So...whats for dinner?
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oh, oh, oh!!! Thanks for the lobster roll picture Lacey. Drooling!!!
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Oh, brioche for the bread of the lobster roll! That'd work marvelously with the sweetness of the lobster. (It does with salmon.) Though I'll admit, having family in Maine, that there's nothing quite like (in the Carrollean sense) eating a hotdog-roll lobster roll on a hot summer afternoon with greedy seagulls encroaching upon our "space". And I know they've never watched The Birds.
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Hahaha Queen!
Have you ever been to Red's Eats in Maine, the little shack on Rt 1? Our trainer just described her wonderful lobster roll there. I think a little road trip for us might be a good plan....0 -
Good heaven's Lacey - it's even in listed in Wiki. Note: wait times of an hour or more so take a book, and maybe a lawn chair.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%27s_Eats
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Lacey (and MinusTwo): I am so totally with you on the road trip to Maine for a lobster roll! The ones in the Midwest just do not taste the same. I don't remember if we ate at Red's Eats--Wiscasset a couple of times, but mainly up and around Tenant's Harbor, though IIRC Cod End's closed?
Update: I checked the Wikipedia article (thank you, MinusTwo), and I'm pretty sure yes--Red's Eats IS where we'd eat. I'd fly into Portland and we (husband and father-in-law) would drive up to Tenant's Harbor. Wiscasset was a good stopping point.
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Unfortunately Texas is a LONG way away - but I want one of those rolls for breakfast. Sigh.
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Lobster envy!
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A trifle long for me as well; Michigan's only nominally closer. Sigh.
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Minus, maybe if you are heading to NS, you could do the road trip!
Gorgeous day here at the lake...heading to the beach after doing mostly house prep for the "visitors".
If we each had a nickle for every time we opened and closed this place up! But today having breakfast on the deck in the sun is why we do it. Sadly, I never got around to planting any flowers in my deck planters yet, so I might suggest to DS2 that DGF feel free to! She likes "pretty".
and they will be here for a week....something we have yet to do. Am also thinking she (or he) can make the hummingbird food and set out our new feeder. A friend gave me a tiny colorful pottery birdbath which we put out this AM. Very unusual. I wonder if the hummers will use it?We're hoping that our drive home tonight will be traffic free as most folks will be driving in this direction if not already here. Fingers tightly crossed!
Off to see the beach neighbors...and their kids and friends
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Thanks Special, I'm going to try that recipe with defrosting it at room temperature and eating it like that.
I'm also going to try this.
http://ourlifetastesgood.blogspot.com/2015/06/red-white-and-blueberry-salsa.html
This lady talks too much in my ridiculous opinion but this looks good and my neighbor just gave me a huge bunch of blueberries for watching her cat while she is in Paris
Had my first private violin lesson since I was 18. What an eye opener. I don't have to wonder about music and "wing it" anymore by playing by ear. Will not be playing with the group for now, we break for the summer but start again in the Fall, I can play as an amateur in festivals for the summer as we have no new music, but not in the Fall as it is too hard to get up at 6:30 for work and practice until 9:00pm in a town 30 minutes away. I LOVE private lessons.
Happy Fourth to you all!
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A lobster roll with fresh steamed lobster sounds delicious!
Glad you're enjoying your private lessons, Bedo. I'm intrigued with your vacuum and cat box. When you mentioned the automatic cat litter box, I thought you were making a joke!
Quite a bit of socializing here in the campground. There was a fish fry at noon and home-made ice cream and rhubarb bars. DH and I went this morning to see a boat and motor for sale at a good price. We took one glance and knew it wasn't for us. The color of the boat was pale aqua. It looked like a retro Barbie boat. I definitely want to buy a boat so that we can go for rides on the lake and do some fishing. Our problem aside from being poor fishermen is what to do with the fish once we catch them. Neither of us is crazy about the idea of cleaning fish, which involves killing them. Murder in the fish cleaning house.
Not sure what we will want for an evening meal or snack.
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Carole: What's for dinner? Lobster! (runs away giggling) Just as long as someone else boils AND PICKS the things.
More seriously, glad you're having a decent camping trip; I've been looking at tents on sale and daydreaming.
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Queen, this is not really camping. We have a 38 ft. 5th wheel camper with three slides. It's quite large and comfortable inside. I wouldn't want to live in it year round, but it's fine for the summer.
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bedo, I am so happy to hear that you enjoyed your first lesson. Hope this relationship continues to bring you some joy!
Queen, around here, for a fee, you can indeed get the lobster steamed and cracked open for you or you can buy just the meat.
So all of you craving a bit o' lobster, you can have them shipped to you. I think it is worth it for a really special meal. May I play enabler? Two suggestions: http://www.yankeelobstercompany.com or http://shop.legalseafoods.com/category/lobster.
