After the Seafood on Valentine’s (Lobster, Prawns, Calamari), I was hankerin’ to fix up a seafood chowder in the crock pot.
This was it.
1/2 LB of Prawns, grilled on the Geo. Foreman grill
1/2 LB of Scallops, grilled on the G.F. grill
2 cans of clams
5 slices of turkey bacon, broiled in the red Oster convection toaster oven
1 Quart of Organic Whole Milk
2 Large Organic Russet potatoes, diced and boiled
1 white onion, 1 head of garlic, sauteed in olive oil
2 shredded baby carrots
seasonings
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Saturday was Trish’s birthday, and she wanted to spend it with Michelle at the Korean Women’s Day Spa in Lynwood.
Orion and I would spend the day with Guido, Gavin and William. And Rayanne and Dean, as it turns out… in Monroe.
We left Tumwater before breakfast, so we stopped at the Kirkland Brown Bag Cafe (No Sissy Food Here!).
It was packed! They said it would be a twenty-minute wait, so we used the facilities and started looking at the menu (pdf). Trish spotted the word CHIPOTLE in a spicy breakfast item called the Diablo.
Julienne spicy chicken sautéed with fresh jalapeños, cilantro, tomato, red and green bell peppers, onions and spices. Made with spicy black beans, cheddar and sour cream topping. Served with a side of chipotle salsa. This one is hot as the devil. 10.95
Served with hash browns and toast
Our server asked, “Omelette style or skillet style?” We asked, “Skillet style? What’s that?” She replied, “With the hash browns on the bottom.” So we tried that with Rye toast.
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At 7:30 AM on V-Day, Trish was dressed and moving fast. She said, “I’ll be right back.”
I thought, “Oh, how sneaky. She left a card or gift in the car. Oh, that’s the car starting… and that’s her driving away… well, she’ll be back in a few minutes.”
So, I got up and discovered that she’d already made huge cards for the both of us with a list of Sweet things that we do.
Orion and I then made heart-shaped pancakes from scratch by mostly following a recipe from the Joy of Cooking. I substituted a mix of Rice/ Almond flour, Bob’s Red Mill Coconut Flour, and Barley flour for the wheat flour.
Around 8:00 AM Trish returned with two grocery bags that included heart-shaped bagels and strawberry cream cheese.
Then we left for school and work and working-at-school. I made pop-up Lego-inspired Valentine’s cards for Orion.
I’d arranged for Uncle Nick to come and babysit. He was supposed to arrive by train around 4:40. Trish would ordinarily be at St. Martin’s until 3:30, but she’d work later and pick him up.
However, at 2:00 my phone rang. Uncle Nick asked, “What are you doing?”
“I’m working,” I said and asked, ” What are you doing?”
“I’m standing at the Olympia/ Lacey train station,” he replied.
“I’d love to pick you up, but I don’t have the car. I expected you on the later train. Do you have Trish’s cell number? (Yes) Call her and get back to me.” I instructed.
At 2:14 I hadn’t heard back yet, so I tried Trish. She usually leaves her phone off during sessions. It’s not polite to interrupt a peaceful massage with an electronic Charge of the Light Brigade.
I let her know the situation, since he hadn’t reached her. At 2:41 [synchronistic inverse of 2/14] I got a text message from him: “Trish is picking me up at 3:30″. I replied: “kewl”
Our babysitter, Uncle Nick, a former member of Team 1425, the Wilsonville Robotics team. [another synchronistic inverse of 2/14 again, with a 5 thrown in for change]
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Here’s another recipe for the crock pot, and a critique of two fast food chains.
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Went to Freddy’s and got a pound of bratwurst for $2.50.
Fried it up in the cast iron skillet. Cut it with the kitchen scissors into half moons.
Then sautéed 1 C white onion and 1 head of garlic.
Cooked up 1 1/2 C Green lentils and 1 C Black Quinoa in another pot.
Into the crock pot: 1 can of whole corn, 1 can of green beens, 2 pints of chicken broth
Scissor into bits: 4 or 5 baby carrots, 3 or 4 broccoli tips, 1/4 C yellow bell pepper, 10 pieces of pepperoni
Flavored with: 1T cumin, 1T paprika, 1T black pepper, and 3T sun dried tomato pesto
Warm and rich for the cold and poor.
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Jusby is fascinated by gumbo because of the unusual combining of several meats (chicken and bacon, sausage and shrimp, etc.).
Jusby recalls a disappointing assumption he made about a new burger at Jack in the Box AKA Jacques dans la boîte AKA Yak inna Vox.
Sadly, it turned out to be something known in other realms as the Rodeo cheeseburger (BK $.99). They throw on an onion ring (or a few) with some BBQ sauce. This time, they affiliated with KC Masterpiece. Plus some bacon. The onion ring provided the optical illusion of another breaded patty of something. Plus they offer a Spicy Chicken version. You can see Jusby’s confusion (and wishful thinking).
It’s a bigger version of their $.99 Western Cheeseburger, but it has 720 calories and 360 of them are from Fat!
But compare it to the Bacon Cheese Ciabbiata at 1120 calories (684 from Fat)!
And compare it to the idea of a new fangled club sandwich with chicken AND beef! That’s NEVER been done. It would break taboos we don’t even know about. You never see a chicken omelette. It’s just not done. Always pork comes between fowl and cow. Well, you might get a fried egg on a burger. What about combinations with fish? They never offer bacon on a fish burger! They never offer jumbo prawns on a burger!
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A few weeks ago I came home and Orion ran out of the kitchen exclaiming, “There’s Pumpkin Pie!”
Then Trish corrected, “No, there’s not… yet.”
She was putting a whole pumpkin into the oven to cook.
Then Trish went to work. She had not left any other ingredients to make a pie, and I do not make crusts from scratch when pumpkin pie is concerned. I certainly don’t substitute almond milk when sweetened condensed milk is required. I don’t usually follow ANY RECIPES, but I loves my pumpkin pie CLASSIC STYLE.
I had told Trish that my goal this year was to eat 16 Pumpkin Pies, and time was a-wastin’. Trish called to check in. I told her, “Don’t come home empty handed!” She asked what I needed.
Well, she was willing to stop, but she decided that rather than going three more blocks to Fred Meyer’s she’d check out Cattin’s. About a half an hour later she arrived with a styrofoam clamshell full of chicken pasta alfredo and an unopened box with a frozen pumpkin pie! Apparently, Trish misunderstood my request. If I had wanted to bake a pie I would’ve asked for condensed milk!
She took a few bites of the pasta and remarked, “This is awful. Remind me to never stop there again.” We watched a movie in the office while the pie cooked. It was what I needed, for sure.
As soon as it was gone we bought some pie crusts for the farm pumpkin.
When I scooped out all the meat into a bowl it looked like we might have enough for FOUR pies, but something didn’t seem right to me. I knew that air and water comprised much of the volume, and I considered boiling it down. I opted for blending it first.
With a closer reading of the Joy of Cooking I noticed that they recommend draining it in a colander with cheesecloth. Lacking cheesecloth I used a dish towel. After the excess liquid had drained we had enough for TWO pies.
On Orion’s SECOND trip to the farm with his preschool, he brought us home another pumpkin. This one we saved for carving.
And in the fridge, Pumpkin Egg Nog!
[edit: how's that pie going to cool off on top of the stove? It needs to be here in the office next to me! ;) ]
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