Farm Show

I just wanted to give a shout out that I'm super excited the Farm Show will begin next week. If you can make it to Harrisburg PA, it is well worth the trip. Sure, it's a little crowded (especially on weekends) and the parking is expensive ($8 i think), but loads of fun.

My favorite hotspot is the "Spice Man" in the East end of Maclay Street building. I usually re-fresh all of my cooking spices once a year. They sell decent sized bags of fresh spices, most of them for just $1. Compare this to the ridiculous price you get spices for in the grocery store. Example: I bought Cardamom pods last year for $3.50 for a rather large bag. The same item would cost $15 or more in the grocery store. It pays for my parking ticket and fighting crowds to visit the Spice Man booth.

Also, the farm show milkshakes are always awesome and the baked potatoes just melt in your mouth. Meghan and I also like to spend a great of the time watching events in the Equine and Main Arenas. After a few years, the vendors get a bit old -- but the events are more exciting each year we go to them.

Meghan and I are pondering raising chickens for fresh eggs and perhaps fresh poultry, so rest assured we will carefully peruse the poultry areas of the farm show and find folks to ask lots of questions.

On another point of interest, I recently invested in a new lemon squeezer which was recommended on PBS's America's Test Kitchen. Apparently, lemon squeezers work counter-intuitively -- the curve of the squeezer should be back-to-back with the lemon, so when you press it, the lemon half will invert inside-out.