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Jan. 18th, 2016 01:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisMy nose runs (and so must be blown) every time I eat a meal. Hot meal, cold meal. Doesn't matter. at about the 60% done point, I have to stop eating and blow my nose. It's been this way forever. But, this time, with my brother, it was so noticeable to both of us. Weird.
"Why do you always use the front stairs when you go to the car and the back stairs when you come home?" We have two ways to get from the main floor down to the floor below where my car is. One is closest to the elevator on the front side of the building and one is closer to the garage exit on the back side. I always use the front way when I'm leaving and the back way when I come home and I have no idea why. I was not even aware I did it until he asked.
My Mom asked me one time when we were discussing my never wanting to get married, "if you don't have a husband, who's going to tell you your slip is showing before you leave the house?"
I finally remembered to ask my brother if he knew of the old Southern tradition of chicken and waffles. He had never ever heard of combining the two for any meal and thought it was about the weirdest thing he had heard in a while. YES!!!! Chicken and waffles has taken over Seattle and touted as an old Southern favorite. I never heard of it until about a decade ago ... in Seattle. And I think it is a very strange combo.
One night last week we ate at a high end Japanese restaurant. We had very little clues about what we were eating and enjoyed it all enormously. But, one dish, particularly, was delicious to the max and a total surprise to use that we were like it at all. It was cooked mustard greens with almond wasabi sauce. It had a couple of pieces of salmon on top and they were good but once they were gone, of us dove into the mustard greens and were amazed.
I finally found a recipe for the sauce and it's way too complicated for me to fool with BUT, I have a bottle of Spicy Asian Peanut Dressing in the fridge and I thought that was a good start. This morning, I discovered that Safeway had zero mustard greens and the produce guy had never heard of them. I got collard greens instead. OHHHHH not close. Collard greens have the texture of shoe leather and smell like burning tires when you cook them. But, I have religious issues with Kale and Safeway clearly has something against greens that aren't true lettuce.
So, now my house smells like burnt tires. But, in the fridge the well cooked shoe leather is now marinating in the peanut sauce. I am not holding out much hope.
I'll betcha Uwajimaya might have mustard greens. I'll be doing some research on that probably tomorrow. I'd go today but I feel like I really need to definitively eliminate the collard option first.
We ate a lot of very excellent food last week - some old favorites and a lot of new stuff. Besides the mustard greens, the other - oddly for us - outstanding item was the salad at Jaks steak house. They are just up the street from my pool and kind of in between the pool and my nail place. I'm seriously considering dropping in there after my next manicure (which would be about lunch time) and seeing if they would sell me a salad to go. (It's a plain chopped salad with blue cheese dressing but the lettuce is deliciously crispy and juicy and the dressing is mild, creamy and outstanding.
Neither my brother nor I are fans of vegetables of any kind. We are card caring Meat And Potato People. The fact that our two most outstanding dishes were green amuses us both.
I just saw a tweet from an MLK Day gathering which has taken over the intersection where my brother's favorite pot (marijuana) shop is. Hope they are cashing in on the crowd.
First, but probably not the last, doll of the day:
"Why do you always use the front stairs when you go to the car and the back stairs when you come home?" We have two ways to get from the main floor down to the floor below where my car is. One is closest to the elevator on the front side of the building and one is closer to the garage exit on the back side. I always use the front way when I'm leaving and the back way when I come home and I have no idea why. I was not even aware I did it until he asked.
My Mom asked me one time when we were discussing my never wanting to get married, "if you don't have a husband, who's going to tell you your slip is showing before you leave the house?"
I finally remembered to ask my brother if he knew of the old Southern tradition of chicken and waffles. He had never ever heard of combining the two for any meal and thought it was about the weirdest thing he had heard in a while. YES!!!! Chicken and waffles has taken over Seattle and touted as an old Southern favorite. I never heard of it until about a decade ago ... in Seattle. And I think it is a very strange combo.
One night last week we ate at a high end Japanese restaurant. We had very little clues about what we were eating and enjoyed it all enormously. But, one dish, particularly, was delicious to the max and a total surprise to use that we were like it at all. It was cooked mustard greens with almond wasabi sauce. It had a couple of pieces of salmon on top and they were good but once they were gone, of us dove into the mustard greens and were amazed.
