Do You Grocery Shop at ALDI? Jeanette Has a Cookbook You'll Love

Do You Grocery Shop at ALDI? Jeanette Has a Cookbook You'll Love with Jeanette Hurt

Calling all ALDI shoppers. There are 60 delicious recipes made with fan favorites in this unique cookbook. Jeanette Hurt has designed her recipes based on ingredients that are available at budget-friendly ALDI Grocery Store. She has even provided a shopping list for each of her recipes. On some specific recipes, Jeanette has provided a list of optional ingredients.

About Jeanette

Award-winning author Jeanette Hurt explores culture through the lens of drink, food, and travel.

Award-winning author Jeanette Hurt explores culture through the lens of food, drink, and travel. Whether she’s delving into the history of gin and tonics, developing healthy yet tasty cauliflower recipes, or interviewing a distiller on the lochs of Scotland, Jeanette takes readers on a delicious journey that inspires them to create a good life. Jeanette regularly contributes stories to dozens of magazines and websites.  Additionally, she is the main recipe developer for several publications and content companies, and she also is a skilled ghostwriter, who helps coax stories, garner inspiration and hone the words of would-be authors and experts.

THE UNOFFICIAL ALDI COOKBOOK: DELICIOUS RECIPES MADE WITH FAN FAVORITES FROM THE AWARD-WINNING GROCERY STORE

Fans of ALDI, it’s time to celebrate your love of the best-ever grocery store with a cookbook dedicated entirely to your favorite products. You’ll find creative and mouth watering ideas that take simple, budget-friendly ALDI-brand ingredients and turn them into fantastic dishes.

 

WISCONSIN COCKTAILS

Beyond delving into mythic origins of several classic creations, Jeanette Hurt introduces a new generation of cocktails that offer a spin on standard concoctions. She explores the state's unique farm-to-table ethos influenced by an abundance of locally sourced ingredients. Also included are a wealth of interviews with notable mixologists, sharing numerous favorite recipes for specialty pick-me-ups that connoisseurs and home bartenders alike will be clamoring to try. A definitive account of the beverages we love, Wisconsin Cocktails insists we order our Old Fashioneds the right way—with brandy.

 

CAULIFLOWER COMFORT FOOD: DELICIOUS LOW-CARB RECIPES FOR YOUR CRAVEABLE CLASSICS

Jeanette's latest book, Cauliflower Comfort Food: Delicious Low-Carb Recipes for Your Craveable Classics, takes your classic guilty pleasures - from mac and cheese to brownies - and gives then a more nutritious spin thanks to delicious and nutritious cauliflower. Discover what a versatile vegetable this is by boosting your breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and even desserts with delicious cauliflower-based recipes.

THE JOY OF CIDER: ALL YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT MAKING AND DRINKING HARD CIDER

The Joy of Cider: All You Ever Wanted to Know About Making and Drinking Cider, is a fun and festive guide for both enthusiasts and bar professionals. This book takes a smart, pop-culture drive look at the hard cider revolution - the what, how, and why of this fantastic beverage

 

DRINK LIKE A WOMAN

Jeanette’s critically-acclaimed book, Drink Like a Woman, shakes up barroom expectations, stirs up some new ideas, and pours a lively collection of feminist cocktails that are just as varied, flavorful, and as strong as women are. 

It. is available at many retailers and independent bookstores.

 

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Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (00:00):

This is Roy. This is Terry. So, uh, you know, this is a podcast that we Chronicle our journey, uh, you know, through this weight loss, wellness, getting healthy, all the good stuff, but we also bring guests on from time to time. Uh, today we're fortunate enough to have Jeanette hurt. She is, she was actually our number two episode long seem like forever ago, but it had been about six months ago. And I think we just passed the 40th episode. So first off, welcome back. Um, I'm gonna let Terry intro you right quick.

Terry - Feeding Fatty (00:31):

Yeah. Jeanette hurt is an award-winning author of 15 books on food and drink. And she's a recipe developer for both publications and agencies. She regularly contributes to numerous magazines, including Forbes, Huffington, post eating well and Chicago health. When she's not writing or developing recipes, you will find her walking along the lakefront with her family and their dog in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeanette, welcome back. We're so happy to have you.

