{"id":35702,"date":"2018-06-16T15:13:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T20:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=35702"},"modified":"2018-06-16T15:15:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T20:15:55","slug":"another-non-mystery-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/another-non-mystery-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Another NON Mystery Rant…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As the title of this entry says, I’m not talking about mysteries today since I don’t have anything Cozy-Mystery-ish<\/em> to complain about. This has to do with something I am missing. (I’ve been trying to limit my Rants and Raves, but this really grinds me!)<\/p>\n

As I have said many times before, I don’t particularly enjoy baking\/cooking. I take every short cut I can when it comes to feeding my family. For holiday meals I serve Stove Top dressing, doctored with lots of onions, celery, and chicken broth. Oh, and I don’t make the chicken broth myself, rather I depend on Swanson to do the tedious work involved in making it. As for my creamed onions, frozen Birds Eye pearl onions are my staple >>> I skip all the onion-preparations my grandmother did.<\/p>\n

Well, to get on with my rant…<\/p>\n

Years ago, my husband bought me a bread machine – since he loves freshly baked bread. I remember telling him he had better learn how to use it, since I did NOT plan on making bread. I didn’t even make room for it on our kitchen counter… that’s how determined I was NOT to use it. I think I finally relented on his birthday, and went ahead and made a loaf of bread, and I’ve been hooked ever since! So much so that when my old machine “wore out” I bought a new Oster bread machine four years ago.<\/p>\n

The reason for my rant is that I can no longer find the boxed bread mixes for bread machines that we like. I know I have complained about San Antonio now having a monopoly grocery store in town. (H.E.B. ran all the other grocery stores out of town with bottom-low prices,\u00a0 and upon getting rid of their competition, quickly raised their prices. >>> But that’s another story…)<\/p>\n

Apparently people no longer use bread machines – but prefer to use either their hands or their mixers with dough hooks. Not me! I like the add-a-cup-of-water-top-with-mix-then-the-yeast<\/em> method, where I go about my other business while the bread machine does the work.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I get quite miffed when things that I really like >> such as easy bread machine mixes, are no longer available in my local grocery store.\u00a0 How about you — are things you used to use all the time no longer available in your local store?<\/p>\n

P.S. Thank goodness for the grocery sections in my Walmart and Target!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the title of this entry says, I’m not talking about mysteries today since I don’t have anything Cozy-Mystery-ish to complain about. This has to do with something I am missing. (I’ve been trying to limit my Rants and Raves, but this really grinds me!) As I have said many times before, I don’t particularly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cozy-mystery-administrators-observations","7":"entry","8":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-9hQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35702"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35719,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35702\/revisions\/35719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}