.
Tofu - found in the produce section. Tofu is soybean curd so I guess this makes sense. Along with the plain tofu were tofu sausages, tofu noodles, and of course, tofurky (I didn't buy any of those)
Gandules - also known as pigeon peas, these are not in the canned vegetable section but in the ethnic aisle or as I like to refer to it, the Goya aisle.
Tahini - this is a sesame paste. I know I spent at least 5 minutes on the "ethnic foods" aisle and could not find it. After checking with the grocery manager, I found it on the ethnic foods aisle in the jewish section. Who knew?
Sofrito and sazon - the Goya aisle. Sofrito is a tomato, pepper, onion, cilantro cooking base and sazon is....
I don't know exactly but it goes in Arroz con gandules.
So I"m wondering, why is the spanish/ jewish/ english/ german/ asian food in the ethnic aisle but not the pasta/ spaghetti sauce?
No cooking for tonight, plenty of leftovers from last night.
Next experiment....tofu.
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