I have a box, refrigerator, and freezer with things waiting to be photographed for this Web site. This Almond Crush Pocky had been sitting in the box for the past couple of weeks but let me tell you, it jumped to the front of the photography line after this post.

In replies to that post, person after person expressed basically some variation of, “What the Pocky?! How could she not send you [Ree] the Pocky?” (If there’s such a thing as a mini Internet beatdown, I felt it last Thursday.) Let me just say (again) that I did send The Pioneer Woman Pocky in chocolate and strawberry flavors.

And Pocky will be in the next care package that I mail (which is in the near future; hint: 100 posts. This is number 88.)

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I’m sure many of us have heard not to grocery shop when hungry because who knows what our empty stomachs will tell us to buy (because aren’t we thinking with our stomachs and not our minds at that point?).

So when I found myself in this situation at an Asian supermarket over the weekend, I took care of it, Cindy-style.

By having a piece of Fresh Strawberry Napoleon Cake from the Chinese bakery in the food court of the market, before I started shopping.

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Hello visitors from The Pioneer Woman’s Web site. I’d like to say that I was cool and calm when I found out she’d posted about the items I’d sent her (those things have never looked so good), but I wasn’t. It was more of a “Holy guacamole!” reaction, only I used a different word than guacamole.

Thank you for visiting, new and old visitors alike.

Cindy

P.S. Of course I also sent Ree Pocky (chocolate and strawberry flavors).

Do you have meals that linger in your mind months or years after you ate them? I can count just a small number of such meals, and experienced most of them at out-of-state restaurants (perhaps the long distances have added to my fond memories?).

One dish I savored at the time and still think about at least 10 years later is Scrambled Eggs with Garlic Chives and Shrimp. I had ordered it at a nondescript Chinese restaurant in a college town. What the restaurant lacked in decor and ambiance it made up for with its simple yet delicious food.

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When I want a real cup of coffee and can’t make it to a coffee shop, I turn to this Instant Coffee Mix. Yes, I know I just included the words real and instant in the same sentence, but this is me, remember?

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