Yesterday was gorgeous here in Ohio, but I didn’t cook out at all.  My wife and I ran around doing some errands for a bit, and ended up at a great local market chain.  If anyone is in the Dayton, Ohio, area, make sure to try out Dorothy Lane Market.

It’s kind of a specialty market with both a good and bad reputation.  The good reputation is that they have the best of everything they can get.  Top quality beef, lamb, pork and chicken; wild game; restaurant quality seafood; a GREAT bakery, making Killer Brownies (they even ship these); and the freshest produce around.  They also have a very good wine department and a better variety of soft drinks that aren’t just more soda pop than anyplace close by.  The bad rep is that they’re considered very expensive.  And they are!  Lamb chops are something like $22 per pound.  Actually, regular groceries are about the same as anywhere else, and they started one of those card deals pretty early, giving very good prices on some items.

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