My snack food mania

Monday, January 28, 2008

I live really close to Farm Fresh Express in Lansdowne.  Sadly, it took me until this past Saturday to actually get over there and check it out.  If you’re not familar with FFE, you can either place an order from their availability list of mostly locally grown produce, meat, dairy, etc. and they’ll deliver it to your house for a couple of bucks, or you can pick up your order at the storefront.  Alternatively, you don’t have to pre-order anything - just show up at the storefront and peruse the stock.

I didn’t pick up a ton of stuff (my volunteer shift at the Fair Food Farmstand was that morning), but there were some locally grown dried red cayenne peppers I couldn’t resist.  However, what really made me want to kiss the nice lady working the store straight on the mouth was finding a bag of blue corn tortilla chips made from Pennsylvania corn.  Mejico Blues are super thin blue corn tortilla chips, and they’re absolutely delicious!

It isn’t too often that you find prepared snack food made from locally grown ingredients, unless it’s something like dried fruit.  Of course, now I’m completely obsessed with these chips and I’m almost afraid to eat them for fear I’ll never be able to get more of them again.

Oh, and for those of you need to worry about gluten intake, they are apparently gluten (and dairy) free.

Edited to note: Alas, I have just been informed by the nice people at Farm Fresh Express that they found out the corn is not locally grown, only locally milled.