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Sunday, May 22, 2005
Fooooooooood
It's one thing to follow a recipe and produce a lovely, appreciated result. Quite another thing to go alone through the endless choices, myriad flavors, and create an all-new and far-too-good dish. My aim, always , is to accomplish the second alternative.
Today after I woke up early, I watched my favorite minister on TV. He always preaches for an hour, and I love it. What a brain, what a talent. It is the Reverend Courtney McBath. Oh, my goodness, how entertaining, original, and intelligent he is. On his program there is not a word of begging for money. It's all about fixing the human race, one person at a time. The guy is a genius.
Then Lydia called and invited me out onto the Netzer family boat for the rest of the day. She teased, "Don't you want to see eyeball to eyeball
with dolphins?"
My answer, "No. I want to see dolphins on TV, if at all. I at all times want a solid floor under my feet, not endless deeps of water." We go through this dance nearly every nice weather weekend.
After she stopped pretending to be surprised that I could give the boat trip a miss, I asked her, "On your way home afterwards, would you like to stop here for supper?"
She admitted that she would like that and asked what was on the menu. I told her , "Cabbage and pork and potatoes." He-he-he-he-he.
Of course, I have no intention of making anything so fall asd winter as that. This is a lovely, hot, summer day and it calls for salad meals.
After deliberation I have decided to make shrimp salad and also a molded strawberry jello salad complete with fresh strawberries and whipped cream.
So many choices, so little time. I had no idea how many shrimp salad recipes existed on the internet.
After thought, I am going to make a salad which includes the following items; pasta, minced celery, shrimp, hard-cooked eggs, mayonnaise, lemon juice, cut-up Spanish olives, minced onion, mustard, minced green peppers, fine-cut carrots, salt and pepper, and sweet pickle relish.
Let's hope that those hungry Netzers, fresh from a whole day on the ocean will like what they find.
I intended to make crab cakes and grill them, but could not find enough locally caught crab at my local store. I mean I couldn't find enough fresh crab which lacked it's exoskeleton. No way do I want to spend this beautiful afternoon prying bits of crab outsides off the underlying meat.
Sunday, May 22, 2005 - 10:03 PM
Name:
Tessa
Wow - you really spoil them! Sounds deliciously refreshing.
Monday, May 23, 2005 - 1:19 PM
Name:
doubledog
It turned out to be very good. Sometimes my hot ideas bomb...for example the first time I decided to make "Mexican Meat Loaf". That was horrible, tasted the way that dog food smells. And the worst part was that I made so much of it! Anyway, the shrimp salad was good.
Sometime I WILL make crab cakes, but first I need a source of pre-cleaned crab meat. In the paper the other day I read that now is the perfect time of year for blue crab, caught right out in the water off Norfolk. I need to locate a market that sells crab meat minus the blue shell.
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