What's For Dinner?

     If you have been reading our past “Find of the Week on the Used Book Floor” blogs, you know that our discoveries often have a historical significance or meaning to them.  This week is not the case.  Fear not, however, as our most recent find is certainly just as interesting as the rest.

     Tucked into the 1973 first edition book, “The Road Through Sandwich Notch” was a bookmark from a fellow independent bookstore, the Concord Bookshop, located in Massachusetts.  On the other side of the bookmark, however, was the true find – a grocery list.  Now, you may be asking: what is so interesting about a grocery list?  Ah, behold the conclusions we have made from these items. 

     Upon studying the grocery list, one could make a few assumptions:

1.      The milk, two bananas, juice, coffee, banana bread, and Life cereal are intended for breakfast

2.      The Comet and dish soap are to be used for cleaning purposes

3.      The cheese and crackers go together for a possible appetizer scenario

4.      The bread is quite likely going to end up being used at lunchtime for sandwiches

     After taking those items away, the following remain on the list: potatoes, chicken, tomatoes, and green beans.  Left with those four items and because breakfast, lunch, and appetizers have already been accounted for above, we wondered, (and we know that you are, too) what is for dinner?  So glad you asked.

     We googled dinner recipes that contain all four of those items and the most commonly reviewed recipe we found was...drumroll…“30 Minute Pan with Chicken, Potatoes, Green Beans and Tomatoes” (creative name, we know, but hey, we didn’t create the recipe).  Now, we’ll admit, a lemon and a myriad of spices are also required to get this dish off the ground, but let’s assume that our shopper already had those at home.  Basically, after a little slicing, dicing, drizzling, seasoning, and caramelizing, this recipe touts itself as a “healthy one-pan dinner, guaranteed to please all” who dine on it. 

     So, there you have it!  We have created/surmised three meals, (along with appetizers and products to clean up with after those meals) all from one measly 16 item shopping list! We know that you are wondering what we can do with your list this week, too…

     The 1973 first edition of “The Road Through Sandwich Notch” (complete with the inspired bookmark/grocery list) it is for sale here at Bayswater for the price of $40.00, as it is a valuable book.  To catch up with our previous finds of the week from the used book floor, you can always check us out at bayswaterbooks.com and on facebook, or stop by the store in Center Harbor and check out the used book floor for yourself!