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mission: soup

so one of my new year's resolutions, which I recently added is cooking more. I've been doing a pretty good job if I say so myself. Today is another adventure for hot and sour soup. so the colder temps came just at the right time for soup. but not so perfect for my grocery store trek.

there were some things in this soup i had never heard of, which forced me to spend more time than i wanted searching the aisles of jewel and whole foods. i started at jewel because i figured if i could get it cheaper i absolutely would. like white vinegar. jewel please. i spent more time than i'd like to admit going up and down (actually just down...verrrrrry slowly) the international food aisle. at this point looking for siracha sauce. no luck. so i headed out with my 4 items.

then i started getting super excited for whole foods. whole foods is definitely a special treat for me. i mean trader joe's will always have my heart, but i really do love whole foods. i start by tackling the veggies.
-spring onions. i looked and looked and looked. i probably covered the veggie department 3 times. and sadly this is not an exaggeration. then i finally googled it because i figured if i at least knew what they looked like that would be helpful. in case you ever cook anything that calls for spring onions, they have several names: scallion, salad onion, onion sticks, green shallots, green onion. thank you google that was extremely helpful and then i found my "spring onions"
-bean sprouts. i wanted alfalfa. i found where those belong, but they were out. ugh. so i submitted to buying broccoli sprouts. boo, but i really didn't have another option. they were $2 more and i threw them in my basket with disgust. I should mention i had the most awesome check out girl and i bought a luna bar and she found me a coupon in their little coupon book to save me some money and it almost made up for the extra $2 i was forced to spend on sprouts.

i splurged a little getting napalitos. which i love. they are cut up cactus. mmmm. can't wait to have them with some eggs someday soon. i also got some tofu while it was on sale. it was actually a pretty great deal.

so i was enjoying myself during this as much as i could with siracha sauce still on my mind. yipee! it was much easier to find at whole foods. it was spelt a little different sriracha sauce or something like that, but at that point, i could care less.

i spent some time searching the salad bar for bean sprouts, but there were none. so i bought my broccoli sprouts.

mmmm....and it's delicious!
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