Daily Archives: June 20, 2010

Missing Ingredients

About a 1-2 month old email from The Dish with Food & Wine gave me ideas. The recipe was Soy-Glazed Chicken Yakitori and I do not have permission to publish it.

I had to order sweet Indonesian soy sauce (ketjap manis) from Amazon (rather than make caramel in the tinny pots that are here in our rented townhome). The first time I made it, for guests, using cheap wooden skewers, it was good and very sweet. Then I found out our printer had cut off the last two ingredients when printing the page, Sriracha and garlic! It was much better when I made it last night, quite a kick! We bought flat skewers with a metal “cage” in which they can be grilled and turned. It made quite a difference.

Last night I had chicken breast, red onion, scallion, red pepper and pineapple. Just mixing things up a bit! It was great though I should have made rice. Next time.

The farmers’ market was good today but I didn’t get much, only some farmer-made feta cheese that I included in our burgers tonight, along with some scallions. Also a peanut butter cookie for the dog. Not much but we had a nice lunch outdoors and we couldn’t do that at last week’s market when we were scrambling to get our nephew gloves and headgear from our winter coat pockets! Lots of people donned tank tops, shorts and sandals today but at lunch I was happy to have long pants, shoes and a denim jacket because there was quite a breeze.

Hope all you dads out there had a happy Fathers’ Day! We both called our dads today to express our gratitude. When I was young my sister and I would have Dad take us to the Zoo, a three-hour round-trip drive. If he didn’t feel like a dad Sunday morning, he certainly did by that evening! Sorry, Dad. Cheers and have a great week, Dee

Tony Hayward, Father of the Year?

I go into this day with trepidation, as my father undergoes cancer surgery on Monday. Husband Jim’s father is hale and hearty, though farm machinery has severely affected his hearing.

It is another father I think of today, one who “is having some rare private time with his son,” at a yacht race in England two days after he stonewalled a Congressional committee about his company, BP’s, involvement with a giant spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Yachts? Go figure. Get on the beach and clean up some birds. Make it a father/son thing. Your son will respect you more years later when he finds out the corners you careened to make more money instead of making a safe rig that doesn’t kill employees and wildlife and careers.

Yes, a Mr. Tony Hayward, a geologist who knows nothing about geology, or so he says. It seems on this Fathers’ Day eve that he has not only a distant relationship with his son, but with his company, which is floundering under his tutelage. We can only hope he’s a better father than CEO. With concern, Dee