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Funny, these two dishes are part of ewaht defines a diner to me...The short list of foods I'd order at a diner include:breakfasts, BLT's, Souvlakis or gyros. our local diner - Paul and Christa's on rt. 181- has these. paul died this last winter but his daughter Christa still runs the place and they are greek. and they used to fight at the top of their voices in greek in the kitchen...an amazing spectacle to behold.

*sigh* mine was named Hubie - Hubie Hobart - the only man who never let me down that summer....

rail - glad you made it up to the northcountry... yeah, there's money up there since you are sitting almost on Lake Mohawk. krogh's makes an outrageous bacon and blue cheese burger. john likes their stouts anytime of the year - i like the red or if there is a wheat brewed i'll take that. arthur's is ok - just don't order a hambuirger on a busy night if someone else in the party orders steak. your order tends to end up under the heat lamp. plaza bistro has had about half it's regualr menu changed up since the last time rosie ate there. and there is a new place that opened up down toward the clubhouse. about 8 seats - haven't gotten to it yet but when i do will post. did you get a chance to stroll the boardwalk after you ate?

i love salads for dinner, too. just made one last night with grilled andouille sausage, aged parmesan, tomatoes, englihn cuckes and raspberry walnut vinaigrette another one we do especially if it is hot out is shrimp remoulade over mesculun. i have a recipe for a poached tuna that i cut into diamonds and serve over greens hmmmmm....that's all i can think of for now

friday night: takeaway rainbow roll - no fish eggs for husband large dinner salad of baby greens with aged parmesan, english cucumber, jersey fresh tomatoes, and grilled andouille sausage and a raspberry walnut vinaigrette tonight: husband is going into the city so perhaps reservations for me?

the first tomatoes from south jersey are coming in so the last few mornings i have had open faced tomato sandwiches on toast......

kim - where is the affair being held? that may help narrow down a bit. these are from all over. know corporate cafe from mt. arlington - ok but probably not what you are looking for. they did a function for one of the historical groups in the area but was more like what you aren't looking for.

no you don't - 4 for me from the list what about dq brazier? i've had their burgers damn... all this talk is making me hungry. i may have to stop somewhere on the way home.

no, tommy but i have found over the years that if i stop drinking all together my eyes don't get quite as tired when i'm out on the watch scanning the sky for 8-12 hours a day. don't know why but that's what i do....

john and i got married twice - once on long island with my family, once in the hudson valley with his(his mom announced she wouldn't be at our wedding on long island because it was too far to travel). on the island my maid of honor, mom and i catered the whole affair with salad, clam quiche, cold cuts. pate, homemade breads. then we went out to a local fish restaurant and had fish and chips. later we picked up a girlfriend and her fiance and went to a local tavern where husband, who was pretty snookered, told the wait staff to feed the french fries he didn't eat to the"rats in the alley" and promptly nodded off sitting on a juke box going full blast in the hudson valley we were married at the cottonwood inn in millbrook the site of all kinds of reed get togethers from years past. a hot and cold buffet then we went back up to hudson where i lived and went for chinese.

subtle - no there is a wish list for presents posted on the fridge for use by in-laws for birthday/holiday presents - otherwise i would get such hideous things as the evil witch from 'little mermaid' muumu in blue and green currently there is an order sheet from a catalog with some cool napkins, etc.;a subscription form to sante; and on the list requests for cheap champagne flutes, a meat pounder and pretty recipe cards for my birthday i always buy myself something - last year it was a subscription to a food quarterly. haven't decided this year. since i am a librarian i don't buy a book until after i have read it(usually on interlibrary loan)

suzi. huh? what did i miss! nothing, my sweet was talking about bringing a winners circle pie but 21 sept is the peak of the broadwing hawk migration which is my passion - even more than sex and food during this time i do the LEAST amount of cooking i have to and stock the freezer with precooked protein or we do takeaway from our favorite sushi /chinese restaurants if you were on foodbytes you might remember me from screen name henbird and since you missed the steak sannie trip in dec to american grill you would have missed kimwb's and my discussion of hawk migration - across the bar (i'm a natural resource volunteer at picatinny arsenal and was a nj natural resource volunteer for several years)

you'll recognize Rosie immediately. she's a tall quiet one. and tommy looks like humphrey bogart in "casablanca" but shorter.....

