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4 limes - .50 2 lemons - .50 3/4 lbs mixed baby greens - 1.75 2/3 plum tomatoes - .75 apple tree in wharton today ps - tommy sorry about the beer

just sitting down with a glass of iced lillet rouge with a twist of lime john left for a concert/camping and i'm single for the next two nights so i'm making stuff he wouldn't touch: resting in the fridge till i get the grill cleaned later are: lamb burgers to be served with onion pita, a cumin tsatsiki sauce and tomato concasse mixed greens with olives, peppers and feta dressed with a lemon vinaigrette dessert is watermelon chunks macerating in a prosecco - hmmmm may just chuck those guys in the freezer then the blender i already have my eye on a nice piece of tuna with which to make a grilled tuna nicoise salad for dinner tomorrow

used two new and one old recipe baked halibut with sage butter pasta salad with sundried tomatoes, minced shallots, organic tomatoes, salad peppers, and capers green beans with sesame sauce

german potato salad stuffed eggs(ok deviled is you like mustard) big spinach salad muffalettas grilled chicken and sun dried tomato sausages tomato and mozzarella salad carrot raisin salad mexican coleslaw - with jicima, jalapenos and mangoes with a lime vinaigrette i work till 9 thurday night then have to be back to work 9 saturday morning. john is camping out with his siblings and firends after seeing neil young at spac in new york. katie- enjoy cape may and may you have a warm, balmy, sunny weekend i think i'll just take some time to sit near our little lake and, if it's nice, maybe take the canoe out on it....

since I am out in the public at a reference desk i only have my Sparta Public Library cool cup with cold water in it. downstairs in the bottom drawer of my file cabinet - healthy choice soups(about 5 differenct cans) diet snapple orange carrot and pink lemonade annie's organic mac and cheese a fine assortment of individual chocolate pieces all who work with me know where the food is and they are welcome to anything - as long as they replace it actually has saved me from time to time such as when my boss threw away the chinese food i had gotten the day before and left me with no dinner....except for my stash another coworker delved in when she had to go to the dentist for an emergency visit and couldn't eat the salad she had brought for lunch but a can of vegetable beef soup helped her get through the day

sounds wonderful - as long as i can get there a little late (like after the hawks stop flying for the day). i have a pull-out couch if someone wants to crash instead of driving too far back oh... and for Rock, tommy and lou - you can alsways check out high heels on 15 south - they're almost done with the renovations and the kitchen is now open - or at least that's what their new sign says

yup - plagarized geogre carlin...at least he has good taste.

food - no champagne and sex - oh, yeah

chunked ham or finely chopped chinese sausages, green onion, bamboo shoots,water chestnuts, fresh mango, sesame oil or andouille sausage, chicken, red and green peppers, onions or onions, asparagus tips, shallots, garlic, water chestnuts, a little hoisin mixed with chicken stock actually fried rice has become my husband's favoirte breakfast and he's soooooo happy as long as there is sesame oil

since we bought the downstaris bar a refrigerator we are NEVER out of beer. that said there are a half dozen coronas, two tetley's and two boddington's in the can with the widget, one pacifico, and a bottle each of a riesling and tott's.

do the same for an hour or so. add shredded carrot, jicima(if yo can find it kris), raisins, chopped nuts and a cooked dressing

nope - repeat of NOLA which had me laughing as much as the first time. actually went on a bayou tour for our third anniversary and maybe the reason the alligators are said to taste like chicken is because the tour operators call the gators to the boats then feed them chicken....

single for the weekend - john went up to spac to see the dead play it is freaking raining STILL - cool and damp so i did what i had to do and made macaroni and cheese. today is a party for a friends son's graduation - perhaps we will be able to grill but my assignment is for german potato salad, stuffed eggs and winner's circle pie(nonalcoholic since they are lds) tomorrow more rain - i feel a roasted chicken with freshly picked sage coming on....

or the east end of long island - same time frame

rachel- before my mama started "oven frying" her chicken all she used when doing fried chicken was lard. course she also made her pie crusts with that geen and white box, too. and she made the best lemon meringe pie ever.....

