(Shush! Don’t tell Miles! He had a hoo-hah this morning about what got sent instead of the approved copy he sent over for approval. That let the whole Crestive Section spin off on a truly lovely late May Day. So, I have a chance to do my own Daily, and i thought I would do the Parmesan Project we have been talking about. Advances in culinary technology makes this a tough one. I normally purchase the product below, since in a pinch it will turn in a decent slough of cheesy goodness even if it doesn’t melt very well. The key is the convenience of it, since i normally cook with fresh grated in just about everything).

I cut a deal with the food distributor’s truck guy to get two of these hefty jugs of cheesy goodness instead of just one. With lmoat five pounds of cheese, a single jug will last the year. Or more.

But that is the problem. No space on the account sheet to say “It may be five hundred bucks, but that is only a hundred a year that will not appear in this budget string for five years.”

That might have helped. but I did my best to justify a purchase of four enormous containers of powdery grated dairy products. I don’t think the finance guys will realize our emergency and casual parmesan needs would be taken care of. Which is what brought me to Amazon.

t think I could get almost $500 on the company card for something marked “Grated Cheese.” But it might cot me somthing I would prefer to retain. Here is something I can really get ahold of. Imagine it- 85 pounds of parmigiano Reggiano PDO, a mass of cheese the size of an eleven-year-old human kid.

The number of hot spots simmering justifies the expense of attempting to keep track of them. Like the Parmesan inventory, some things are worth buying in bulk before you know exactly when you’ll need them. There are a number of good things to have on hand, and if a whole wheel is more than you can keep handy, the 20 Pound quarter wheel is about right for a quarterly submission to the bean-counters.

So, maybe you can see why Miles want to keep the lead on the subjects that are swirling around. I would prefer to do my meaal planning with a rough idea of how many i am supposed to feed. Hence the Kraft back up when there is no one to send down to the corner to Whole Foods for something fresh.

Like the people protesting the immigration facility in Newark. We are thinking of a proposal for that matter as well. The people hurling nasty epithets at ICE personnel look familiar, like they are the same angry people we see who are equally angry for all of the causes. In calmer times they would be called professional insurrectionists. but today they represent one of the consequences of a society so wealthy it can pay to maintain its parasites.

More on that Manana!

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