Someone told me never eat maroon food.
Tonight we at lunch at 3:00 after going to a wonderful museum in Oshkosh WI, it was the EAA Airventure Museum. Very well done and great gift shop as well.
As I had part of a ribeye petite steak (the dog got the rest for her dinner) we ate light this evening. Well, I did, anyway. My husband put away about a pound of my TX chili.
I ate a butternut squash puree I made the other day from pizza fixings from last weekend, and ended with a tiny cup of Italian blood orange sorbet. Orange food. Not maroon.
A black radish is sitting in a colander on the counter, the strangest thing I saw at the grocery the other day so I knew my husband would want one. It’s supposed to be thinly shaved on a salad or stewed. I’d rather cut it as thin as I can and go the salad route.
Please hang on to life, new experiences, surprise people you love and eat new things especially fruit and veg. I never thought I’d give in to fate but for 20 years I have done so. It tells me what to do with our lives, and whether something is right or wrong. It’s just a feeling in my heart that my mathematical genius husband does not have. When it’s really right or wrong, at a point I just know.
The other day I brought food into the grocery and treated my butchers to what they have sold me over the past week. While no-one has thanked me yet, those butchers who weren’t there that day heard all about it.
Stir things up! Make your voice heard. It took me a long time to be confident enough to do that. I call out politicians sometimes. It’s our country and they are supposed to represent us. It is, after all, a representative democracy. One would not know that these days.
One three year-old has captured my heart and wants a cooking lesson. She had pizza with sauce, cheese, caramelized sweet onions, marinated Kalamata olives, pepperoni and toasted pignoli. She just put her hands in and decided what she wanted.
I grew up in an era of canned cream of celery or mushroom soup instead of bechamel and fully intend to make a tuna souffle I haven’t made since age 16 without my “wing man” or recipe. I need to teach this kid about food and already have a ladies’ lunch planned with three five-minute lessons that she can take home.
The butternut puree and sorbet were good for me. Let’s say goodnight, Gracie. Dee
Cooking with Dee 