So...whats for dinner?
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Eric - you are right about the drive perception. I lived in CA, NM & TX, and also spent summers on CO, AZ & UT. I first took my son back East when he was 14. He flew to Boston to meet me when I was on a job. We drove to stay with friends in NYC. We did take our time driving south & looked at lots of sights, but he was astounded, calling out that we'd just passed YET ANOTHER state - seemed like every few minutes.
mommy - lucky you.
Lunch was left over cold boiled shrimp to I could get the tails out to the trash before the garbage truck arrived. Dinner was flour tortillas, buttered then loaded with scrambled eggs, avocado slices, Mexican cheese & green chili salsa. Nuked and then rolled. Yummy.
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Oh wow Joyce - please make sure Michelle's daughter knows we all still think of Michell often and wish Allison the best with this new baby. You're right. Michelle will be watching.
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Made it to Rice Lake just before 6 pm--early enough to enjoy a supper club dinner and get some rehearsal in. Hotel room (Best Western) amazing--1/3 the price of our rooms at the Marriott Melville in LI and the Oak Lawn Hilton, with more amenities and even a bellhop. We play in Hayward tomorrow from 10-1pm, then back to Madison for the night, and I plan to be back home in time for dinner Sunday. Then I cancollapse.
Dinner was fried fresh haddock, salad & fries, with Sauvignon Blanc. Because I didn't bring my laptop and am using an iPad Mini, this is the only place on BCO I'm posting till Sunday. Have a great weekend.
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Hope the concert goes well tomorrow Sandy.
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Meals haven't been worth reporting to be honest. Too much take out, not enough vegetables, been the hardest week to date. But, Miss O still brings lots of joy! Her parents have paid a landscape company to remove tons and tons of ugly shrubberies and even uglier trees and put up a fence. They left their excavator in the yard over the weekend.
Dirt. Heavy equipment. What else could a young girl want?
*susan*
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I can't think of anything else she would want. :-) Oh, I suppose, when it's hot, a good muddy spot.
Hopefully it eases up for you. I'm glad Olivia is there to help you.
The hot part of the air conditioning work, I hope, is done. A few hours of letting the vacuum pump run while I'm inside, a quick check for leaks and "fill 'er up". It will be good to again have air conditioning in the car.
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Susan - Eric is right. Just add water!!!
Eric - I know my brother is glad to be up in Mund's Park instead of in the city.
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Hubby and I split a turkey grinder and made a salad to go with it.
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DH (the cook in my family) made my grandmummys recipe for Hungarian chicken paprikash with nokedli (like spaetzle), it was outstanding!
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I'm sure MIchelle was there too....
Illimae, I had to look that one up. The retired neighbor at my college house...her mom and dad were from Hungry. They had owned a restaurant and before the internet had grown up, they were the source for cooking ideas and advice. So me having to look that one up kind of surprises me. Is there a recipe that you can share? Chicken is my favorite meat for cooking, so I'm always looking for new ways to prepare chicken...
I finished the car air conditioning. It's good to have it working again.
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Eric95us, DH will write it down so I can post it for you, it may take a few days though
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Joyce, thank you so much for those pictures. I am so happy that you were there. Her family all looks so wonderful.
My mother took a picture of Olivia in her romper on Friday. Here she is trying to get one of her keys to work. [It never will there since that isn't a keyhole!]
Dinner was family dinner with all five of us. Grilled chicken, burgers for two, grilled asparagus, salad with our first Galese lettuce of the season, baby carrots and breakfast radishes, baked potatoes, and then the most lovely first-of-the-season strawberries for dessert. Simply dipped in sugar, tossing the stems into the bushes.
*susan*
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Joyce - thanks for posting. I still think of Michelle often.
Susan - oh what a cutie. I always save extra keys for my young relatives. Making my son a keychain of his own years ago meant he left mine alone. Dinner sounds delicious. I had to look up breakfast radishes so I learned something new.
My dinner was white clam sauce on noodles. Not spectacular. Needed more onion or garlic - or maybe some wine?
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Definitely WINE... got to have wine with clams, says the woman who can't eat clams.
*susan*
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Yeah, my mistake was trying a white sauce base. I can toss that recipe.
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Concert went well. Looong drive, though. Made Rice Lake last night in plenty of time for dinner, got up to Hayward this morning w/in an hour. The drive home (with pit stops, lunch & dinner) was >450 miles. By the time we approached Madison, I realized I could easily press on homeward. (Terrible road construction traffic yesterday between Janesville & Stoughton, adding an hour to the drive—but tonight, intermittent rain notwithstanding, I sped like the wind…until we reached the end of the tollway heading into the Chicago city limits, which added…an hour).
Lunch was back at Rice Lake at this chain diner called “Norske Nook." Always wondered about it, having seen signs for it all over northern WI. Well, half the menu is wraps, but made with lefse. (The "Lefse-dilla" was a bridge too far, however). Had an okay quiche, topped (weirdly) with some kind of sauce that was the illegitimate love child of Welsh rarebit & hollandaise. It came with a fruit cup, but the fruit was actually fermented. I was afraid to eat it lest I get busted later for DUI. Had sour cream raisin meringue pie, which looked a lot better than it tasted. (Baker's Square sour cream raisin has nothing to worry about). Everything there was sort of heavy.
