So like millions of American’s I too am a Costco shopper. I go for produce, #10 cans of tomatoes for Sunday Gravy, an excellent meat, wine and CHEESE selection, and various other odds and ends. I am not quite to the level of my parents, whom, I’m quite convinced might perish if it closed as I’m pretty confident that approximately 90% of their diet is procured from said megastore. There are riots and mass email campaigns started by the aforementioned when the oatmeal cookies were discontinued. Riots. Don’t judge, it is what it is. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got my weekly staples too, Romaine, Mushrooms, and the big ole giant bag-o-Broccoli- well I guess the last one is biweekly it is a rather LARGE bag. And what do I DO with all of said broccoli? Well, probably the same as you. I roast it, I steam it, sometimes it gets pureed and made into soup, or pasta sauce. One day fairly recently I found myself with not really much left but the smallish dregs at the bottom of the bag and wanting to find a use for them, I decided to create a “crouton” of sorts for my favorite Grilled Ceasar Salad
It really added a nice crunch and gluten free!!!
Heat oven to 425
Toss broccoli “crumbles” with EVOO and a little salt
Bake 25 minutes
Top Grilled Ceasar.
Enjoy
Happy Eating!
Yes, we just returned from Costco with a list of items that totaled a little over $100.00 which is our usual charge.
ReplyDeleteAbout a month ago, Costco ran out of the wild caught Alaskan salmon that we loved and consumed every single week.
So we bought the pre-sauced wild caught salmon which wasn't bad but we weren't crazy about the sauce. Next we bought their wild salmon on a plank that we didn't like at all. Needless to say we were devastated since we were now out of options.
Last week we took the farmed raised salmon VS the wild caught salmon challenge just like the food editor of the Washington Post and two famous chefs in DC did.
We had never been fans of farm raised salmon so we were shocked when the Costco's farm raised outranked any wild caught or farm raised salmon by the judges in any store anywhere .
Costco finally got the wild caught salmon back in stock last week so we bought both kinds and grilled one filet of each for our completion. Both my husband and I liked the farm raised but noted that the taste was much milder and the texture was a little less firm than the wild caught. The next night we grilled two of the farm raised so that there would be nothing to compare it to and we both said that it was "fine" but "fine" is not "great" so the next night we grilled two of the wild caught and we both said that these were "great".
Today we bought another bag of the wild caught just in case Costco runs out again in the near future and although we like the idea of sustainable farm raised salmon and would purchase more of it we still favor the wild caught.
And that's why I like Costco!