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I’m going down in a week and a half to see James Taylor and the Eagles. If anyone recommends a better way to get to Citizens Bank than an Uber, I’d appreciate it. I like the Good Dog Bar as its been a favorite of mine for a while. Nice bartenders. I’m a Scarpetta fan so i can’t not recommend it. House of Prime Rib is decent.

@Shelby no worries I would be complaining too! No serious health issues- just rosacea and general anxiety that doesn’t make me a pleasant person to be around in the heat. I’d definitely think about a cold seafood dinner though. Maybe breakfast involving eggs for dinner? They cook pretty quickly.

Cooked and frozen. Not frozen raw shrimp. I keep them on hand for a quick shrimp cocktail.

Our house holds the AC nicely we have a lot of large trees surrounding the house. 62 is for sleep and 64 is for day time. When I run my ovens though it gets the kitchen hot very quickly. So I’ve been avoiding them. Tonight’s dinner is left over delivery pizza using the pan method.

@Shelby I am so sorry! I would probably stay at a hotel of our AC bit the dust! I keep my home at 62-64 degrees and my central air isn’t keeping up as well as I’d like but it’s in the 60s. I have health issues that respond really poorly to heat. Anyway I think you should plan a seafood night! Shrimp cocktail, order some oysters and clams if you like them and or crab claws and go to town! A nice cold Sauvignon Blanc always helps too.

All I currently have in terms of shrimp in the house are frozen and cooked shrimp. I’m assuming if I tried to make shrimp and grits with them it would be heresay or at the least not come out tasting well. Am I right?

It comes in microwave safe plastic containers that we reuse. Except for pizza of course.

😝 I’m ashamed. I take full advantage of both DoorDash and Grubhub to deliver dinner at least twice a week. Restaurant chefs are much better cooks than I am. But to be totally honest, growing up we always had a local pizzeria deliver on Fridays.

@rustwood sorry for the late response. Because we are a family of three (two adults and a dog) we stopped our Costco membership. They don’t have gas stations in my area and we can get our bulk staples from amazon Prime for the same price. My husband hasn’t tried their Manchengo. I bought a 4 pack of lobster tails for $35. They were all a good size and labeled from US. I didn’t completely defrost them because of time, but they were precut and despite being a bit over cooked (my fault) they were really tasty! We had two each and I doctored up a ‘Wegman’s Best’ Caesar salad with extra lemon juice and fresh pepper and it was a delicious meal. Much better quality than we’ve gotten from Whole Foods and the price point, IMO was great as most lobster tails I’ve bought were at least $10 a tail. They also sell Miso Easy which is basically a squeeze bottle of miso soup concentrate. That is my go to when I’m not feeling well. Their precut zucchini sticks are a fail. They’re good eaten raw but they don’t roast at all. They turned into a gooey mess. That had me cursing because I knew I should have just bought a zucchini and cut it myself. The first time I didn’t salt it and wound up with the gooey mess. So I salted the rest for an hour. They released a lot of water but were totally shrunken and unsalvagable. Things like this happening are why I hate cooking. When my husband gets home after 8pm and I spent time trying to make a balanced meal and fail I get super frustrated.

@Kim Shook would any of the Wegmans “ready to eat” items appeal to your mom? I started a thread in the Kitchen Consumer topic and their items. Their gazpacho is prettt good, same with the beef on weck. That grilled cheese looks delicious! I buy Wegman’s pre-cooked ham slices and throw them in salads and potatoes au gratin. I don’t really cook that much since my husband is so busy at work I feel like it’s interupting him to ask what he may want for dinner (and I never know what he had for lunch or if he had it) and he comes home so late that frequently he doesn’t want a full meal. So having certain pre-prepped things, like Wegman’s bacon wrapped scallops and Caesar salad are super handy.

@Kim Shook happy birthday! What a delicious dinner!

@HungryChris that is pretty much my ideal dinner. I can be up there within 3 hours via Amtrak! 😁

When and or if you do make them, be sure to have a loaf of quality French bread to mop up the excess butter, breadcrumbs and clam juices!

@HungryChris I am drooling! Have you considered making clams oreganata?

Does anyone else follow particular “food” based Instagram accounts? I follow most of the restaurants local to me in Morristown, NJ along with most celebrity food chefs. “FoodBaby”, while a bit cheesy is cute as hell. I only very occasionally post food to my personal Instagram but does anyone else post their meals regularly? If not can anyone recommend favorite food related accounts?

Bourdain was raised in NJ, and since I live in Jersey, I thought this was interesting: https://www.delish.com/food-news/a21751039/new-jersey-anthony-bourdain-food-trail/

I just love following along on your trips!!

Actually with the opening of the Pennsy about two years ago, Penn Station has decent offerings now; http://www.thepennsy.nyc/

Every time I’ve dined out in SF, which was daily for a week recently, the surcharge was listed on the menu.

I’ll be at the Hamilton Princess for 5 nights or so in early August as my husband has a business trip there and that’s the hotel they’re putting us up in. We are adding a few days to the trip. I haven’t been to Bermuda since I was a kid so I don’t know what to expect besides Island prices. Any “must go to” restaurants? The hotel recently opened a Marcus Samuelson restaurant.

Yep that’s the norm in SF. And I have zero issue with it. The less people who are uninsured, the more health insurance costs.

Wow @ProfessionalHobbit I wish I had visited that restaurant when I was in town 2 weeks ago! Something to look forward to. Happy birthday to your husband.

Miso soup always calms my stomach and this purchase has been pretty awesome

My mother was and is a good baker and Home cook. That said, my birthday is on St. Patrick’s Day. I loooved Carvel ice cream as a kid. I was scared of the owner of the local store for some reason but Carvel ice cream cakes are a thing in NJ. Instead of getting a Cookie Puss or Fudgy the Whale cake, I got a “Cookie O Puss” for my birthday. I favored the frosting and vanilla/ mint chocolate ice cream parts with the cookie crunchies. I told my husband all about this. I hope he listened!

Am I crazy or does anyone else see a bunny’s side profile by the pup’s ear? 😂