Jeanette (01:00):

Well, thank you for having me. It was fun talking with you the first time and I didn't realize I was your second guest. So I feel really awkward.

Terry - Feeding Fatty (01:10):

And we talked about your cauliflower, um, book last time. And this time you have a new book, the unofficial all the cookbook. That is awesome.

Jeanette (01:23):

Well, I'm very excited about that. I've been a long time. All these shopper. I grew up with a mom who shopped at all the back in the days when the stores didn't have much lighting and the brand, the generic brands were just bland looking on the shelves. And the produce section was pretty sad with a couple of slimy heads of iceberg lettuce, but now of course, all the has changed. And if anything, all the has become sort of a hip and fun discount grocery store, and they are growing like crazy. And they are doing a lot of sustainable things, but of course they always did some sustainable things. Like the fact that the goods are just put on the shelves in boxes and you have to actually buy bags or bring your own, or what I think is ingenious. Some, all the nerds actually just bring laundry baskets. So you stick it in the cart and then they fill it up and then you're ready to go. And I thought, I need to do that. That's easier to carry all the groceries than in bags, which sometimes have things spilling out of them, especially if you pack them yourselves. Right. We do it all day. So, and I'm not an expert grocery packer by any means. I'm pretty good.

Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (02:47):

Yeah. Now it's going to say just for those that don't know, uh, cause they're, they've been here for a while, but Aldi is a grocery store and um, I don't go there a lot, but what I will say is they have small footprint. So when you need to just dash in, get something, uh, it's just not overwhelming. I think they I'll let you confirm this Jeanette, but I think they have like mostly their store brand. So there's not a huge selection of choice. You kind of get what they have, but again, uh, maybe like three aisles in the store, the one you walked down, the second one, you know, just not that much

Jeanette (03:24):

More, but there's not. There's about three or four Isles and it's, you don't have to spend hours wandering through the store trying to find the tomato paste switch. That's a good example because I've been buying tomato paste back when I was a young, just out of college newspaper reporter and I was working part time and I couldn't afford things. And their, their, their tomato paste was 27 cents. I still remember this because I make homemade spaghetti sauce and it wouldn't cost me an arm and a leg. Now that same can of tomato paste used to be 33 cents up until about a month ago. And they raised it to 41 cents, which is still cheaper than the 75 cents or a dollar you're going to pay at most other grocery stores. And I don't know how you feel about tomato paste, but I think tomato paste is tomato paste. You don't need a brand name.

Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (04:23):

The other cool thing I noticed is that they let their checkers set on a stool when they check you out. I don't know if that's everywhere here, but it's like, yeah, that's kind of cool. You don't, they don't make them stand up, you know, for something that they can do, just passing them over the scanner.

Jeanette (04:38):

No, and they're the fastest check, the fastest scanners or checker outers of any grocery store I've been to. And even if you, you go in while you first, if you're, if you're just running in for a couple of things, you might just throw them in your bag. But if you need a cart, you need to bring a quarter because they have this ingenious system, you stick in the quarter and you get the cart and then you get your quarter back when you hook it up. And that saves them on labor costs because they don't have people who have to go and catch the stray carts in the parking lot or move them around. Everyone brings them back and you get in a few more steps. If you're, you're trying to get in more steps because you have to bring the car back. But again, their parking lots aren't as big there, their footprints aren't large.

Jeanette (05:26):

So you're not going to have this huge, like I'm thinking about the times when I go to Walmart and the parking lot is just ginormous and I can get 300 steps just going across the parking lot. Right. Um, so you check in and then you bag your own groceries. And if you don't have bags, you can buy them, which some people do, or you can just do what I've often done when I forgotten or more likely, my husband has forgotten to put the bags back in my car. So I'll just grab a box off the shelf. And that's what I'll use to take my groceries to the car, especially if it's only a few things. So that is one thing. The other thing I think people need to know besides the good prices and the fact that you're not going to spend many times, because there aren't usually 20 brands of Manet's there's one or two, right there. Aren't 20 kinds of balsamic vinegar. There's just one. The quality is high enough unless you have really specific tastes. But what I think is kind of funny, there are some people on these, all the Facebook groups will, who will say, well, my husband only likes such and such catch-up, but then I buy the Aldi catch-up and I put it in the, the name brand.

