Papirex
Aug 19, 2007, 7:51 PM
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I couldn’t figure out how to start a thread about this without being swamped by all the ladies, and other good cooks, but here goes anyway. A couple of weeks ago I found those rarest of delicacies in México, TV dinners. Pete Johanson and other intellectuals and gourmets have mentioned in some past posts that they missed the convenience of them here, as we have.
I found them at one of the Superama stores here in Cuernavaca a couple of weeks ago. Some of you might want to check at one of them the next time you go to Guadalajara, or any decent sized town.
The only brand they carry is Stouffer’s Lean Cuisine; they are small but the ones we have tried have been delicious. The price here is $34.90 Pesos each. Not bad, probably compares favorably with buying a hamburger when someone needs a break from cooking, or an easy way to have lunch.
They may not have them all the time, Superama is owned by Sam’s Club-Wal/Mart and they are often out of stock on some popular things for a while because “nobody buys them.” Another frozen item we buy there when they have them are frozen eggs. They come in a little box that looks like the box that whipped cream comes in. They are labeled “imitation eggs” but they taste just like regular eggs to us. They are liquefied so the only way you can cook them is in a scrambled recipe, not hard to find in México.
We like to keep a couple of the frozen egg boxes in the freezer; it has saved us a trip to the store a few times when we discover that we are nearly out of eggs in the morning.
Finding a source for TV dinners is great for me. I bach it 3-5 days per month when Doris takes her Mom to México City to pay bills, and help her widowed aunts take care of family business. I am far too busy to cook for myself when she is gone.
My days are filled with things to do. In the morning, the first thing I have to do is to decide what time to get up. When I do get out of bed, the first thing I have to do is to throw on yesterday’s clothes so I can go downstairs and open a door. When our dogs see that I am up they need to go outside right now.
Then, I need to make the coffee and start my computer. After the first cup, it is back upstairs to feed the birds and change their water. We don’t own any birds, but a few of them used to like to take a break on the windowsill of my office. I like to see them there, and I know they are safe from hungry cats.
I started putting food and water out there for them a few years ago. Now the word is out in birdland. Today, there were ten little birds and two pigeons there. The little birds get along great with the big pigeons. A month ago, there was a mother bird feeding one of her children there. They were all big enough to fly, but mama was putting seeds in her kids’ mouth, just like she did in their nest.
These birds don’t sing. When we first moved to Cuernavaca, there were birds that used to sing every morning in a tree outside our bedroom window. That’s a great way to wake up.
Even though the guys that come to my window now don’t sing, it’s very enjoyable watching them every day.
With all the things I have to do every day, I certainly don’t want to waste any time cooking.
Rex
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved" - Victor Hugo
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. I sure hope that this place which I guess will be called a Superama, will also carry the Stouffer’s Lean Cuisine line or something like it. When in Mexico I would like to have about 3 to TV dinners per week.