I stopped and got more corn tortillas for my chicken enchiladas the next day after my doctor's appointment, and picked up some fresh cilantro and parsley I needed too. I'd frozen several packages of pulled chicken from the huge butter-injected chicken I'd roasted a couple of ago, the one that was seasoned with Creole seasoning. Grabbed the package with 3 cups of chicken and used that along with 2 of the chorizo sausages I'd cooked the night before after finely chopping the sausage. Something had to go wrong and it was my sour cream: when I opened up the half-full container I had on hand, it was moldy. Brian called the little convenient 1/2 mile away and miraculously, they had ONE small container of sour cream which he ran to get. My filling had been really spicy when I tasted it but I told Brian I thought it would mellow as the huge minced jalapeno I'd used cooked down a bit and it did, but I just love the way sour cream mellows spicy stuff and I'm sure Brian was thinking that, too.
I not only bought a couple of bags of pasta when at the store -- some shapes of that imported Italian pasta I like were on sale, a buck each! -- but I cheated and bought some macaroni and cheese the grocery had made up and had for sale in it's 'ready to go cooked food" department. We'd tried some of their food before and it was fine and the mac and cheese was really good, too.
Do any of you ever pick up pre-made food at the grocery? We're lucky here as the food Rouse's makes is always well seasoned, just like you'd do at home. Sometimes when you buy from such a purveyor, it's sorely lacking in seasonings and I'm not just talking about heat either.
While in that area of the grocery, I spotted some shrimp, crab and corn chowder they had for sale -- it smelled so good that I got a 16-oz. container of it, $5.99 for 16 oz. and $9.99 for 32 oz., which I thought was a pretty reasonable price. It's a serve yourself set up so you could scrape the bottom of the container to get loads of shrimp! It was really delicious soup which I saved for my dinner the next night.
I also picked up some store-made pork egg rolls; they came with a small container of nuoc mam sauce -- $5.99 for 6 of them and the sauce. We'd had them before and were amazed at how good they were for the price. They make a good appetizer when people drop by -- cut them into thirds, heat them up in the oven so they stay crisp, and serve with a container of nuoc mam. Rouse's also sells catering trays of mini egg rolls and other appetizers there if you want to pick up some for a gathering, too, including mini muffulettas, overstuffed finger sandwiches, crudité trays, meat and cheese trays, mixed fruit platters, mini meatballs, mini meat pies, mini crawfish pies, fried chicken drumettes or chicken tenders, etc. I'm going to have to remember to take advantage of some of these offerings come holiday time. You usually find several of the larger platters are available for sale in the store, and half platters, too. But of course, you can place an order ahead of time if necessary. They put out tons of the trays on Saints game days so I guess a lot of people take advantage of feeding a crowd the easy way.
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