Carver Jones Market

 For some time the citizens of Fairfield, Alabama and surrounding areas have been living in a food desert. On July 31, 2024, Carver Jones Market opened.

President and CEO, James Harris has over 30 years experience in the grocery industry.

The store is named after George Washington Carver and Frederick McKinley Jones. Both men were pioneers in their field. Carver in agriculture and Jones in mobile refrigeration. 

I had the pleasure of picking up a few items while over that way. The store is small but expertly arranged and doesn't give a cluttered feeling. It was clean and employees were friendly and knowledgeable about where to find items. Prices were about what they'd be in most markets. 

I don't know how to stitch video so I've provided the run time beside each one. Total=39 sec.

Entrance 11 second video. 

 

Produce ,etc. 17 sec.

Meat, dairy, etc. 11 sec.

Mission Statement

The store has pharmacy hours listed on the door. Since I wasn't in the market for any pharmaceuticals, I didn't seek it out. 

If I lived on the western side of town in the community, I would shop here again. 

That's it. 🍐🍋🐔

Peanut Butter Cookies

I was snowed in and I just had to have something sweet. I checked out the fridge already knowing what I would find but thinking maybe I’d missed something and there was something I could throw together to get my“sugar high”. I opened the fridge and the same assortment met me that was there upon my previous inspection.

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celery
¼ bottle of champagne
butter
browning lettuce
and some other stuff that didn’t go together.

Next stop, the pantry.

Aha! We have a *****WINNER*****!

Show me what you’re working with.



We've got the dregs of white sugar, brown sugar, one egg, peanut butter, vanilla.

Flourless peanut butter cookies

I had flour but I wanted it quick and easy.

Here's the recipe I used. It's from allrecipes.com

Only 3 main Ingredients

Notice I have 5 ingredients. This was after consulting a few more recipes for the flourless cookies.

n 1 cup peanut butter
n 1 cup white sugar
n 1 egg

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).

2. Combine ingredients

and drop by teaspoonfuls on cookie sheet.

Bake for 8 minutes. ( Play the Jeopardy theme right here as you tap your nails on the counter)

Let cool. ( Still playing the Jeopardy theme) Recipe doesn't make very many, so you could double recipe as you desire.

George Washington Carver I could kiss you .

The History of Peanut Butter by Mary Bellis (quote taken from About.com)

"Agricultural chemist, George Washington Carver discovered three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes. He start popularizing uses for peanut products including peanut butter, paper, ink, and oils beginning in 1880. The most famous of Carver's research took place after he arrived in Tuskeegee in 1896. However, Carver did not patent peanut butter as he believed food products were all gifts from God. The 1880 date precedes all other inventors except of course for the Incas, who were first. It was Carver who made peanuts a
significant crop in the American South in the early 1900's.”

NOTE: Rolling the dough around in your hands can be a little sticky so I used disposable gloves.

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