More favorite kitchen items include: linen twine for trussing birds or tying roasts. I keep the bag on top to keep dust out because I plan to have this lovely kitchen twine for many years.
Microplane for everything from Parmesan cheese to grating nutmeg. I don’t even pull out the nutmeg grater anymore.
A box of various-sized cutters. I made James Beard’s radish hors d’oeuvres the other day and used cocktail rye bread which I cut into rounds and buttered, sliced radishes paper-thin, arranged them on top and salted the radishes. Tasty!
Also there’s the other day in TX, a blustery day indeed.
Gorgeous flowers from Jim, four vases worth! What a sweetie. He likes driving to work (used to walk and there was no flower store or grocery en route) and whenever he asks if I need anything from the grocery store out there, I know he’s buying flowers! Shhh, don’t tell him I know. Always the practical husband, he also bought 24 rolls of toilet paper. What a romantic.
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It’s “cold dinner” night tonight. A very nice whole wheat batard (store-bought artisan), hard-cooked eggs, potato salad, sliced ripe tomato with balsamic vinegar, fried green tomatoes in a beer batter, deli-sliced ham and my marinated Kalamata olives.
Jim is no cook but he appreciates Alton Brown for the scientific presentation of his cookery. So now he wants gyros and I now have several pounds of lamb shoulder that I have to take off the bone and grind. I don’t have a rotisserie so will have to use the oven. My grinding attachment has never been used and is still in its original packaging since the first Fry’s opened in San Diego over ten years ago.
Jim will be happy to use my Kitchenaid which has not been used since we moved. I couldn’t find a box that looked like it would fit, so couldn’t finish unpacking the kitchen until he returned with the movers. Turns out he stored it on its side so the grease dripped out and I got kind of freaked out by that.
So tomorrow night is gyros on pita with red onion, Feta and tsatziki. Mmmm, reminds me of my last trip to Greece. Will have to take Jim some day. The little garbage eater (Zoe) can stay at the pet “spa.”
Tomorrow Jim wants to see Trans-Siberian but just told me there’s a sing-along version of Mamma Mia! at the theatre! I’ve always wanted to do that with The Sound of Music. The hills are alive…
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I marvel at certain food network chefs (note no caps) who insist on using oblong pans on round burners. This morning I wanted to hug my husband before he ate and went off to work but first I had to flip his eggs, over medium.
Since we got the new pan (see earlier post) he remarked that’s round and I added that it still has a stick-free coating.
Jim can make an oblong or square pan just by walking through the kitchen and dropping it on the stained concrete floor. Why pay more for one?
Instead of writing a book we may just do this for a living, but this is a happy day today and accidentally knocking our pots and pans off the drying rack is not what we’re looking for. We’ll both write our different things. Yeah, they’re really different. But he can appreciate my writing to a certain extent and I don’t understand code but appreciate his efforts.
Let’s have an ode to perpetually round pans. Well, roasting pans need to be rectangular. We like the new T-Fal egg pan.
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No clue. This photo interface is giving me major problems and has for over two hours so I’m giving up on that one for now. That will have to wait until tomorrow.
There will be a major music festival for three days that will shut down our street. In the meantime I heard from my college advisor whose twin brother died yesterday. I wrote him two notes (one email, one US mail) and sent a small contribution to his department.
It’s interesting when you realize that athletes et al are younger than you. The world of possibilities gets smaller and smaller until you hopefully find your niche. Or hopefully you found it out beforehand.
On The Tonight Show this evening was Shawn Johnson, who had Arsenio and Jay Leno on a low balance beam. Unfortunately I only caught the last minute. I really like her spirit. And they were good sports.
Gymnasts, swimmers, skateboarders, I love seeing what I can no longer do. That’s why the Olympics are so important.
Jim bought a dulcinea watermelon that I might even pair with yogurt for smoothies. Still he’ll need full breakfast but I won’t.
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