Recent content by BlackBird

Unless he's having a side of gay people, something other than what comes to my mind.

This should be a good place for you.

I just went out in the rain and ruthlessly chopped down my trying-to-bolt basil. Tonight's dinner will be steamed broccoli, pesto topped pasta, and a seared pork chop that I sous vided and froze last week.

Yup, two bad floods, which just kept us at home, and one horrible hurricane that caused more water damage at the in-laws 18th story condo than our ground floor apartment. They built our house in the 60s, when they knew how to build high enough the water would wash around but not into. I"m...

Thanks, JC, so far it's not too bad, just a bit of light rain. The map looks good, too, it's the talk of the storm stalling and dumping on us for days that has me worried. We've done it before, full gas tanks and ready to buy ice! I just wish we could send some of this rain your direction.

Btw, do Texans eat cornbread with their q, and if so, is it Northern style (sweet), or Southern (not sweet)? Sweetpea, corn bread is never sweet! Neither are baked beans. And there are never beans in the chili. After 30 years here, I'm still enough of a Yankee to find that all horrible.:rofl:

For store bought condiments, I'd say Dijon mustard, grainy or smooth, and Major Grey Chutney. If you count maple syrup as a condiment, that for sure. I love maple flavor, and use it instead of honey in any recipe.

Don't toss them, send them to me! Hellmans was my fav until I tried Duke's. I will never go back.

Getting ready for the great storm Harvey, a day after getting home from the eclipse. Water chilling in the fridge, tonight is a simple keilbasa and cabbage. Tomorrow will be whatever we can scrounge in the fridge, in anticipation of losing power.

I'd be tempted to drop in on MsMofet. I had a veggie stir-fry, since I need to clean out the fridge before the looong weekend. I mean, we only have 80% coverage here, so we must drive 12 hours to see the eclipse at 100%, don't you know! I just hope it isn't the zoo that Oregon looks like...

Well, CharlieD, I"ve never eaten one that tasted good, and man, they are a lot of work. Maybe I just don't like them, maybe only bad ones are available, but no thanks. I've made my own syrup from juice (see above), and that's quite good, but it has a lot of added sugar.

Forget the gubmint, sell this to those people making big bucks off the personal protection devices! That is scary, I wonder what happened.

Left over shrimp scampi with angel hair. Did I mention I don't like breakfast foods?

I usually lightly pack the raw meat into a loaf pan, then turn it out onto a rack in the baking pan. That way, you get more of the crust. I also like to glaze it before it's done cooking.

Today it was waffles (Annie Frankenstein's Amazingly Good ones) with sliced strawberries for breakfast; dinner was Shrimp Scampi over linguini. I have to say that just yesterday I had resolved to start trying a Plant-Based diet. I guess I meant I'd start on Monday.