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For fear that I didn't know how old some of the food in the pantry was (did I buy that can of tuna last month or ten years ago?) I started to write the month and year I buy something in big numbers with a sharpie before I put things away. Now it is easy to reach for the oldest can of tomato paste and not keep grabbing the newest.

An over ripe persimmon, or three. That is right now. A bit ago I would want some homemade flan. Earlier this afternoon I would say tacos al pastor from Coyoacan. This morning it would have been my mom's bread pudding.

I would make this if it weren't for the fact that I ate every single persimmon on my tree in two or maybe three sittings! Love that fruit when it is ripe, when it isn't it truly is face twisting!

Absolutely going to try this! Thanks!

Besides a lot of what has been said, one of my favorite Internet finds was a recipe for snow pudding that my grandma used to make in the late 50s and 60s. By the time I grew up and wanted my comfort food, my grandma was gone and so was the recipe until the fabulousness of the Internet allowed me to find what I believe was her exact recipe. A little kiss from heaven with every bite!

With honeydew melon and manchego cheese.

Bacon, thick cut extra crispy with homegrown tomatoes, lettuce, mayo on challah.

I want to try Southbeaching all my favorite recipes. 40 lbs down, 20 to go! Happy New Year everyone!

I can't decide....
A perfect BLT with tomatoes picked from the garden as the bacon is cooking......or....Tacos de carnitas on homemade corn tortillas with fresh guacamole and chicharron....or.....the Frugal Gourmet's pork tenderloin in mustard and dry white wine......or...watching old Green Acres reruns with Arnold in them...... To many choices!

Yep- any of the above! I love them all!

1967- the last year of pillow cases filled with the big size candy bars. So many that we actually froze some in our last-years lunch boxes.
My mom worked for Warner Lambert and they made these tablets called Fizzies. They came in an aluminum sleeve and you "plop-plop-fizz-fizz-oh what-a-delish-it-is" one or two into water and a la Alka Selzer it turned into an effervescent Kool Aid. I really never acquired a taste for them but I guess employees got a discount because we gave those out on Halloween. Does anybody remember them?
Oh, BTW, I whole heartedly agree.... NECCO Wafers are gross.

I lived in Mexico City for ten years in the 80s. I missed Thomas' English muffins, bagels, my mom's bread pudding and lemon merengue pie. Italian sausage and turkey.