Dinner tonight was carnitas [the stuff I threw in the freezer over the winter] with a fresh salsa, avocado, and black beans. Looks like we will have the same thing tomorrow. My appetite has disappeared again so there is lots leftover.
Carole, I finally googled for pictures of a 5th wheel camper and you are traveling in style! Wow. That is almost like having a private hotel room that travels with you. I will say, fishing does involve murdering the fish, and cleaning it. I am very good at that cleaning stuff, but haven't ever done the killing part. There might be someone near your campground that would do the cleaning for you, but I think you would need to bring them the fish after the deed. :-) At least the boat was pink with a blasted ribbon!
*susan*
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When I was a small child, my dad would take me fishing at small ponds. Although not a particularly patient man, he would endlessly put worms on my hook and remove the numerous bluegill and greenear sunfish I caught on a cane pole. I continued to love fishing all through my childhood. When I was older and using slightly more sophisticated equipment (a closed face spinning reel) he finally told me that if I wanted to continue fishing with him I was going to have to learn to bait my own hook and clean the fish I caught. So he taught me. As an adult I learned to trout fish but never really mastered fly fishing. I particularly liked brown trout caught in ice cold Colorado streams. When I married dh, he was an avid fisherman and we spent many vacations in Wisconsin and Minnesota fishing for walleye, crappie, musky and northern pike, although walleye and crappie are the only fish we keep. Most of what we do is catch and release. My finest catch was a salmon caught from a sailboat in Vancouver, B.C. which was cooked over an open fire that night with some lemon, onion and butter. I've never had better.
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Susan: I am SO craving lobster right now. I don't think Red's Eats ships (I'll have to check.) So those other places it is. Until then, barbecue from the local Real Smoked Barbecue Takeaway, Lark's Barbecue and Car Wash. Smell it from blocks away.
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Nance, you sound like an experienced fisherwoman. I remember watching my dad clean large catfish ("yellow" cats were the desired ones) that he caught on a trot line strung across a creek or river. The fish was hung on a big hook through the gills and skinned. My dad was good at it and did a nice job. Then some years later when dh and I lived on a sailboat, I caught small flat fish that we called perch or brim. They were pretty fish. We scaled them, cut off the head and removed the guts and cooked them whole. We used cornmeal as breading and fried them in hot oil until they were very brown and crisp. My memory is that they were delicious. Obviously we had to murder them!
I had a failure today at cooking jambalaya. I was planning to take it to a potluck after our 4th of July boat parade here on Island Lake. I didn't realize that the meal would be immediately after the boat parade. I tried to rush the cooking and it didn't work. So we just had a sandwich here and didn't go to the potluck. We'll have some of the jambalaya for dinner with beans spooned on top. I brought a couple of cans of Blue Runner brand creole beans, one can of red beans and one can of navy beans. A lot of Louisiana people would just as soon eat Blue Runner as home-cooked beans.
The parade was fun. People with boats decorated them in red, white and blue and a couple of the boats had nice big American flags. One man had the flag he had flown when he was in the military in Iraq. We rode on a pontoon boat. Here and there along the shore, people watched and there was a lot of friendly waving. DH picked out the red and pearl beads from a big bag of Mardi Gras beads we brought north. There were only two strings of blue beads. We wore beads and gave others away.
It's warmer than I like today but we have resisted turning on the a/c. Fans in the camper make it more comfortable.
I think everybody in the campground will be leaving tomorrow and we will have Pine Hollow all to ourselves until next weekend.
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I hereby don both Carole and Nance with the title of "Resident Fish Slayers and Preparers."
Dinner was fresh local green beans, potatoes with local Spring onions and young garlic, and a two day aged Prime steaks. There is a ton of food left. We have decided that I will use the potato and green beans in a fritatta in the morning, and Mr. 02143 thinks he might have a bit of steak as well. Steak and eggs is traditional isn't it? The ribs have been rubbed down and will be ready to smoke in the morning. Mr. 02143 has requested the vinegar cole slaw, and a tortellini salad. The tortellini salad has some sun-dried tomatoes, pesto and some raw veggies, with of course, Greek vinegar. I am thinking I will also add a raw spinach salad. I need to add some dark greens to my meals as often as possible.
*susan*
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I started at noon on the 4th and just got back to the hotel at 3:30am on the 5th. Dinner was Cliff Bars and water.
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Sorry, Eric. That does not sound like a nourishing meal!
Today was a bacon day. About 10 am we had breakfast. Bacon and over-easy eggs with a toasted multi-grain English muffin. I am not a jelly/jam person but I love the berry jam I bought from the bread and pie lady. She cooked a lot of different berries together and I can taste the raspberry.
Tomorrow dh and I are planning to drive to two different locations to look at boats advertised on Craigslist/Bemidji.
Not sure what dinner will be tonight. There's a lot of jambalaya left. I wonder if brown rice freezes well.
Susan's steak sounded very appetizing.....