Jeanette (06:43):

I might have to do that. [inaudible] so there's that. But then of course, there's the AOS there I'll ILS specials, or as people call it the isle of shame, which is sort of shame on you. If you don't go there, um, you wanted, I could take you on a tour of my house, the things I got in the AOS aisle, including most recently for my son's birthday, a waffle maker, which costs me 26 bucks. And it's the nicest waffle maker I've had. I've had other ones, but this one is fantastic. Wow. And that was just a recent thing, but I've seen espresso machines. I've seen, I've gotten a bathing suit there. That was actually one of my favorite bathing suits. Oh gosh. Um, just unusual things that are food or home goods, but they're kind of fun. And usually around the beginning of the year, you'll find fitness equipment. Now the fitness equipment is mostly sold out, but you might find a few things that didn't sell at reduced prices. Um, around Christmas, starting in November, they will have their advent wine calendars, which sell out really fast. They also have advent cheese calendars. So cheese a day for 25. Oh my gosh. Little tiny ones. Um, and they've had things like, uh, 10 days of sparkling wine after Christmas or things like that as well. And those are, you know, they're fun.

Terry - Feeding Fatty (08:17):

We need to go back there. I mean, we, you know, I, I can tell you, I've probably only been in there about five times. I know that it's changed. We just get set in our ways and, you know, go to the same place. Yeah.

Jeanette (08:32):

I don't think about it. And there were frequent conversations on all the Facebook groups and other social media groups about, well, what are the things you wish Aldi had or sometimes they'll have special things. Like, for example, my son absolutely adores seaweed chips, and they're only there, you know, maybe once a year, so you buy them up, but they're instead of a dollar, a tiny package, they're a dollar for three. Wow. So you buy them off. Um, but so sometimes you can't get things there like at, you know, you can always get certain things at your regular grocery store. Now that's one thing about my cookbook. You can make every single recipe with just going to an all day. And there are some things like, I'll say, for example, my pot roast soup. It tastes better. If you add some fresh herbs, all the only sells fresh cilantro.

Jeanette (09:30):

I maybe once in a while, they'll sell other fresh herbs, but not really. They do have a good substitute of herbs in a two, which are, I think the next best thing. But if you want fresh Rosemary or fresh time, you're not going to get it at all day. So there are some things that you can't get, but for everyday basic cooking and everyday basic needs, you know, Kleenex for 75 cents a box or not Kleenex it's it's facial tissue. It is not the name brand, unless it's a special item, which they sometimes have, but I don't need name brand facial tissue.

Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (10:10):

So, uh, I just was going to ask, are the, is the inventory consistent from store to store or are they like, you know, we have some stores down here that each one may vary a little bit different. What you're going to walk in and find

Jeanette (10:24):

It's pretty consistent. There is some variation. Um, I've seen Hellman's, Manet's in some, all these stores and I've seen Dukes in others, but they're name brand is Berman's and I'm not sure what the difference is. I probably need to buy all three and tasted individually to actually see. But, um, so there is some things like that. And I don't often shop in all these outside of my state. I've shopped a lot in Wisconsin and my family's down in Illinois, so I've shopped there and my parents have a condo down in Florida. So I've shopped in one all the there, but I can't like, for example, I know every, all the we'll have a good cheese selection. Now that changes, there are some that I've noticed are not specials. Like you can get imported Spanish manchego cheese, and it's there year round. Right. But you might not get Irish cheddar. You only get it usually starting in February through March and maybe a little bit of April around St. Patrick's day.

Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (11:36):

So that's a ringing endorsement from not only somebody from Wisconsin, but also somebody that's written three books on cheese that when you say that they have a good selection of cheese, then they have a good selection.

Jeanette (11:49):

Did they do? I found things like thousand day Gouda from the Netherlands, and that was a special or car Valley, fontina cheese and things like that.

Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (12:02):

So now, you know, um, of course one of your latest books was the Wisconsin cocktails. Uh, in the last time that we talked to you just released the cauliflower comfort food, which is awesome because we definitely try to do more, uh, with cauliflower again, away from, you know, rice and just trying to make it a staple of my diet. And, uh, you know, I'm, I'm still working up to some of the, uh, vegetables, uh, vegetable categories, but yeah. So what, um, what made you go out and, uh, decide to write this cookbook that specifically aimed at all D and the, uh, the foods that they, that they sell at their stores?

Jeanette (12:44):

Well, it was two-fold after I wrote my cauliflower comfort food cookbook, my publisher wanted another book idea. So I was tossing around different things. And my publisher actually has published a series of books on trader Joe's cookbooks. And I thought, and I also knew that all the in trader Joe's at the way, way corporate level in Germany has a connection. I think one of the two brothers that owns all the, also owns a stake in trader Joe's. So I thought, well, that's kind of interesting, there's that connection. So I suggested it. And my editor who is based in Brooklyn, that's where their publishing offices are. And Brooklyn does not have a lot of all these, I might tell you share how popular and all the cookbook would be. So they asked me, they hired me to write, to develop two recipes, to test market and on social media.

Jeanette (13:41):

And of course they were well received. So then I, I got my contract for my Aldi cookbook just before the pandemic. So that's kind of how that came about. But the other thing is, is I've been shopping at Aldi for years. And usually I live in the city of Milwaukee and in my neighborhood there isn't an all day I could travel 15 minutes or out to some suburbs that have it. But usually the, all these I shop at are the ones near where my son practices gymnastics. When he was on a team in West Dallas, Wisconsin, I shopped at the West Dallas all day. Now he's up at infinite gymnastics in Brown deer. So that's I go to the Brown deer or the Glendale all day, because they're near his, his gym and like busy mom. I don't have time to go to a lot of different things. So a lot of the times when I'm cooking, you know, I will just make it on what I can get at all the, and in the summer I go to farmer's markets. So that's pretty much, and once in a while, I go to trader Joe's, cause there are a couple of things I absolutely adore there. So that's pretty much where I do my shopping. I don't have a lot of time to waste. I, I work and I'm a mom and I'm also now a learning coach for online school.

Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (14:59):

Oh gosh, not to make a pun, but your, your plate is full. I couldn't resist. So I like the way that you have this laid out. And it's interesting too. Of course you, uh, you led with the beverages, the wine slushie, the Sangre. So, you know, my background. Yeah. Right, exactly. So no surprise there. Um, so were there some surprises that you came across as you tried to put this together pleasantly or are displeasant?

Jeanette (15:35):

There were definitely some surprises because I looked at some of the things for recipes that I've been making for my family for years. Like, um, the roasted asparagus, I have done different versions of roasted asparagus for years. And since we're entering spring and asparagus is in season, I definitely recommend that recipe. And if you're trying to get more vegetables in your diet, it's the most delicious asparagus in my opinion. So there's some recipes like that. And like many of the fish dishes, I cook a lot of those, but then there are some things, you know, my editor said, I'd like a recipe with this in it. So then I had to develop things like the pot roast soup and the Swiss steak was the recipe. I grew up with my mom making her own version. So I had to come up with my own for the Aldi cookbook.

Jeanette (16:30):

And it was, it was definitely fun. And some of, one of the other interesting things is my sister's shop at all the, in my one sister, it, Karen is a big cook and she would tell me, Oh, I went to this party and my friend Lisa made this pizza dip. That was so good. And she described it to me and I'm like, well, then I have to try this. I have to recreate it. This is the kind of thing I was like, Ooh, this is really good. And then I have, um, one of the things that did happen, of course, after I finished sending in all my recipes and my publisher and editors have edited it and it went to press, of course there were other recipes that I thought, Ooh, this would be perfect. Yeah. So I have an entertaining with all the cook booklet, which I'll send you the link for, if you buy my book, you can get a free copy of it. And it has some of these recipes, like, um, my friend Beck made this, we call it Beck's crack dip because it's addictive. It's blue cheese, Africa, preserves cream, cheese, and green onions and bacon. And it is just to die for, and that was like, I was like, Oh, that belongs in my book. But it doesn't, it's not in my book. I had to write a little free booklet for people. And, um, that was also kind of fun to do. So it's 12 extra recipes.

Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (17:58):

Awesome. Yeah. And that was my next question. It sounds like that you took some familiar recipes and you kind of adapt it to what you could buy at Aldi, but then maybe also threw in a couple to say, like, these are, um, going into the store to look at what's available and then developing a recipe based off of that.

Jeanette (18:18):

Yes. Some of it were things like I, um, use my AU gratin potatoes. One thing people talk about on all the Facebook, which I had never buy bought in my life were canned potatoes. Cause I don't think it's that hard to boil potatoes and peel them. Right. But I tried them and actually for certain things like hash Browns and Oak rotten potatoes, they're simple because they're already peeled, you just rent some slop, chop them up, throw them in a pan. And they were really, really good at it's something I definitely think is great to have on hand in your pantry. If for example, you're making something and you're like, Oh, darn it. I don't have any potatoes. And then you can whip up a potato dish that actually tastes pretty good. Okay, cool. Or depending on the dish, the rotten ones, of course you throw a bunch of cheese on anything and it's divine.

Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (19:18):

So how hard was it as you went through the process, testing all the recipes, the family reaction, how did all that go for you?

Jeanette (19:26):

It went really well. And it's funny because the other day my husband was looking through the book. He's like, I'd like to have this and I'm like, you have had this stuff real time

Terry - Feeding Fatty (19:36):

Pay attention.

Jeanette (19:39):

Oh yeah, I did. I remember that. Which is kind of funny, but, you know, um, and it was interesting to me to also adapt because I think some of it were sometimes I bake from scratch, but sometimes I don't. And I know a lot of people who shop at all day, you don't have a lot of time. And some of these recipes, like the cake mix, sugar cookies are for things like when it's nine o'clock at night and your child reminds you that you have to bring the treats for Scouts practice or whatever.

Terry - Feeding Fatty (20:17):

Been there done that. That's terrible. It's like, okay, now I have to wake up at 3:00 AM to get there.

Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (20:25):

So, um, you know, as you went through, I guess how much trouble, and I'm not the, uh, I'm not the chef Terry should be asking this question probably cause she had understand, but like ha was there that big of an issue adapting to you, like take a recipe into the store and then be like, okay, they don't have this, I need to substitute this and that kind of, how did that process go? Well, that's kind of how

Jeanette (20:48):

My mind works all the time when I'm developing recipes for my clients is they'll tell me I want a recipe. That's this. And usually sometimes for example, um, I do develop some recipes for, um, hospital and healthcare systems and one of them is a bariatric clinic. So they'll tell me I want X, Y or Z recipes. So I'll give them some ideas and we'll negotiate. We'll figure out which ones they want. And then I'll start thinking, well, how can I make this healthier? Okay. And usually then I'll go into the recipe, the, the store with a list. And also I've just been cooking long enough and I've taken enough classes that I know how things work and how you can make substitutions. How do you can make it healthier? Um, if we're talking about healthier things, if you want to make a recipe healthier with less spoil using an olive oil spritz or, or spray, whether it's one that you fill the olive oil in yourself, or you buy it already in a spray can, that's an easy way to lower the amount of oil in a recipe.

Terry - Feeding Fatty (22:04):

Yeah. We're, we're, you know, we've been discussing, uh, getting on more of a, plant-based trying the plant-based foods out. So I'm trying to figure out some recipes for that.

Jeanette (22:18):

Well, um, one of the things I will say, all the has a very good vegetarian and vegan selection. Some of it is permanent. Some of it is not, um, if you need unsweetened almond milk, that tastes great. It's, you'll find it there. Um, what, I've, what I would say with replacing things with plant protein, you can go all the way completely, but you can also do things like even my, my meatloaf recipe, it always has vegetables in it. Right. You're getting a serving of vegetables when you don't realize it. Especially if you make a homemade tomato sauce on top for it, instead of just putting catch-up it's, it's got more vegetables that way. I think the other thing is taking things that you think that you really like and looking for a good substitution. There are some, um, you can do like, um, instead of burgers, I've seen mushroom burgers and vegetable burgers. If you add some nuts to it or mushrooms and um, you add enough spices, it's still got a little bit of that umami flavor and it's really satisfying. Okay.

