decidedlyodd

This afternoon, I went to the store to buy the ingredients for a key lime pie. Since it was such a nice day, I decided to walk over to QFC instead of driving to Safeway, figuring they would probably have the limes at QFC too. I looked around for a while before finding some limes marked “organic limes”. They looked to be about the size and shape of key limes, so I bought about a pound a half of them. While at QFC, I also discovered that my Kroger card (which I’ve only used like twice in my life on the rare occasion that I went grocery shopping in Durham where they have them) works at QFC for getting the discounts and what not. Fascinating.

After I get home and start making the pie, I discover quite quickly that the limes I’ve bought are most definitely Persian and not key limes. First, they’re slightly larger than key limes because they don’t fit in my garlic crusher. Second, they are WAY too juicy to be key limes because I only had to use about a third of the bag to get enough juice. Still, Persian lime pies tend to taste pretty good–they’re just less tart than key lime pie.

The pie was for the Outventures kick-off potluck. Eventually, I got ready and headed over to the potluck stopping at some Red Apple (a local grocery store I’d heard of) to pick up some whipped cream. The potluck was quite good actually. The people were friendly and it sounds like they’ll be doing lots of cool activities this year. I paid the $20 and signed up. There’s even a hike up Mt. Si this Saturday that I’d like to go on. It’s early in the morning though, which just gives me more of a reason to try to get on an earlier sleep and work schedule this week.