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Carole, I often freeze brown rice. In fact I just used some in jambalaya last week!
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Thanks, Nance. I think I'll freeze the jambalaya in a couple of portions. First, I may have to remove something from the freezer to make room!
Did I mention that my next-door camper neighbor made some ice cream in one of those little square ice cream makers that was the best vanilla ice cream I have ever tasted? Of course, ingredients included cream and half and half!
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Went grocery shopping for a bit yesterday, had no other plans as we stayed with the very nervous anti-fireworks dog while DD was out on the boat with friends. Came home from the store to find that one of our two AC units had frozen and ceased working - anyone who has been in Florida in the summer knows what this means for comfort in the house. The good news is that our house is L-shaped and the other side is relatively cool. We closed all the doors in both the hot and cool parts, and DD and I dragged a twin mattress into the study on the cool side so she could sleep last night. She is at work today in the AC. I did broil steaks last night and had 3-bean salad and pasta salad that I had made earlier. The bad thing is that the kitchen sits in the middle between hot and cool, we are not calling for service until tomorrow, so I am trying to be judicious about what I am cooking so as not to heat up that area more.
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SpecialK, I can definitely empathize especially since I turned on the a/c here in the camper about an hour ago. If it cools off later, we can open up again.
I took out a ribeye steak for dh to cook outside on our portable gas grill that was pricey and worth every $$$. It has been with us for a lot of miles. I also have some asparagus and salad makings.
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Took the last of my cooked turkey breast out of the freezer this morning and a pound of ground chuck. Inspiration will surely come soon to use one of the other. Speaking of hot - I don't like to use the oven in the summer. So although I was hungry for meatloaf when I took out the meat, the 96 degree temp & the 96% humidity is a deterrent. Could be a big salad w/the turkey. Could be meatballs in the electric skillet w/some Raos.
Special - you have my sympathy. We live in areas where A/C is a requirement. I remember moving to Houston from New Mexico in 1973 and telling my DH that I didn't need an A/C in my car because we could just go out for ice cream after dark when the temperatures fell. No such thing as cool down!!! So I'm thinking about Carole, who perfectly understands our heat/humidity issues, up in the north country...
Eric - wow, you have some intense duty. Are you there for a month? Or 6 weeks? I probably wouldn't have bothered to eat at all after a day like that.
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Minus, I have a fairly large toaster oven that I use when I don't want to heat up the big oven. I miss it when we're living in the camper. My microwave oven is a combination microwave and convection oven but I haven't mastered using the convection capability. I'm thinking we will probably buy a bigger gas grill, which could be used as an oven.
I steamed the asparagus and am cooling it with ice. I'll make a salad with slices of tomato, asparagus and avocado with a dollop of mayo or bottled dressing of choice.
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Yeah, it's probably time for me to finally break down and buy a toaster oven. Decided on a meatloaf so I'm just staying out of that part of the house while the oven does it's thing & the A/C stays on. Wish I had a potato. Maybe rice?
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Hi Ladies----and Eric, I am wondering if any of you have used something called a NuWave oven? It sits on the countertop, maybe it is a convection oven. I think they hawk them on QVC>Anyhow, I was at the flea market on the 4th of July and this gal had one in her booth for $20.00. Of course, I did not have my old lady cart with me and it was too heavy, so I passed on it, plus the kitchen in Carole's camper is probably bigger than mine... Now I am kinda kicking myself. I know when I've seen them on the info-mercials that if you order in the next 15 minutes, you get a second one for Shipping and handling.....
Should I have bought this??????
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Striped bass for dinner.
Making lots of cold soup
Air on. It's probably 80 out.
Tomorrow scallops.
Having serious missing daughter issues now that she married purely psychological probably. She called me today and said, spontaneously "take a vacation and come hang out just the two of us"
We've always been close.
I'm just afraid that when her husband graduates from Yale granulate school - he's in New Haven during the week now, they'll move away out of necessity for him to find a job, even though they want to stay in Boston.. Oh, that empty nest.
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Red, I have no idea what the NuWave oven is. I personally have Breville oven envy, but to be honest, it makes no sense for me to buy stuff given my circumstances. If you look up the price on the full, counter top Breville prices, have your smelling salts handy.
Bedo, you know... as I told the kid when she was musing about college in California, you can follow them anywhere they might go. Your skills can be sold anywhere after all. Imagine this, Bedo-Trailer following young people like they are the Grateful Dead wherever they go. :-)
The ribs were wonderful. It took me 3 hrs to make the three salads. Ridiculous. Thank goodness there is enough for at least another meal. It took Mr. 02143 three hours to smoke the ribs. The kids joined us for dinner after they returned from visiting my Mother in the North Country. While they were there, my mother was given 25 minutes with Hilary Clinton, interviewing her while the national press watched from the sidelines. She does love presidential season. To be a journalist in NH during primary season is a total rush for her.
*susan*
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