Didn't Go

After I finally went to bed, I slept until 6:15. Set up was to begin at 5:45, and the thing started at 7:00. I'm not going to perish, I guess. But I have to have something to show for having the whole day off to myself.

I'm planning the meals for the week, then I'm off to the farmer's market to get some goodies.

I've got a powerful hungry for mac & cheese, and I don't know why. Guess I'll whomp up a batch of whole wheat mac/cheese, and keep it in the fridge for the week. I'm become so used to whole wheat pasta, I find I don't much care for the other kind.

The Giant had taco dinner boxes on sale. Now I'mnot one to buy packaged foods, because they are usually full of hidden crap, salt and preservatives and all that other junk, and also there's just so much packaging! Anyway, the El Paso Taco dinners are shells, taco sauce and taco spice mix. (Mostly salt) I won't use that. If you bought 8 items on the special list Giant had, they gave you 200 extra bonus points. Thats twenty cents off a gallon of gas! Which in my mind is a big deal.
It sounds stupid now, but it made sense yesterday. So we have 4 boxes of taco dinners and 4 boxes of micro popcorn. Which we use anyway. So there.

Now it's off to the market. I've got ideas on what this week may bring. Obbie works Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so those days will be make ahead meals that he can just warm up when he gets home. The other nights may be grill nights. We're getting kind of tired of dinner salads, sad to say, so it's back to cooking. It's okay, there are a million easy recipes out there.

Carry on!

Hanging..

So I guess I left y'all hanging on the crabcake thing a little, huh? Sorry about that. Real life gets in the way of blogging sometimes, and the blogging loses.

We went to Faidley's seafood in the Lexington market. No sit down tables, just some tall tables and tall benches you stand around to eat. Trust me, it dosen't take away from anything. Bellying up to the bench with guys in suits & ties, ladies in sweat shirts, kids with big, gold chains, man it's real life. And damn tasty. The jumbo lump 'cake platter with two sides is the thing to get. Mac & cheese and cole slaw were our sides, but there are fries, greens, cucumber salad, potato salad, carrot salad, marinated veggies and pickled beets to pick from. They have all sorts of seafood, (shrimp, fish, shellfish) to pick from, but do not be deterred from the mission of the crabcake. It's as big as a baseball, and absolutely jam packed with huge lumps of crabmeat. The filler in minimal, just enough to keep the things together during the broiling process (they do not FRY their crabcakes, and the nice lady behind the counter would probably get her feelings hurt if you asked.) I wish you could substitute another crabcake for a side dish. Because nothing goes with crabcakes like more crabcakes.

Wonder when we can go to Baltimore again?

That was last weekends dining experience. We visited a new pho soup/noodle shop in town yesterday. Eh. It wasn't great. I'd sooner go across the river to any of the three places I know that sell GREAT soup. Granted, the restaurant people did a fine job of making their space beautiful, but when the broth is obviously canned, all the beauty in the world won't help. They got two stars. And an automatic deduction for the owner speaking to every other customer in the joint but Obbie & I. We're hard to miss, and to walk by our table three times to greet customers coming in the door, and checking on the other tables is pretty rude. That's okay. We won't be back.

Whoops!

We were having torillas with dinner the other night. The landlady came over to chat & I forgo about them. This is what happened:

I wonder if I sprayed it with a fixative, it'll stay like that?