JUNE, 2015...What's For Dinner??

bethk wrote:I picked all the ripe tomatoes I had on my roma bushes....not all that many, at least not compared to the bumper crops I had in Ohio.  It's just too hot here for the ripening fruit to mature as it should.  I didn't want to make a 2 cup batch of marinara so I cut them in half, seeded and roasted them with just evoo and s&p like I did in the past.

So, today we're having a plate of appetizers to have with 'Cocktail Hour'.

Surely does look great Beth. Nice tall glasses.

Bugster2 wrote:That V-8 juice is just like eating a cold soup.

bethk wrote:I was grocery shopping today and came home with a whole lot of nothing.  I got everything on the list we both add to as we discover things we're out of, but none of the meat looked interesting to cook and I wasn't in the mood.  Maybe I'll go on a meat run later in the week.

Crybaby wrote:

bethk wrote:I was grocery shopping today and came home with a whole lot of nothing.  I got everything on the list we both add to as we discover things we're out of, but none of the meat looked interesting to cook and I wasn't in the mood.  Maybe I'll go on a meat run later in the week.

Do they have butcher shops in your area, Beth?  Real butcher shops?  I wish we did.  We have lots of seafood shops that will knock your socks off but not real butcher shops.  Now if you go to one of two local, very upscale groceries here, or Whole Food, you have real butchers.  Right now, Brian does the shopping.  But even when I could go, I hate to go to those types of groceries because I end up going thru the entire place and buying a ton of stuff I want and lots of stuff I really don't need but just lust after occasionally.  When I check out, I'm astonished at what I spent!  

I was going to go with him today on a relatively short grocery run (I haven't been since the nice local grocery we shop at -- Rouse's -- built a brand new store that's closer to us and much bigger than the one we used to go to), as I thought I'd be able to walk that far and stand up that long.  My back is getting better and I told him if I got tired and he wasn't finished, I could go sit in the car in the A/C and wait for him.  He reminded me how hot it is outside and said it would be better if instead I tried to do more of the cooking tonight (I'm smiling but you have to love the guy!), as I could sit down periodically or just direct him from the sofa if I got too tired.  I deadpanned back at him and said, "Well, I'm definitely going to the grocery then," and he howled!  

bethk wrote:I picked all the ripe tomatoes I had on my roma bushes....not all that many, at least not compared to the bumper crops I had in Ohio.  It's just too hot here for the ripening fruit to mature as it should.

bethk wrote:So, today we're having a plate of appetizers to have with 'Cocktail Hour'.

Uncle Jimmy wrote:21 years ago, in the French Quarter .... Tina and I were there for my 50'th birthday, we went to a little hole in the wall A&P store ??if my mind serves me? on Decatur St. ??? I think! There was Tina ...zooom ...right to the Meat Dept. to check out the meat and the prices. Tina worked for the A&P here in our town back then.

Crybaby wrote:
Do they have butcher shops in your area, Beth?  Real butcher shops?  I wish we did.  We have lots of seafood shops that will knock your socks off but not real butcher shops.  Now if you go to one of two local, very upscale groceries here, or Whole Food, you have real butchers.  Right now, Brian does the shopping.  But even when I could go, I hate to go to those types of groceries because I end up going thru the entire place and buying a ton of stuff I want and lots of stuff I really don't need but just lust after occasionally.  When I check out, I'm astonished at what I spent!  

I was going to go with him today on a relatively short grocery run (I haven't been since the nice local grocery we shop at -- Rouse's -- built a brand new store that's closer to us and much bigger than the one we used to go to), as I thought I'd be able to walk that far and stand up that long.  My back is getting better and I told him if I got tired and he wasn't finished, I could go sit in the car in the A/C and wait for him.  He reminded me how hot it is outside and said it would be better if instead I tried to do more of the cooking tonight (I'm smiling but you have to love the guy!), as I could sit down periodically or just direct him from the sofa if I got too tired.  I deadpanned back at him and said, "Well, I'm definitely going to the grocery then," and he howled!  

Crybaby wrote:

bethk wrote:I was grocery shopping today and came home with a whole lot of nothing.  I got everything on the list we both add to as we discover things we're out of, but none of the meat looked interesting to cook and I wasn't in the mood.  Maybe I'll go on a meat run later in the week.

Do they have butcher shops in your area, Beth?  Real butcher shops?  I wish we did.  We have lots of seafood shops that will knock your socks off but not real butcher shops.  Now if you go to one of two local, very upscale groceries here, or Whole Food, you have real butchers.  Right now, Brian does the shopping.  But even when I could go, I hate to go to those types of groceries because I end up going thru the entire place and buying a ton of stuff I want and lots of stuff I really don't need but just lust after occasionally.  When I check out, I'm astonished at what I spent!  

I was going to go with him today on a relatively short grocery run (I haven't been since the nice local grocery we shop at -- Rouse's -- built a brand new store that's closer to us and much bigger than the one we used to go to), as I thought I'd be able to walk that far and stand up that long.  My back is getting better and I told him if I got tired and he wasn't finished, I could go sit in the car in the A/C and wait for him.  He reminded me how hot it is outside and said it would be better if instead I tried to do more of the cooking tonight (I'm smiling but you have to love the guy!), as I could sit down periodically or just direct him from the sofa if I got too tired.  I deadpanned back at him and said, "Well, I'm definitely going to the grocery then," and he howled!