Your Stop & Shop update: Storm Alert - Be Well-Supplied

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A winter storm has been forecast for your area. Get your supplies.

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Make sure your home is well-supplied before the storm hits. Severe weather has been forecast for our region. To help you prepare, we've put together a Storm Readiness Checklist. It's based on recommendations from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and it includes vital items you should have on hand in case your home loses power or travel conditions become hazardous. Click here to view and print your checklist now. Please know that we'll be here to help you and your family in any way we can, through bad weather and at all times. Be safe, Your Stop & Shop Team P.S. You can learn more about bad-weather preparedness at FEMA's website: http://www.fema.gov.

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Logo transition

As Stop & Shop changes over from their standard logo to their new one, the mix of products will present some opportunities as shown here:

The standard logo is on the left. The new multi-color logo is top right. The new single reddish color logo is on the bottom.

Once you start a migration to a new logo, this type of situation is inevitable. How many products does Stop & Shop brand as their own? The number must be in high the hundreds. To coordinate all of them to be on the same timeline would be a rather costly event. It is costing them enough to make this transition as it is. I assume that they are using as much of the old stock as they can to minimize the cost of the migration.

Do you like the new Stop & Shop logo?

Sunday dinner - Italien pork chops and rice

This week's circular from Stop & Shop included a recipe for Italien Pork Chops and rice. This is the view just as it being set to simmer for 20 minutes.

The recipe is one I'd make again. Tasted good and it was a one pot meal; great for clean up after.

Italien Pork Chops and Rice

from the Stop & Shop circular week of 11/7-11/13/08.

Ingrediants:

2 teaspoons - Italien herb spice (divided)

one quarter teaspoon salt (optional)

one half teaspoon ground black pepper

one pound pork chops (boneless or bone-in, trimmed of fat)

2 teaspoons oil

one teaspoon minced fresh garlic

one cup chopped green onions

one cup uncooked long grain rice

1 can diced tomatoes (with basis, garlic, and oregano)

one and one quarter cups of water

Step by Step:

Mix Italien seasoning, salt and pepper together. Pat dry the pork chops and coat with seasoning mix.

Heat oil in large, heavy skillet over medium-high heat.

Cook chops on boths sides until brown, about one minute each side.

Remove from skillet.

Reduce heat to medium and add onions. Cook and stir 1-2 minutes until tender.

Add garlic, cook about 30 seconds.

Stir in rice, tomatoes, water and remaining seasonings. Bring mixture to a boil.

Place chops atop rice. Reduce heat, cover and simmer gently about 18-20 minutes until pork reaches internal temp of 155 degrees F and rice is tender.

Steve's 2 Cent variations

Instead of the salt, I substituted Mrs Dash's Salt Free Seasoning Blend.

As prior recipes in the circular seemed to be lacking in spices, I was "strong" in measuring the spices this time around and it came out tasting very nice.

If you want to substitute brown rice for white, I would recommend cooking the long grain brown rice according to package directions about half the time recommended, then drain and add to this pot when the rice is called for.

If you want to subsititute one of the minute rice brands, I would only add the rice in that case about half way through the simmer period (i.e. ten minutes).

I used a deep dish cast iron skillet. It has been well seasoned and seemed to add to the flavor of the meal.

Enjoy!

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Dole "Hearts Delight" recall

I heard about this on Monday and checked when I got home. I knew I had bought some of this lettuce on the weekend. There were updated news articles on Monday and one did not list MA as a state with delivery of the lettuce. The product code was also different than the article I found in the Milford Daily News which shows a positive match for the lettuce we did buy.

It is no longer ready to eat.

If you do hear of a food recall, keep in contact with the updates. The information may change along the way. It did in this case.