shallots and capers

so i decided that this afternoon i'd cook something for supper. so i pulled out the new cookbook and started looking. found a recipe for lemon chicken pasta toss. i decided to make it, but unlike the last time i tried to cook something i would make sure i had all the ingredients i needed and use them.

and so i wrote out my list of what i needed thinking i was pretty sure i knew what everything was or at least had a general idea of where i could find what was on my list.

i was at wal-mart, thinking that shallots were some sort of mushroom type thing. come to find out, i was wrong, so very wrong. i had no idea what shallots or capers were. so as any young person would do, i called my mom. i'm sure i gave the fam quite the laugh.

so i found out they didn't have what i wanted and moved on to hyvee. there i see a sign that says garlic (another ingredient i needed, but of course i knew what this was). and what do you know, right beside the garlic is a sign that says shallots. so one ingredient down, one to go.

i searched the store and found pickled capers, but wanted to know if there were regular ones, cuz as we all know pickled stuff tastes a lot different than regular stuff. so i called my mom again. while on the phone i must have been speaking fairly loudly cuz a hyvee employee comes up to me with a bottle of capers. so i tell mom i'll call her back. and ask the guy if these are the only capers they have. they are and so i buy them, successful in my mission.

and so i now know what shallots and capers are, and where to find them in hyvee. it was an exciting day.