I finally found a recipe for the sauce and it's way too complicated for me to fool with BUT, I have a bottle of Spicy Asian Peanut Dressing in the fridge and I thought that was a good start. This morning, I discovered that Safeway had zero mustard greens and the produce guy had never heard of them. I got collard greens instead. OHHHHH not close. Collard greens have the texture of shoe leather and smell like burning tires when you cook them. But, I have religious issues with Kale and Safeway clearly has something against greens that aren't true lettuce.
So, now my house smells like burnt tires. But, in the fridge the well cooked shoe leather is now marinating in the peanut sauce. I am not holding out much hope.
I'll betcha Uwajimaya might have mustard greens. I'll be doing some research on that probably tomorrow. I'd go today but I feel like I really need to definitively eliminate the collard option first.
We ate a lot of very excellent food last week - some old favorites and a lot of new stuff. Besides the mustard greens, the other - oddly for us - outstanding item was the salad at Jaks steak house. They are just up the street from my pool and kind of in between the pool and my nail place. I'm seriously considering dropping in there after my next manicure (which would be about lunch time) and seeing if they would sell me a salad to go. (It's a plain chopped salad with blue cheese dressing but the lettuce is deliciously crispy and juicy and the dressing is mild, creamy and outstanding.
Neither my brother nor I are fans of vegetables of any kind. We are card caring Meat And Potato People. The fact that our two most outstanding dishes were green amuses us both.
I just saw a tweet from an MLK Day gathering which has taken over the intersection where my brother's favorite pot (marijuana) shop is. Hope they are cashing in on the crowd.
First, but probably not the last, doll of the day:
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Date: 2016-01-18 09:56 pm (UTC)In the same vein, my nephew always gets up to use the restroom in the middle of eating. We were at a restaurant a few months ago and he just slipped away without saying anything. My mom and I asked his mother if something was wrong and she explained that he has to do this during every meal, whether it's a bowl of cereal or Thanksgiving dinner. I've never heard of this before.
I was unfamiliar with chicken and waffles until moving to North Carolina. I've never ordered them at a restaurant before, but my boyfriend loves the combo, so I always steal a bite or two from his plate. It's surprisingly good!
Good luck with the collards. The original dish sounds delicious. Maybe your substitute will pleasantly surprise.
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Date: 2016-01-18 11:38 pm (UTC)Runny nose while eating...
Date: 2016-01-19 05:59 pm (UTC)Possible solution (just out of curiosity): Next time you eat a meal maybe try sitting back in your chair, bringing the utensil all the way to your mouth instead of leaning to meet it halfway to the dish while you eat, and not lean your torso or head forward at all, and see if that solves the runny nose issue. Wear a paper towel on your shirt and lap just in case. :-)
I can hear my mother in her correcting tone of voice "EAT OVER THE PLATE SO THE FOOD DOESN'T END UP ON YOUR LAP OR MY CLEAN FLOOR!"
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Date: 2016-01-18 10:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2016-01-21 05:39 am (UTC)But this is why I'm always cautious about the obvious-seeming explanation.
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Date: 2016-01-18 10:44 pm (UTC)Around here, I've never seen mustard greens in a grocery store, but they're at a lot of the farmer's markets.
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Date: 2016-01-18 11:43 pm (UTC)And thanks about the dolls. Those buttons were from a packet of various colored stars and another one of various colored flowers. About 100 buttons in each package from ... the dollar store!!! I love them.
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Date: 2016-01-19 02:51 am (UTC)Haha, Jeremiah is the last person on the planet to notice, let alone tell me, if my slip is showing.
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Date: 2016-01-19 02:53 am (UTC)Good to know about the mustard greens. The collards were a fail in every way.
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Date: 2016-01-19 02:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2016-01-19 05:30 am (UTC)Please explain? Not sure if that's a saying, like Kale doesn't agree with you...?
I can't wait to hear how those collards turned out. I only eat them savory and seasoned with smoked meat after they've been overcooked until the holler uncle and nary a vitamin or mineral remains.
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Date: 2016-01-19 05:36 am (UTC)Other than that... no opinion.
The collards were an absolute total fail. They had the texture of shoe leather and the taste of dirt, plus, my house still stinks because of them.
My brother reports their produce section is stuffed with mustard greens. We've got none. I finally find a vegetable that doesn't suck and we've got none. Sigh.
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Date: 2016-01-19 06:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-01-19 09:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-01-20 03:10 am (UTC)I had not heard of chicken and waffles until I moved to the northeast. And I lived in Alabama!
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Date: 2016-01-20 03:12 am (UTC)