• Peach-O-Rama

    Each July, Metropolitan Market celebrates “Peach-O-Rama” (yes, I rolled my eyes too when I first heard the name) when they bring massive amounts of ripe, ready-to-eat peaches, into their grocery stores. Metropolitan Market’s Peach-O-Rama event is now more than twenty years old now, and permeates not only their produce department, but also their bakery, deli and prepared foods. Every year, we not only look forward to being greeted at the front of the store with slices of sweet, ripe peaches to sample (remember when things such as samples existed?!?) but also the store’s ready-to-grill marinated chili peach pork tenderloin in their butcher shop case that they offer during Peach-O-Rama. So…

  • Spiced “Lamb” Flatbread

    Happy Monday to everyone! Are you on the ball and already done with your meal-planning for the week? Or, are you like me this Monday, and wondering what you are going to cook for dinner because you spent the weekend playing in the finally-arrived(!!) Seattle sunshine instead of doing anything productive like grocery shopping or laundry? Ugh. Well, if you are in the latter group, we have a quick and delicious idea dinner recipe for you that will hopefully make your Monday a little easier: Metropolitan Market’s Spiced Lamb Flatbread. Yum! Living only a few blocks away from Sandpoint’s Metropolitan Market, this grocery store is a frequent stop if we…