I envy folks who like melon. I love the fragrance of it and always thought that it would be something I would “grow” into. Unfortunately, I never did. All melons (except for watermelon, which I adore) taste rotten to me – as if they have started to spoil.
@Shelby– that is a perfect looking BLT! And good Lord – that fig crostata🤪!
@shain – gorgeous cheese bread. I would hog all the non-pepper sections😁!
@Margaret Pilgrim – so sorry about your blah dinner. Happens to me a LOT. Not often for you, I think.
@Ann_T – I agree with you about lamb shanks. Wish they were more available here. I remember that my mom would get them for next to nothing and roast them. They were so flavorful. Better than any beef I’d ever had. I’ve loved lamb since.
Breakfast for dinner:
Leftover blueberry pancakes (with @David Ross' yummy mascarpone butter) and some good strawberries that Jessica brought.
As I mentioned in the breakfast and lunch topics, Saturday was Mr. Kim’s BD and, trying to avoid crowds of possibly unvaxxed folk, we chose to mostly drive around the Northern Neck of Virginia (around the Rappahannock river – famous for oysters – about which, more anon). We ate dinner at Halterman’s in Manquin. Jessica got snow crab legs, baked potato, hushpuppies and maybe the best spoonbread we’d ever eaten:
Jessica and I are really anti-foil wrapped potatoes (judge-y women run in our family😉), but everything was so good, we just went with it. But WHY do restaurants do this? You always end up with gummy insides and wet, limp skin. Sigh. The spoonbread:
I got the fried seafood platter – something I grew up eating on the Eastern shore and have been craving for literally years. Very few restaurants do this anymore and even fewer do it this well:
Rappahannock oysters, shrimp, scallops, fish, crab cake, and hushpuppies. Every single thing was really well prepared and sweet and fresh tasting. Crab cake:
Not lump, but good tasting, filler-free sweet crab.
Mr. Kim got steamed shrimp, deviled eggs, and a sweet potato:
We were too full for birthday cake, so we took a gorgeous piece of Lemon-Berry Cake home:
Last night:
Yeast rolls, yellow pepper strips, egg noodles, green beans, kraut, Aldi Pork Schnitzel (sorry, @Duvel) w/ a shortcut sauce I made in about 3 minutes in the pan when the cutlets came out.