Outside Milton (just n. of Janesville, which today had no traffic) I pulled into the “World's Largest Culver's" for my last guilty pleasure of the trip: a codfish sandwich. Now, last night's supper-club haddock was just “meh:" cornmeal crumb crust, somewhat dry. But a Culver's codfish sandwich bears about as much resemblance to a Mickey D's Filet-O-Fish as does a prime aged cowboy ribeye at the Palm to a utility-grade sirloin at Denny's. Big thick piece of fresh cod, beer-battered and fried to order. Crispy, hot, gooey but still somehow seemingly wholesome. (Could've done without the shredded cheese, though—maybe it's my lifelong exposure to Italian friends and Italian restaurants, but fish and cheese are a match made in…Toledo). Cool double rainbow over the parking lot at sunset, though (especially since it's Pride Weekend). Will post a pic later.
Susan, suggest you read Olivia the children's classic Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel (I loved all of Robert McCloskey's books).
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I have been to a Norse Nook and I loved it. A good portion of Northwestern Wisconsin was settled by people of German or the Scandinavian countries, so places such as Norse Nook that serve food that is served the way the people who settled there would make it.
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Thanks for posting the pictures, Joyce. It seems like such a long time since Michelle left us. I will always remember her in the bunny suit.
Always get pleasure from Olivia's pictures.
My meals during dh's absence have been monotonous but enjoyed. I've been eating burgers and home-made wheat buns. Today it was a turkey burger for lunch with crispy bread and butter pickles. Breakfast was a warmed bun with butter and raspberry jam.
We are having an unseasonably cold June. The sleeping is wonderful under a soft fleece blanket and light-weight comforter. Today I wore jeans and a sweatshirt until this afternoon when I changed into a long-sleeved shirt.
DH should be returning tomorrow early afternoon.
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Carole - I know you'll be glad to see DH AND the car.
Linner was my beef for the month. A delicious Rib Eye served with Brussels Sprouts. And a lovely zinfandel called "1000 Stories" (aged in bourbon barrels). Nap time.
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I got the garage door opener all installed and two remotes are now recognized by the opener. Two more remotes to go and I'll be completely done. I drank nearly a gallon of water in the few hours I was working. It will take 2 people to do the other two (one in car and the remote on the house) so I'll wait until it cools so Sharon won't be baking in the "pizza oven".
I'm cooking a pork roast on the grill...It's 116F outside right now and I didn't feel like heating up the kitchen--no sense paying for heat *AND* paying to cool. Sharon is going to cook some corn and I have a cream cheese pie cooling down in the freezer. I'd cook more but the heat suppresses my appetite.
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The Norske Nook’s bathrooms were labeled “Ole” and “Lena.” Uff da (the Nordic equivalent of “oy vey”). The gift shop was full of Ole & Lena jokebooks too. Since June was “dairy month,” I was offered free ice cream for my pie (which was probably about 1000 calories and loaded with dairy as it was). The waitress thought I was crazy to politely decline…after all, it was free. And it was ice cream. (Vanilla, of course. Meh. Not worth the extra calories & carbs).
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For our Sunday dinner and TV with friends, DH made beans and fajitas for the 2nd season premier of Preacher. So excited!
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Dinner was supposed to be the leftover grilled chicken, baked tater and a salad, but it took them over an hour to take the Subway home after the Red Sox game. And then we all headed to the condo to talk about patios.... too late to start the potato. So we went to a spot I have been dying to try. Commune Kitchen which has had rave reviews for their breads, toppings, and pizza. You know, we liked it. Really casual. Good doughs and breads. Homemade ricotta. Overall, under seasoned but lots of potential. I got a "tactine" which I would have preferred on the pizza dough instead of the rustic bread. Why yes, they would be happy to make me a pizza with those toppings. Will we travel to have this meal? Probably not. Will we stop in if we have been hanging with the kids right across the street. Absolutely!
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Those bunny pajamas make me smile.
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Mommy - I like German & Scandinavian food. I don't eat heavy meals very often anymore, but sometimes it's a real treat. So I'd probably like your Norske Nook.
As for the bathrooms, well I live in Texas so you can imaging all the "cute" little representations of cowgirls with big hair & big boobs on the doors. Or Senors & Senoritas. We have to remember each part of the country has their own traditions.
My Grandpa used to sing us a song when we were little: "My name is yon yohnson. I come from visconsin, I vork in the lumberyards there. and the people I meet, ven I valk down the street, they say - vot's your name? and I say.....My name is yon yohnson I come from visconsin....." ad infinitum.
We used to drive my parents crazy singing it in the car. Better than "Found a peanut".
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At a dog show I attended, the restrooms were for pointers and setters.
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LOL !!!
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“Yon Yonson” and “Found a Peanut” were the two songs with which we tortured countless day camp bus drivers back in the day in Brooklyn. “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt” was another one (though Shari Lewis’ “This is the Song that Doesn't End” was the one for when millennials were kids). In 1996, though, on the WXRT Rock & Blues Excursion to New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest, a bunch of us adults (plus Gordy), led by DJ Tom Marker, did regale the shuttle bus driver with a spirited rendition of Monty Python’s “The Lumberjack Song,” in harmony. The driver, being a NOLA native with countless drunken Fest & Mardi Gras passengers to her name, was unfazed, even when we got to the latter verses.
At Bub City Crabhouse & BBQ’s original location in SW Lincoln Park, the restrooms were marked “Heifers” and “Longhorns.” In the vestibule of the ladies’ room was a life-sized mannequin of a cowboy relieving himself, facing the corner.
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Minus, you would love the Norse Nook!!!!!!
I remember being in JROTC as junior in high school and we took a field trip up to Boston for the day. We got to see the USS Constitution, Quincy Market and one other place. We sang Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen all the way up to Boston, bus driver and the adult chaperones we had (one being the colonel who was in charge of the program!!!) crazy with the song!!!!!
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Chicken, baked beans and corn on the cob
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