well, for what it's worth in northwestern n.j. i use pre-unic in dover for latin foods captain fresh in roxbury for asian (my pocky dealer) c & s in netcong for italian bombay market in kenvil for indian

friday night bangers and mash with onion gravy and steamed green beans saturday - bass with a mixture of chopped shallot, red and yellow peppers, minced garlic, green and nicoise olives, capers, evoo and from the garden fresh tarragon and flat leaf parsley wrapped in foil and baked in the oven(had planned to do on the grill but the lines of thunderstorms blowing through discouraged it) wild and brown rice zucchini fritters tonight i'm planning on buffalo burgers, german style potato salad and mexican slaw - as long as it doesn't thunder and lightning

at lunch there was a promo on channel2 (nyc) for the cbs evening news doing something on this project tonight

after a disasterous morning - who knew DMV had moved and the mall that has Fashion Bug in it(I was in the mood to buy clothes and spend the gift card my mother-in-law gave me for my birthday last august)had no power- I stopped in to American Grill a desperate woman. i didn't want to sit in the dining room - i just wanted to grab a magic hat and something to eat before i had to finish the 4 other errands i had on my list. lou was there sitting at the corner and- i find this totally amazing - he recognized me, even with newly shorn hair. the beer was cold the amuse was a wonderful blend of zucchini, olive oil and lovely chunks of parm. since i was cooking shrimp for dinner i just wanted something .... then i saw the words pear and blue cheese - works for me. over mixed field greens with pine nuts. and the vegetable strudel...i've had this before and it is one of the best things i have ever had. talking cheese with lou i mentioned that i love stinky cheese - bleu was my favorite since the time i was four - and he offered me a slice of a double cream blue that was so ...so....so.........close to orgasmic. thanks to lou, too, i found out where DMV had moved to and now am the possesor of a truly horrid nj photo id lisence. though i must say it wasn't as bad as my passport picture. thanks to all for helping my day get a bit brighter... i really felt wonderfully comfortable and the beer ain't bad either....though the choice of tv shows is a bit interesting. enjoyed it lou - thanks for the hospitality

northern nj - depends on what pairs best with dinner. last night some pinot gris which i had used to deglaze the pan the pork chops had sauteed in. pizza, chinese, mexican - a good beer. i tend to drink seltzer, water or unsweetened iced tea before or after dinner.

the days that both of us are home for dinner we definitly sit at the dining room table or outside on the new patio furniture. we ususally put classical music on the cd and there are no tv or phone calls allowed. it is so much nicer to be able to sit, talk and concentrate on the food.

happy anniversary snowangel - john and i just celebrated 21 on 15 may down the shore if he lives through the backpacking trip he's on this weekend (it is pouring rain here - quelle suprize with flood warnings and he is up in the catskills of ny) we will try to head for another 20+

date nights are tuesday, friday, saturday and sunday - we almost always eat at home; monday and thursday i work till 9 so leftovers; wednesday i work till 7 so leftovers again. we will eat dinner out maybe once every two or three weeks. if husband has been traveling for work and eating at all those chains that engineers seem to prefer - he would rather have a nice cooked meal at home. we were on vacation for 5 days recently - at at the motel 3 dinners, out for 2 - better than last year when i got to cook all 5 nights

if anyone gets Consumer Reports - begining on page 18 of the July issue is an article called Best Meals/Best Deals - Chain Restaurants they were separated into categories - American Traditional,Italian, Mexican, Pub-style or Grill, Seafood, Steakhouse, Various and Family Restaurants several "favorites" on this and other threads appear including Cheesecake Factory, Legal Sea Foods, Red Lobster, Ruth's Chris, Chevy's Romano's Macaroni Grill and Olive Garden and P. F. Chang's

chinese - since my boss decided to clean the fridge and threw out the beef with garlic sauce i brought in monday. actually have something at home one of my husband's coworker's mom made- softened banana leaves filled with cooked rice, shrimps, egg yolk and...something else i think. guess that baby is going to be nuked when i get home tonight