Terry - Feeding Fatty (23:35):

Okay. Okay. That's awesome. So enough of the small talk let's get right to the desserts. Oh, I remember the chocolate chip cookies with the cauliflower.

Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (23:46):

Uh, so, um, there's one, two, three, there's about 10 desserts on here. You know, it's wide ranging from the cherry surprise chocolate chip banana bread. So which one of these was, uh, yours and your family's favorite?

Jeanette (24:02):

Um, my husband loves banana bread and I think banana bread tastes better with chocolate chips. Actually. I think almost any dessert taste chocolate chips. And when I was actually developing the cookbook just before I had to turn it in, I realized, oops, I don't have many non chocolate dessert recipes in the books. I had to come up with a couple. Um, and I think in the, the cherry surprise filled cupcakes with chocolate ganache is definitely one of my personal favorites. The poop emoji cupcakes are my niece's favorite cause she loves poop emojis first grader. And she just thinks the poop emoji is so funny. Um, and that was a fun one to come up with because usually if you make these cupcakes, you'll see on Pinterest in places like that, they'll have the candied eyes for the cupcakes, which you can't even get them. Usually at regular grocery stores, you have to order them online or go to a baking store. Right. I don't know about you. I don't have time for that. So I thought, well, what would taste better marshmallows and chocolate chips for the eyes. It tastes better than candy hard candy.

Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (25:23):

Yeah. So, uh, right. So, uh, what else? The interesting one I found here was the brownie oranges.

Jeanette (25:33):

Oh, that one is so good. Um, and it takes time and I adapted a recipe that I had found a Safari company in Africa does out, out on Sofar for you. They grill them, they make them and they grill them in the fires, in their camps. I thought, well, you can do that in your oven. And it's easier than doing it on a Safari camp. And so, and it's so good and I love chocolate and orange. And I think there's a note that says, you can add some orange, the core, like [inaudible], which you can't get at all the right now, but you might have in your, you might have it in your liquor cabinet at home. I'm a big fan if you can't tell if baking with booze.

Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (26:26):

Yeah. And it's, um, uh, it's just an interesting combination. I've never really thought about the orange and the chocolate together. Yeah. So that's cool.

Jeanette (26:35):

It's, it's a good dessert. Also, if you want to take brownies and upscale it for a party and it makes the presentation, and if you wanted to get extra fancy, you could just take chocolate ice cream or sorbet and scoop it and put it on the side and then throw on a piece of chocolate. And there you go. You've got this gourmet presentation. Oh my God.

Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (27:01):

Yeah. The other thing I was just skimming down through some of the recipes. I think it's awesome. You know, like in a, I'm looking at the slow cooker oats that you've got notes down at the bottom where you can, you know, make different substitution, you know, like I said, somebody in experience like myself may not, uh, may not be able to figure that out on our own. So it looks like you have, you know, documented some different things that people can do as well.

Jeanette (27:27):

Well, I try to make everything in it when I'm developing a recipe, I try to write it, not just for the most experienced cooks or chefs. I like to spell things out because way back when, when I would test recipes for the newspaper that chefs developed very often, the chef would forget to include the first step, which is cheat the pan with nothing in it for one to two minutes. Because if you want to get a proper sear on meat or, or fish, or if you want to caramelize vegetables, if you don't heat it up first, you're going to end up with a mistake, which is what happened to me when I was testing a caramelized brussel sprouts recipe. And the chef didn't include that step when I was more of a novice cook. And it, I ended up instead of caramelized brussel sprouts. I have Burt Brussels sharp, which not smell good in your kitchen. Yeah.

Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (28:24):

That doesn't smell. I think that is one takeaway that we have put into practice since we talked to you last, as we have started heating our pan before we put butter or oil or anything like that, just one of those little tricks I never, never, ever thought about. Yeah.

Jeanette (28:41):

And it's one of those things that makes it easier and it speeds the cooking process up. You can throw things in the pan, but it's going to take longer. Right.

Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (28:49):

Right. All right. Well, we appreciate you taking time again, out of your day to come in and talk to us. So any, um, any other thoughts on the cookbook before we wrap this up?

