We ventured to Chapel Hill this weekend for a visit to A Southern season. We’ve been many times before but I don’t think I have ever actually written about it.

Southern Season is this amazing gourmet foods store. It’s the place we go where we can’t find an ingredient in the grocery stores. Last time we went, Oak found aleppo pepper, a mediterannean spice that he needed to make the warm hummus recipe from Talullas.

This picture is actually about half of the tea and coffee section. It is so freaking ridiculous. They have about every food and beverage you could imagine, an amazing prepared foods, meat, and deli section, an variety of candies and chocolates from around the world that I make an effort to not go near, etc. Of course half the time is spent going around looking for food samples.

Oak always spends about 20 minutes staring at the spices and salts. That is my opportunity to browse the housewares and cards. Phew!

It seems like every time we go we have some kind of thing that stumps the workers. This time we were looking for toasted sesame oil (which you’d think they would have). We also were curious about mock duck, but no avail.

My main goal was to get goodies for in crepes, since we used our new crepe maker for the first time yesterday. Unfortunately I overlooked the fact that you need whole milk for the crepe batter, so I told Oak just to put my skim milk in there. This apparently does make a difference, because the crepes were extremely crunch-o-licious. (Of course with nutella and jam on them they were still tasty, but not quite as attractive and tender as we were expecting.) Maybe I’ll take some pictures next time when I read the ingredient list properly.

Posted by Carrie on Monday, April 10, 2006
Categories: around the triangle · 1 Comment »