go ahead and do it - that's what winner's circle pie is (can't legaly call it derby pie). if the birds are flying i can't guarantee that i'll make it there even to deliver dessert if i make it there with whatever contribution it will be a bonus i guess (sorry but when the hawk migration is going i'm really focused on that rather than anything else - this is why my freezer had thomas e watson frozen meats, the local sushi parlor/chinese restaurant is on speed dial and HORROR OF HORRORS i actually stop drinking for three months - it IS that important)

"pear orgasm" which would also work with figs or peaches i think - cool dumpling will have to try this since the husband finally got home had a glass of port and cheese and crackers waiting for him(since i conviced him he could eat a bit of cheddar and it wouldn;t bother his intestines he is in culinary heaven). followed up with red snapper veracruz, trader joe's spanish rice and a zucchini frittata. finished for him with a few pieces of valhrona bar...... my friend 'chelle took me to trader joe's in florham park, nj..... oh, my god soooooo cool. bought all kinds of organic stuff for use in the future

we are back from poughkeepsie and john's grandma is doing well on the day after her 101st birthday... stopped for fresh corn at our local fruit and vegetable stand made chili with black beans toasted tortillas corn on the cob corona with lime dessert: peach and raspberry pie i made on friday - very juicy but tasted good

since we will be heading up to poughkeepsie tomorrow, john to see his grandmother who is suffering from congestive heart failure and me to do the cooking for the crew, this sounds like a great idea

cheeseburger made with laura's beef and mcadam's cheddar on white toast with ketchup and miracle whip it seemed a good idea at the time

last night - shrimp, endive and artichoke salad with a tarragon vinaigrette over mixed greens tonight - pork medallions with a dried cherry port sauce, spaetzle, green beans

rachel - all depends on how the birds are flying(this is right during peak broadwing hawk migration). don't count me as an eater since the earliest i could get there, unless it is raining, would probably be 4:30 or so. how does winner's circle pie with bourbon whipped cream sound?

golf shmolf. we're hittin the Hitching Post after lunch. The Hitching Post? Is that one of those quickie wedding places? I usually try to steer clear of such places... no, rp - it's one of those places that guys take stacks of dollar bills to..... guess i'll skip that part of the entertainment

fri 18th at 1:30 works for me since friday is a day off... and i do play golf as well - shall i bring my bag?

some of the people i talk to at state level(up till this year i was a volunteer with nj fish and wildlife and did most of my time with nongame and endangered species - as well as being a natural resource volunteer with picatinny arsenal) and on post feel it is a combo of a few things - two years ago we had a bumper crop of mast - acorns and other bear goodies - more food more chances of survival for babies. then last year with the drought the bears that had survived the winter became a bit more aggressive with their interactions with humans since they were hungry. you still also have some dopes who live in the middle of bear alley who think nothing of leaving their garbage out all the time. one of our neighborhood bears habitually goes to two houses on the street for this reason - and we have a picture of him sitting back on his rump with a slice of pizza in his paws!! what is upsetting about the sows are many of them are delivering cubs but the mother's weight which should be in the 250+ area is now ranging in the 125-200 area which means her cubs are at a bigger risk of not making it - though that may be a good thing = maybe just the beginning of the down swing of the cycle up here in the north there has also developed a "green belt" of interconnected trails what can take you from the new york border through passaic, morris, sussex and warren counties without having to cross large highways - seems the bears like these better than the deer paths since they are a bit wider to accomodate us humans. yeah, the yahoo hunters that come up from the city do scare me a bit - had to deal with them in upstate new york. as far a drugging and relocating them - i think that might have worked a few years ago but WHERE can we send them? my friends in the catskills don't want them. central part of pa? maybe. perhaps the pine barrens but then you are dealing with the introduction of a nonestablished species into an ecosystem which really upsets the balance - think about swans(imported from England and probably more edible than bear) which have pretty much driven out the native whistling and tundra swans

me, too! me, too!

the latest numbers we were given up here(morris county/sussex county border) were about 1200 for a four county area - morris, sussex, warren and passaic. the bears here don't roam up into new york state that much and they den up here in the mountains. what is more worrisome is that the females that might have one or two cubs each year have had an average of 4-5 per litter the last two years. there have been more and more bears losing their fear of human habitation and breaking into houses. in my town over the last two years there have been bear attacks on all kinds of farm animals: sheep, chickens, horses, as well as domestic pets like rabbits and dogs. we regularly have 3 bears in our neighborhood including a male which runs about 650 lbs. don't know if i would eat one - do know that something needs to be done.