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Ladies I can say I will take whatever you can give us!!

After 2.5 hours at the phone store to replace the phone himself has misplaced somewhere for the last week... shrimp with garlic over pasta and finished with flat leaf parsley. I'm too tired to be hungry. trying to use up all kinds of leftovers before Johnnybird leaves for a few days of camping. I'm thinking what I would like to eat when I am here by myself... so far I have all kinds of fresh fruit, greek yoghurt, chef's salads, a chili dog, some pork loin with rice and veg.

Maybe she didn't recognize you? She may also have had a bit of an AT-TIT-TUDE about summer visitors? Sooooo happy you guys are back on the island. Unfortunately, as someone who did grow up on an island, I can no longer deal with the manyana mentality of an island.

Western sandwich on a toasted English muffin with a cup of fresh Jersey strawberries that smelled and tasted like strawberries!! Still have some and think they might go well over some vanilla ice cream. Now off to make some stuffed mushrooms - the Lidia Bastianich one from her latest book.

I alternate between shrimp with pasta and an olive oil, caper, parsley and olive sauce and shrimp with Asian noodles and a sauce with hoisin, water, sesame oil, black beans and Xiaoxing wine for Johnnybird. Yesterday I made a cold tricolor pasta salad with olives, scallions, sundried tomatoes in oil and dressed with an Italian vinaigrette with poached shrimp on top. For me I made some bucatini and had it with some thin sliced chicken breasts that I seared and finished in the oven with some marinara sauce and some aged provolone.

Damn you, Stash!!!!!! Now I am craving my mom's potato salad. Potatoes, onion, celery(which I can no longer eat),green pepper, Miracle Whip, hard boiled eggs and defrosted green peas. It never hits the same notes as mom's. Edited to say I've made two batches since writing this and have been very, very happy. No celery or had boiled eggs. Replaced the Miracle Whip with Cain's mayonnaise and added some sweet relish and celery salt. Missed by THIS much ........but still good.

mine too......

YES...yes you are.....slice your potatoes into rounds...cook in broth... make a vinaigrette with the bacon grease and add the parsley and some finely minced shallot or onion. If you need to moisten the dish a bit use the broth as they do in Germany......

and I wish I could figure out how to post my picture of Sinder, one of our black cats, in her washing yoga pose.........

21 June is International Yoga Day.....

Well...I lost half a pan to burnage as I put a pan on the lower shelf in the oven. Note to self...bake only 1 pan at a time. They came out rather well if I do say so myself. The sea salt on top, the chopped pistachios and the 60% chopped up chocolate worked out nicely...crunchy and gooey at the same time with just enough dough to hold them together.

It's too hot and humid here right now for me to even think about eating...I'm existing on Arnie Palmers and a Mickey D's frozen strawberry lemonade (overly fake strawberry taste but very, very refreshing).

OK so I've worked in restaurants and bakeries and done production work over the years but at home I tend NOT to bake that much but just came across a recipe for Salted Pistachio Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies from Laurie McNamara's book Simply Scratch. Johnnybird loves dark chocolate and pistachios so.....as long as it cools down a bit on Wednesday I'm going to surprise him with them as a welcome home present. Wish me luck. So John has finished all the cookies and requested more for his camping trip this coming week.

Roasted some chicken breasts for John to have sandwiches when he goes up to Poughkeepsie later this week. Made him a quesadilla with shredded chicken, some drained salsa and some guacamole. I'm having a tossed salad with some of the chicken on it.

A BLT on toasted white bread with Alouette cheese's Le Petite Fromage garlic and herb on one side.

Spiedies in Binghampton are usually lamb....especially at Sharkey's...a great dive bar back in the day(1972-1976). After grilling it goes into a pita with some tzaziki. Lots of garlic , olive oil, red wine vinegar and parsley.

Well the chicken breasts didn't get roasted after all but became chicken chasseur and was served with roasted carrots and small red potatoes. Leftover chicken will go over some egg noodles I plan on making today.

A wonderful cool and dry day here. I thawed out two chicken breasts on the bone. I'm going to roast them and serve with some zucchini with tomatoes and some noodles(for John). I am also doing a set of pizza dough for tomorrow...it's Friday so pizza, salad and Scrabble. I'm also making blueberry muffins that John can snack on or eat for breakfast. We have almost finished the Bolognese sauce I made with bison and I prefer to eat with either: A) bucatini B) good bread

On sale at Shoprite ...I have a coupon...better get the right caramel core When I was sick years ago all I wanted was Campbell's Homestyle Chicken Noodle soup and Coffee Heath Bar Crunch

On the way to visit a neighbor in the hospital I swung by for a frozen strawberry lemonade. The strawberry was artificially sweet and sour at the same time....but it was good to have the whole whompped up package on such a hot and humid day

You might try a web search "savory waffle recipes"

The heat has eased off here today...John is due back and asked for shrimp and pasta so.....sautéed zucchini and garlic, bucatini , shrimp, capers and a tomato. I also poached some red pepper halves, made some Spanish rice and mixed sautéed bison, red pepper and onion into the rice with which to stuff the peppers. Not sure if I want to top it with a bit of cheddar or 3 Italian. Also made a small smooch. Got some nice apricots at the farmer's market and want to make an apricot and raspberry clafoutis as well as some blueberry kucken for John's breakfasts.

OK ain't semantics great and isn't it interesting how a few miles of water can change what we call something (Shelter Island NY to CT ...linked by the Cross Sound Ferry from Orient that my mom cooked on during the summer)

NO...NO...NO.......... Nice sandwich but NOT a grinder. If you had warmed your meat, put the slaw on the bottom. added some banana peppers then the cheese and run it under the broiler it would be closer to a grinder. Sub, sandwich but..... We grew up on the east end of Long Island and would go to Tony's at least once a month in Sag Harbor for lunch or dinner. Many times Pop and I would share a grinder. Maria(Tony's wife) would warm whichever meats we wanted on a salamander, lightly toast a long Italian roll, then start building. She never cut all the way through the roll and popped it under the broiler for a minute or two to firm up the bread a bit. She drizzled both sides with an olive oil vinaigrette, light on the vinegar, with oregano, the meats on both sides(usually some capicola and ham), peppers - sweet red and spicy, then sharp Provolone. Under the broiler to melt then flipped and cut into 4 pieces............