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when g is away … t will play … with his food
t says: g is busy hangin’ out in Greece – I hope she’s taking some pictures to share! So what does that mean? It means that I have to cook for myself … which isn’t that big of a deal … unless I’ve had a long day and my silliness comes out … For example, while walking home, I pondered, “gee, I forgot to eat lunch … what should I eat? Well … I made some super-secret-recipe-macaroni salad last night, so I should probably eat that … but I want something sweet … and we have some eggs in the fridge … oh, wait – that bottle of wine is open …” So this was the result:
obviously, I decided to make a PB2&J&C&E sandwich to have with my macaroni salad … that’s right – it’s peanut butter (two types – creamy and crunchy) and jelly and [lemon] curd and egg sandwich. does it “go well” with a French sauvignon blanc? … who cares? it was so delicious that i’m doing the same thing tomorrow night, too! the thin coat of lemon curd made it all work!
Garces going Cuban
t says: Chifa wasn’t a “bad” place to go – the food was usually pretty good! Be that as it may, I never got a craving for Peruvian-Cantonese food … Now Cuban food, on the other hand … Can’t wait to get v up in there to see how the new place is when it opens …
Nooooooooooo !!!
t says: Noooooooooooo !!! Not Koo Zee Doo !!! They’ll always hold a special place in our hearts and minds – g had a fabulous 29th BDay there … (among all the other places she went for her 29th Birthday …)
http://philly.eater.com/archives/2013/06/21/the-shutter-36.php
plcb strikes again …
t says: Fine wine and good spirits strikes again with some intriguing buys …
greywacke: this wine was delicious when we had it last. i’m suspicious of plcb’s score given how tight supplies have been since their glowing Wine Spectator reviews – i had to do a double-take to make sure it’s the real thing. if it’s like the last bottle, it’ll be delicious indeed! and if not, i’m going to blame the plcb’s storage practices and return all that i bought … (as an FYI – this wine takes a few minutes of swirling or an hour or so after bottle opening to let the super-funky-skunky petrol to blow off the nose – give it time and be rewarded handsomely with tropical fruits, citrus, pith, and a zing at the end that screams New Zealand!)
bennett lane: a is a huge fan of bennett lane – he hearts them a lot. he thinks it’s quite a deal. he’s probably right – maybe worth a shot.
a few pictures … and a break …
t says: It’s that time of life again: “standardized testing time”. And it’s all goin’ down at the end of this month. In an effort to limit distractions, we’re going to put the blog on hiatus … but of course, I’ll leave us with some parting shots and a preview of what’s to come …
jose garces has invaded a local children’s hospital’s cafeteria with distrito tacos … trust me – they are ten times better than the previous taco-related foods that were being offered and at least 2.3 times better than anything else they have ever offered. My source (i.e. the dude running the station) says they’re coming back in June sometime – I hope they stay!
kp was so kind as to bring us a gift from his international travels … we couldn’t drink any of that super-crazy beer that he had to drive up a mountain to some kind of monastery for in Belgium, but we do sure like chocolate!
g liked how the chocolates, themselves, were labeled with what they tasted like – it was very cool. and the chocolates were great! they had just the right proportion of chocolate to filling (i.e. the imprinted flavors were just a thin layer so they didn’t overwhelm the chocolate so much as accent it). I think these’d be a great dinner party thing to have.
speaking of parties … well let’s just say that someone special is having their 80th birthday party pretty soon … and that person put g in charge of putting a and me in charge of acquiring EtOH for the party … so a and I went shopping this weekend for the party … Funny thing happened – with our combined infinite wisdoms, neither of us stopped to think about how much we could actually transport in the car when we made our purchases – we just stopped buying things when we felt like we had “enough” … and we come out to my tiny clown car (our adorable volvo C30 named FiFi) and panic strikes us – was it all going to fit? Well, as you can see, it did! But we literally could not fit a single other case of beer or wine in the car (a did have to hold a case on his lap). Crisis averted! Now that I have scrutinized the layout, I suspect that with some reorganization of with putting some cases on their side, I may have found another way to fit at least 2 more cases back there … next time! And when we come back from hiatus, I’m sure we’ll have updates as to how the party went.
And now … the main [other] main June event … So, my testing ends on the 27th of June … and on the 29th: we go to Talula’s Table! Woohoo! There will be food and wine galore. I’ll be posting pretty shortly thereafter – I promise!
after dinner sneeze 