Musings

Shopping at WF for The Guru’s special dinner today, the seafood guy GAVE me the shrimp—what a kind gift! More sacred food!

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…starting to process paperwork and take care of business. Today, that meant a trip downtown. I remember visiting the downtown business district only rarely. Today we lunched in a place I’d never have been in my youth, the legendary Kewpee Hamburg (sometimes Hamburgers, sometimes Kewpee’s). Mmmm…onion rings.

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The promised frost did hit our piece of the planet earth in the wee hours, and I’ll be having translucent asparagus with lunch, since I didn’t get them picked yesterday. The color was just gorgeous as the sun shone through the stem. Little guys, like the one on the right, and pencil-thin specimens, like the one on the left, made it through okay.

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I gotta give C credit; it was her idea to photograph this half-peeled pineapple (Ananas comosus) with the coalesced berries exposed.

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We topped yesterday’s pimiento cheese (recipe now posted) by stopping at Sublime Doughnuts, over by Georgia Tech, this morning. As JCB noted, our doughnut treats (A-Town mocha for him; cinnamon roll for me) gave us the sugar rush that got us through a quick run at IKEA. We managed to avoid the “plastic crap” that often hops in your bag there, and got…other kinds of consumer product. Yeah, that sounds better….

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This cries out for a recipe, and I promise, it’ll be forthcoming. For now, know that my (very small, statistically speaking) testing group preferred the smoked-hot-paprika-enhanced-version of pimiento cheese (of the two that I offered).

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With a cloud layer coming in and a breeze kicking up off and on, I still managed to wear shorts and not get cold when I toured the park.

We focused our Friday Night menu on the vacuum-packaged pot roast from TJs (really delish), with the rest of the dishes assembled by us. Accompanied by broc/cauli combo, a nice tossed salad with radishes, white taters (boiled, steamy-hot). Oh, yum.

Meal leavened by Jon Stewart and John Hodgman, tivoed (essentially, but without Tivo) from…was it yesterday?

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In which…

…I discover during a visit to a nearby clinic (accompanying a friend with a hurt–not broken—ankle who could not drive) that they take walk-ins in the morning and make appointments for the afternoon.

…I make an edamame dip pretty much following the recipe (NYT from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/dining/edamame-dip-with-red-onion-and-sesame-oil-recipe.html) when I should have followed my instincts and adjusted the ingredients. (As in: boil edamame about 6 minutes, drain and stop cooking with ice water; less onion, maybe lime instead of lemon, that kind of thing…).

(For starters.)

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And we got a bottle of Planeta La Segreta (a white) at this liquor store (aka Ansley Wine) that I’d never had before and it was…um-um-good. Planeta is a major winery in Sicily…that we did not visit while we were there last May. Should we plan on another Sicily trip that includes winery visits? Hmm-hmm???

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This statue is standing on a cube labeled Jack Daniel. I’m not sure what the rainbow mustache means.

UPDATE: chili essay related to yesterday’s chili (and today’s leftovers) added to Food Fun as a wordy recipe….

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