...then I guess mention should not be made about the vanillin in the bourbon cake? ;)

Hollins Market and Lexington Market in Baltimore.

The date has been changed to Thursday, January 26 at 6:30 pm.

Hi Russ. Yes, I know the history of the two; however, Tjs has been regarded as the "affordable" luxury provider located in more affluent areas and Aldi as the lower-income, cheap price grocery located in poorer neighborhoods. $52/lb iberico ham, patès, fancy imported cheese, etc are changing that perception. Not to mention the expanding organic products.

I've begun stopping into Aldi as an alternative to tjs. It seems Aldi is sourcing some of tjs discontinued products. Iberico ham, verified proscuito di parma even racine's kringles.

bone broth was lowered from $4.99 to $3.99 at my store.

Turkey stock is in!

Triple ginger brew is back on the shelves. Hopefully this year's batch avoids the exploding bottles issue of last year.

Triple ginger brew is back and on the shelves. Hopefully without the exploding side effect of last year's batch!

I've never heard of lingonberries or cranberries being served with cepelinai. We Lithuanians don't like to lighten our gutbusters!

One good thing about the juicer is that the potatoes are automatically "squeezed" for you. Just remember to save the starch that settles at the bottom of the potato juice.

If you have a cheese grater blade, that would be closer to the texture.

here is a youtube link that has a really good view of the preparation of cepelinai. granted, it's for 100 lbs. the food processor does not give the proper texture. if you have a juicer, that would be a better option. you might also want to purchase some potato starch in case the amount of starch from the drained potatoes is insufficient.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ6HL...

skanaus.

farina, cooked with milk and butter. add slivers of butter and grape jelly before eating.

kugelis- Lithuanian comfort food. casserole of grated potatoes, bacon, onions, milk butter.

Lithuanian cheese drizzled (ok, drowned) in honey

egg soup (created by accident)

garbage eggs- slices of kielbasa, potatoes onions fried in butter with eggs broken directly over the frying mixture and stirred. definitely not pretty, but.....

African smoke is back.
sunflower seeds are mia. supposedly getting a new supplier and they should be back on shelves by the second week in September. and they just, pretty recently, got the raw ones back after more than a year off the shelves due to pasteurization issues.

refresco de ensalada de fruta

Old.

there is one vote for new, multifoiled.

how about a coconut flan made with coconut milk?

http://www.savorylotus.com/coconut-fl...

it's not in your desired area, but Lithuanian hall in southwest/west Baltimore has three rooms that can be rented and catering is definitely allowed.

http://lithuanianhall.com/rent-the-hall/

I've had success cleaning stained enamel using a mr. clean eraser and bon ami. it took a little elbow grease, but the stains came out.

naynaynaynayNAY!!!! peanut butter and jelly nonfat greek yogurt. tj's was sampling the other day. chalky, chemically taste. woman handing out the samples saw my face, burst out laughing and handed me another napkin. one of the very few times that i've spit out a sample. btw, she agreed with me. horrid.