Comforting Soup

I have no idea where this came from, but it's been around for years. Many, many, many years (possibly as many as 20). So, I finally ate/drank it.

It tasted like chicken.

Broth, that is.

The ingredient list was a bit odd: what, exactly, is "Winey?"

February Advent Celebration

I found an old advent calendar on the bookcase the other day. It was the beginning of February and I thought it would be a good month for eating vintage chocolate treats. It was almost a year overdue (Best Before: 3/31/2009).

That obviously didn't stop me. I do have to say, though, they were pretty gross. That being said, these advent calendars have probably the worst chocolate in the world in them to begin with, so it wasn't exactly starting out as a quality product.

Hello Pumpkin

The pumpkin was chucked off the porch in December since we wouldn't stop posting pictures of it, but I can still see it sitting on the ground.  Especially now that the snow is gone.

 

It's almost gone and in a few months it will be nothing but a distant memory.  It's a good thing we don't live in Colorado where things don't decompose very quickly.

More Pumpkin Madness

This pumpkin isn't getting any younger but it's still alive and kicking!!!

Vintage Halloween

Gettin' into the Vintage Halloween spirit.

Vintage Meats Pharmacy Edition: One-A-Day About a Year Too Late

Out of habit (from co-authoring this blog), I glanced at the "Best By" date on the vitamins I have been taking. Dec 2008. Hopefully they haven't been making me UN-healthy.

Old Wine Has Friends

So, after I made miso soup from the fish stock of a few weeks ago, I realized that the nori and miso I used also fell into the vintage category. Don't ask me why the thought only occurred to me a few days afterward. Must be all the vintage food is finally affecting me.

The miso was apparently "Best By 28 Nov 2006." Whatever, it's fermented--who can tell right? Anyway, I used it all up.

The nori, well, a pretty confident guess is 4+ years (light on the "plus"). Still tasted like the ocean, although less crumbly than dried seaweed usually is. You can't really tell from the photo, but the little dessicant packet (which apparently is lime, although it also had a lot of Japanese writing, so the translation could have been bad) was so full of water that it was puffed up like a little pillow. Not a problem, however, it went right into the soup so you couldn't tell. I did have a friend almost choke to death in front of me (not a joke) on a rubbery seaweed-wrapped sushi roll once. I cut this stuff into small pieces to be on the safe side, since it was a pretty freaky experience. The rest of the package is destined for the compost; I'm not taking any chances.

Good soup, though.