MaryIsobel

If you have fresh squeezed grapefruit juice - a paloma is wonderful.

Radish French Butter Radish sprouts - has to be one of the most delicious yet underated pairings!

Oh, okay - I have had tomalley butter.

Me too - and fortuantely for me, I am the only one in the house who likes it!

Looks liek you had a fabulous trip! Snorkelling is my happy place - I envision it when I am at the dentist!

Wonderful array of tasty food. Could you explain "And they left the mustard in – so many places don’t, and it drives me crazy" to someone (me) who has never had a softshell crab?

I make meatloaf once in a while solely to have meatloaf sandwiches. Don't care for it as an entree but cold meatloaf sliced thin on good bread with mustard mayo and bread and butter pickles takes me right back to being 5 years old and the rare occasion of having a baby-sitter. Meatloaf sandwiches or TV dinners were babysitter dinners.

It was the sauce that accompanied the octopus at the particular restaurant - sort of a cross between teriyaki and hot sauce. We have had pulpo a couple of times in Mexico that was beyond being able to chew! Octopus is not something that I can easily source around here, otherwise I would be happy to experiment with it.

That would be great. My husband did make it once but apparently it "wasn't the same."

My Ontario born and raised husband also longs for the peameal bacon of his youth. We've been able to find it a couple of times over the years but not often.

My husband lives for the grilled octopus at one particular restaurant in Playa del Carmen. It is his gold standard for octopus and no other place has come close so far.

Thanks Elsie. We are pretty proud of them. One is an ER charge RN and the other is a musical theatre/drama/english highschool teacher. They beat the odds by being twin IVF babies on the first round. Back in the late 90's the odds of a successful IVF pregnancy was only 20 per cent and the odds of having succesful multiples was only 10 percent. Once they were old enough, we told them that they had already beat the odds by being here, so the world was their oyster and never to look at statistics!

Our two daughters didn't realize that most families don't peruse grocery store like museums when traveling until they started traveling on their own. they send me photos from grocery stores all over the world. I am much more interested in those photos than the ones of architecture or museums. Of course I appreciate architecture and museums but our girls know their momma!

Skipped breakfast this morning to get to the garden center in good time. Starving when I got home so a couple of Christmas tourtierre tarts from the freezer with some peach ginger chutney cuz we are out of HP sauce!

I have never seen such an amazing collections of jams! I love anything passion fruit but the fresh fruits and even the frozen puree are rare to non-existant where we live, which makes it all the more desireable.

I have a McGavin's bagel that I am currently monitoring. It is at least 2 months old. Wrapped in the original bag, sitting at room temperature. I have a weird and probably unhealthy obsession with it.

Me too since it is a salad that Ann actually likes. I love salad but for some reason, I hate making it.

Gladly. It was this one. Next time I think I would bump the temperature 25 degrees. They tasted great and even better split and toasted. https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/hot-cross-buns/

I make a very similar recipe - the cost saving over buying the canned sauce is phenominal!

And on that note, I have found that good old, stinky Tiger Balm gives me fairly quick and long lasting relief, although it's not a smell that I want to permeate any kind of food and my dog hates the smell, so I usually just apply it at bed time.

Those look great. I often change my cooking/baking plans when I am having a "bad wrist day."

When I was a kid, we always had a yellow (Tupperware I believe) jug in the fridge with cut up celery and carrots with water on the bottom. That (and fruit) was a snack we could have any time without asking. Since this was mid-60's, I think my mom was a bit ahead of the curve. Of course I was envious of friends who had chips and cheesies on demand. One friend in particular, her mother kept a pot of oil on the stove for french fries on demand. Oh, how I wanted to live at their house!

I saw that recipe. Since I love a dirty martini, I'm sure I would like it. I'll have to make it next time I have company.

Adding my wishes for your husband's continued recovery. I know quite a few women who know absolutely nothing about the workings of the RV so good for you for having a handle on it all!