Sale Price Alert
Nov. 19th, 2006 05:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebFrom now until Christmas is generally a good time to stock up on baking supplies (and turkeys). I've seen great prices on flour, sugar, butter, and chocolate chips this time of year. Now that I use only whole wheat pastry flour, relatively unprocessed sugar, and fair trade chocolate chips, I don't expect to find bargains on my cooking supplies except for butter. (And only because I'm still on the border of being too cheap to buy organic butter.) However, today I found my flour on sale.
For those of you in Austin, some things are having amazing prices right now at Sun Harvest (2917 West Anderson Lane, between MoPac and Burnet).
* 5-pound bags of whole wheat flours (including my favorite, whole wheat pastry flour) from Bob's Red Mill for $2.50. That's $0.50/lb versus $0.59/lb at Whole Foods' bulk bin for whole wheat pastry flour, and in the handy five-pound bag, so you don't have to fit 20 (or however many) scoops into one of those flimsy plastic bags and hope it holds. If you normally cook with white flour because you don't like the flavor or texture of whole wheat flour in your light, fluffy cakes and whatnot, I recommend taking this opportunity to try whole wheat pastry flour.
* giant pieces of filet mignon for $6.99/pound, normally $27/lb at Whole Foods. R's getting 10 (thick) steaks out of one piece, which cost about $20. He did have to trim off some fat, but not very much. The second piece he's calling "dream steak"--hardly any fat at all. Note: if you put it in the freezer for five hours, it becomes the perfect texture for slicing (we have only one data point for that number--your freezer may vary). But it is easier to slice partly frozen than it is either totally frozen or totally thawed. Then you can store most of it frozen in serving-sized pieces in your freezer.
For those of you in Austin, some things are having amazing prices right now at Sun Harvest (2917 West Anderson Lane, between MoPac and Burnet).
* 5-pound bags of whole wheat flours (including my favorite, whole wheat pastry flour) from Bob's Red Mill for $2.50. That's $0.50/lb versus $0.59/lb at Whole Foods' bulk bin for whole wheat pastry flour, and in the handy five-pound bag, so you don't have to fit 20 (or however many) scoops into one of those flimsy plastic bags and hope it holds. If you normally cook with white flour because you don't like the flavor or texture of whole wheat flour in your light, fluffy cakes and whatnot, I recommend taking this opportunity to try whole wheat pastry flour.
* giant pieces of filet mignon for $6.99/pound, normally $27/lb at Whole Foods. R's getting 10 (thick) steaks out of one piece, which cost about $20. He did have to trim off some fat, but not very much. The second piece he's calling "dream steak"--hardly any fat at all. Note: if you put it in the freezer for five hours, it becomes the perfect texture for slicing (we have only one data point for that number--your freezer may vary). But it is easier to slice partly frozen than it is either totally frozen or totally thawed. Then you can store most of it frozen in serving-sized pieces in your freezer.