To drink: a Manhattan on the rocks using some expensive yet dreadful Dad’s Hat Pennsylvania Rye. I made the mistake of having it neat a few weeks ago and figured I should try it in a cocktail before claiming this $50 bottle to be one of the most tasteless and rough whiskeys I’ve had in recent memory. It was decent. Like halfway decent. The sweet vermouth took the edge off, but I’m not dying to have it again.
Dinner was an easy way out. My grilled balsamic marinated chicken and sautéed spinach. The carb was some stuffed rigs alla vodka from the Italian market. Satisfying.
Dinner was Shrimp-Okra-and-Sausage Kebabs over Louisiana rice. Corn salad, tomato, red onion, purple radish, Manzanilla olives, parsley and oo&rwv dressing.
Who knew grilled okra tasted so good?
Mrs. P made another awesome dinner. We started off with a shrimp salad containing avocado, bean sprouts, snow peas, mini peppers, and homegrown basil and parsley. It was topped with a very spicy dressing consisting of dried Sichuan peppers, jalapeños, chili peppers, garlic, galangal, lemongrass, fish sauce, lime juice, and coconut sugar. For an entree we had more shrimp with bacon, corn, jalapeño, cream cheese, lime, basil, and parsley, cooked in bacon grease. For dessert we had s’mores with homemade coffee ice cream and chocolate chips, and chocolate covered espresso chips It all went great with an excellent Napa cabernet.
I totally agree… Here in my part of the SF Bay Area, mostly all I can find is white corn:sleepy:. I love yellow corn & wish there was more of it around! Side note: we love COTC brushed with mayo & sorinkled generously with Trader Joe’s “Everything But The Elote” seasoning
Unfortunately, however, we do not eat poultry or feathered game or any lamb.
We buy our beef from ecological small tiny farms and we primarily eat freshly caught shellfish, celaphoids and fish. Very pescatarian. And as you know we are big pasta fans.
Thanks, the WF store in Redwood City has it as does Sigonas, so I should edit my rant! The usual suspects, Safeway & Luckys only get white & they are the ones with the low special prices…
Re-wind some 25+ years. I made one of my several times a year pilgrimages to our favorite Italian deli in North Beach. I can’t remember why I picked up a bottle of Lambrusco, but I did. Brought it home, chilled it down, opened it and, huh? It looked like red Ripple! So I call up my deli-guy and tell him “er, the Lambrusco I just bought is over the hill, it’s really fizzy. I poured it down the sink. I’m only telling you so one of your little old Italian mamas doesn’t come in and poison herself.” Dead silence, then, Mrs. xxxx, that Lambrusco is pétillante." “Ahhhhhh. Thank you very much. See you…”
9 Likes
ChristinaM
(Hungry in Asheville, NC (still plenty to offer tourists post Hurricane))
643
Today for camping lunch we made “Ina’s” summer garden pasta (can anyone really claim authorship of this classic combo?), cutting way back on the garlic and cheese. It was delicious!
Dinner, if/when we get to it, will be grouper and shrimp in lemon butter. This photo is from Edisto, SC, although we’ve now moved on to Charleston for water park proximity. Priorities.
Back in the kitchen today! Ground up some pork shoulder and made dumpling burgers, with lots of ginger, garlic and scallions. Blistered shishito peppers with garlic chips alongside. My peppers in general are not doing all that well this year (to be fair, I have majorly neglected them!), but I discovered today that I had a nice crop of shishitos going, both green and red. No hot ones, but they were tasty, especially the ripe red ones.
Mattress shopping is always stressful…but I did it because it’s time. Probably going with the local made-to-order Gardner Mattress choice. Can’t get any more “Made In America” than that!
Dinner decided on my way to Market Basket to stock up for a hurricane storm that I think will mostly miss my area of MA.
Icelandic cod schmeared with mayo, then sprinkled with a Panko crumb mix that was comprised of the Panko, a garlic-herb blend, some extra dried parsley, dried thyme, a pinch of s/p, and ground sumac. Baked at 375° for about 15 minutes until it just flaked, served with a quick Louisiana remoulade (too much remoulade).
Sides were leftover rice pilaf and sauteed home grown baby carrots, sugar snap peas, thinly sliced shallots and local fresh corn with Penzeys’ Tuscan Sunset seasoning mix.
And wine. Because mattress shopping is still a PITA.
Had a hankering for surf and turf so a beautiful porterhouse (for 2) and two stuffed lobsters. Sides of broccolini and corn on the cob. A day filled with cocktails at the beach and into the evening. Happy eats my friend’s……….
It all went great with an excellent Napa cabernet.
