NJ Dining: Giant Farmers Market

Giant Farmers Market
324 Main St, Hackensack, NJ
(201) 498-0010

While I love going into Union City and the Bronx to shop for ethnic ingredients and produce, sometimes I just don’t want to schlep more than 15 minutes away from home to get what I need for an improvised home cooked meal, especially if its during the work week. One of my favorite local shopping haunts that has essentially everything you need in terms of great produce and fresh meats and ethnic ingredients is Giant Market in Hackensack. Its also situated very close to Costco,  Pollos Mario, Wondee’s,  White Manna, and the Little Ferry branch of Han ah Reum, making it a great side destination if you’re interested in checking out any of those other places.

Giant market has a huge parking lot and is quite easy to get to from most parts of Northern Bergen County.

The Giant Market awaits. Click on the “Read the rest of this entry” link below for more.

The Return of Fat Squirrel

Just when I thought he had left us for good, years later he returns with a vengeance — and lean and mean to boot. Here’s a photo of him absconding with an apple from the fruit basket in our kitchen. Note to self: Keep screen door to kitchen closed.

I’d like to show you what this guy looked like when he was in his gluttonous, pre-Nutrisystem glory, but a certain website seems to have erased any trace of his existence, perhaps as part of an overall policy of destroying anything fun from its institutional history, particularly if it originated from Yours Truly. Fortunately WebCrawler has preserved some of the thumbnails, but they don’t do him justice.