WANT MEAT
"You don't expect me to go out in that raging storm!" Chris and I joked as the fearsome Fay dripped steadily on us for a day and a half. We were entertained during the deluge by an as-yet-unseen neighborhood kid who's learning to play a wind instrument -- the trombone is our best guess, judging by the strange elongated groans and squeaks we have heard so far. Well, everyone's got to start somewhere.
My mother is coming to town today and we're going to have a lovely dinner at Cafe Adelaide. The restaurant was her request, but Chris and I are interested to check out the new chef. He can't possibly be as hot as Danny Trace (who is now at the new Commander's Palace in Destin, FL), but knowing Cafe Adelaide, I expect he'll have a good menu (although I currently have a Philistinic craving* for a large piece of red meat, even if it's the ubiquitous and relatively tasteless filet).
Remember, eBay auctions end later today (though I probably won't be able to process them until tomorrow afternoon because of our company). Please take a look if you can.
Oh, and here's a "weird"-foods-you've-eaten meme I've been meaning to do for over a week.
# Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
# Bold all the items you've eaten.
# Cross out any items that you would never consider eating (or eating again)
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth $120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frog’s Legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
(In the spirit of full disclosure, I'm not sure what vodka jelly, phaal, currywurst, and baijiu are, and I don't have time to Google them right now, so I may have eaten them unknowingly. I think kaolin is that clay women sometimes crave when they are pregnant, and while I've eaten starch, I've never eaten that. There is nothing on this list I wouldn't eat again, and nothing I wouldn't try if I got the chance except maybe the Big Mac meal and the clam chowder in a sourdough bowl -- clam chowder is fine, but I hate those damn bread bowls.)
*Not that craving red meat is inherently Philistine -- far from it -- but when dining at a restaurant known for its wonderful seafood dishes, I always feel like an ass ordering the steak.
My mother is coming to town today and we're going to have a lovely dinner at Cafe Adelaide. The restaurant was her request, but Chris and I are interested to check out the new chef. He can't possibly be as hot as Danny Trace (who is now at the new Commander's Palace in Destin, FL), but knowing Cafe Adelaide, I expect he'll have a good menu (although I currently have a Philistinic craving* for a large piece of red meat, even if it's the ubiquitous and relatively tasteless filet).
Remember, eBay auctions end later today (though I probably won't be able to process them until tomorrow afternoon because of our company). Please take a look if you can.
Oh, and here's a "weird"-foods-you've-eaten meme I've been meaning to do for over a week.
# Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
# Bold all the items you've eaten.
# Cross out any items that you would never consider eating (or eating again)
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth $120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frog’s Legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
(In the spirit of full disclosure, I'm not sure what vodka jelly, phaal, currywurst, and baijiu are, and I don't have time to Google them right now, so I may have eaten them unknowingly. I think kaolin is that clay women sometimes crave when they are pregnant, and while I've eaten starch, I've never eaten that. There is nothing on this list I wouldn't eat again, and nothing I wouldn't try if I got the chance except maybe the Big Mac meal and the clam chowder in a sourdough bowl -- clam chowder is fine, but I hate those damn bread bowls.)
*Not that craving red meat is inherently Philistine -- far from it -- but when dining at a restaurant known for its wonderful seafood dishes, I always feel like an ass ordering the steak.