Jeanette (29:02):

Well, I think the, the, there are three things. Number one, if you haven't been to all the, in awhile, check it out and go with an open mind. Um, I would say when you go through the things that I love there, besides things like staples, like tomato pace, their produce is usually very fresh. I love their cheese, their meats. There's always an organic section. My family loves the organic grass fed ground beef. I love the fact that all of their seafood is sustainable. And then of course, check out the aisle, the AOS, the ILO specials. And if you're a wine or beer drinker or cider drinker checkout the liquor aisle, because usually that's really, they've got some really, really good wines there at very, very reasonable prices. Okay.

Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (29:55):

Yeah. We're going to make a commitment to swing by there and check them out again and see what we can do. We'll take the cookbook along with us where, uh, we'll have it handy where we could throw together some of these good recipes here,

Terry - Feeding Fatty (30:07):

Just such a genius idea for a cookbook and just, you know, anything where you can just go and do one stop shopping and then make sure, you know, everything is fresh and, um, available. Just what a great concept. I love it.

Jeanette (30:25):

Well, I'm so glad you do. And let me know, after you've tested some of the recipes, which ones are you?

Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (30:30):

Okay. So, uh, you know, we ask everybody, what is it, a habit that you have, and it could be in the kitchen or just personal, but what is something that you do every day that really adds a lot of value to your day?

Jeanette (30:45):

Well, I try to pray. I think that's important whether I'm driving or walking. Sometimes that's the only time I get to center my mind and focus on what it's, what's important. Um, I have a dog, so most days I have to walk her, even if I don't get in, uh, a personal workout where I'm actually sweating, I have to walk the dog. Yeah. And I think it's also important for your health and wellbeing to get outside and get in some vitamin D if it's available, because sometimes it's not sunny, but even if it's not sunny, it's good to get outside in nature, even if it's just your city block.

Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (31:25):

Yeah. All right. Well, thanks a lot. So tell everybody, how can they reach out? And I, I, that's one thing I forgot to ask you, has this book released already? Yeah.

Jeanette (31:34):

Yes, it has. It has. And we can say it's the best-selling book because it was for one week, the number one in its category on Amazon. Thank you. It was, that was very exciting. Um, so it is available and I will send you the link where people, if they buy my cookbook to actually pick it up, pick up the free, um, the free entertaining with all the booklet, which I'll also send you since besides vex cracked up the two recipes there that did not make the book that I would have loved our, my glazed bacon recipe, which my son loves. And then there is an ingenious cheese trick for pairing with red and white wine, which is you take a fresh cheese like ricotta or Bharata or fresh mozzarella or Chev, and you grate pepper on it. And you also zest lemon on top and the lemons us and the black pepper pairs, both red and white wines together. Absolutely perfectly. And it's something you should definitely try.

Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (32:47):

Awesome. That sounds good. So, uh, tell her, can, uh, tell everybody how they can reach out and get ahold of you. And of course we can go to Amazon, but I'm sure that you have these available on your website as well.

Jeanette (32:59):

My website is Jeanette hurt.com and the book is available. A good place to go as to Ulysses press, which is my publisher. Okay. And that's also where you can go to get the free copy of entertaining with all day. And the other place you can find me is Jeanette hurt author is a web, a web page on Facebook. And I also am on Twitter and Instagram, not as often as I'd like, but it's by Jeanette, hers.

Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (33:31):

Okay. Yeah. Cause not only, you know, do you want to pick up the, uh, the Aldi book, but also look through these others, the West concent, cocktails, cauliflower, comfort food, the joy of cider, a lot of good stuff that, uh, Jeanette has put out there. So we appreciate that y'all stopped buying a pickup. One of these it'll enhance your dining and entertaining experience for sure. Yes. All right. Well, that's going to do it for another episode of feeding fatty. Of course I am Roy Terri Janette. Thank you so much.

Jeanette (34:04):

Thank you so much for having me back,

Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (34:06):

But you can find us of course, at www.feedingfatty.com. We're on all the major social media networks and a video of this interview. We'll be up. Um, once the, uh, episode is released, you can also find us on all the major podcast platforms, iTunes, Stitcher, Google, Spotify. If we're not on one that you listen to regularly, uh, please reach out. We'll be glad to add you. So until next time, take care of yourself.

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