3 Things I Like

Apart from chess

The freezer aisle

There are no free lunches, but every once in awhile, if you know where to look, there are good deals. It turns out that the freezer aisle is one of those places. Frozen fruits and vegetables are picked when they’re ripe and flash-frozen. They’re not as good as fresh, peak ripeness produce, but for a lot of fruits and vegetables for a lot of the year, they’re better than anything you could get fresh. They’re also cheap and last more or less forever.

Some of my favorite items and uses:

• Snacking: mangoes and cherries. They have a really nice chewy texture when allowed to thaw just slightly.

• Smoothies: mangoes and blueberries.

• Veggie sides: edamame and peas.