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Good Lord does THAT bring back memories!!

It is but if there is a "separate" entrance it's allowed. Several of the Shoprites up here have a gated entrance once you get into the supermarket so it is separated from the store itself.

Wooo...Hooooo.... love me some hunting blog.

So......from beef stew weather over the weekend to almost 90 degrees today. I HATE cooking when it is too warm. Potato salad, coleslaw, macaroni salad and bison burgers for dinner. Making cold noodles with shrimp for John for tomorrow.

Where I grew up I haunted the creek looking for the trailing arbutus, wild violets and the first of the wild asparagus. The creek was a brackish one and the asparagus I found was half the size of the pencil ones you buy now. I would eat it RAW!!!! I was taught NOT to be greedy and take all but let some go to seed for the birds. Once the first asparagus were found it was off with my mom to look for others on public property.. As it is Mother's Day here I want to add a rememberance of my mom who I lost almost 38 years ago... though it could also go under the foraging topic as well. Once I found those first spears we would get in the car(a green Chevette) and roll along the local roads with me in the passengers seat and my head out the window looking for things that I told my head weren't supposed to be there - mainly at this time it was those tiny, thin spears of sweet asparagus. I would also begin to make note of blooming wild grapes and where the tangles of berries would be later in the summer - blackberries, wine berries, wild raspberries. Throughout the seasons we would cruise around with me looking like a deranged lab with my head out looking left and right. Love and miss you, Mom.

Ohhhhh..... years ago this week John and I took our first trip to N.O. to celebrate our first wedding anniversary. We also ate at Arnaud's and had the Shrimp Arnaud, chicken and andouille gumbo and redfish(John); escargots en casserole, turtle soup and pompano(me). We also had the café brulot. Sunday we went to Brennan's for breakfast/brunch. John had the Eggs Hussard and the Bananas flambe. I had the Eggs Sardou and more café brulot. Loved all the menus and the food pictures and so glad you and B had a great food adventure.

But you aren't enabling him...and he has to spend his own money. Perhaps he will outgrow this phase....I did. Cool and rainy today and tomorrow..... John suggested shrimp; I wanted beef. I will make him some gluten free rice noodles with shrimp, green onion tops and a sesame/nut butter sauce. I'm also making a small beef stew and/or stroganoff...haven't decided which way to go. Picked up some steam in the bag green beans as the new ones haven't started to some in yet so I'm leaning towards the stroganoff. Now off to do some more laundry and black cat cuddles.

Still waiting for John's tooth appliances to come in so still soft-ish foods. The other day I had roasted off some chicken breasts. After stashing the bones in the freezer for future stock work, I made chicken salad in the mini processor with - for John - minced shallot and minced celery, a little celery salt and a mix of mayonnaise and some of my great grandmother's cooked dressing. For me the chicken, shallot and chopped pecans and dried cherries with the same dressing. His was mounded on some Ritz crackers; I rolled mine in a spinach wrap with some tomato concasse.

If you are walking around the Vieux Carre look for the author Frances Parkinson Keyes which you can tour. If you like them the Audubon Zoo is a wonderful place to wander around. I took a boat up to the zoo, spent the day there then took the streetcar back to Café du Monde. We also toured the Mardi Gras museum and the mint, took a bayou tour and a history tour to Chalmette.

I second the Eggs Sardou .... or the Eggs Hussar perhaps. Crawfish or any seafood.....oysters for sure if you like them. Fried okra.....be still my heart. Eat on Hobbit....

John finished his a few days ago.....he's on to smooch and chicken noodle soup...and chicken salad...and meatloaf sandwiches. Though he has asked for salmon burgers or flounder for dinner tonight. We'll stop at the fish store after the dentist so he can decide. Also made some coleslaw with my great grandmother's cooked dressing recipe for me and some gluten free macaroni salad for John.

At Picatinny Arsenal where John worked for many years we called it reveille or retreat. Working on soup for John for later today but I am craving meatloaf so that is what is for dinner tonight with mashed potatoes, some frozen zucchini shreds and onion and mushroom gravy.

Got a batch of chicken stock going. Chicken noodle soup for John later.

half a BLT and 1/4 of a cappacola and provolone grinder.

Inter library loan?

One book I have read that may meet your needs is Shojin Cooking: the Buddhist Vegetarian Cook Book by Keizo Kobayashi. I haven't looked at it lately but I'm wondering if there aren't some recipes in one of the Tassajara books that might suit your needs.

He was the guest chef on CBS channel 2 in New York's The Dish. Food looked wonderful but would have liked him to talk a bit more about the shrub......course Anthony Mason's had gin in it.

small glass of spicy tomato juice, ham salad on marbled rye with a couple of sweet mini gherkins.

Nah....... how do we learn if we don't share info.......... and I DID laugh when I read it.

Can't do much about the butter with the corn BUT... there are things you can use besides fish sauce and there are vegan mayos.......

Right now my favorite is a tomato fennel soup. Love roasted cauliflower steaks. I do a vegan pad thai that I just add sautéed shrimp or chicken to for Johnnybird.

will do.........

I identify with you..... loved celery when I was younger but by my late 20's it gave me problems so now it is no longer in my life.......I miss you green crunchy stuff.............

John has developed TMJ while going through oral surgery and having appliances constructed. So........now he has gotten home from Aruba trying to make soft soft soft food he can eat without pain. Ham salad, the split pea soup, soft cooked pasta. Will be baking some bone in chicken breasts to throw into the mini-pro to make chicken salad. Eggy potatoes. Tonight is baked flounder filets, steamed and sautéed zucchini and steamed baked potatoes for John; the flounder, zucchini and some coleslaw for me. Any suggestions are appreciated...........

Pasties are a big thing around here in Wharton, NJ because of the history of the folks who moved here. First time I encountered them close to 30 years ago Rocky's served his beef pasty's with a side of gravy....